Political debate on the right after Twin Attacks

Norway is not as innocent as it once were, crime has risen sharply over the last years as membership of the European Economic Association has allowed criminal gangs to travel freely between European countries. This has mostly been causing a big increase in theft, burglary and similar. The most serious offense however homicide has been going down though. And it was already fairly low to begin with.

Now with the bombing and shooting massacre carried out by Anders Breivik, the homicide numbers have shot through the roof and I am not sure what to think of my beloved country anymore. Where is this all going? Will we be able to get back to normal?

I seriously struggle with what to think about crime, immigrants, conservatives, free speech, tolerance etc. On the one hand most immigrants I have personally met have been quite nice people. Actually let me rephrase that. It is really about what should I think about muslim immigrants. As I said most I have met have been really nice. But at the same time I keep hearing stories from friends and others about all the problems. A friend recently got mugged in the middle of the day by what looked like a middle easterner. People too often seem to end up in fight with muslim gangs, when staying out partying late on a saturday night. Often for ridiculous things like looking at a guy in the wrong way. When the fight starts the muslims are often quite cowardly in bringing in lots of people. It never seems to be one against one but more like one against twenty. These kind of stories I have hear from people in both Norway and Netherlands (where I recently lived). In the news you can read about how most rapes by unknown attacker in Norway and Sweden are done by muslim immigrants. Something like 70%-80% of the cases despite constituting less than 10% of the overall population. Most people in prison are apparently non-norwegians too.

Sure this is a minority of bad apples among a great majority of muslim immigrants who are peaceful and law abiding. But still the fact is that there are more bad apples to be found among these group of people, than the rest of the population. Then we have the increasing ghetto. I live in an area were I have become an ethnic minority in my own country, just like many other Norwegians living on the east side of Oslo. I am trying to think positive about it. After all everybody I have met speak fluent Norwegian and seem very friendly. Except I can't get passed the feeling of alienation looking at all the women walking around in hijab and almost never seeing anybody that looks like me. I worry about my son, being a small minority of white people in his preschool. Maybe it will be fine, but I don't know.

That is the problem. I just don't know where this is all ending. Will more whites flee the area? Will my son be in danger of being bullied or teased because he is a minority? One can read about stuff like that in the papers, but how serious should I take that?

All these problems don't go away just because Anders Breivik tried to attack Norwegian multicultural society. What he did can not really be described well with words by me. It was horrible and shattered Norwegian sense of innocence and safety. Now it seems like it will in many ways create a better society by brining the whole of multicultural Norway close together. Maybe integration will work better this time. Maybe muslims and ethnic Norwegians will get along much better after this. I hope so. But I also see the danger of this potentially destroying the debate about the problems.

Anders Breivik really destroyed our ability to debate the problem areas of Norwegian multicultural society. Can we solve the problems if we can't debate them? I think a lot of the points he brought out was quite valid and not crazy at all. But because of heinous acts these points have become invalidated, and people like me on the moderate right side will suddenly be embarrassed to hold some of these views in public.