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Huge Crowd Demonstrates in Oslo

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wrenchwench7/25/2011 11:30:37 am PDT

From Horowitz’s site, written by Bruce Thornton: Oslo and the Dangers of Moral Equivalence [or, Magical Balance Fairy does Preemptive Pirouette, ed.]

This reliance on moral equivalence not only obscures the causes of Muslim violence. It also leads to misunderstanding the true significance of European extremism. Rather than the expression of Christian or conservative pathology, acts like the Oslo bombing expose the bankruptcy of the EU utopian dream and its notion that nationalist loyalty and Christian identity are at best pass, at worst an expression of xenophobia or racism. EUtopia has marginalized legitimate nationalist and religious identity and exalted in its place some mythic transnational cosmopolitanism and sentimentalized multiculturalism alien to the lives of most ordinary Europeans. As such it creates the conditions in which extremist, if not neo-fascist varieties of nationalism, can flourish, particularly given the growing problems of marginalized and unassimilated Muslim immigrants.

“It’s not Christian Terrorism, it’s a natural reaction to multiculturalism”.