Tens of thousands of mourners gather Monday in Oslo for a vigil following the twin attacks last week that killed 76 people in Norway.
No one was surprised to learn that the perpetrator of last week's devastating attacks in Norway was a religious fanatic. The religion he embraced, however, shocked many in Europe and the United States.
Norwegian police are describing Anders Behring Breivik, the fair-haired native son who went on a shooting rampage at a youth camp after bombing a government building in Oslo, as a "right-wing Christian fundamentalist."
To a Western world that equates religious extremism with Islam this conclusion serves as a grim reminder that any religion can be used to justify terrorism.
In a rambling, 1,500-page manifesto, Breivik explained his actions as necessary to prevent the "Islamization of Europe."
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