Norway debates immigration in wake of Breivik killings. "Right-wing politicians are trying to reopen

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the immigration debate six months after Breivik's mass killings.

When Anders Behring Breivik attacked and killed 77 people in Norway last July, he published a manifesto in which he decried what he saw as the Islamisation of Europe and blamed immigration for many of the country's problems. Now, as Tom Esslemont reports, right-wing politicians are trying to reopen one of the country's most sensitive debates.

Before the 22 July attacks, a serious schism was opening up between that majority and those on the right who felt that immigration had taken place too rapidly, without proper integration.

Club X-ray is one of the few government-sponsored schemes to help foster links between different ethnic groups. It was designed to counter opinion by some conservatives that some immigrants were, in their eyes, taking jobs away from "ethnic" Norwegians.

Similarly, the most right-wing of all the main political parties, the Progress Party, has in the past campaigned on an anti-immigration ticket. After the attacks, it saw its support fall to 11.4% in local elections last September from 17.5% in 2007. Now its leader, Siv Jensen, is fighting to bring back the debate about immigration into parliament.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16636885

Haters got to hate, I guess. When that's all you've got for a platform, you must have to start pushing the same message again just 6 months after Breivik's mass shootings.