The Norway Globe website reports today (July 27, 2011) that the European Union (EU) security chief Cecilia Malmstroem has blasted European leaders for remaining silent on the xenophobia sweeping the continent which lurks behind the horrendous attacks in Norway.
"Sadly, there are too few leaders today who stand up for diversity and for the importance of having open, democratic, and tolerant societies where everybody is welcome," Malmstroem -- the European Commissioner for Home Affairs -- said.
Referring to a 1,500-page proclamation written by the suspect in last Friday's carnage in Oslo, Anders Behring Breivik, Malmstroem said: "The manifesto is the product of a very disturbed man, but unfortunately we recognize some of these sentiments in Europe today."
She also praised Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's call to his compatriots to stand up for an open society, "and not be frightened into silence."
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