I imagine that Osama Bin Laden would've been absolutely tickled by the Norway massacre if he had been alive. I'm sure he saw 9/11 as the beginning of a big cycle of brown people killing white people and white people killing brown people. And sure, there'd be some brown people killing brown people in there too, because that's how a big military conflict in Afghanistan or Pakistan or Iraq is going to go. But a terrorist who looks like Draco Malfoy's uncle killing white Norwegians? Nifty.Sorry for focusing on something trivial -- it's just that as a blogger I try not to tell people what they're already thinking, and there's not much I can add to your appreciation of the abject horror of so many young people being brutally murdered.
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In fact, lots of 'brown' people have been killed by Islamic fundamentalists in Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood was founded and in Pakistan where the ISI has repeatedly turned a blind eye to the murders of trades union activists by clerical fascists. The danger here is that the press is keen to turn this into the act of a lone madman rather than political murder. Hitler was also a madman but he had similar political motives to Breivik.
At this point, any time I don't get a cultural reference I should just assume it has to do with Harry Potter.
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