OSLO, Norway – Norway began burying the dead on Friday, a week after an anti-Muslim extremist killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage. Mourners of all ages vowed they would not let the massacre threaten their nation’s openness and democracy.
An 18-year-old Muslim girl was the first victim to be laid to rest since the gunman opened fire at a political youth camp and bombed the government headquarters in Oslo.
After a funeral service in the Nesodden church outside the capital, Bano Rashid, a Kurdish immigrant from Iraq, was buried in a Muslim rite. Sobbing youth accompanied her coffin, which was draped in a Kurdish flag.
The attack will “not destroy Norway’s commitment to democracy, tolerance and fighting racism,” Labor Party youth-wing leader Eskil Pedersen said at a memorial service in Oslo.
Pedersen, who was on the island retreat of Utoya when the gunman’s attack began, said: “Long before he stands before
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