The 17 year old Somalian has several serious
crimes on his conscience, but the worst is probably the rape of a young
girl at Hoybraaten (Oslo suburb) one year ago. Oslo Court states that the
rape was unusually brutal, and lasted for several hours. The young girl
was threatened with a knife and beaten. The Somalian choked the girl so
brutally and for so long, that the medical doctor who afterwards treated
the girl, said that she could have died. Her voice has changed. The girl
is now suffering from severe psychological problems in the aftermath of
the attack. The Youth was sentenced to four and half years in prison,
where three years was made conditional, which means he will serve only one
and a half years. The sentence also included another rape, where his
Norwegian-Moroccan friend raped a 13 year old girl, whilst the Somalian
helped to threaten her and keep guard. She was also brutally treated, and
is experiencing serious problems after the experience. The Court states
that the girl was harassed by the family of the Norwegian-Moroccan and his
friends. It went so far that the girl was angry at her own mother for
giving the name of the rapists to the police. The girl wanted to pay the
offenders to make them leave her alone. Her psychological condition became
so bad she had to be forcibly sent to a psychological institution. Her
schooling is destroyed.
Aftenposten
should be commended for even printing this politically incorrect article,
which is unfortunately rare in Norwegian media. The original article in
Norwegian quickly got more than one hundred comments by readers. There
were
so many furious comments that the newspaper suddenly decided to remove
them. In general, my impression is that a rapidly increasing part of the
population distrusts Muslims. Only massive media censorship conceals this
fact, and I suspect the same goes for much of Europe. However, Aftenposten
seem to have forgotten
an article they printed five years ago. In 2001, two out of three
charged with rape in Norway’s capital were immigrants with a non-western
background according to a police study. Norwegian women were the victims
in 80 percent of the cases. A leading member of the Liberal Party (Venstre),
Odd Einar Dørum, demanded all the numbers be put on the table: “A
scumbag is a scumbag, regardless of skin color”. From 2001 to 2005, Dørum
was Norway’s Minister of Justice, and nobody has seen these statistics
since 2001. The number of rape charges in Oslo have continued to rise.
There is ample evidence of brutal gang rapes, something that used to be
rare in Scandinavia, being committed by immigrants against native girls.
Not only have the authorities done nothing to stop this trend of racist
attacks against native Norwegians, they have taken steps to increase
crackdowns on “racism” by the natives. In 2005 Stortinget, the Norwegian
parliament,
passed a new Discrimination Act, prepared by then Minister of
Integration, Erna Solberg, who earlier called for the establishment of a
sharia council in Norway. The act says in pretty clear words that in cases
of suspected direct or indirect discrimination based on religion or
ethnicity, native Norwegians are guilty until proven otherwise. The
immigration spokesman for the right-wing Progress Party, Per Sandberg,
feared that the law would jeopardize the rights of ordinary, law-abiding
Norwegian citizens. Reverse burden of proof is combined with liability to
pay compensation, which means that innocent persons risk having to pay
huge sums for things they did not do. FOMI, a Norwegian anti-Islamic
website, was recently charged with “racism and spreading Islamophobia” for
translating one of several articles by Frontpage Magazine, with comments,
about
a Muslim rape wave in the West.
Bruce Bawer, author of recently published book “While
Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within,”
devotes a good deal of space to European media in his writings, which is
appropriate. Norwegian Prime Minister and leader of the Labor Party, Jens
Stoltenberg, has stated that “journalistic diversity is too important to
be left up to the marketplace.” The government is still running two out of
Norway’s four national TV channels, and three of its national radio
channels. NRK, the Norwegian equivalent of the BBC or Burka Broadcasting
Corporation in the UK, complete with the same anti-American, anti-Israeli
and pro-Islamic bias, was the only national TV channel in Norway until
1992, three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Leader of the
right-wing Progress Party, Mr. Carl I. Hagen, has labelled NRK “ARK,” or
“Labor Party’s Broadcasting Company,” since until the 90s, most of its
leaders were former leading members of the Labor Party. In addition to
this, something that would be unthinkable in the USA, Norwegian taxpayers
actually subsidize commercial Norwegian newspapers. This is supposedly to
ensure diversity of opinions. This system means that Norwegian taxpayers,
whether they want to or not, subsidize the existence of Norwegian
Communist newspaper Klassekampen (The Class Struggle), whose members in
the 1970s strenuously denied any mass-murders done by Pol Pot and his
comrades in Cambodia, denouncing these accusations as “capitalist lies” to
slime a successful, Socialist nation. Norway’s only professor of
journalism at the University level, Sigurd Allern, is a former leader of
the Communist Party. He is today teaching critical thinking to aspiring
journalists at the University of Oslo.
At the same time, Norway can hardly come up with a single decent
conservative newspaper, the closest being business daily Dagens Næringsliv.
The most rightist newspapers, such as Aftenposten or VG, could at best be
described as centrist or even soft-leftist, with a few individual
journalists as being centre-right. Diversity of media in Norway thus means
the whole range from hard-leftist to soft-leftist, with the Norwegian
equivalent of the New York Times being as far right as you get. As Bawer
notes, when he first came to Norway, he was impressed by the number of
newspapers the average citizen reads on a daily basis. Only later did he
start to question what information they were actually presented in these
newspapers.
Norwegians pride themselves in their sophisticated and informed view of
the world, viewing Americans as somewhat simplistic and brainwashed by FOX
News propaganda. The very word or concept of “Eurabia” has hardly been
mentioned at all in Norwegian media. One prominent journalist, not a
Leftist by Norwegian standard, told me
that Eurabia is just another conspiracy theory, on par with The
Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.
Kari Vogt, historian of religion at the University of Oslo and widely
considered and quoted as the leading expert on Islam in the country, 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 are to the study of Judaism. A Norwegian NGO called the
Freedom of Expression Fund supports the translation and publication of bin
Laden’s speeches. They also awarded the editor of Communist newspaper
Klassekampen with the
Freedom of Speech award for his bravery in defence of free speech. He
has shown sympathies for Islamic terrorists in his columns.
For some strange reason, Bruce Bawer’s book has so far been widely ignored
by Norwegian media, despite the fact that Bawer lives in Norway and that
his work is being read with interests by experts and laymen on both sides
of the Atlantic. Could it be that Mr. Bawer has touched upon some
sensitive issues that the sophisticated Norwegian press don’t want to talk
about? Michael Moore’s books criticizing the USA were translated into
Norwegian and sold very well. Any chance this will happen to Bawer’s book,
criticizing Europe?
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