Norway Terror Puts Focus On Rise Of European Right-Wing

A strain of right-wing radicalism is rearing its ugly head in Europe, fueled by anti-Muslim sentiment, globalization and multiculturalism.

The bombing and shootings in Oslo also have served as a wake-up call for security services in Europe and the United States that in recent years have become so focused on Islamic terrorists that they may have underestimated the threat of domestic radicals, including those upset by what they see as the influence of Islam…

[Norway’s right-wing scene is connected to the rest of Europe through the Internet forums where hate speech proliferates and through right-wing demonstrations that draw an international mix of participants.

“This may be the act of a lone, mad, paranoid individual,” said Hajo Funke, a political scientist at the Free University in Berlin who studies rightist extremism, referring to the right-wing fundamentalist Christian charged in connection with the killings, “but the far-right milieu creates an atmosphere that can lead such people down that path of violence.”

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.