Andrew Sullivan, recovered from election madness, carries a shocking email from his friend Bruce Bawer in Oslo:

This evening in Oslo there was a march commemorating Kristallnacht. According to TV2 News, no Norwegian Jews were present. The authorities, saying that they did not want any trouble, forbade any Jewish symbols, including Stars of David and Israeli flags. On the TV2 evening news, a group of Jews and their friends who wanted to take part in the commemoration were shown being firmly told by a policeman to "please leave the area." This in a city where Muslim demonstrations take place on a regular basis, and include signs and banners bearing hateful, barbaric slogans.

Andrew asks the right question:

What on earth is happening to Europe's sense of right and wrong?

Ed Lasky  11 10 04