If you've been following the sanity trial of Anders Behring Breivik in Norway, you have been reading the ramblings of a man man. Someone so focused on hate he doesn't seem to understand acceptance or tolerance.
Recently, in his testimony, he spoke of a song called Children of the Rainbow as being an example of "Marxist influence on Norwegian culture". The song is the Norweigan version of Pete Seeger's My Rainbow Race.
His words lit a spark....
The idea for Thursday's singing statement came from two women, Christine Bar and Lili Hjonnevag, who became upset with Breivik's derision of the song and posted a call on social media for others to join them in singing it on the square, Views and News reported. They expected a few dozen people, the report said.
They got 40,000.
Ignore the pesky advertisting at the beginning. You may want to have a hanky nearby.
Culture ministers from Sweden, Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Iceland joined in the song, the Norway Post reported.
Lillebjorn Nilsen, who wrote the Norwegian version of the Seeger song, led the crowd in singing both the Norwegian and English versions, according to the News and Views report.
Here is the Seeger original.
Link to story.