• Document 15 calls on Jonas Gahr Støre to explain Senator Brownback’s letter
    "Mowgli made leader of the Bandar-log" by John Charles Dollman On August 3rd  US Senator Brownback wrote a letter, expressing concern over Israel-hatred and anti-Semitism, to Norway’s ambassador to Washington DC. While this site published the letter on August 12th, Norwegian journalists failed to find it newsworthy. Members of the opposition […]
  • NRK mentions Naqba-effect but omits war-cause
    NRK reports on the Naqba without mentioning war which caused it Journalist Laila Ø. Bakken of the Norwegian State Broadcasting Authority NRK manages to report on how Abbas’ family fled during the “Naqba”, while completely omitting any mention of the 1948 war which caused the “Naqba”. Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and […]
  • Letter from Minister of Defense denies boycott of Israel, claims ‘constructive dialogue’ with Israel
    Hans Olav Syversen from the Christian Democrats refers to a letter from the Minister of Defense Vårt Land today reports that the Christian Democrats (KrF) and Conservatives (Høyre) aim to stop Minister of Defense Grete Faremo (Labor) from boycotting Israeli companies on an individual basis. The article (above) refers to a letter from […]
  • NUPI invites Freeman to speak about US-Israel relations
    When Charles W. Freeman had to resign from a position with the Obama administration in March 2009, he blamed the Israel-Lobby. On Wednesday he visited NUPI in order to speak about US-Israel relations. Vårt Land reports, in an NTB article, that Freeman has as little faith in the current round of peace […]
  • Scandinavian democracy – a guided affair
    Screenshots from Norwegian newspapers Aftenposten and DagenMagazinet Not even in Scandinavia does democracy work flawlessly. Is there an invisible hand at work? In the screenshot above (left) we see an op-ed from yesterday’s Aftenposten, with Eirik Vatnøy from Civita, a liberal think tank, asking some rather poignant questions. Vatnøy points out that it appe […]
  • Washington Post on terrorism in Norway
    Three men were apprehended this summer on suspicion of terrorism. As the Washington Post points out, we Norwegians were told that we at no time have been in any danger whatsoever. Norway ‘bomb plot’ underscores al-Qaida pitfalls In late 2009, Jakobsen went to Norway’s Police Security Service and began providing information on Davud’s activities after what he […]
  • Protected: Norway suspects Israel unethical, invests in Turkmenistan
    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. […]
  • JP mentions Norway: Has Europe learned from its past?
    In material terms, being Norwegian is like winning the lottery. Intellectually it is like living in a carnival. Once groupthink sets in there is nobody left to comment upon how it affects us, and prominent citizens can act bizarrely with impunity . The JP, which editor of Aftenposten Harald Stanghelle tells us is […]
  • Interview with a convert reveals anti-Semitism
    In Aslak Nore book “Ekstremistan” the author predicts that in the near future, Norway will be more mulit-cultural, for good and for worse. The reader is treated to some of the latter in Nore’s interview with a Norwegian convert to Islam, who reflects upon some of her formerly held beliefs. The following […]
  • Nous allons manger des pommes de terre israéliennes », annonce notre hôte
    This blog is not about Israel or the Norwegian Jews. It is about Norway’s perception of and relationship to Israel and Jews. Yet Norway is only one little piece in a larger puzzle. It is while trying to solve this puzzle that foreigners every now and then are brought to pay attention to us up […]

NTNU academic goes easy on Sayid Qutb, is harsh on west’s ‘war on Islam’

NTNU is one of the most prestigous universities in Norway. It is also home to a handful of academics who are extraordinarily keen on assigning blame to the USA and Israel. As for the interviewer above, Kim Dino Saur, this is actaully his name. He says himself it was just “a matter of time” before [...]

Aftenposten: 'Radical Islamists receive asylum'

Aftenposten, front page July 15th

Aftenposten today lets us know that membership in radical Islamist groups may give grounds for asylum in Norway. The reasoning goes that Norway cannot be certain that members of such groups, if evicted from Norway, will not be tortured or killed in their home countries. This is the Mulla-Krekar-logic again. [...]

Mohyeldeen Mohammed applauds death of Norwegian soldiers in Afghanistan

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Aftenposten sanitizes Sayid Qutb

Screenshot from Aftenposten

The screenshot above is of an article in Aftenposten on June 12th, on how Marjam Salvesen Bhatti, wife of synagogue-shooter Arfan Bhatti, lauds female suicide bombers on Facebook. The factbox to the right provides a rough outline of the concept of Jihad, with the source being listed as Professor Torbjørn Knutsen from [...]

Wife of synagogue-shooter honors female suicide bombers

Adresseavisen reports that Marjam Salvesen Bhatti, the wife of synagogue-shooter Arfan Q.Bhatti, runs a Facebook-page dedicated to lauding female suicide-bombers. Unauthorized translation from Adresseavisen:

On Facebook the Trondheims-woman has set up a forum for the furthering of Jihad where she has published an array of pictures of female jihadis with firearms and suicide-bombs.

For Marjam the term [...]

Mulla Krekar threatens Norway

Screenshot from Aftenposten

Aftenposten reports that Mulla Krekar, the leader of an alleged Al-Qaida affiliated organization, threatens to have killed any person who evicts him to a country where his life may be at stake. In other words, it is ok for Mulla Krekar to preach jihad ,from the safety of Norway, with impunity. It [...]

Document.no: From blog to publishing house

Screenshot from Document.no

Document.no is more than a blog but not quite a movement. Yet. It is finding its feet, though, and has already hosted several very successful seminars with more to come. The latest initiative consists of a piece-meal purchase of the publishing rights to Christopher Caldwell’s Reflections on the revolutions in Europe. Document.no, [...]

Anti-Semitism in Norway is not a ‘Muslim problem’

It’s easy to pick on the Muslims. But is it right to identify Norwegian anti-Semitism as a “Muslim problem”?

MIFF is Norway’s largest pro-Israel organization, which means that is approximately where the anti-Israel organizations were back in the fifties. MIFF cultivates a gentlemanly approach, and is consequently dragged into the gutter and beaten with [...]

Mohyeldeen Mohammed warns muslims against integrating

Mohyeldeen Mohammed rose to fame when he, as the key note speaker at a muslim demonstration protesting against Dagbladet’s publishing of a defamatory image of Muhammed, warned that a 9/11 might occur on Norwegian soil. Afterwards he threatened to kill two journalists and stated that homosexuals ought to be stoned, after which he returned to [...]

Police keep eye on possible Wahabi mosque

NRK: A Wahabi mosque in Søndre Nordstrand (Oslo)

The screenshot above is from State Television NRK and asks whether a mosque in south-eastern Oslo is Wahabi or not. The mosque in question belongs to Tablighi Jamaat, but there seems to be some uncertainty on whether Tablighi Jamaat is Wahabi or not.

We will find out [...]

Op-ed: ‘Jews are the new jews of Europe’

A recurring topic is that of Europe’s muslims as “the new jews”, with miniscule similarities being turned into virtual likenesses. Norwegian author Herman Willis made every point there is to make on this issue years ago, but that’s yesterdays fish and chips and every day we have to fight the battle again. Here [...]

Synagogue-shooter aspires to become poster-boy of Islam

As a young boy Arfan Q. Bhatti was diagnosed as suffering from an anti-social personality disorder. As a young man he ventured into a life of crime which reached its high mark when he opened fire on the Oslo synagogue in 2006. Mr.Bhatti has previously said that he supports the death penalty against homosexuals and [...]

Norwegian student faces court in Saudi-Arabia

Mohyeldeen Mohammed achieved some measure of fame when he as a key note speaker at a muslim rally warned of a 9/11 on Norwegian soil if transgressions against muslims did not cease. It was later revealed that Mr.Mohammed also supported that homosexuals be killed. Shortly after giving his speech Mohammed returned to his [...]

Klassekampen joins in against anti-Semitism, sort of

Communist daily Klassekampen

Communist daily Klassekampen has little love for Israel but is pitching in against anti-Semitism – in its own way. Unauthorized translation from “We need to clean house“, with General Secretary Shoaib Sultan of the Islamic Council

- We need to know more, says Sultan to Klassekampen.

- Concrete measures demand a better mapping of [...]

Bookshop offers Saudi-sponsored anti-Semitic litterature

Bookshop sells Saudi-sponsored anti-Semitism

Sara Azmeh Rasmussen says to Vårt Land (above) that she recently purchased a vehemently anti-Semitic book at a bookstore in Oslo. The bookstore in question is located in the same building as a mosque and the Islamic Council.  The book is allegedly subsidized by Saudi-Arabia, and goes for NOK 55.

She is [...]