First, in Norway there has been a controversy about mosque building for quite a while. Last year Norwegian foreign minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, proclaimed that he will not allow Saudi Arabia to finance or build any mosques in Norway because of the laws in Saudi Arabia that deny basic religious freedoms. This also includes money from Saudi citizens being used for mosque building.
So I doubt that someone with Christianity as his core religious belief would commit such an act of violence. It makes no sense. Certainly it makes more sense that someone sympathetic to Muslims would do such a thing...if the perp is a Muslim, or supporter of Islamic terrorists.
Secondly, I thought that in Norway "right wing" was the opposite of our right wing here. In Europe I thought "right wingers" were the equilivant of our far "left wingers" as related to political ideals. Has this changed? It would not surprise me if the media purposely overlooked the difference and decided to allow it to be misunderstood.
I always thought that too!! That it was backwards in Europe as far as political beliefs.
Right wing in Europe (don’t know specifically about Norway) is more or less the equivalent of the right wing here. Maybe you’re thinking of the word liberal and that’s where the confusion comes in.
In my old country in Europe, a liberal is someone who belongs to a right wing party and who is usually pro freedom and pro capitalism. What we would call the Republican Party here. Of course we here in the US consider a liberal someone who is a lefty.