ノルウェーの事件でもやもや

事件の背景もろもろはこれから明らかになるんでしょうが、犠牲になった方々があまりに気の毒です。ノルウェーは狩猟が盛んで銃の入手が比較的容易とのこと。容疑者は愛国者を自称していたようだけど、同朋に銃を向けて何が愛国者だよ。
ヨーロッパの多文化主義のせいにする論調って、何か釈然としないんだよ。たとえば、こんなの：What Really Lies Behind The Oslo Attacks - And Why It May Happen Again

It is a response that has taken decades to build, and a dilemma that appears unresolvable. When guest workers from the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey arrived in Europe in the 1960s and ‘70s, no one expected them to stay for very long. They were therefore never asked to assimilate into their host cultures, to learn the languages of the lands where they were living, or to adopt – or at least, conform to – the basic values of the West. Now, some half a century later, Europe confronts a population of several million in which large numbers – a minority, but a significant and powerful one – reject the fundamental rights and ideals of its culture. Witness, for instance, the riots against the Danes in response to the cartoons (which, for those who haven’t seen them yet, include a drawing of Mohammed with a bomb where a turban should have been); the cancellation of Christmas parties at government-run organizations in order not to “offend” Muslim employees; the decision by Holland’s construction workers’ union to require workers long sleeves and long pants even on the hottest summer days – a response to protests a couple of years ago from Muslims who claimed to be “offended” by workers in shorts and T-shirts performing construction in near-100-degree heat.

Such gestures of accommodation are, to be sure, well-meant – as are relaxed rules for Muslim students who are exempted from co-ed class trips, or the introduction of “women-only” hours at public swimming pools so conservative Muslim girls do not have to be exposed before strange men.

But they do not breed goodwill; rather, the result is that Europeans feel increasingly – and understandably – threatened. On far too many occasions, more extremist right wing groups have taken to striking back: burning mosques, painting swastikas on Muslims’ homes, and committing similar acts of hate. Breivik has simply taken a different approach: he attacked what he sees as the enablers — frustrated, perhaps, by a failure to vote them out of power. It is a new form of protest, and he is the first to use it. But I fear that, unless Europe begins demanding that its Muslim population live according to its Enlightenment traditions and the values of democracy, he will not be the last.

まあ、まとめると：1960~70年代に中東やアフリカから移民が来たときは、すぐ帰ると思ってヨーロッパの文化への同化を求めなかった。そしたら彼らは増長して、モハメドがターバンの代わりに爆弾を巻いている漫画に対してデモをした。政府機関でクリスマスパーティーをとりやめたりなど、彼らにおもねるようになった。そんな具合でヨーロッパ各地で極右が台頭している。今回の容疑者は、ムスリムを攻撃するのではなく、彼らにおもねる政治をターゲットにしたものだ。ヨーロッパが国内のムスリムたちに伝統と民主主義の価値を尊重させない限り、同じような事件は起こるだろう。
ヨーロッパの麗しい伝統と民主主義ってやつがそんなに狭量だったなんて、すげーがっかり。ムスリムの人たちが大切に思ってる宗教をばかにしたら、怒るのも無理ないじゃん。キリストをばかにした漫画だって嫌だろうに。クリスマスパーティーってどうしても言わなくちゃダメなのかね。「忘年会」でいいじゃん。つうか、ヘイトクライムすることを我慢できない方が、どーかしてるくせにさ。
ムスリムが伝統的な衣装をやめ、酒を飲み、クリスマスパーティーで盛り上がれば、それで本当に受け入れられるのか？そんな表面的なことではなんとかならんのが、差別ってやつなのにさ。いみじくも、ご本人がコメで語っちゃってるよ。

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In fact, many Jews did not leave Germany because they felt safe – they felt they were “good Germans.” They obeyed German law. They followed German conventions. What you forget is that Jews in Nazi Germany were already assimilated. They did not demand that Germans follow their values. They did not threaten violence against art institutions if art works they didn’t like were displayed, as happened in the Hague a few years ago. They did not form political parties that sought the removal of alcohol from grocery stores. They spoke German, and raised their children according to German/Western laws and culture.

This is not to say that most Muslims in Europe have not Westernized. But in this particular instance, the two are incomparable.

「ユダヤ人は自分たちがよきドイツ人であると思っていたから、国を離れなかった。ドイツ語をしゃべり、法律に従っていた」っていうけど、それでも迫害されたってことをもっと深刻に考えた方がいいと思う。