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A New Oslo Peace Process?
Fjordman
2006/04/25
Thorbjørn Jagland is a former Foreign Minister and
Prime Minister of Norway from the Labor Party. He is now President of the
Storting, the Norwegian Parliament, and thus technically speaking the
highest ranking person in the country, next to the King. He recently wrote
an essay to Aftenposten newspaper entitled
Islamofobi vårt nye spøkelse? (Islamophobia our new ghost/specter?)
where he warned against the dangers of Islamophobia. According to Jagland,
seemingly paraphrasing the Communist Manifesto, a specter is haunting
Europe – the specter of Islamophobia. Between the lines, Jagland seems to
hint that the situation in Europe is now similar to that of the 1930s: We
are very close to a new world war and the downfall of European democracy,
a conclusion I wholeheartedly support. This is also where our
agreement ends. According to Mr. Jagland, “far too few people during the
interwar period understood what a fateful time they were living in. While
those who wanted peace were arguing, Fascism grew stronger. In the point
of intersection between the Islamists and Islamophobia, a new type of
Fascism could emerge.”
Jagland praises the way the Labor-led Norwegian government handled the
crisis after a tiny Christian newspaper, Magazinet,
reprinted the now famous twelve cartoons of Muhammad from
Jyllands-Posten in Denmark. Velbjørn Selbekk, the editor of Magazinet, had
firmly resisted pressure by Muslim extremists (who made death threats) and
by the Norwegian establishment. But then Norway’s Minister of Labor and
Social Inclusion hastily
called a press conference at a major government office building in
Oslo. There Selbekk issued an abject apology for reprinting the cartoons.
At his side, accepting his act of contrition on behalf of 46 Muslim
organizations and asking that all threats now be withdrawn, was Mohammed
Hamdan, head of Norway’s Islamic Council. In attendance were members of
the Norwegian cabinet and the largest assemblage of imams in Norway’s
history. Although Jagland thinks we ended the cartoon controversy in a
good way, he fears that there is still a lot of quiet Islamophobia in the
general public because of “the perverted version of Islam promoted by the
extremists.” The right-wing Progress Party, already the second largest in
Norway, has been growing in the wake of the cartoons affair, and now seems
to be in the process of replacing Jagland’s Labor Party as the largest
party in the country, for the first time in 80 years.
Thorbjørn Jagland recommends time-tested Eurabian methods to combat “the
rising racism.” He earlier lauded the EU’s decision to begin
negotiations with Turkey as “just as important to Europe as the fall
of the Berlin Wall,” of course without saying a word about the fact that
this was strongly against the wishes of a majority of the people in nearly
all EU countries. In particular, Jagland wants Norwegians to learn from
the example of our neighbors in Sweden, which is not as “xenophobic” as
our other Scandinavian neighbor, Denmark. Is Jagland being serious? Sweden
is probably the worst country in the Western world in dealing with these
issues. Sweden has a 25% real
unemployment rate. What happens if or when the Swedish welfare state
collapses? Isn’t it likely that this will trigger a flood of “welfare
tourists” to neighboring countries such as Norway? This question hasn’t
even been asked, much less debated, by a single political leader in this
country.
The number of rape charges in Sweden has quadrupled in a generation,
parallel to Muslim immigration. Resident aliens from Algeria, Libya,
Morocco and Tunisia dominate the group of rape suspects. Lawyer Ann
Christine Hjelm found that 85 per cent of the convicted rapists in one
court were born on foreign soil or of foreign parents. In a new
Sociological survey, the wave of robberies the city of Malmö has witnessed
during this past year is part of
a “war against Swedes.” This is the explanation given by young robbers
with immigrant background. “When we are in the city and robbing, we are
waging a war, waging a war against the Swedes.” This argument was repeated
several times. “Power for me means that Swedes shall look at me, lie down
on the ground and kiss my feet.” The boys explain, laughingly, that “there
is a thrilling sensation in your body when you’re robbing, you feel
satisfied and happy, it feels as if you’ve succeeded, it simply feels
good.” “It’s so easy to rob Swedes, so easy.” “We rob every single day, as
much as we want to, whenever we want to.” A high school teacher in Malmö
discovered that
about a dozen Arab students were laughing and shouting “Allahu Akbar!”
while watching a DVD of infidel hostages being beheaded in Iraq. The
headmaster didn’t think the incident was such a big deal. At least 139
schools in Sweden suffered arson attacks during 2002 alone. Björn Vinberg
from the fire department in Kroksbäck in the Malmö area says it’s
humiliating and degrading to put out fires again and again in the same
immigrant areas, with school kids laughing at them and lighting a new one
just afterwards. His colleagues have been to the same place no less than
twenty times, all totally unnecessary. One of the
schools in Malmö recently
closed down an entire section because of rampant violence, something
unheard of in Sweden only a generation ago.
Sweden is a semi-totalitarian country. It’s all about façade. On the
surface, Sweden is a tolerant nation and peaceful democracy. In reality,
there is massive media censorship by a closed elite that is scared of
having a debate about immigration. There are
even physical attacks on critics of immigration by Leftist extremists,
something which has been largely ignored and thus quietly approved by the
establishment, until it now even targets
parties in Parliament. No dissent is tolerated.
Opinion polls have revealed that two out of three Swedes doubt whether
Islam can be combined with Swedish society, and a very significant
proportion of the population have for years wanted more limitations in
immigration. Yet not one party represented in the Swedish Parliament is
genuinely critical of the Multicultural society or the current immigration
policies. The Swedish elite congratulate themselves that they have managed
to keep “xenophobic” parties from gaining a foothold while the country is
sinking underneath their feet. No, Mr. Jagland, we have nothing to learn
from Sweden except hypocrisy to perfection. We should study them only in
trying to avoid letting them drag us down with them when they fall, which
they will.
Curiously, at almost the same time as Mr. Jagland warned against rising “Islamophobia,”
an article in newspaper Aftenposten warned that “youths” are in the
process of destroying Norway’s capital city, Oslo. Upon closer inspection,
it turns out that these “youths” bear a striking resemblance to the same
“youths” with Muslim immigrant background that are destroying so many
cities across Western Europe:
Youths Destroying Oslo
Criminal youths are in the process of destroying the social
environment in Oslo, concludes the Oslo City Court. Young girls are raped
and robbed. Schoolchildren are threatened with death, robbed and
assaulted. The Stovner-police is now uncovering another violent gang in
the Grorudvalley on the outskirts of Oslo. Four boys were robbed Sunday
night, February 5. Eight youths, ranging from 15 to 18 years old, were
arrested, and are now charged with the robberies. All suspects are of
foreign origin. One of the suspects, a Somalian who turned 17 years old
last week, appeared in court and was sent to jail in order to protect
society. Only four days after being apprehended he was due to stand trial
in another robbery case. To avoid letting the youth loose among his peers,
he was sent directly to a jail in Oslo to serve time for several
robberies, a rape, and assisting another rape.
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