<p>The bombing of the government offices in Oslo was bad enough, but someone went to a kids camp and opened fire as well. I hope they can get to the bottom of this.</p>
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(CNN) – Norway came under deadly attack Friday with a massive bombing in the heart of its power center and a shooting at the ruling party’s youth camp outside the capital…</p>
<p>…In northern Utoya Island, a person dressed up as a policeman fired shots at the Labour Party Youth Camp with about 700 people, injuring several people, NRK said. Witnesses described a scene of utter chaos and said many people were shot…"</p>
<p>It’s very shocking; you expect this in London or New York - but Oslo? Thank goodness it happened in the afternoon in summer when Oslo is nearly empty, it would have been much worse had it happened a couple of months ago.</p>
<p>It seems that we now are compelled to accept the fact that extremists intend and hope to kill anyone and everyone whom disagrees with their political and religioius aims. Even children are not spared such hatred. How awful.</p>
<p>By the way, Qaddaffi would do himself good to condemn and distance himself from this latest evil.</p>
<p>WHY DO YOU ALWAYS BLAME MUSLIMS ???
we are NOT terrorists for god sake .
We don’t support these attacks .
PLEASE stop generallizing . WHO DID IT WERE ((EXTREME TERRORESTS)) AND NOT ((ISLAMIC TERRORISTS))</p>
With all the horrible atrocities he has wrought upon his people, I don’t think a comment on an action he wasn’t involved in half a world away will have much of a difference on world opinion.</p>
<p>This is a horrible tragedy that obviously will touch the hearts of all parents, who usually assume their kids are safe when they send them off to camp. Please refrain from turning this into a political thread.</p>
<p>I thought the same thing. And I think targets such as Norway serve to create a greater sense of ‘terror’ (which is the whole point), because it seems more random or unpredictable (‘if it can happen there…it can happen where I live too…’). </p>
<p>Of course after the fact we can analyze how they could have riled the terrorists with past actions the terrorists would not have liked, but the point is we weren’t thinking of Norway as a likely target prior. Canada and many other countries that have been in Afghanistan are in the same boat.</p>
Should go with “Scandinavia,” since “Northern Europe” does include Britain, which, in addition to being a recent terrorist target, was the enemy of the longest guerrilla warfare campaign ever waged.</p>
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Saying they were Islamic Terrorists doesn’t mean they are accurate representations of Islam, just like saying the Spanish Inquisition was a Christian institution doesn’t make it an accurate representation of Christianity.</p>
<p>This touches close to home. My S2 has attended summer camp in Norway - not the same area, but we always thought we were sending him to the safest place in the world. People don’t lock their doors, children are allowed to “roam free” and even the largest city seems like a small village. It is really a shame.</p>
<p>Right, but again we aren’t talking about hindsight here. Thats always easy-peasy. But rather, when was the last time we read in the news that Norway was feeling threatened? When did this terrorist prediction come in and by whom? That’s the point. It did not to most of us. Which is what in some ways makes it a better place to create feelings of terror.</p>