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Time for racial slurs

Here is the story you can't read in Norwegian newspapers: 11. in May Hans van Themsche (18) went into an arms shop in Antwerp, Belgium. He bought a hunting rifle and went on «immigrant hunting»:




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First he shot Sonhul Koc (46), who sat on a bench and read a book. She survived, in a critical condition. Then he discovered Oulemata Niangadou (24), an au pair from Mali, who rented the white two-year-old Luna. The 18-year-old both fluttered down from behind. Without warning. On the open street. Niangadou and Luna died on the spot.

This is one of the most gruesome killings of many years. But have you read one word about the victims?

Hardly. Apart from an NTB note, there has not been a single word on the matter in the Norwegian press. Hardly enough in other European newspapers either.

The assassination of colored people in Europe's open streets is no longer a shock. Does not rebel. Only a few Belgian Africans went by train for Niangadou.

The contrast to Theo van Gogh's murder in 2004 is striking. Over 450 Norwegian newspaper articles have mentioned the killing of the film director who collaborated with Hirsi Ali, the Islam critic who according to a new TV documentary was not exposed to forced marriage anyway.

While the van Gogh murder was made proof that the "Muslims" are the problem, the Niangadou killing is not proof of anything. Although hatred of the colored and Muslims now, again, has become commonplace in Central Europe. In Germany, immigrants in several cities are warned to go outdoors. While everyone is concerned about the majority's freedom of speech, fewer take up the minority's freedom of existence. After all, it is most comfortable not to.

Dag Herbjørnsrud
Dag Herbjørnsrud
Former editor of MODERN TIMES. Now head of the Center for Global and Comparative History of Ideas.

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