Blast in Oslo

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Oh, and "Islam" is not a race, it's a religion

true but then religion is a characteristic of race, like food types of food people choose to eat, linguistic accents, skin colour - none of which are races, but can be used as weapons by racists.

Races are fictions. Religions are fictions. Fictions are fictions.

[Exi5tentialist]

Races are fictions. Religions are fictions. Fictions are fictions.

So is racism fiction then? Or is that denial?

[Bella Fortuna]

Lighten up, holy shit.

[Bella Fortuna]

I heard it was a Jew.........

Thank you; no thread is complete without that little mantra... now I can sleep at night.

[FBM]

Oh, my, well... Not god, exactly. The media is painting a picture of just one man being behind both the bomb and the shooting at the summer camp for youths. It's sounding crazy, all of it

Hope everyone you love is safe, man.

[JimC]

Showing as 89 dead now, mostly young people gunned down at the labour youth camp...

Shit.

[Tyrannical]

He already has a Wikipedia page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik

Must be some type of left wing extremist since he allegedly holds strong anti-Nazi views.

[Eriku]

Been mostly watching the news for 10 hours now... I don't feel like sleep, even if I have work today from the afternoon till the eve.

http://twitter.com/#!/AndersBBreivik

"One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100 000 who have only interests."

That's the only tweet he has... from last week. Today he executes a carefully planned assault, using a homemade bomb made with the help of a fake company he set up a year or so ago, which allowed him to buy bulk in artificial fertiliser, which can be used to made bombs. The bomb goes off, he dresses up as a policeman and makes his way to an island where a bunch of politically active youths are gathered (Labour Party), and tells everybody to gather because he wants to do some standard procedure in the wake of the bomb having gone off in Oslo. Then he gets out his automatic weapon and fires at them, and I've seen a bunch of people who got away, clearly still in shock, explaining how he was calm and meticulous in how he went about it, finishing off people lying down, going through tents and buildings, hunting after them through woods and along the shore, firing at them as they tried to swim away... He's not without his critical faculties and his level-headedness, and still does this... It tells me he's a sociopath, perhaps even a psychopath.

All of last year we had 29 murders... Today he's snatched at least 87 lives, and plenty are still awaiting treatment from an overwhelmed but focused medical workforce.

If there's anything like a silver lining, he was ethnically Norwegian, Christian and an Islamophobe with severe rightish leanings. At least this can't translate to political capital for the Progress Party or anybody else who'd want to stir up xenophobic shit.

This is really getting to me

He already has a Wikipedia page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik

Must be some type of left wing extremist since he allegedly holds strong anti-Nazi views.

Nope. He's right-wing... I've read his facebook page and his activities on the blogosphere, where he's said things like the Norwegian media is permeated with Marxism... He describes himself as a Conservative on the facebook page.

[Tyrannical]

I also heard mention that he may have been the anonymous blogger Fjordman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fjordman

[Eriku]

I also heard mention that he may have been the anonymous blogger Fjordman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fjordman

Seems unlikely. All other social media he uses states he's lived all his life in Oslo, having moved a bit outside recently. The blogger states he's from Trondheim, a fair bit away. Where'd you hear he might be Anders Breivik?

[Tyrannical]

I also heard mention that he may have been the anonymous blogger Fjordman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fjordman

Seems unlikely. All other social media he uses states he's lived all his life in Oslo, having moved a bit outside recently. The blogger states he's from Trondheim, a fair bit away. Where'd you hear he might be Anders Breivik?

Must have been from that Wikipedia page, maybe the discussion section. I see in the Fjordman entry in the discussion section that is refuted as Fjordman continues to blog I guess.

[Bella Fortuna]

Christ, Eriku... that description of the scene at the island... makes me sickened and horribly sad to think of what those poor kids went through.

[Eriku]

Christ, Eriku... that description of the scene at the island... makes me sickened and horribly sad to think of what those poor kids went through.

I know... I can't get past it. I'm crying at regular intervals

There's been a bunch of messages via SMS and Tweets where people have written "don't call us, we have to be quiet, we're hiding and a guy is continually shooting".

Their lives turned upside down because the attended a social and political camp.

[Bella Fortuna]

No words...

And for you -

[Eriku]

No words...

And for you -

back at you, mon cherie.