Norway Terror Attacks

[Roger]

I can understand how this thread could overflow into politics even in just trying to understand what's going on but let's keep it squeaky clean as those victims deserve a thread left open, not one closed due to political overtones.

 

[HenryW]

Post deleted at Henry's request.

 

[Roger]

Now, the massmurder have taken away , in his mounstrous actions , our legal right to
critizise the invation of Euopa. Stoltenberg pr omised us "more demoxracy" How will he do it?
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Henry,
Please read my post above and please submit your passionate beliefs to a political forum. Here at the SOH let's limit this thread to our sorrow for the victims and their families...or I will have to close this thread...which I really don't want to, ok!!!!!

 

[AndyG43]

Multi-culturalism isn't dead & it isn't a failed experiment - I'm a Londoner, possibly the most 'multi cultural' city in the world and it has been so for several hundred years; has it's hiccoughs but, on the whole, I like it!

But if you say it has failed, then you are letting this creature & all the other hate-filled individuals (from whichever part of the spectrum they come from) win; and for the sake of the people who dies at his hands, and at the hands of others, we can never let him win, it would be an insult to their memory. In London, on 8/7/2005, we picked ourselves up, brushed ourselves down, and got back on the tubes, ba.ck on the buses - by doing that the hate filled individuals who had killed so many the previous day were robbed of their victory

 

[Ralf Roggeveen]

Well said, Andy! :salute:

Interesting facts: In Europe just 8% of citizens give 'Islam' as their religion. We may presume that a very tiny minority of that faith group will ever be Islamist fundamentalists.

The nation with the greatest number of mosques: The United States.

In both Europe and the USA the right to practice whatever religion you choose, as long as it does not harm other people, is fundamental to our political and social systems. (Thanks to 18th century rationalists who probably didn't believe in any gods).

Being crazy is one thing. Being crazy and having a lot of guns & ammunition, quite another.

What seems most worrying about Breivik is that all his confused ramblings & misunderstanding of history are remarkably similar to those of one A. Hitler who, less than a century ago, managed to take over one of the most advanced & civilized countries in the world. The Breivik/Hitler perception then quickly became state policy. Nazi Germany was entirely geared towards racism; look what happened.

It is important that we all make sure that such things never, ever occur again, anywhere.

 

[Maarten -]

Andy, Ralf,

Both of you well said. I fully, fully agree with your opinions.

BTW, the words mr Beck spoke (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/26/glenn-beck-norwegian-dead-hitler) leave me absolutely gutted.

Peace,
Maarten

 

[n4gix]

You gotta love those photo editors that somehow manage to capture just the right still image from a video to show the subject in the most unflattering manner possible!

I'm referring to the still photo of Beck, of course...

 

[Roger]

With due respect to all contributors I believe the thread is moving into political sidelines where I don't want it to go.

RIP all those Norwgians who died so needlessly.