THE JERUSALEM POST: Despite Breivik attacks, police security chief says home-grown Islamic extremism poses higher threat than right-wing extremists.
OSLO - Radical Islam remains the most serious threat faced by Norway despite the attacks by an Islamophobe extremist who killed 77 people last summer, the chief of the security police said on Tuesday.
Janne Kristiansen, head of Norway's Police Security Service, said her agency would focus on broad-based dangers from home-grown Islamic extremism even though threats against public officials have risen since the July attacks, which targeted Norway's left wing.
"In recent years we have seen a development in which (Muslim) people raised in Norway become radicalized, and for whom Norway and Norwegian society are the enemy," she told a news conference.
"These people have a lot of contact with extreme Islamists abroad. They travel to training camps in conflict areas and they travel to participate in armed combat before returning to Norway."
Responding to critics who have said the police are neglecting the threat from right-wingmilitants like Anders Behring Breivik, who admitted carrying out the July 22 attacks, she said the threat they represent is far smaller. » | Reuters | Tuesday, January 17, 2012
THE JERUSALEM POST – EDITORIAL: Norway’s challenge: Europe’s fringe right-wing extremists present a real danger to society. But Oslo’s devastating tragedy should not be allowed to be manipulated by those who would cover up the abject failure of multiculturalism. » | JPOST EDITORIAL | Sunday, July 24, 2011
