09 August 2011

German interior minister says Thilo Sarrazin's book opened up a necessary debate on Islam

SPIEGEL: Minister Friedrich, the massacre in Norway has sparked a discussion about the political background to the attacks. Is Anders Breivik a madman or the first anti-Muslim terrorist?

Friedrich: He is a madman, but he's also more than that. I'm not talking about insanity in a medical sense. This sort of a crime, where someone shoots children in cold blood as they desperately beg for their lives, is incomprehensible for any person with normal emotions.

But other factors must also have entered into the equation, factors that made this crime possible in the first place. Investigators are now trying to determine what they are. [Spiegel Online] Read more [via Islamophobia Watch]