If a man can bomb Oslo, dear, dear Oslo, that I once dreamt of visiting because you harbored a friendly people, and a reputation for being untouched by the cruelties of a waging war and its spawn, the spawn that infiltrates not through a steady ascend over treacherous terrain nor through airplanes flying to their deaths, but through the look of one man's eyes, a picture on the Internet, a message ingrained in the pieces falling off the edges of a cube that can scarcely keep itself together, an Arabic tongue and the promise of righteousness, dear Oslo, you and your Nordic neighbours who managed to crouch in a corner and yell your support, who, in the midst of all this terror, managed to retain some semblance of safety and security, I was impressed by the indifference many bombs and guns treated you with, with your minimal action and backseat position, your extremely desirable HDI rankings and social democratic regimes, you were the place to be, to be away without being in the crosshair, dear Oslo, that I once dreamt of visiting, how you managed to keep at bay the result of a farrago of ideologies and opinions trying to assert their superiority, how you managed to fence yourself in and others out, dear Oslo, nestled in a corner of a splotchy mess on a map, did you ever imagine that you would be terrorized by a right-wing extremist and Christian fundamentalist who seemed like an okay guy in the cafés and the bakeries? Did you ever imagine that your peace would last forever? A man who was one of your very own, blonde hair and blue eyes, sans any middle-eastern features or turbans adorning his head, just a man who looked like your neighbor or your colleague one time or another, did you ever imagine that crouching in a corner served you no good when the evil blossomed from within yourself? Dear Oslo, now that your peace has been destroyed, so is mine, my peace of knowing there are places that the world cannot touch, cannot hurt, but, dear Oslo, now you will also go down in the books as a casualty of a burgeoning number of disgruntled minds and unsettled hearts and you have taught me now, that nowhere is safe anymore.