In the summer of 2011, a horrendous mass murder occurred in Norway, with more than 90 people, most of them teenagers and even children, being slaughtered in a co-ordinated bomb and gun attack. Various Islamic groups initially claimed responsibility, and had been promising an attack on Norway for some time because of that country's commitment to the Afghanistan war, Oslo's prosecution of a specific Islamic war criminal, and Norway's refusal to ban the publication of a cartoon of Muhammad that many Muslims found offensive. The nature and implementation of the attack - first a diversionary explosion to attract security and emergency services, followed by a targeted gun slaughter - resembled the work of Islamic terror groups, which had perfected the approach in the Middle East and other parts of Europe.

In the end, the killer, Anders Behring Breivik, was revealed to be a native blond, blue-eyed Norwegian, a strange and disturbed loner, whose motivation was partly political, and whose ideology seemed in some confused, confusing way to be based on an objection to Islam, multiculturalism, and Marxism.

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