Fight against hate crime must continue

It is four years today since terrorist Anders Behring Breivik went on his racist mass killing rampage in Norway. It started with the taking of eight lives in a bomb blast outside government offices in Oslo and finished with an hour-long shooting spree at a socialist youth summer camp on a nearby island, slaughtering a further 69, mainly young people from a diversity of backgrounds.

While fully admitting what he had done, Breivik showed no remorse. He instead attempted to justify the massacres, in a “manifesto” released simultaneously, and later at his trial, by citing the perceived threats of immigration, “multiculturalism”, Islam, and “cultural Marxism”.