How the wheel turns: from 9/11 to 22/7
July 31, 2011
Just how will the wheel turn, how will the public debate shift, after the terror attacks of 22/7? Food for thought from Björn Stærk:
...After the terror attacks in Norway on July 22, perpetrated by a fanatical opponent of multiculturalism and the Islamization of Europa, it happens again. The wheel turns. We won’t pretend that everything has changed, no more than everything changed on 9/11. The threat from Islamist terrorism is the same. The immigration challenges of Europe are the same.
But reality has shifted sufficiently that you cannot mindlessly apply the same old models to the new situation. And, this time, the pundits who reveal themselves to be most out of touch may well be precisely those right-wing critics of immigration and Islam who took the lead after 9/11...
Would you believe, after 22/7 lots of people have called Norwegian news sites asking that their anti-Islamic comments be deleted?
Photo from Flickr: "Prayer Wheels" by Eric Montfort", republished here under a CC-licence
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