July 22, 2011 Utøya

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July 22, 2021 marks 10 years since the worst attack on our democratic and open societies in Scandinavia since WW2 and the nazi occupation of both Norway and Denmark, at Utøya and the government buildings in Oslo.

With more and louder voices more or less repeating the propaganda of Nazi Germany, with xenophobia, attacks on independant and objective media and the devision of people into us and them, and a general disrespect of a transparent, open and tolerant democracy, we need to take a stand against these echos of the past.

Let us not allow history to repeat itself.
 

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A 10-year-old terrorist attack continues to inspire ‘White supremacist’ terrorism around the world - Alternet.org

It was ten years ago, on July 22, 2011, that a White supremacist carried out a terrorist attack in Norway and murdered 77 people. Journalist Cynthia Miller-Idriss looks back on that incident in an op-ed published by NBC News' website, emphasizing that those who treated that attack like an isolated incident made a huge mistake.

Miller-Idriss stresses that White supremacists and White nationalists felt empowered following the July 22, 2011 attack.

"It would take eight years following the attacks in Norway for American and global terrorism experts and policymakers to start to take the threat of White supremacist extremism more seriously," Miller-Idriss writes. "That delay allowed White supremacist extremism to fester. The Oslo attacks directly inspired terrorist and mass shooter attacks and plots in at least six countries....
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