Apologise? Norway, Not-now, Not-ever!

Brian of London here to fill you in on the latest craziness to break out in the world of Jew hating european nations. A week ago Barry Rubin, long time friend of Israellycool and someone who both Dave and I look to for his authoritative, well written and timely analyses of Middle Eastern events, wrote about Norway for the Jerusalem Post. Barry’s piece was well considered and calm but pointed out that maybe, just maybe, the Norwegian inability to call Hamas terrorists and recognise their terrorism toward Israel, had something to do with Anders Breivik’s belief that if you shoot a bunch of people, someone will acquiesce to your demands.

Around the same time the Jerusalem Post also published an editorial about the failure of multiculturalism and Caroline Glick’s comments relating to the Breivik actions.

And then, while I was driving on Friday morning someone rang me and asked if I’d seen the Jerusalem Post’s “Apology to Norway“. WHAT? Why on earth should a newspaper apologise for its opinions? Ever!

“Your country is a symbol of peace and freedom. In Israel, we followed the events… in Norway and the attack on innocent civilians broke our hearts.

Excuse my language. Bullshit. Norway is a symbol of the total and utter breakdown of society when run by the hard, progressive left in all its brain addled glory. To demand an apology for Barry’s article, which was nothing if not truthful, reminds me of a bunch of Islamic Clerics who’ve just noticed that a four year old on the other side of the world has named their teddy bear “Mohammad”. Whhaaaaa!

But even more astonishing is that the Jerusalem Post bowed down and dhimmitudinaly submitted to this! I have no idea what weight was brought to bear on the editor but I hope it was something serious like threatening the death of his first born. Because if we can’t rely on the editors of our newspapers to stand up for our right to offend (with the truth) what chance have we. Oh, wait, perhaps we have to add the Jerusalem Post into the list of other craven media outlets like all those who refused to print the Mohammad cartoon.

The only honourable thing the editor managed to do was give Barry an unlimited amount of space to respond today. And I can’t wait to see how he’s going to apologise for this one. Perhaps he better start building his own cross because the Norwegians will want him nailed up for this. Barry has doubled down, in my opinion, and is clearer than ever. I urge you to read it all but here are some sizzling highlights.

Former Prime Minister Kare Willoch criticized President Barack Obama for appointing Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff because he was “Jewish.” Nor the author Jostein Gaarder who wrote an op-ed in Aftenposten entitled, “God’s Chosen People” at a time when three Israeli soldiers had been kidnapped by Hizballah and a war was on, describing Judaism as “an archaic national and warlike religion.” Apology?

In 2008, a Norwegian comedian said on national television, “I would like to wish all Norwegian Jews a Merry Christmas – no, what am I saying! You don’t celebrate Christmas, do you!? It was you who crucified Jesus.” Apology? Last year the minister of finance spoke at a largely Islamist-organized anti-Israel rally. Apology? A person who has served as a Foreign Ministry official remarked in 2008 that she occasionally wished the UN would send “precision-guided missiles against selected Israeli targets.” Apology?

Yes, Norway, where is the apology you owe all Jews?

What I wrote in the “Oslo Syndrome” is that people who accept rationales for terrorism and reward those movements politically increase terrorism. Equally, those who accept double standards, slanderous lies (without apology) about themselves in the media of other countries, and the consorting of those countries with groups that want to exterminate them only increase that behavior, too.

And that, my friends, is why Jews better get out of Norway quickly. They will be blamed when the mobs come to kill them. It’s the same old inversion of good and evil, of victim and aggressor and Norway is rushing to it’s own death.

Barry also makes reference to a little known Norwegian politician of Pakistani origin, Samira Munir who was probably “suicided”:

You’ve never heard of Samira Munir and Norway’s establishment has swept her story away. She was a Norwegian politician of Pakistani origin who fought for women’s rights and against sharia law. She was found dead in November 2004, supposedly a suicide but seeming far more likely to have been a terrorist murder. She had received daily death threats by phone and walking down the street. Might this act, whose perpetrators were never punished, indicate that some people think they can commit terrorism, get away with it, and suffer no political damage?

And also this weekend, a man who’ve I’ve met a few times and who’s blogged for many years as Fjordman walked into a police station in Norway to give a statement. He was immediately taken in and treated as a murder suspect! He has never called for anyone to kill anyone, never committed a violent act and is now feeling the full force of a totalitarian state behaving like the East German Stasi at the height of their powers.

I’m sure there are decent people in Norway. Please, wake up, see what the combination of the extreme left and their beloved experiment with unchecked Islam has done to your nation. If you still have a working democracy, use it or, within a generation, you will lose it.

20 thoughts on “Apologise? Norway, Not-now, Not-ever!”

  1. I also see that the editorial referred to him as a "Christian". From what I have read of his statement, he meant Christian in a racial sense (not commonly used in the U.S.), not a religious one.

    He in fact wrote that he is for a secular state, and against what is sometimes referred to as religious coercion. (Needless to say, I do not consider this to be a positive thing.) IIRC, he referred to "Christian agnostics".

    I also read on one of the links in the comments here, that an anti-Muslim group claims to have rejected him because htey felt he was to close to a Neo-Nazi. (A non-anti-Semitic neo-Nazi, mind you, but there you have it.)

  2. I appreciate your editorial, but I'm not sure that this is dhimmi. More like Mah Yofis (in the negative sense). That is, cowering before good, old-fashioned Christian anti-semitism.

    1. Using the term 'christian anti semitism ' is like saying jewish islamophobia. There isn't anything christian about antisemitism. Those who practice jew hatred are people who do not follow christian tenets. The fact that they are christian in many cases is similar to the fact that i am roman catholic. I don't attend church, i don't believe in most of the religious doctrine, but i was baptised as such. If i then chose to become a nazi am I a christian anti semite?
      If you want peace, dont (however inadvertently) sow division.

      1. In terms of European Christianity, all roads lead to Auschwitz. Prior to the Catholic Church, Jews were not killed because of their religion but for their land, possessions or because they were perceived as a threat to power. It was Christianity that developed anti-semitism, or pure hatred of Jews, as we know it today.

        1. I hate to argue with someone backing me up, but this is not true either. Christian anti-semitism, blood libels and all, is a direct descendant of Pagan Greek (and some Roman) anti-semitism. Most certainly Jews were persecuted for their religion; they were called misanthropes, atheists (for only believing in one God (*)), lazy bums (for not working seven days a week), promiscuous (for considering intanticide a crime), etc. Christian anti-semitism often also had ulterior motives.

          1. All Jew-hatred starts at Sinai; it derives its vitality from the forces of darkness (sitra ahara), which aim to banish the light of the Torah from the world. It assumes various forms and latches onto various nations and ideologies, but never stands still, and can never be countered by human effort.

            Jew-hatred, in all its forms, will end when HaShem blows the whistle on history. The year we celebrate on the Ninth of Av instead of fasting will also be the year the curtain is pulled on Jew-hatred. May it come soon, amen!

      2. Yes, but it was preached by the Church and especially by local priests and monks, not to mention several "saints". I appreciate the repudiation and partial apology of the Church in Vatican II; unfortunately, not every Church (the Orthodox come to mind) has done so.

      3. John,

        I like to look at it this way. Even though the Church sanctioned and practised vicious antisemitism for a millennia it was, eventually, obvious that there is nothing in the story of the life of Jesus that warranted this. While the followers of some denominations of Christians haven't quite got the message, I'm happy to associate and find common cause with the many millions who have.

        It is completely true that Christianity has descended obviously from Judaism and the simplistic view of "blaming" the Jews for the crucifixion of Jesus is a non starter: it undermines the foundations of Christianity and it's silly. All the other blood libels and slurs dreamt up over the years are still out there and take many.

        But, and this is the big but, Jew hatred is not backed into the core of Christianity in the same way it is with Islam. That's just a fact and so I'll continue to be a fan of Glenn Beck and other Christian Zionists who I'm happy are not trying to convert me.

        1. One also should note that Beck concedes the history of Christian anti-semitism, including the actions of the crusaders, the victims (in Europe!) of whom we mourn weekly in the martyr's prayer, as well as specifically tomorrow during the fast in commemoration of the destruction of the temples.

        2. It absolutely is in the core of Christianity. There is no such thing as "true Christianity" or all that peace and rainbows crap. Take a look at Matthew 10:34 and the entire history of Christianity.

      4. Bullshit. Christianity was founded on antisemitism and has promoted and proliferated it for its entire history. Half the reason Muslims are antisemitic is due to Christian antisemitism.

        Get Real.

  3. I followed your link, and saw at the end the following link:
    http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2011/07/sad-song-

    This is a compilation of Norweigan anti-semitism/terror-support, and is absolutely amazing. It would seem that Mr. Rubin was too mild; it sounds like something out of the 1930's.

    Perhaps, instead of saying the "Palestinians" are the new Jews (Hah!), it would be more correct to say they are the new Communists (which the PLO sort of is, anyway). That is, just as many gave terrorism, totalitarianism, and torture a pass as long it was done in the name of Marxist revolution, so too certain types of the 3 T's get a pass today.

  4. I have a Zionist Norwegian friend. And he just told me that Norway finally recognizes the blockade as legal.

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