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November 3, 2006

UK youths 'among worst in Europe'

Kari Vogt, historian of religion at the University of Oslo, has stated that Ibn Warraq’s book “Why I am Not a Muslim” is just as irrelevant to the study of Islam as The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion are to the study of Judaism. She is widely considered as one of the leading expert on Islam in Norway, and is frequently quoted in national media on matters related to Islam and Muslim immigration.

Two events recently brought back to the news headlines the subject of the Armenian Genocide during WWI, which Turkey with its negationist stand, seeks to dismiss the role of the Ottoman Empire in perpetrating that horrific crime. First, the projected law being discussed in the French National Assembly that would make it a crime to deny the Armenian Genocide. The second event was the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk’s receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature. He had broken with Turkish tradition, and dared to discuss the Armenian Genocide in his writings.