Norway, Israel and the Jews
We return to the developing saga of the Norwegian debate on circumcision, and while I take the view that in the name of preventative medicine, i.e. to keep the small, but nevertheless realistic risks of something going wrong under control, it is a good thing that the Ministry of Health has tabled a proposal...
When focus is narrowly on Norways relationship with the Jews and Israel, a false impression that Muslims and Jews tear out each other throats on the streets of Norway, can be made. While undoubtedly there have been some serious anti-Semitic incidents by Muslims, famously the Khaybar war cry in January 2009, for the most...
Anti-Semitism ROCKET ATTACKS-LEGITIMATE AND NECESSARY Trond Ali Linstad Summary. Norwegian convert to Islam, Trond Ali Linstad, writes on his own blog, Koranen.no on the necessity of firing rockets at Israel- after all they are colonialists and all adult Israelis are in the military reserve. Legitimate target, courtesy Trond Ali Linstad. Trond Ali Linstad (born...
Aside from the robust condemnation from our FM, media coverage of the attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo has been low scale. In a weekend where the worlds attention is tuned to events in New York and nationally, focus on municipal elections take the front seat. That is perhaps a good thing, but...
The editor of Minervanett.no, Nils August Andresen, has published further thoughts on the controversial age-limit for circumcision as proposed by our Children’s Ombudsman. Poor choices on behalf of children? By: Nils August Andresen – 9. september, 2011 12 kommentarer Ombudsman says in its response to circumcision of boys that his duty as Ombudsman for Children sometimes is to...
Christian and I have received a bit of stick lately, for wanting to keep inflammatory comments to a minimum and avoid being tarnished as Islamophobic bigots or xenophobes by people who are so frightened by dissent that they narrow the field for everybody. Does that mean we should shut down the blog and throw...
A group of prominent North American Muslims has called on Hamas to release Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. I applaud this noble initiative and invite Norwegian groups to follow suit: August 26, 2011 Dear Mr. Mashal: We write to you during this holy month of Ramadan as Muslim-American leaders and scholars across the United States....
Can you spot the errors? The illustration shows a bombed building complex in Gaza, yet the text immediately underneath the photo goes Rundt ti raketter avfyrt fra Gazastripen har slått ned i det sørlige Israel. Minst to mennesker er skadd, en av dem alvorlig, opplyser en talskvinne for israelsk politi.. Word for word translation:...
Just as we have spotted, translated and uploaded stories where Lars Gule seems to have got the wrong end of the stick with regards to Judaism, Israel, we must be equally quick to do ditto when he takes a principled stance, and confronts some aspects of Islam that many find troublesome. Vårt Land has...
Jpost is much more generous with Norwegian ambassadors posted in Israel, than Norwegian media is with Israeli diplomates posted in Norway, and has awarded our ambassador with generous press space for him to put across his points of view (which should be interpreted as the Official Norwegian Point of View) Is it only my...
The leader of Høyre, Erna Solberg has said in an interview with VG that Muslims in todays Norway are being treated like the Norwegian Jews were treated in the 1930s. To be very fair (and this is of fundamental importance in todays Norway), she has underlined that Muslims today are not subject to the...
There must be many of us who are struggling to reconcile conflicting feelings about having a wildly multicultural society thrust upon us. I am equally sure that many of those who feel that more time is needed in order to integrate the immigrants into the wider community AS WELL AS preparing the ground in...
Bruce Bawer is an American citizen residing in Oslo. He sees, and not without reason, trouble looming ahead. Read the entire piece on Ruthfully Yours. Notice how the author calls the police for assistance only to hear that they won’t be able to respond to his call for days. Mr. Bawer is not the...
A great troubadour, perhaps the last of his kind, was brutally shot and murdered in Guatemala City this morning. Facundo Cabral, a stellar performer in all of the Americas, but also in Israel and other Middle Eastern countries and in Africa, was declared a world messenger of peace by UNESCO in 1996. Hit hard...
Norwegians who read Dagbladets book review of Halvor Tjønns book “Muhammed” will by now probably understand the extreme gravity of the placard in the 2009 Gaza demonstration that turned into a pogrom in Oslo. Several placards had the words Khaybar, Khaybar, ya yahoud, jaish Muhammad saufa ya’ud” painted on them. This means “Khaybar, Khaybar, oh Jews,...
Sadly, Daniel Viflic’s life was cut brutally short. By a heat seeking missile from Gaza. Before him, the entire Fogel family was murdered, and before them hundreds, thousands have had their lives cut short, leaving families truncated, devastated by their losses. Another man also had his life prematurely and cruelly cut short. Vittiorio Arrigoni,...
Who would have thought it would ever come to this. Read the Jerusalem Post “Making sense of Norwegian anti-Semitism“. This is terrifying. Excerpt: Do you consider Norway to have the highest levels of anti-Semitism among the Scandinavian countries? It’s close, but if I had to bet on which country was the worst, I do think I’d...
Military sources in Israel say the anti-tank missile was shot from Gaza and hit an Israeli school bus, was of Russian origin. Aside from the somber significance of Russian war toys sold to the brutal Assad dictatorship in Damascus, finding its way to Gaza, we encourage the MPs who plan to sail to Gaza...
J’post reports that today – Friday April 8, 2011- a kibbutz building has been damaged by rockets and that at least 22 rockets have been shot from Gaza terrorists, aiming at civilian population in Southern Israel. None of this has been reported in mainstream media. But the Christian daily Vårt Land has an interesting...