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November 12, 2004

The stink of Jew-hatred in Norway

This is just surreal:

The Norwegian diplomat Terje Roed-Larsen, who serves as the United Nation's Middle East envoy, heaped praise on Arafat yesterday with an enthusiasm that would make a Gaullist blush. "He was like a surrealistic painting, full of contradictions, full of mystery, full of inconsistencies," Mr. Roed-Larsen told Norwegian state radio NRK. "He was complex, deep, superficial, rational, irrational, cold, warm. He may be the most fascinating person I have ever met, and without comparison the most fascinating leader I have ever met."

This came at the end of a week in which Norway managed to forbid Jews from marking the anniversary of Kristallnacht, a step the French haven't yet taken. The local TV2 News reported that no Norwegian Jews participated in Oslo's commemoration of Kristallnacht."TV2 also reported that the authorities, saying they didn't want trouble, forbade any Jewish symbols, including Stars of David and Israeli flags," according to Israel's Arutz-7 radio station. "On the TV2 evening news, a group of Jews and their friends who wanted to take part in the commemoration were shown being firmly told by a policeman to 'please leave the area,'" according to a dispatch from an American journalist living in Norway, Bruce Bawer, on AndrewSullivan.com. "This in a city where Muslim demonstrations take place on a regular basis, and include signs and banners bearing hateful, barbaric slogans." The ban prompted a protest from the Simon Wiesenthal Center to the government of Norway.

This is beyond mere practicing for dhimmitude, this is joining with the Islamists in pursuing the elimination of Jews. Start with delegitimizing them and their history.

via LGF

Posted by Darleen at November 12, 2004 06:15 PM

Comments

Why is it that we aren't supposed to hate unless it's Jews and Christians?

Posted by: Jeffery Blanco at November 12, 2004 07:20 PM

I think I am going to vomit.

Posted by: Mieke at November 12, 2004 07:55 PM

Fear of the Race Card, plus numbers imbalance. Fill up your country with unassimilated aliens of a different race and you wind up panderinng to their views, especially if you might be called a racist if you object.

The most curious thing in all this is that Islam/shari'a law are against those values its Western apologists value most.

Jeffrey - simplest answer and this may be simplistic indeed: morality, especially sexual morality. Please notice that people are not muttering darkly that the Religious Right is going to make them feed the hungry, or clothe the naked (well, okay, Britney Spears, maybe), or forgive their enemies. It's all about the license to have unlimited sexual freedom.

Posted by: Sal at November 13, 2004 07:07 AM