Hi guys, I'm Norwegian (staying in England atm) and I've been watching the news all day today and yesterday.
The nation is shocked, and aparantly so is a lot of the rest of the world.
Religion was not behind it, but political ideologies. He claims he is a Christian, but based on these acts he is obviously not. It's been planned for months... It appears the bomb might have been just a distraction to let him more easily shoot down more people at the island. The victims at the Island were members of the Labour party youth organisation and they were having a youth camp/rally at the Island which they do every year. So far 85 youth have been confirmed killed by the shooting, 4-5 more are missing (many were in the water and were shot as they were swimming away from the island in an attempt to escape, so they are searching with divers and mini subs as there could be more victims in the water) The man behind it all is a right wing extreme-ist who is anti multiculturalism and very concerned about islamism. The labour party in many ways embrace multiculturalism... He sent out a manuscript of a book he's written only one hour before the attacks. The book is about his ideologies, about the attack, about how to spread the book and more. By the sound of what he writes in the book he is also not alone in all of this (alone in the terror attack, but not in his ideologies and goals) and that is what scares me the most. We can of course not know if that is true or if he just wants to spread more fear.
Another thing that freaks me out is that he didn't shoot himself after and that he surrendered himself to the police the moment they arrived at the Island. This is all very calculated and planned and not just the wild acts of a temporarily insane human being.
I could probably write about this for hours.. so I'll just stop there.. but if anyone have any answers please feel free to ask!