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Muslims and Islamophobia
29 Jul 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com
Norway — Ugly, but Inevitable

By Zarrar Khuhro
July 28, 2011
Watching the initial coverage of the Norway massacre on BBC, I felt a tinge of sympathy for the news producers whom I could literally feel scrambling in the background. After all, with the shooter being a right-wing Christian extremist, the standard rundown they had prepared could no longer be used. Gone was the package on the cartoon controversy. Unusable was the old report on the 7/7 bombing. The rolodex of ‘experts’ on Islam and terrorism was now just a dead weight. Instead, several analysts and academics from a variety of Norwegian institutes and universities had to be trotted out.
European far-right parties, with their xenophobic, anti-immigration agendas and their persistent I Islam-bashing, have been gaining in power over the last decade.

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