The Spiegel article managed to find two man it describes as leaders of second tier - but are at best third tier - political movements in England and Italy who expressed concerns about Islamic influence in Europe,and the path of demographics and political discourse in Europe.
A quote from the Spiegel article from the Italian is, "As if to confirm such fears, members of both a British right-wing group and an increasingly populist Italian party bucked the initial trend of rejecting Breivik's ideology, expressed their understanding for certain sentiments. Stephen Lennon, leader of the English Defense League, a far-right British group to which Breivik has claimed ties, said the attacks proved the desperation of those with populist leanings in Europe.
"It's a ticking time bomb," he told news agency AP. "If they don't give that frustration and anger a platform as such -- and a way of getting emotion out in a democratic way -- it will create monsters like this lunatic."
The NY Times new article, the one titled "Norway Killings Shift Debate on Islam in Europe " includes this quote: "Members of far-right parties in Sweden and Italy were condemned from within their own ranks for blaming the attack on multiculturalism, as expressions of outrage over the deaths crossed the political spectrum. A member of France’s far-right National Front was suspended for praising the attacker." Seems to me that the "far right" groups in Europe are doing their own self policing.
The leap from the identification of the Norwegian man, who admits to murdering so many people and is identified as a lunatic in the quote in the 4th paragraph above, to manufacturing fear that right wing, Christians are the great danger to Europe is insane. The man acted alone. Everything written about him or by him, indicates he is a psychopath. There are no examples of Christian churches promoting what he did. In fact, the healing process in Norway involved a religious service and the Lutheran cathedral in Oslo.
By way of contrast, violent incidents of Islamic extremism in Europe or the US never lead to suggestions that the path to reform involves gathering in a Mosque.
While the majority of followers of Islam in Europe, America, and around the world, simply want to live in peace. The incidence of violent lunacy amongst them is much more prevalent than it is among any other groups. Well, except the IRA and the Basque ETA and a few other extremist of European ancestry. Nobody in the media is writing about them now, because those people kill white people, and never blame or threaten Asian and African immigrants to Europe or America.
Update 28 July 2011: Today there is another opinion piece at the NY Times online titled "A Blogosphere of Bigots" which blames blogs like "Gates of Vienna" and "Atlas Shrugged" for the Norwegian outrage. Implicit is that these blogs should be censored. This will not happen in the US as long as we honor the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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