Luc 4,776 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has won a place to study political science at Oslo's university.The 36 year old admitted killing 77 people when he bombed central Oslo and then went on a shooting spree at a youth camp on a nearby island in 2011.Breivik told his trial the attacks were necessary to stop the 'Islamisation' of Norway.Breivik has been studying certain course modules since first applying to the University of Oslo in 2013, but he will now be taught as a full student.He will have no contact with staff or students as he studies from his cell.In 2012, he was sentenced to the maximum 21 years in prison for carrying out Norway's worst massacre since World War Two.This jail term can be extended if he is deemed to remain a danger to society.The university's rector, Ole Petter Ottersen, said that Norwegian inmates "have a right to pursue higher education in Norway if they meet the admission requirements and are successful in competition with other applicants."Writing on the university's website, Mr Ottersen admitted that the university had faced "moral dilemmas" about Breivik's admission.The rector added that the university had students whose family members had been killed by Breivik. However, he said that the university would abide by its rules "for our own sake, not for his."As he studies from his prison, Breivik will be subject to strict regulations. He will be allowed no access to internet resources or receive any personal guidance from tutors. All communication with the university will take place via "a contact person in prison".Breivik first applied to study in 2013 but did not meet entry requirements as he had never completed secondary school. Instead, he was allowed to study certain political science modules.His deadly rampage at a Labour Party youth camp on Utoeya island was found by an Oslo court to have been a premeditated act of terrorism.He harboured extremist right-wing views and claimed he had reacted against what he saw as a Marxist-Islamic takeover of Europe.source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33571929 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loribb 338 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 I am also accepted on Faculty Of Medicine in my city today, I am so happy!!!!! btw this is terrible Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cocaine Heart 4,768 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 I can't understand how they can let him study. He should be sitting and suffering for everything he has done, not studying and giving him something to past the time with. I am also accepted on Faculty Of Medicine in my city today, I am so happy!!!!! Congrats We going to boo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarfall 3,723 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 He killed 77 young people and now they let him into a university full of young students? Sounds smart. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luiz 4,253 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 i wonder what he's going to do with his education?is hes not ever getting out right? I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhoAskedOpinions 658 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 I am also accepted on Faculty Of Medicine in my city today, I am so happy!!!!! btw this is terrible congratulations!! :) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KindaTrashy 163 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 So... Who is paying for this, exactly? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SychosSoChic 9,995 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 How about we not let some islamaphobic asshat study politics Life ain't Hollywood for any one of us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucifer 1,997 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 He killed 77 young people and now they let him into a university full of young students? Sounds smart. He isn't going to be in the actual university. He's studying from inside of prison. He won't have contact with the students at all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarfall 3,723 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 He isn't going to be in the actual university. He's studying from inside of prison. He won't have contact with the students at all. Oh obviously I was stupid af, but he did what he did out of islamophobia so I don't think he should be allowed to study politics either. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hijadeputa 4,050 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 This is so damn stupid. HE SHOULD SUFFER, for real. I don't understand why they didn't send him to Guantanamo Bay Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Didymus 34,380 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Good tbh Studying is always a worthy way to spend your time. It actually involves a serious effort as well so I'm not sure why people are pretending this is some kind of "perk". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmm 979 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 This is so damn stupid. HE SHOULD SUFFER, for real. I don't understand why they didn't send him to Guantanamo Bay Norway's punishment system is based on rehabilitation and not retribution and unlike the system in the US or UK, it actually works and they have less recidivism (the lowest in Europe) than most other countries. There's obviously moral implications as to whether or not something that in less socially developed countries (by which I mean any country that charges for third level education) is unavailable law abiding citizens should be offered to Breivik (who is clearly a horrible, disgusting being ) but the system is as it is. Politics of all things is a weird choice of course but maybe and hopefully he will come out of it less ****ed up for lack of a better phrasing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hijadeputa 4,050 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Norway's punishment system is based on rehabilitation and not retribution and unlike the system in the US or UK, it actually works and they have less recidivism (the lowest in Europe) than most other countries. There's obviously moral implications as to whether or not something that in less socially developed countries (by which I mean any country that charges for third level education) is unavailable law abiding citizens should be offered to Breivik (who is clearly a horrible, disgusting being ) but the system is as it is. It's the same thing in Sweden I think too. But my opinion is and will always be that psychopaths that commit those terrible crimes needs to have a very hard consequence. I respect how the system works but this it's still just my opinion. I mean, this human (if I even can call him that) killed a lot of people and most of them were still young. Terrible Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KindaTrashy 163 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 I wonder how they're paying for this, though. I'd hate to think another hopeful, law-abiding student lost their place and funding to this man because they dropped a mark or two in their exams. I'm all for rehabilitation but the way they're working the course around his sentence seems expensive... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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