Sympathy of conservatives dangerous

It is dangerous for the conservatives to show any understanding for the attacker Anders Breivik, the Flemish daily De Standaard warns: "Voices are emerging from the right-wing conservative corner that, while harshly condemning the violence, at the same time say it is impossible to hold an open debate about immigration and the Islamisation of Europe. They say nobody should be surprised if an individual draws extreme if reprehensible conclusions from this. This argumentation is both hypocritical and dangerous. Hypocritical, because it is only used with respect to a perpetrator who espouses a related ideology, while it is rejected if the perpetrator holds different views. And dangerous, because the assumption that violence, even if it is not tolerated, may be understood as the last resort for the repressed, undermines democratic society. Violence must always be condemned, by everyone in all circumstances without any qualification."

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