OK, If You Say I Can't Call For Jihad In Norway ... I'm Leaving!

Fiery Muslim leader says leaving Norway

January 5, 2012

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OSLO, Norway, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- A Muslim extremist leader facing terrorism charges from his Norwegian hosts said this week he's planning on leaving for his native Kurdistan.

Najmaddin Faraj, who goes by the name Mullah Krekar, in the 1990s was one of the co-founders of the Kurdish extremist group Ansar al-Islam, which Western officials say has links to al-Qaida.

The fiery Krekar told the Irbil, Iraq, online newspaper Rudaw he will return soon from his Norwegian exile to the semi-autonomous Iraqi region even though he could face deadly reprisals from enemies made during Kurdistan's years of factional conflicts.

"My return to the Kurdistan region has become a major political issue," he said. "Each side wants to have me back to fight their opponents for them."

The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of Kurdistan's mainstream political parties, has accused Krekar of directing his men from exile in the beheading of dozens of PUK fighters in 2002.

Krekar has been living in Norway since 1991, frequently issuing controversial comments on the Internet in which he has called for terrorist attacks against the West. Norwegian officials have sought to deport him as a security threat but have refrained from doing so on humanitarian grounds because the death penalty is still on the books in Kurdistan.

Calls for his arrest among some of Norway's elected leaders intensified last month, however, after Krekar appeared on Finnish television calling for jihadist terror strikes against the West.

I Hate Living With You Norwegians ... I Always Feel Pressured To Drink!

Norway: Muslim colleagues pressured to drink

From: Islam In Europe

Norway: Muslim colleagues pressured to drink

Via Vårt Land (Norwegian):

The experience of Muslim employees is that Norwegians don't accept abstaining from alcohol for religious reasons.

Counselors at the Advisory Center for issues related to alcohol, drugs and addictive gambling in the workplace (AKAN) spoke with employees who said that there are basically only two acceptable reasons for abstaining from alcohol when meeting with colleagues: being pregnant or driving.

"We Norwegians don't accept temperance for religious convictions. In theory yes, maybe, but in practice, when we sit in the pub after a tiring workweek, it's quite incomprehensible that people can't just grab a beer," according to a new book on alcohol culture in the workplace.

Religiously motivated temperance often raises eyebrows and questions. A Pakistani-Norwegian: "I often have to explain myself when I cant' drink alcohol. Norwegians are very engaged by it."

Based on surveys and interviews with Muslim employees, the researchers say that they stay away from situations where it's common to drink alcohol. Or they drink a bit in order to meet with colleagues.

A Palestinian-Norwegian women says why she takes a few sips of wine at the Christmas party or conferences, though she never drinks in other contexts: "Everybody wants integrated minority employees - and alcohol can be a measure of how integrated other perceive you to be."

Others are afraid of being perceived as 'extreme Islamists' if they don't drink.

"I'm more Muslim when people understand that I don't drink alcohol," comments one Iranian-Norwegian employee.

AKAN researchers asked if there was anything special in the role of the colleague that made it more difficult to refuse alcohol. "

A Pakistani-Norwegian in his 50s answered: "Even if I feel guilty afterwards for violating my religion, I have better contact with my Norwegian colleagues."

Well ... We Tried Integration and That Didn't Work ...

Pictured, a Muslim woman stands in front of vegetables
kiosk outside the central Jamaat Ahle Sunnat
mosque in Oslo July 29, 2011.

Apartheid row in Norway after school segregates pupils

Vancouver Sun 

The controversy over the decision has highlighted the unease in Norway over how to integrate the 420,000 "non-Nordic" citizens who immigrated between 1990 and 2009, and who make up 28 per cent of Oslo's population. 

A political row has broken out in Norway after a secondary school segregated students with ethnic backgrounds in classes away from white Norwegians.

Bjerke Upper Secondary School in Oslo filled one of the three general studies sets solely with pupils with immigrant parents, after many white Norwegians from last year's intake changed schools.

The controversy over the decision has highlighted the unease in Norway over how to integrate the 420,000 "non-Nordic" citizens who immigrated between 1990 and 2009, and who make up 28 per cent of Oslo's population.

"This is the first time I've heard about this, and it is totally unacceptable," Torge Odegaard, Oslo education commissioner, said Friday, before pressuring the school to inform parents that the three classes would now be reorganised. The letter to parents read: "Such a division of the students is not in accordance with the requirements of the Education Act. The school regrets this error."

But Robert Wright, a Christian Democrat politician and former head of the city's school's board, struck back, arguing that the authorities had been wrong to block the move. He also said that other Oslo schools should start to segregate classes to prevent a situation of "white flight" developing.

"I think we have to try this to see how it's functioning," he told The Daily Telegraph. "Bjerke School has come up with a radical solution to a real problem, but the politicians have just said 'no'."

He said that the school's decision reflected problems stemming from the high rate of immigration Oslo has seen in recent decades.

The decision only came to the parents' notice earlier this month after Avtar Singh, a Punjabi Norwegian, confronted Gro Flaten, the school's headmistress, on why his son, Gurjot, had no ethnic Norwegian classmates.

"She said straight out that the school had experienced ethnic Norwegian students dropping out if they weren't grouped together in smaller classes," he told Dagsavisen newspaper.

Mrs Flaten told The Daily Telegraph: "We made the decision because many Norwegian students were moving to other schools because they were in classes with such a high percentage of students from other nations. They seemed to be in a minority."

Students at the school have expressed their anger at the segregation. "This is apartheid. They do this because I'm from Africa and my father is from Africa," said Ilias Mohamed, 17, from Somalia, who was part of the immigrant-only class. "But everyone of us is a Norwegian."

Hibba Tudorache, 18, whose parents came to Norway from Romania, said: "The students are really mad about this. It's an insult to those of us who are from other countries. It's discriminatory to put the white Norwegian people before us."

But Helena Skagen, 18, the head girl at the school, said she understood what the school authorities had been trying to do.

"They had the best intentions. They just wanted to keep the Norwegian students at the school. But they now know that what they did was wrong because you can't split the students according to their culture," she said.

Mr Wright added that he believed that the shadow of Anders Breivik, the anti-Islamic extremist who massacred 77 people in Oslo in July, had made discussions of immigration difficult in Norway.

"I think it's a very emotional discussion because of what happened in July, and for that reason politicians don't want to enter the discussion at all, because they are afraid," he said.

Prophet Cartoonist Attack Plotters To Go On Trial

Hindustan Times

Oslo, November 13, 2011

Three men believed to have ties to al Qaeda and suspected of plotting an attack on the Danish newspaper that printed controversial Prophet Mohammed cartoons will go on trial in Norway on Tuesday. Mikael Davud, a Norwegian of Uighur origin, Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak, an Iraqi Kurd residing 

in Norway, and David Jakobsen, an Uzbek also living in Norway, have been charged with "conspiracy to commit a terrorist attack in northern Europe".

The three, who were arrested in July 2010, have also been charged with possession of materials used to make explosives. Police found hydrogen peroxide and acetone stored in a cellar belonging to one of them.

According to the prosecution, the trio are suspected of planning and preparing an attack against the newspaper Jyllands-Posten and/or the caricaturist Kurt Westergaard.

Westergaard, 76, drew the most controversial of the 12 cartoons, featuring the Prophet Mohammed with a lit fuse in his turban, which were published in 2005 and later touched off a wave of sometimes violent protests around the Muslim world.

"They risk up to 20 years in prison," prosecutor Geir Evanger told AFP.

"Our closing arguments will illustrate the gravity of the charges," he said.

Norway's intelligence agency PST also suspects the trio of having ties to the Al-Qaeda network.

Davud, 40, presented as the mastermind, was trained in explosives handling at an Al-Qaeda camp in Pakistan, according to PST.

Davud and Bujak, 38, have been held in custody since their arrest and have both admitted they were planning an attack though their versions have differed on the target.

Davud, a member of the Chinese Uighur minority, has said the target was the Chinese embassy in Oslo while Bujak said it was the Jyllands-Posten newspaper.

The third man, David Jakobsen, who contacted police voluntarily, has denied any responsibility and is currently a free man.

The trial opens less than two weeks after the offices of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo were firebombed in Paris as it published an edition featuring the Prophet Mohammed as "guest editor" on the cover.

The identity and motive of the firebombers have not been proven but glances have been cast at extremist Muslims.

Since 2005, Jyllands-Posten and Westergaard have been the target of numerous threats from Islamist circles.

At the end of December 2010, Danish intelligence said they had foiled an Islamist plot against the newspaper and five people were arrested in Denmark and Sweden.

Westergaard now lives with round-the-clock security.

He was the victim of a murder attempt in January 2010 when an axe-wielding man burst into his home, and he has also received several death threats.

The man who tried to kill him, Mohamed Geele of Somalia, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison by a Danish court.

In September, Westergaard was forced to cut short a trip to Oslo after Norwegian intelligence caught wind of a possible attack against him.

Norwegian Imam: You Better Fast ... or ... We Behead You!

... and you think that islam is the Religion of Peace?
... Maybe Pieces of Decapitated Bodies!



Maybe This Guy Has It Right!

Come to Norway ... The New "Rape" and "Sex" Crime Capital of Europe

Victims of different types of violence

Statistics Norway

On the question of whether they have been subjected to violence or threats of 

violence in the last year, around 5 per cent reply that they have – and this percentage has been stable in the last 20 years. Men and women appear to have 

about the same risk of becoming a victim of violence, and it is the youngest 

ones who most often state that they have been a victim of violence or threatsof violence. Women are to a greater extent than men exposed to violence in 

intimate relationships and in their local environment. Men are more often the 

victims of violence in the evenings and weekends, by more and less unknown 

assaulters, and in public areas.

Police reports also show that the youngest age 

group of boys and girls is most vulnerable. However, in the age group 19-24, twice as many acts 

of violence are reported against men compared 

with women.

With regard to victims of reported offences, men 

make up a far larger percentage of those subjected to wounding or inflicting bodily harm (85 per 

cent) than the less serious assaults (64 per cent) 

and threats (53 per cent). Conversely, women 

are strongly over-represented among victims of 

ill-treatment within family relations (84 per cent) 

and sexual crimes (86 per cent). Almost half 

(46 per cent) of all murder victims from 1999 to 2008 were women.

Rape on the increase

During the 1980s, there was an increased public focus on sexual assaults, as 

well as a gradual increase in the number of rapes being dealt with by the legal 

system. During this decade, the number of rapes that were investigated and 

concluded almost tripled. Despite changes in the registration practice and the 

extended definition of rape in the new General Civil Penal Code of Norway of 

2000 affecting the statistics, we can state that the number of reported rapes 

has increased further: the number of reported rapes to the police in the last 

three years has more than doubled since 1993-1995. In 2008, approximately 

120 cases of attempted rape and 940 rapes were reported to the police.

Women still more afraid

Far more women than men are afraid of being subjected to violence where 

they live: in 2007, the percentage was 11, compared with 3 per cent of men. 

Younger women in particular feel anxious about being a victim of violence; 

in the age group 16-24 the figure is 15 per cent, compared with 4 per cent of 

young men. 

The fact that women, to a greater extent than men, are the victims of violence 

in their immediate surroundings, may partly explain why many more women 

than men say that they feel threatened in their local environment. The differences, however, are considerable, and the share of women who fear violence and threats is much higher than the percentage of women who are actually subjected to them. The greatest difference between the risk of being a victim and the extent of the fear can be found among the oldest women. Conversely, young men are the most frequent victims of violence but are much less worried by it.

Statistics Norway

34 Sanctions in crime cases, by group of crime and citizenship. 2009

Citizenship1	Total2	Economic crime	Other crime of profit	Crime of violence	Sexual crime	Crimes of narcotic	Damage to property, crime	Other crime3
All citizenships	29 759	1 358	7 093	5 059	724	12 862	836	1 827
Europe, total	27 668	1 324	6 754	4 702	656	11 878	799	1 555
Norway	24 529	1 190	5 532	4 357	614	10 713	726	1 397
Denmark	206	12	35	28	2	114	4	11
Finland	40	5	13	6	-	12	2	2
Iceland	33	3	-	7	1	19	2	1
Sweden	429	24	84	65	4	216	18	18
Albania	40	-	20	2	3	6	-	9
Bulgaria	31	1	11	1	2	12	-	4
Estonia	46	6	25	3	-	10	1	1
France	61	-	14	2	1	39	5	-
Italy	32	-	1	5	1	22	2	1
Latvia	53	4	25	7	-	13	3	1
Serbia and Montenegro	81	6	23	19	3	21	1	8
Netherland	86	-	8	2	4	67	2	3
Poland	444	26	184	61	4	145	8	16
Romania	430	15	346	5	-	40	5	19
Lithuania	401	3	300	24	4	54	6	10
Spain	47	1	3	2	-	40	-	1
United Kingdom	178	5	22	15	1	127	2	6
Russia	149	8	44	36	3	41	7	10
Turkey	52	3	7	13	4	18	-	7
Germany	103	5	10	7	2	67	1	11
Ukraine	17	-	5	6	-	5	1	-
Hungary	13	2	1	1	-	9	-	-
Bosnia Herzegovina	29	2	8	10	-	7	-	2
Serbia	27	-	13	3	-	5	2	4
Rest of Europe	111	3	20	15	3	56	1	13
America, total	186	2	54	35	8	79	2	6
United States	45	0	8	7	0	29	-	1
Chile	69	1	33	7	3	22	-	3
Rest of America	72	1	13	21	5	28	2	2
Asia, total	743	24	139	167	39	243	16	115
Afganistan	102	1	7	22	7	25	6	34
Sri Lanka	31	1	5	11	-	6	2	6
Iraq	280	7	55	68	20	90	8	32
Iran	92	2	19	16	1	40	-	14
Pakistan	61	7	13	10	4	20	-	7
Vietnam	33	-	8	5	2	18	-	-
Rest of Asia	144	6	32	35	5	44	-	22
Africa, total	1 071	8	137	141	20	605	19	141
Algeria	106	-	25	13	2	61	-	5
Eritrea	37	-	5	7	1	2	1	21
Ethiopia	27	-	4	8	1	7	-	7
Gambia	48	-	5	1	-	37	-	5
Ghana	29	1	3	2	-	18	-	5
Liberia	30	-	5	2	1	16	1	5
Libya	31	-	1	2	-	27	-	1
Morocco	57	-	14	4	1	35	1	2
Nigeria	159	2	7	5	2	107	1	35
Somalia	328	1	35	62	10	180	13	27
Rest of Africa	219	4	33	35	2	115	2	28
Oceania	9	-	-	1	-	4	-	4
Stateless	79	-	9	11	1	52	-	6
Unknown	3	-	-	2	-	1	-	-

1	Citizenship is specified if 25 sanctions or more.
2	Including 29 sanctions against firms.
3	Including 37 sanctions for environment crimes, of which 29 sanctions given persons with Norwegian citizenship.

Explanation of symbols

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