Survivors of the Utoya [sic] Massacre Fear the Rise of Norway’s Right and the End of the Multicultural Society They Treasure

THE INDEPENDENT: The next generation of the Labour Party worry that the immigration debate may turn nasty

They survived Anders Breivik’s deadly attack against the party he blamed for the “Islamisation” of Norway, but the three young Labour politicians elected this month worry that the multicultural society they treasure could now be under threat from the incoming right-wing government.

Elections last week ousted the Labour Party after eight years in power, with the victorious Conservative Party now crafting a coalition government which will for the first time include the anti-immigration Progress Party, which won 16 per cent of the vote.

Progress Party politicians insist they are not xenophobic, but during election campaigning the deputy party leader presented a paper which proposed halving the immigrant population and dramatically slashing the number of asylum seekers in Norway.

“The Progress Party has been very clear that they want to challenge international law and human rights regarding immigration,” said Stine Renate Håheim, 29, who survived Breivik’s slaughter on Utoya [sic] Island two years ago by leaping into the cold fjord. “If the Progress Party is included in the government it will be the most right-wing government in Europe and that frightens at least me.” » | Charlotte McDonald-Gibson | Friday, September 13, 2013

Norway Swings Right in Election Two Years after Breivik Massacre

Norway's set for a change at the helm. That's after a general election saw the country's current government lose to a coalition of parties formed by the Conservatives and their right-wing allies. Conservative leader Erna Solberg, who's eyeing the premier's seat, has hailed the triumph of the right, as historic. And as Lucy Kafanov explains the poll's result echoes a steady trend across Europe. Johannes Bergh, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Oslo, thinks the conservative party's invitation to the right-wing group to form a coalition government could be risky...

Britain 'Giving in to Sharia Councils' Says Norway's Anti-immigration Leader

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Britain is "giving into the claims of Sharia councils", according to the leader of Norway's anti-immigration party which is poised to enter government later this month.

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Siv Jensen, the 44-year-old leader of the Progress party who cites Baroness Thatcher as her inspiration, said: "What I have seen that the UK has done is to give in to the claims of sharia councils, and I don't think we should give into that. In Norway we have one law, and that is the Norwegian law."

Miss Jensen, who is unmarried, said Britain was suffering the results of earlier mistakes in its immigration policy.

"I see some problems arising – You've had problems with riots, you've had problems with radical groups who aren't very fond of democratic systems and freedom of speech, and I think those are criteria that you really have to stick to in the modern world."

Miss Jensen's party has grown to become Norway's third largest since it was launched in the 1970s, pushing a libertarian economic and social policy, combined with a vehemently anti-immigrant, anti-Islamic stand. » | Richard Orange, Oslo | Sunday, September 01, 2013

Norwegian Mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik Seeks University Place

THE GUARDIAN: Self-confessed fascist whose terror campaign two years ago killed 77 people has applied to University of Oslo

Norway's oldest and most illustrious university, with five Nobel Prize winners among its alumni, may soon add the self-confessed fascist whose terror campaign two years ago killed 77 people.

Anders Behring Breivik, serving a 21-year sentence in a maximum security prison, has applied to the University of Oslo to study political science, Norwegian television revealed on Monday night.

The university, whose Latin motto is et nos petimus astra – we strive for the stars – said it would consider Breivik's application on its merits.

Ole Petter Ottersen, the university's rector, confirmed that Breivik had applied to study a single topic that would not lead to a degree, but could not go into details on how the application would be treated.

"Prison inmates are allowed to study, and we have a set of rules that we stick to in assessing applications. We don't want to change them — although obviously some people would like them changed," he told the Guardian.

Breivik last summer announced his intention to study politics and write several books. » | David Crouch in Gothenburg | Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Norwegian Rape Case Woman Allowed to Leave Dubai

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A Norwegian woman who was imprisoned in Dubai after telling police she had been raped won her fight for freedom on Monday as the emirate's ruler pardoned her for the crime of extramarital sex.

Marte Dalelv said she was overjoyed that her ordeal was finally over, after four months fighting a jail sentence in a case which highlighted the tension between Dubai’s courtship of Western investors and visitors and its strict Islamic laws. “I have my life back,” the smiling 24-year-old told reporters. “I am free, finally”.

Ms Dalelv had been convicted by a Dubai court last week of extramarital sex, perjury and consuming alcohol without a permit and sentenced to 16 months in prison. The verdict, she told press, was a shock - coming despite DNA, medical and witness evidence that she said proved her claims.

Meanwhile, her alleged rapist was also pardoned. He had been given a lesser sentence of just 13 months for extramarital sex. » | Hannah Strange | Monday, July 22, 2013

Norwegian Woman Who Reported Being Raped in Dubai Is Jailed for 16 Months

MAIL ONLINE: Norwegian woman, 25, was in Dubai on a business trip / She was raped and reported the incident to the police / At the station, police took her passport and jailed her / She will now serve 16 months for illicit sex outside marriage

A young Norwegian woman has been sentenced to 16 months in jail after she reported a rape in Dubai.

The 25-year-old was in the United Arab Emirates on a business trip when she was raped and reported the assault to the local police.

Dubai police did not believe her, and instead took her passport and jailed her on suspicion of having had sex outside marriage.

The Norwegian woman reported the sexual assault in March this year, after which she had to spend days in a cell before she was allowed to use a telephone.

With the help of family members, the Norwegian consulate was able to negotiate a release and she has been living under the protection of the Norwegian Sailor’s Church until her sentencing this week.

'I received the harshest sentence for sex outside marriage, harshest sentence for drinking alcohol and on top of that I was found guilty of perjury,’ the woman told Verdens Gang.

‘It is a terrible situation she is in,’ said Gisle Meling, the priest at the Norwegian Sailor’s Church.

‘We are very surprised and had hoped it would go another way, but we live in a country which has a justice system which draws its conclusions with the help of Sharia law.’ » | Sara Malm | Wednesday, July 17, 2013

'Neo-Nazi' Singer Vikernes in French Terror Arrest

BBC: A Norwegian musician with links to mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has been arrested in France on "suspicion he was preparing a major terrorist act".

The French interior ministry said Kristian "Varg" Vikernes constituted "a potential threat to society".

He was arrested in central France after his wife bought four rifles.

Vikernes, described by French officials as a neo-Nazi, had in the past received a copy of a manifesto from Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011. » | Tuesday, July 16, 2013

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Neo-Nazi linked to Norwegian killer Anders Breivik arrested in France: A neo-Nazi linked to Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has been arrested in southwestern France after investigators decided he might stage a large "terrorist act", Interior Minister Manuel Valls said. » | Reuters | Tuesday, July 16, 2013

LE FIGARO: Un Norvégien «susceptible de préparer un acte terroriste» arrêté en France : Le néonazi Varg Vikernes, musicien connu de la scène black métal norvégienne, constituait «une menace potentielle pour la société», assure le ministère de l'Intérieur. Sa femme, une Française, a elle aussi été arrêtée. » | Par Anne Jouan | mardi 16 juillet 2013

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Breivik-Sympathisant: Norwegischer Neonazi in Frankreich festgenommen: Er fiel den Ermittlern wegen fremdenfeindlicher und antisemitischer Kommentare im Internet auf: Ein norwegischer Neonazi ist in Frankreich festgenommen worden. Der 40-Jährige gilt als Sympathisant des Attentäters Breivik. » | als/AFP | Dienstag, 16. Juli 2013

Jihadist Anjem Choudary Threatening to Take Norwegians as Hostages to Free Terrorist Mullah Krekar (May 2012)
The notorious Ilford firebrand Anjem Choudary has called for the kidnapping of Norwegian citizens abroad to exchange for the notorious Oslo firebrand Mullah Krekar, who has been detained after being convicted of death threats towards Norwegian MP Erna Solberg. The translated article from Dagbladet. Encourages Muslims to kidnap Norwegians living abroad...

Homegrown Terror: Can Norway’s Tolerance Withstand Radical Islam?
Norway's long held out a warm, welcoming hand to immigrants - trying to help them feel at home, and assimilate into society. That policy's been clouded not only by Breivik massacres - but even from within ethnic groups - with radical slogans and even death threats from the growing Islamic community. RT'S Maria Finoshina looks at why it's splitting the nation.

Anders Behring Breivik Denied Permission to Attend Mother's Funeral
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Anders Behring Breivik, the killer who carried out Norway's biggest peacetime massacre, has been denied permission to attend the funeral of his mother.

Breivik, a 34-year-old right-wing extremist who is serving a 21-year jail sentence for killing 77 people in twin attacks in July 2011, is being held under strict prison conditions.

Officials at the high-security Ila prison near Oslo decided to extend his strict security regimen when it came up for review Tuesday, and denied his request to attend the funeral, his lawyer Tord Jordet said.

Wenche Behring Breivik, who died last week aged 66, had shunned the spotlight after her son's attacks. She appeared to be the person closest to him, and he had described her as his "Achilles heel". » | Agence France-Presse | Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Norway Killer Anders Behring Breivik's Mother Dies
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: The mother of Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a massacre in Norway in 2011, has died at the age of 66.

Breivik, who met with his mother Wenche at the prison where he is being held earlier this month, has said he would like to attend her funeral.

"He was allowed to say goodbye," Mrs Breivik's lawyer said. "They both knew it would be the final meeting... I spoke to him this morning. He was grieving. It was very sad news to him. "

Breivik, a 34-year-old right-wing fanatic, launched Norway's worst peacetime massacre on July 22, 2011.

He detonated a car bomb outside government offices in Oslo killing eight people and then drove to the island of Utoya where he massacred 69 in a shooting spree at the summer camp of the governing Labor Party's youth wing.

Five years before the massacre, Breivik had moved back to live with his mother and ended all social contacts. His mother never attended Breivik's 10-week trial for health reasons, but in a statement read in court she said Breivik had fabricated information. » | Associated Press in Oslo | Saturday, March 23, 2013

Norvège : Anders Behring Breivik se plaint de ses conditions de détention
LE POINT: L'homme qui avait assassiné 77 personnes en 2011 estime que ses conditions de détention sont "contraires aux droits de l'homme".

Anders Behring Breivik, condamné pour le meurtre de 77 personnes le 22 juillet 2011 en Norvège, s'est plaint de ses conditions de détention "contraires aux droits de l'homme", a annoncé jeudi un de ses avocats. L'extrémiste de droite de 33 ans a envoyé une lettre aux autorités pénitentiaires dans laquelle il fustige le régime carcéral de très haute sécurité auquel il est soumis depuis plus d'un an et les restrictions encadrant sa correspondance. Selon l'avocat Tord Jordet, Breivik est en pratique privé d'accès à un ordinateur qui lui avait été fourni - sans accès à internet - pendant sa détention provisoire et les courriers qu'il reçoit et envoie sont censurés dès qu'ils abordent un thème politique. » | Source AFP | jeudi 08 novembre 2012

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Norway killer Breivik complains about prison: Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, convicted of killing 77 people last year, has complained that prison conditions are violating his human rights, one of his lawyers said Thursday. » | Thursday, November 08, 2012

Anders Behring Breivik's Mother 'Sexualised' Him When He Was Four

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik's mother "sexualised" her four-year-old son, smacked him, and often told him she wished he were dead, child psychologist reports printed in a new book on the Norwegian killer have revealed.

The reports also show that when Breivik was just four-years-old, his mother became preoccupied with fears that her son would violently assault someone.

"She saw him as an adult violent person, even though he was only a small boy," said Aage Borchgrevink, author of A Norwegian tragedy. "She was afraid that he would assault people."

The psychologist reports show that Wenche Behring already felt her son was "aggressive, hyperactive and clingy," when she was breastfeeding him.

By the time he was four years old, she "sexualised" the young Breivik, hit him, and frequently told him that she wished that he were dead.

"The mother and Anders sleep in the same bed at night with very close bodily contact," psychologists from Norway's centre for child and youth psychiatry (SSBU), reported after Breivik and his mother spent several weeks there in 1983. The family's neighbours at the time became worried about her inappropriate sexual behaviour. » | Richard Orange in Malmö | Sunday, October 07, 2012

French Writer Says Anders Breivik Was 'What Norway Deserves’
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Richard Millet, a respected French writer and editor, has sparked controversy for his comments on Anders Breivik, the Norwegian mass killer, whom he described as “without doubt what Norway deserves”.

Mr Millet, who says he has read all 1,500 pages of Breivik’s online manifesto, insists that he does not approve of the Norwegian gunman’s crimes.

However, he praised Breivik’s writing and cry of hatred for social democracy, immigration and multiculturalism.

“Breivik is without doubt what Norway deserves,” wrote Millet in an 18-page pamphlet.

He is “as much a child of a broken family as of an ideological and racial fracture caused by immigration from outside Europe over the last 20 years,” added Mr Millet, who has edited several award-winning books in France. » | Source: AFP | Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Islam's Critics Won't Be Silenced

LOS ANGELES TIMES: Nathan Lean wants "society" to take action against those who stand for freedom and human rights against jihad, Sharia and Islamic supremacism, for we "must be stopped." This is a veiled but clear call for restrictions on our freedom of speech. By publishing it on its Aug. 26 Op-Ed page, The Times is working against its own interests. For my opinions are certainly politically incorrect today, but if Lean succeeds in getting them criminalized, editors at The Times might find one day that they too hold an opinion unacceptable to those in power.

Lean thinks that "society" should act against my colleague Pamela Geller and me because the Norwegian mass murdererAnders Behring Breivik cited us in his manifesto. But actually, Breivik cited many, many people, including Barack Obama,John F. Kennedy and Thomas Jefferson -- who are never blamed for Breivik's murders. Also swept under the rug is the fact that Breivik’s manifesto is ideologically incoherent: So far was he from being a doctrinaire counter-jihadist that he wanted to aid Hamas and ally with jihad groups. Brevik’s real inspiration for his violence was, by his own account, Al Qaeda, as becomes clear in his manifesto when he spends 25 pages quoting extensively from the Koran and other Islamic sources. I am no more responsible for Breivik than the Beatles are for Charles Manson.

Indeed, the whole attempt to smear Geller and me with Breivik’s murders rests on several leaps of illogic and unstated assumptions. Even if Breivik’s views really were exactly the same as ours, would it therefore hold that if someone commits violence in the name of an idea, that idea is thereby discredited and must be driven out of the public discourse? In that case, precious few ideas would be left, since people at one time or another have committed violence in the name of virtually every cause under the sun. » | Robert Spencer | Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Breivik Will Not Appeal Sentence, Sorry He Did Not Kill More
Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik has been declared sane and jailed for 21 years for murdering 77 people in July last year. He also used the sentencing as a chance to express regret that he didn't kill more people that day. Al Jazeera's Paul Brennan reports from Oslo.

Anders Behring Breivik's 21-year Jail Term Closes Norway's Darkest Chapter

THE GUARDIAN: Calls for debate on multiculturalism as far right extremist is sentenced for killing 77 in twin attacks on Utøya island and Oslo

The darkest chapter in Norway's recent history came to a close, as judges delivered a sentence that is likely to see Anders Behring Breivik spend the rest of his life in prison, before they read out harrowing accounts of the gun and bomb attacks he perpetrated last year.

An Oslo court found that Breivik, whose twin assaults killed 77 people, was sane – the verdict that he and most Norwegians had wanted.

The conclusion of Norway's most high-profile judicial case for decades provoked immediate calls for the country to engage in a more rounded and open debate on multiculturalism.

Survivors and relatives welcomed the court's decision, saying they were now able to move on with their lives, 13 months after Breivik detonated a bomb in Oslo and embarked on a shooting rampage on Utøya island. More than half of those shot were teenagers.

The 33-year-old, who had earlier admitted the attacks that traumatised the peaceful country, smirked as the court's verdict was delivered. He was given the maximum sentence of 21 years, but with a "preventive detention" clause that means his time in jail can be extended as long as he is deemed a threat to society. It is unlikely he will ever be released.

In a final parting shot, clearly designed to offend, Breivik used his chance to address the court by apologising to "militant nationalists" across Europe, apparently for not killing more people during his two attacks. » | Mark Townsend in Oslo | Friday, August 24, 2012

Breivik Verdict: Mass-murderer Declared Sane and Sentenced to 21 Years
THE GUARDIAN: Court decides confessed killer was not psychotic when he went on rampage in Oslo that left 77 people dead

Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian far-right extremist, has been sentenced to at least 21 years in prison after a court declared he was sane throughout his murderous rampage last year that killed 77 people.

The Oslo district court declared its verdict that the 33-year-old was not psychotic while carrying out the twin attacks, including the shooting of dozens of teenagers attending a political camp.

The court's decision will have delighted Breivik, who had hoped to avoid what he called the "humiliation" of being dismissed as a madman.

The mass-killer had desperately hoped the court would find him criminally culpable for the killings, claiming they were "cruel and necessary" to protect Norway from becoming overrun by Muslims. » | Mark Townsend | Friday, August 24, 2012

Video: Victims describe their loss »

Norway Remembers Victims of Massacre One Year On
In Norway, memorial services have been taking place to commemorate the victims of last year's massacre. Eight people were killed by a bomb blast at government headquarters there, and a further 69 were shot dead at a youth camp on Utoeya Island. From Oslo Barnaby Philips reports.

Anders Behring Breivik's Defence Calls for Lenient Sentence
On the last day of the trial against mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, his defence council asks the court to declare Breivik criminally accountable allowing him to take responsibility for his actions with a lenient sentence. Speaking outside the court, the leader of the Norwegian Labour party's youth wing, Eskil Pedersen – himself a survivor of the Utøya massacre – says it is obvious that Breivik is insane

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