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Dark_Falcon1/13/2015 8:18:42 pm PST

Here’s a story to link to when replying to wingnuts railing about Europe’s Muslim’s on Twitter:

A White Man Committed Europe’s Worst Terror Attack in the Past 10 Years

Don’t forget about the nativist far right

by KEVIN KNODELL

Many commentators have asserted that the Charlie Hebdo massacre—and the attack on a French Kosher grocery store—is the worst terrorist atrocity in Europe in a decade.

“This is the worst terrorist attack in Europe since the attacks in London in July of 2005,” former CIA deputy director Michael Morell told CBS News on Jan. 7. “We haven’t lost this many people since that attack.”

The killings in Paris are no doubt absolutely tragic and a sickening assault on free expression.

But what Morell said simply isn’t true. The worst terror attack in the past 10 years in Europe occurred on July 22, 2011. That’s when far-right radical Anders Breivik bombed several government buildings and shot up a summer camp in Norway.

The Islamists who attacked the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo killed 12 people, and the related grocery store shooter killed five people. At least 21 others sustained injuries. Breivik’s rampage killed 77 people and wounded 319, mostly teenagers.