"Several older, ethnically Norwegian women...glad the terrorist turned out to be a Norwegian."

http://www.newsinenglish.no/2011/07/29/sun-starts-shining-on-a-new-norway/

"Several older, ethnically Norwegian women have told Views and News they’re glad the terrorist turned out to be a Norwegian. “Otherwise life could be difficult for the immigrants here, and we’d probably be blaming them,” one woman said. “Now we can’t. This man was one of our own.”"

Mehtab Afsar of Islamsk Råd in Oslo (the Islamic Council) told newspaper Aftenposten that he’s had a stream of reports about how Norwegians of various ethnic backgrounds have been brought together by the attacks. Muslim women wearing head scarves have stood side by side with Norwegian women in summer dresses, hugging each other, admiring the flower memorials that have sprung up around the city and adding their own contributions. “We’re more united now, because we have experienced terror together,” another Muslim man told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) after Friday prayers.

Afsar also has noted that the use of language has changed. “Instead of ‘us’ and ‘them,’ it’s all about ‘ours’ now,” he told Aftenposten. There were incidents of harassment in the hours before Anders Behring Breivik was arrested and confessed to the bombing and the massacre, but now Afsar thinks ethnic Norwegians are viewing their “new fellow Norwegians” with different eyes.

“A united Norway refuses to let itself be threatened into silence,” said Eskil Pedersen, leader of the Labour youth organization that lost so many members to Breivik’s bullets last week. “The cries on Utøya (the island where Breivik’s massacre occurred) turned into dark silence, but it turned into flowers in the streets.

“We have taken our country back.”

Nice to see liberals "taking their country back". And any setback for the "us vs them" mentality is good for the world.

good, honest people will find it. What great revenge. I'd like to see more Americans able to see truth so clearly.