A good question.Norway's tragedy

A good question,Norway's tragedy

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Told the BBC. "You can never use terror tactics like he has used. But do we want to learn from it?"

That is a good question, no matter its source, and the answer may seem counterintuitive. The depiction of Breivik as unhinged and unaligned has been widely coupled with another idea: of Norway as a violated Eden, its innocence shattered by bomb and bullet.

Human reflex, like breathing or sobbing. As dust from the bombed buildings. Clogged the air and paramedics searched for survivors. The twin massacres in Oslo and the nearby island of Utoya. Norwegians and the wider world began trying to make sense of the senseless. An early template’s discarded after the arrest of Anders Behring Breivik. The horror couldn't be pinned on the familiar of Islamic jihadism. So another narrative began to emerge, of a rarer form of madness. These had been the actions of a psychopath, a lone wolf.

The freedom-loving, anti-Islamization ideals, no matter how much some people would like that."

Breivik did not act in a vacuum. In the propaganda of the slick political parties, ragtag mobs and paramilitary organizations that make up Europe's far right — and the response of the establishment to this diverse movement — lie at least a few of the seeds of Norway's tragedy.