Fjordman’s latest essay has been published at FrontPage Mag. Some excerpts are below:
Finnmark is the northernmost county in Norway, as well as the northernmost part of continental Europe. Apart from a few Arctic islands such as the Norwegian-controlled archipelago of Svalbard, the next stop is the North Pole. Even in the near-Arctic region of Lapland in northern Norway, Sweden and Finland, you can now encounter significant numbers of Muslim immigrants from as far away as Somalia or Pakistan.
In 2013, it was announced that a specialist abattoir in northern Norway had slaughtered the country’s first ever halal reindeer meat, with a view to selling it to top-end restaurants as far afield as Dubai. Mehtab Afsar, the General Secretary of the Islamic Council of Norway and one of those who oversaw the slaughter, was pleased with this.
The problem is, halal meat is not the only thing available once Islam enters a given territory.
In February 2014, Lieutenant-General Kjell Grandhagen from the Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) warned that the terror threat against Norway is rising due to the return of battle-hardened militant Muslims who return after participating in Jihadist activities during the civil war in Syria. Benedicte Bjørnland, the head of the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST), in early March 2014 warned that Norway had “failed” as a society due to the dozens of young people becoming radicalized and going abroad to fight in conflict areas such as Syria.
Tromsø is the largest city in northern Norway, as well as the world’s northernmost university town. There was strong public resistance a few years ago when the sizable Muslim community in Tromsø wanted to build a mosque there with financial support from Saudi Arabia.
Those who currently travel to Syria from all over Western Europe include Muslim immigrants from many different countries, as well as a few white converts to Islam. In Norway, many of the volunteers come from the Oslo region, where the bulk of the local Muslims live. However, it has been confirmed by the security services that some of the Syria-bound Jihadists come from as far north as Troms county, far above the Arctic Circle.
Jørn Holme, as the then head of the Police Security Service (PST), stated in 2007 that native Norwegians are “stupid” and inexperienced concerning diversity and Multiculturalism. This makes them confuse Islam with Islamism. Since native Norwegians are allegedly stupid, Holme feared a lynch mob against Muslims in the event of an Islamic terror attack in the country.
Knut Storberget of the Labour Party agreed with Holme on this issue, fearing that Islamic terrorist attacks might create “stigmatization” of Muslims. Storberget served as the Minister of Justice and the Police in the cabinet of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg from October 2005 until November 2011.
Notice how these two individuals, who were at that time in charge of their country’s security, seemingly feared potential verbal abuse by Muslim immigrants more than the possibility that their own countrymen might get killed by Muslims.
Read the rest at FrontPage Mag.
For a complete archive of Fjordman’s writings, see the multi-index listing in the Fjordman Files.
So, the good security officer says Norwegians are “stupid” about multicultural issues. Well, my dear mother (Gud hville henne) was Norwegian-American, and the ethnic humor I heard from her branch of the family (either the Norskers telling on themselves, or, with greater gusto, on the Swedes) always seemed to stress some kind of stupidity:
LUTHERAN PASTOR: Ole, where was Christ born?
OLE (20-year-old Candidate for confrimation): I t’ink up n’ar Dulut’, Minnie-zota.
Well, I don’t know what the Old Country folks think of it. But at least it seems a couple of people are keeping watch.
Kepha Hor, in Norwegian, I think, you would say “Gud velsigne henne(s sjel)”
This proves that not being in the EU doesn’t solve all problems, Norway isn’t in the EU and still has this crap. Conservative politicians’ main focus should be trying to get a referendum on immigration, I really don’t see why more are doing this. Even if a party like UKIP or Geert Wilders’ gains power in their respective countries, what can they do? Stop immigration for 4 years or the length of their term? Some unrelated thing will happen like the economy not recovering fast enough, and some other party will get re-elected and the stop on immigration will go down the drain. If an immigration referendum had been held, even if there’s a new, liberal party in power, the people have already spoken on that issue and they wouldn’t be allowed to re-open the borders. In the 60s/70s, polls in Britain showed that most people agreed with Enoch Powell. I doubt the numbers would be nearly the same today, too many have been indoctrinated, but I’m confident the referendum would still win.