Being a scientist myself (but in the exact sciences, where you can actually prove your ideas), I frequently squirm and feel ill when I see the colossal stupidity of fellow scientists (whom one presumes have understood the ethical codes we…
“Muslims are the jews of today”
Norwegian politician and lawyer Abid Raja denounces Muslim hate culture
by McGonagall • • 6 Comments
Lifted from Aftenposten.no An unrestricted right to freedom of speech Blasphemy. Even I have grown up with thoughts of committing violence against those who insults the Prophet Muhammad. Abid Q. Raja Liberal politician. Currently residing in New Delhi, India Published: 01.okt.…
The Mayor of Oslo and his views on freedom of speech
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Norway too, has also felt the consequences of upsetting Muslim sensitivities. Luckily, we were spared riots and gratuitous violence, which seems to be the most common way a not insignificant proportion of Muslims think they are entitled to react with…
Public meeting at the Literature House today – what do we do about the new anti-Semitism?
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Aftenposten and NRK organized a public meeting on how to confront the new anti-Semitism in Norway. The debate was sporadically very tense and SV’s Kristin Halvorsen got a dressing down over left’s failure to confront its anti-Semitic attitudes: lifted from…
Sara Azmeh Rasmussen: The Muslim Jew Hate
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Sara is a Norwegian writer of Syrian origin. Her journey through life is one well worth reading about, and her ideas on freedom – on personal freedom and responsibilities – are of the kind that push boundaries: Lifted from Aftenposten…
University of Bergen professor: Muslims are the new Jews – Norwegian Muslim: Europe’s new Jews are still the Jews.
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What a glaring contrast. A professor at the University of Bergen as well the University College of Oslo (yes, that is the institution that hires bomb-master Gule), Elisabeth Eide, claims that Muslims are the new Jews, citing Sartre’s essay ”…
Was Erna Solberg misquoted by VG?
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Verdens Gang claims Erna Solberg compares contemporary anti-Muslim sentiment to anti-Semitism during the thirties. Erna Solberg herself denies having made any such comparison. McGonagall of Israelwhat comments on the issue. Erna Solberg believes McGonagall is confused. Who isn’t? On August…
Hunting for votes
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A comment by Vetle Lid Larssen, Aftenposten August 12, 2011, with thanks to Erwin Kohn who made me aware of it. Hunting for votes Every time somebody draws parallels between the fate of the Jews and other forms of racism,…
The leader of Oslo Jewish community on Erna Solberg’s ‘Muslims are treated like 1930′s Jews’
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Erwin Kohn, the leader of the Jewish congregation in Oslo was interviewed by Dagsavisen on August 5: – A comparison lacking in historical understanding The leader of the Jewish Congregation in Oslo thinks the real intention behind conservative leader Erna…
NRK debate in installments: The reactions to Erna Solberg’s claim that Muslims are treated like the Jews in the 1930s
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Transcription of a debate in Dagsnytt 18 NRK on 2008 08 04. I have modified some oral ways of expression, which in an written English language context may seem odd. I have denoted said modifications thus [...] Participants: Erna Solberg…
Erna Solberg says Muslims are treated like the Jews in the 1930s
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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…
Holocaust center boss: More anti-semitism in Norway than expected
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How the mighty fall! Several months back, the leader of the Holocaust center had nothing but scorn, perhaps even outright animosity to Gerstenfelds claim that anti-semitism is a great and growing problem in Norway. Back then he said: One reason…
Gaza-Chaudry calls Progress Party racist – calls Muslims “Jews”
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As our unelected Parliamentary Vice president Akhtar Chaudry (Socialist Left) prepares his bags to travel to the opening of the new swish shopping mall in Gaza (there cannot possibly be any other reason to go, the Red Cross has cancelled the…
Everyone is ‘the Jews’, the Jews themselves are ‘Kazars’
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The persecution of the Roma is a serious matter which Europe must attend to, but does it really resemble anything even in the ballpark area of how Europe has persecuted the Jews? The Nettavisen article above, by Thomas Rud, is…
Trine Skei Grande on acceptable racism
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One cannot compare the situation of Muslims in contemporary Norway with that of the Jews during the thirties. It just cannot be done. Unless you don’t know no history, pe’haps caint read too good, dawg. Today in Aftenposten Trine Skei…
Muslims believe are ‘treated as Jews’, fight for Al-Shabaab
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Young Norwegians of Somali descent are increasingly radicalized, sometimes to the extent that they go abroad to fight for Al-Shabaab. In an Aftenposten article a young muslim claims “Muslims are being treated like Jews after WWII – we are attacked”.…
Jens Høvsgaard on Denmark: Muslims… like the Jews…
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Only if you know no history can you compare the situation of Muslims in contemporary Europe to the situation of Jews in Europe during the thirties. Yet once again, here we go. The screenshot above is from Dagbladet today, with…
“Jews are like nazis”, claims popular academic
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Claiming that “the Jews” have become “pretty much like nazis” no longer raises eyebrows. Thomas Hylland Eriksen is a professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo, and if any Norwegian academic can claim household recognition, it’s him. He…
Dershowitz gets to talk in Aftenposten – now read the reply from Andresen
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Andresen is that very unpleasant fellow we wrote about last week, when we translated verbatim with a copy of his own entry on an internal forum at NTNU Here is his reply to Dershowitz (also only in Norwegian in a…
Making people carry ID is similar to making the Jews carry the star of David
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The screenshot above is from a Norwegian site which provides information for Farsi-speakers. The article is on how asylum-seekers and refugees will be required to carry photo-ID on them. The picture is of a Jew wearing the star of David.…