Defending the open future in Scandinavia

”On Friday the 22nd of July, right after the bomb went off and the killing of young Norweigian Social Democrats began, one could have asked one question. Not just in Oslo, but to people all over the world. One could ask them what they thought had happened. The majority would probably have answered: those responsible are in some way linked to al-Qaeda.”

Henning Mankell writes about the attacks in Norway, our prejudices about terror and why we need to defend and … Read more

Mankell on the attacks in Norway

Henning Mankell comments the attacks in Norway in a chronicle published in The Guardian.

“We might ask whether we have been waiting for this, a brutal act of terrorism not committed by people who have kidnapped the Islamic faith and who claim to act in the name of that religion, but a man with a different political and religious motive. A rightwing extremist, a nationalist with elements of Christian fundamentalism.”

Click here to read the entire chronicle in The Guardian. … Read more