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Militant Islam in Norway

Educating Muslims in Norway does not assimilation make, writes Hege Storhaug.

In 2010, the organization Islam Net at Oslo University College was a vipers’ nest among the various Islamist groups trumpeting their odious message across the entire country:

Over the course of only two years, the group has managed to acquire over 1,200 paying members and is now the largest Muslim student organization in the country. The only positive thing that can be said about Islam Net is that it doesn’t hide its objective: a society living under the Koran and sharia.  One of these students’ ideological heroes is Zakir Naik, who preaches hate and terror and is considered so extreme that he is not permitted to enter either Britain or Canada.

In 2010, Islamism also manifested itself in the Paris of the North. With Saudi sponsorship to the tune of 20 million kroner, a Muslim congregation called Alnor [with terrorist connections] planned to build a gigantic mosque in Tromsø …

In collaboration with Islam Net, Alnor also arranged a nationwide “revival tour” last summer. The revivalists took their message as far north as the North Cape.

And as if all this weren’t enough, Norwegian state television, NRK, revealed that the despots in Teheran are sending imams to Norway to prepare Norwegian Muslims to commit terrorist acts on Norwegian soil.

Storhaug observes that although the radicals are for the most part to be found among the  well-educated, politicians continue to believe blindly that education ensures integration.

Read more of his harrowing account of this rising Islamist danger.

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Scipio Americanus
   01/21/11 20:30

After all the Norwegian anti-Americanism for the past 40 years, I'm indulging in prolonged Schadenfreude.
Put the screws to the Norwegians, you 6th-century barbarians.

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   01/21/11 20:40

What a shame for Norway. I've been there. It's a beautiful country.

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Gord Richens
   01/22/11 12:17

Move over supporters of the defunct Sri Lankan terrorist group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ("LTTE"). Norway pols had always ran political interference for the LTTE in order to curry favour with the Tamil expat community.

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P Rich
   01/22/11 13:06

I trust this is not a surprise to anyone. Islam's fundamental objective is, and has always been, to be globally dominant. There are no exceptions for nice little Scandinavian countries, or anyone else.

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hannah t
   01/23/11 03:58

What's funny is that most of the Muslims I know are quite successful here in America. If we could get over the silly xenophobia we would recognize that the actual VALUES that these people who are mostly doctors, engineers, and scientists have are the same as any normal religious people in the US - Christians, Jewish people, etc - and welcome them into the fold. They could be conservatives like a lot of my friends. Most of them just want to be here in a free and capitalistic society where they can use their yes, education to be successful and raise their children in a country that VALUES life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness instead of... hmm, small-mindedness and xenophobia.

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