[lit-ideas] Re: Norway -- condolences
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:32:41 +0100 (BST)
Norway's response has been remarkable.
Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK
--- On Tue, 26/7/11, Torgeir Fjeld <torgeir_fjeld@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Torgeir Fjeld <torgeir_fjeld@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Norway -- condolences
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, 26 July, 2011, 2:05
> Thanks to those who have expressed
> their sympathy with our predicament on o roff
> list. An entire generation of young politicians has been
> killed or deeply
> wounded. A whole country has been moved to tears by the
> hatred of one
> perpetrator. Remember, though, that hatred cannot be
> defeated with hatred. As
> Stine Renate Håheim -- a talented young politician who
> survived the attack --
> put it on CNN, "if one man can demonstrate so much hatred,
> image how much love
> we, as a community, can mobilize."
>
>
> At the rally in Oslo today 200.000 people showed
> their love of democracy, their
> outrage at this senseless act of terror, and their grief
> and sympathy with the
> bereaved and those afflicted. These brutal and cowardly
> attacks affect all those
> who feel attached to the political system, youth
> culture and even national
> values: the King said that our sense of freedom,
> openness and well-being shall
> not be destroyed by this cowardly attack.
>
>
> Let us now ensure that the person/s who committed
> these atrocities are not
> allowed to decide on the agenda. Let us not allow him and
> those who support the
> ideas that provided justifications for his acts to
> become centre-pieces of our
> conversations and our strengthened belief in
> democracy, difference and
> tolerance.
>
> torgeir_fjeld@xxxxxxxx
> // Ph: (+47) 47851394
> http://facebook.com/phatic
>
>
> -- Fred, frihet og gode offentlige tjenester --
>
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