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Norwegian terrorism and politically correctness

I've heard so many discourses already about the massacre in Norway, on facebook, on the street, in the forums. And I noticed a pattern: most of them discuss multiculturalism, Marxism and Muslims, while precising that, of course, the crime is unacceptable. People briefly condemn the killer (or simply the crime), but then they analyze arduously the catastrophic situation in which the Western civilization finds itself. I read in the newspaper that the killer will soon keep a discourse in which he will explain his reasons. In general, media offer generous spaces to his manifestos, projects, ideas. One could definitely conclude that the killer reached his goal. He didn't kill himself, so he knew that he would be imprisoned, and that all his life and “philosophy” would be made public. And, as he explained it, it was his way to sound the alarm for a vital problem of the Western world. So his goal was to make public his ideas and messages and that they are publicly discussed. I be...