Explosions In Norway

2 explosions have been reported near government buildings- including one housing the Prime Minister's offce in Oslo, Norway. Some injuries are being reported, no casualties as of yet.

Hope everyone is safe- and stays safe!

UPDATED: 1 confirmed casualty is being reported- and the BBC has a live blog going if people want to keep up to date. The area is reportedly being sealed off by security forces for fear of further explosions.

Nothing is being confirmed yet, but speculation is rife that this was an act of terrorism.

MORE UPDATES: A gunman has opened fire at a Youth Camp about 50 miles outside of Oslo, killing 7. Police believe there is a connection between the two attacks- and now it looks like terrorism is being confirmed by some sources, the reasons given are, of course, Norway's presence in Afghanistan and the decision by some of its paper to reprint the controversial Mohammad cartoon that appeared in a Danish newspaper in 2005, I believe.

4:45 PM, now it's leaking out that the man in custody at the site of the youth camp shooting is actually a Norwegian. The focus is shifting towards domestic terrorism now, as the death toll from this tragedy keeps rising.

7/23/11: More details are emerging about the man police arrested for the attacks- whose death toll is climbing into the 90s as of this morning. Anders Behring Breivik is being described as a right wing extremist and Christian fundamentalist 'has a deep hatred of the multi-culturalism in his country.'

This underlines a couple of points worth making: violence can come from anyone, anywhere on the political spectrum, first of all. I'm tired of people jumping to conclusions whenever there's violence in the world about who could be behind it and I'm even more tired of members of our radical right raging about Jihadis, when Christian fundamentalists over here shoot abortion doctors and have committed other acts of violence in the past.

The conclusion we can draw from this? Fundamentalism is bad. I don't care what particular variety you practice, but fundamentalism is bad. It's a threat to our freedom, our democracy and in this case, people's lives. Something I hope someone somewhere thinks about the next time people start shrieking in moral outrage about the latest perversion to wreck society.