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Tragedy in Oslo: Death and Stereotypes

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As the tragedy was unfolding in Oslo, where a bomb was detonated in the buildings housing the office of their prime minister, and then inexplicably followed by an unimaginable point-and-shoot style attack at a Labour Party youth camp, on Utoya, an island 50 km away, everyone was immediately trying to make sense of it all.

 

Hours after the devastation, Norway police charged a 32-year-old man: Anders Behring Breivik. A blond, blue-eyed Norwegian.

 

The gunman's motives unknown at this time, but all signs point to an unbalanced individual who is tremendous anger towards his Labour Party government. All this was the work of a madman.

 

But that wasn't what all the TV's talking heads, twitter feeds, and even some newspapers in the rush to be the first one out the door were printing, talking... spreading.

 

With frightful confidence, the words "jihadists", "Islamists", "Al-Qaeda" and "Muslims terrorists" were immediately and forcefully placed as top billing as the culprits of the crime. Case closed. End of discussion. Even before the haze of crushed metal, shattered glass settled and triage centers were established, there was plenty of "without a doubt" and "there is no question" and "all evidence points to" conversation starters buoyed by terrorism experts, ready and on cue, to add to the conversation that had little substance and points solidified on pure speculation before all the evidence was collected.

 

Sound familiar?

 

When Timothy McVeigh with the help of Terry Nichols decided to bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City the morning of April 19, 1995 it was the most destructive act of terrorism on American soil before the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2011.

 

I remember watching the breaking news reports with the TV anchors showing the generic composite sketch of the suspect to their viewers at home as well as to local Oklahoma residents on the street, many of whom immediately came to the conclusion that the face they saw in the drawing was that of a foreigner -- a Middle Eastern man. Strong indicators that people were still understandably shaken by Al-Qaeda's truck bomb, which detonated in the North Tower of New York's World Trade Centre two years prior. So on FBI's possible list of suspects included those who may have been financed yet again by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed the money-man who financed the New York attack. An intense study of psychological interpretations and the racial profiling was born.

 

Well it looks like some of us haven't learned our lesson. Yes and without a doubt, there were a number of motives as to why Norway would be a target for international terrorism. Most notably, their presence in Afghanistan. Even though it pales in numbers with just around 500 troops, Norway has been involved in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in that hotspot since its inception in late 2001. Al-Qaeda's now newly-minted leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, included Norway in his message in late 2007 proclaiming his list of countries who "participated in the war against the Muslims" and therefore should not be far from their sights.

 

And of course not helping anyone here, is the fact that two groups with links to Al-Qaeda immediately decided to take credit online soon after, which was later proved to be a false claim. And then there's neighbour Denmark, who still is recovering from their cartoon disaster six years ago, laying the groundwork for a guilty-by-association theory.

 

So with every refresh, new posts would come down the pike, most by journalists and other "experts" continuing to point out remote facts, relying on far-reaching scenarios for substance all in the hopes of their link being forwarded, shared, posted on walls of the virtual world. Even when the police had officially made the arrest of the Norwegian man during the middle of our day, the evening newscasts of American and some Canadian news channels still kept the idea of Al-Qaeda on the table with strategically placed open-ended questions, and in some cases with direct references to that possibility.

 

However in a dignified plea, Labour Party member and Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store who visited the youth camp just the day before, expressed that mistakes need not be repeated in this tragic instance: "We've seen in Europe in recent years that politicians have been jumping to conclusions about suspects before investigations have been conducted, and we will not commit that error."

 

With this epic fail of a front page story in The Sun as an example, I, for one, hope that for the sake of those lost on this day -- we all adhere to his words, regardless of what the "breaking news" may proclaim.

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What this man was bringing to attention was right. Norway will have to take action against those in their midst that plunder and loot their country. Sit and sleep in their home, while they grow ever fatter and more radical by the day, while they quite happily take welfare cheques that other people have paid for. Whilst breeding like rats.

 

You and your kind have fewer and fewer places in this world that haven't woken up to your gypsy like behaviour. You have no more places that you can fraud.

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Taleexi   

I'm rejoiced that the evil doer wasn't a muslim in the same token I'm shocked by the deaths of so many innocent people.

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London2010;736019 wrote:
What this man was bringing to attention was right. Norway will have to take action against those in their midst that plunder and loot their country. Sit and sleep in their home, while they grow ever fatter and more radical by the day, while they quite happily take welfare cheques that other people have paid for. Whilst breeding like rats.

 

You and your kind have fewer and fewer places in this world that haven't woken up to your gypsy like behaviour. You have no more places that you can fraud.

What are your thoughts on those white people who "Sit and sleep in their home, while they grow ever fatter... by the day, while they quite happily take welfare cheques that other people have paid for. Whilst breeding like rats." e.g white trash, chavs.

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OdaySomali;736029 wrote:
What are your thoughts on those white people who "Sit and sleep in their home, while they grow ever fatter... by the day, while they quite happily take welfare cheques that other people have paid for. Whilst breeding like rats." e.g white trash, chavs.

They are natives of that country you are not. Europe is changing and the tolerance for free lunches to keep your kind going is over. You will have leech off others now. But your kind worse than gypsies.

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London2010;736019 wrote:
What this man was bringing to attention was right. Norway will have to take action against those in their midst that plunder and loot their country. Sit and sleep in their home, while they grow ever fatter and more radical by the day, while they quite happily take welfare cheques that other people have paid for. Whilst breeding like rats.

 

You and your kind have fewer and fewer places in this world that haven't woken up to your gypsy like behaviour. You have no more places that you can fraud.

What is my kind? and what is your kind?

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peasant   

London2010;736045 wrote:
They are natives of that country you are not. Europe is changing and the tolerance for free lunches to keep your kind going is over. You will have leech off others now. But your kind worse than gypsies.

What about your kind who loot, plunder the wealth of poor nations and at end dump their toxic wastes on their land. Like the Italian savages you belong to?

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Polanyi   

The only black man with a cheap suit in Milan aka London2010 would have rejoiced if the dude had taken out Somalis.

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nuune   

^^ My Bladland taabici, already 4 Somalis confirmed dead, 3 male and one female, laahay ha u sahlo familkooda.

 

 

The blackman in Milan suit needs not to worry, his true identity would be unveiled soon, at 4PM Fiji time.

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Allah yarxama.

 

It seems most of the big American media players dropped the 'terrorism' angle as soon as they learned that Muslims weren't to blame for the atrocities in Norway.

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London2010;736045 wrote:
They are natives of that country you are not.
Europe is changing
and the tolerance for free lunches to keep your kind going is over. You will have leech off others now. But your kind worse than gypsies.

haha Europe is changing indeed... just not the way you'd like it to.

 

There aint nothing you can do and the demographic time-bomb is ticking. Our 'kind' will be a significant demographic soon enough. Even in the U.S whites will soon be a minority. Take an example; no matter what city you go to in the U.K you will see Asians, mixed race and blacks; the thing is, these 'minorities' are having a lot of babies and the other [your ?] kind not so much... you do the math. We won't be a rainbw nation but a Brown-tinted nation of mixed raced ish people. That may sound bad to you but brace yourself it gets 'worse' still; rather than any other group it is MUSLIMS who have large families 6/8 or even 10 kids sometimes. Brace yourself for the 3rd blow, to add to this, many muslims as well as other groups are still coming to Europe; whether it'd be Somalis, North africans or Ethiopians, thousands come here every year, legally and illegally. So the situation is that (1) the white population is decreasing or stagnant whilst the non-white population is going through the roof.:D Chew on that.

 

The 2011 Census will be interesting to watch.

 

 

You've already lost buddy so do yourself a favour, save evryone including yourself the hassle, don't try to avoid the inevitable. Your 'kind' can't do a thing about it.

 

 

 

 

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