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Forty thousand Norwegians marched and sang in Oslo today in an impromptu protest against mass killer Anders Behring Breivik for calling the popular children's song 鈥淐hildren of the Rainbow鈥� a Marxist song used to brainwash youth.

The man behind last summer鈥檚 twin terror attacks said in court testimony last week that the Norwegian song by Lillebj酶rn Nilsen, based on US folksinger Pete Seeger鈥檚 original version 鈥淢y Rainbow Race鈥� in 1967, was an example of how Norwegian schools function as an 鈥渋ndoctrination camp鈥� for 鈥渃ultural Marxism and multiculturalism.鈥�

Mr. Breivik, a self-described militant nationalist, blames his bombing of government buildings in Oslo and shooting rampage at Ut酶ya island on the ruling Labor party for promoting multiculturalism with its lenient immigration policies and allowing mass immigration to undermine Norwegian society.

鈥淭he curriculum is stripped of knowledge relating to the codes of honor that have been so important for Europe for thousands of years,鈥� Breivik told his defense attorney Vibeke Hein Baera on April 20. 鈥淭hey put up these songs and propaganda films to get students to despise their forefathers,鈥� he added, referring to the US television series Roots depicting the history of African-American slaves.聽

Breivik鈥檚 comments prompted Norwegians Christine Bar and Lill Hj酶nnev氓g to organize via Facebook a gathering at Youngstorget, the square in front of the Labor party headquarters. It is adjacent to Breivik's bombing target and just blocks from Oslo District Court, where Breivik is currently on trial for killing 77 people total in the two July 2011 attacks.聽

'How the world SHOULD be'

鈥淟et us stand together,鈥� the two initiators wrote on the event鈥檚 Facebook page, which listed more than a dozen parallel events around the country. 鈥淲e stand together as a people, fellow human beings. Let us sing because we really MEAN that this song describes how the world SHOULD be.鈥澛�

The text in the Norwegian version of the song begins with 鈥淎 sky full of stars, blue ocean far as you see, an earth where flowers grow. Can you wish for more? Together we shall live, every sister, every brother. Small children of the rainbow, and a fertile soil.鈥�

鈥淚t is we who win,鈥� said Nilsen, after singing with his ukelele in both Norwegian and English for rain-drenched supporters, which included five cultural ministers from Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, and the Faroe Islands.

Trond Henry Blattman, leader of the national July 22 support group and father to one of the 69 killed at Ut酶ya, and Eskil Pedersen, leader of the Labor Party youth organization AUF, appealed to the crowd to remain tolerant in the wake of last summer's atrocities.聽聽

'Never again'

鈥淣ine months ago was Norway鈥檚 darkest day after the second World War,鈥� said Blattman. 鈥淭hat you come here today is saying 鈥榥ever again'."

鈥淲e do this because we have faith in a totally different Norway than that portrayed by the perpetrator,鈥� he added. 鈥淲e stand up for a world that our irreplaceable stood for: an open, warm, inclusive, and democratic Norway."聽

The sea of supporters, which included many schoolchildren, later marched several blocks to the Oslo District Court to lay roses there, similar to the way hundreds of thousands of Norwegians last year decorated the streets in front of Oslo Cathedral with an inches-deep carpet of the flowers.

Breivik commented in court earlier this week that he learned about the July 25 Rose March after the fact and called it a 鈥渢ypical Norwegian reaction.鈥� Norwegian singer Maria Solheim sang "Children of the Rainbow" at the original Rose March.

鈥淚t鈥檚 not allowed to be angry and furious [in Norway],鈥� Breivik told Mette Yvonne Larsen, legal counsel for the victims, in court on April 23, calling聽the Norwegian response "illogical."聽"There aren鈥檛 too many countries that would have reacted like that," he said.