Why Norway ?

Today's the day when Anders Behring Breivik get the chance to meet the survivors and the relatives of the kids he brutally murdered a few months ago. He smiles at them and still regards his killing spree as a necessity in the defence of Norway. He has said that his actions will be understood in 60 years time. Having followed the debate, I would say the seeds of understanding is already there. 60 years ? More like 60 days is the inconvenient truth.

Norway does not have the pretty substantial conflicts between immigrants and locals other countries have. Countries like France, Italy, Holland, England and Germany. But there are still tensions there.

So why have we not seen terrorism like the one Anders Behring Breivik carried out in any other countries in Europe ?

The answer can be found in Norway itself. It can be found in the Norwegian mentality itself.

Norway is a country of extremes by all means.
Back in the 1930s, there was rife anti-semitism in Norway. 99 % of all Norwegian jews perished in Holocaust. This was only possible with a helping hand from the Norwegian police and...... frightening enough; the Norwegian general public.
Three times more Norwegians fought for Hitler than for the Allies (England). Something we conviniently enough forgets in Norway.
There was also rife anti-gypsies feelings in Noway for a long time. State financed medical experiements and sterilizations was carried out even after the horrors of Holocaust was revealed.
The Sami people has been the victims of pretty unpleasant persecution and that even long after the gates of the Auschwitz concentration camp was opened to reveal what persecution of minorities really meant.
Our very own quisling during the war, Vidkun Quisling, was rightly excecuted after the war. Conveniently enough, his political party's (Nasjonal Samling = translated to National Union in English) programme has been forgotten. A party programme which has been adopted by other parties after the war. The racial elements exluded; the majority by a mainstream party which is now a miniority party in the government. I do not think adopted by intent, but by default.
In Norway, the marxist-leninists was pretty vocal and strong during the 1970s. Many visited Pol Pot during his murdering regime in Cambodia when 1/3 of their population perished during the few years of his murdering regime.
There are still a substantial amount of people in Norway who does not believe the facts that this genocide took place. Just like there are people who does not believe that Holocaust ever took place. I Norway, the Holocaust deniers are hounded out of the communities while the Cambodia genocide deniers are the pillars of the community.
The same people was leading the successful no to a Norwegian membership in the European Union with an isolation agenda. In the choice between joining an union of democratic capitalist European countries and staying isolated on the fringes, Norway chose isolation and the nationalist and mono-cultural cause.
Norway has also given us the black metal scene. Another pretty extreme scene with a nationalist mono cultural agenda.

So why has there not been any Anders Behring Breivik type of massacres in any other European countries ? Why is Anders Behring Breivik's 1500 pages long manifest something no other person or even nationality has written ? The frightening thing is; no other nationality could even have written this manifest. This manifest is unique Norwegian.

At any crime scene, the question Why will always be raised. But not in this case. It will never be raised.

It is a strong probability that the frightening truth is that Anders Behring Breivik just followed a Norwegian tradition. He just followed the path of Vidkun Quisling and many other Norwegians who always justified their actions by saying "the nation will understand us in the future". And we declare Anders Behring Breivik as insane, jail him and throw away the keys like we excecuted Vidkun Quisling and conveniently forgot the truths that does not suit our self beliefs. After all; we just shot Vidkun Quisling, declared his follower Knut Hamsun as insane and did not take the Why debate in the post WW2 Norway either.

I don't see the question Why being raised today either. Why is it that Norway is so unique in giving the world Vidkun Quisling's political manifesto, genocide deniers which is now the pillars of the society and Anders Behring Breivik own manifesto ? Why Norway ?

I am afraid the lack of a more constructive debate means Norway is doomed to repeat it self. And Anders Behring Breivik's hideous crimes will not be the last of this sort on Norwegian soil. More blood will be shed. The seeds to more atrocities has been sown and no pesticides has been applied.

The lack of a more constructive debate has at least proved to me that there is no place for me in the Norwegian society. For me; it is goodbye Norway and thanx for everything.

(originally published in a national newspaper in November 2011)