Muslim groups and multiculturalists accused the British media of a "knee-jerk" response after initial coverage wrongly linked Oslo bombing and the shooting spree in a nearby island to Islamists.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) quoted security experts, minutes after the bomb blast in Oslo, as blaming the attack on the Islamists.
It was while that police, within hours, identified the perpetrator as 32-year-old ethnic Norwegian Anders Behring Brevik with fundamentalist Christian views.
However, the outlets continued with their desired speculation.
Britain's best-seller newspaper The Sun published a banner headline Saturday, which described the attack as an “Al Qaeda Massacre: Norway's 9/11”.
"Witnesses claimed the gun maniac was blonde with blue eyes and spoke Norwegian - raising fears that he was a home-grown Al-Qaeda convert," read the paper's lead story. More...
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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) quoted security experts, minutes after the bomb blast in Oslo, as blaming the attack on the Islamists.
It was while that police, within hours, identified the perpetrator as 32-year-old ethnic Norwegian Anders Behring Brevik with fundamentalist Christian views.
However, the outlets continued with their desired speculation.
Britain's best-seller newspaper The Sun published a banner headline Saturday, which described the attack as an “Al Qaeda Massacre: Norway's 9/11”.
"Witnesses claimed the gun maniac was blonde with blue eyes and spoke Norwegian - raising fears that he was a home-grown Al-Qaeda convert," read the paper's lead story. More...
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