What should Wallander say?
The northern European countries have always been an enviable example of advanced society.
However, a phenomenon that has marked the editorial world in recent years is the boom in thye Western world of the Scandinavian “black” novel.
Many black novels published in recent years by Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, and Icelandic authors, who have had a great editorial success, reflect, yet, a deep concern and extreme feelings that something is going quite wrong.
Authors such as Mankell and his detective Wallander or Stieg Larson, and his world of hackers, journalists, murderers and sadists of all kinds, reflect in their novels the same evil which, in a terrible manner, has appeared last Friday in Oslo and Utoya, leaving behind more than 90 murdered youngsters.
Curiously enough, the modern Norwegian writer Nesbo already staged an attack from a extreme right party in his novel “Rodstrupe”, or “the Redbreast”, in English.
A character like the murderer Anders Behring Breivik could have appeared in many of these black novels.
One of the worrying phenomenon that has occurred in recent years in that corner of Europe is the upsurge of the extreme right parties. Phenomenon that gradually, is spreading toward the rest of Western Europe.
A few days ago the German government has been forced to remove from his tomb Rudolf Hess’ remains and cremate them by scattering the ashes at sea. The intention being that this would stop the demonstrations by neo-Nazi groups around the anniversary of Hess’ death.
Anders Behring Breivik and his extreme -right define themselves as anti-Islamic, xenophobic, racist, but, at the same time, as "Christian" and "environmentalist".
They consider themselves superior to the rest of mankind. That is, just like the Aryan superiority dream Hitler shared with his Nazi followers.
It seems that ABB has written in some sort of diary appeared in the Net, that the entire Islam are just assassins, and they all should have to die by the hands of the knights of the new Order of the Temple he wants to create all over Europe. They would also be responsible for expelling all immigrants to their own respective countries…
That is, Europe for the Europeans…!
It strikes me as absolutely incredible that these people can define themselves as Christians when, in fact, are more ferocious and violent than the fiercest fiends.
Where do they place the commandment "love thy neighbor as yourself"?
And it is even more amazing that these bigots, typical example of the most radical bigotry, are probably attending with their families the Sunday services of their parishes.
Are we going toward some sort of European KKK that loved to use the Cross to kill their victims?
God forbid!
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