Mass murder in Norway

Opinion Journal:

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... Theories abound about the specific nature of Oslo's "crime": the 400 troops it currently deploys to Afghanistan; its house arrest of Mullah Krekar, a founder of the Kurdish terrorist group Ansar al-Islam; the republication of the Danish cartoons in a small Norwegian paper.

Perhaps all that is at work. What it misses is that the explanations furnished by jihadist groups to justify their periodic slaughters of civilians are pretenses, not genuine motives. Norway certainly did not buy itself much grace from the jihadis for staying out of the Iraq war, or for Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's demand that Israel open its borders with Gaza, or for his calls for a Palestinian unity government between Fatah and its terrorist cousin Hamas.

Norway can do all this and more, but in jihadist eyes it will forever remain guilty of being what it is: a liberal nation committed to freedom of speech and conscience, equality between the sexes, representative democracy and every other freedom that still defines the West....

You have to remember that we are dealing with religious bigots who think mass murder is pleasing to God. They are just as likely to murder Muslims as non Muslims. They even have a term for their random killing of other Muslims--"involuntary martyrs." How sick is that?

What we should remember is that they are at war with us and others because we do not accept their weird religious beliefs. There is no accommodation that will get around this. That is why we will remain at war with them until they are destroyed.