 Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten reprinted the Muhammad cartoons to illustrate a story about the attack on Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. Both Iran and Pakistan condemned the publication. Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast: "Such acts are against the sanctity of religious values and are strongly condemned." "One cannot harm the religious sentiments of over one billion Muslims under the banner of freedom of speech," he said. "Such blasphemous acts will not contribute to the establishment of world peace. They will only make the Norwegian government liable before the international community for failing to prevent provocative behaviors that are in violation of human rights." The Pakistani Foreign Office also strongly condemned the reprinting of the cartoons, and urged Norway to take appropriate measures and ensure that the people who committed this blasphemous act were appropriately reprimanded. Aftenposten's chief editor, Hilde Haugsgjerd, says they did not get any direct responses from Muslim groups. They have got some reactions from individuals but nothing serious. Pakistani organization Jamaat-ud-Dawa, which is on the UN's terror list, called on Muslims to protest. A small group of Islamists protested in Lahore last Friday, carrying a sign saying that "anyone who kills Kurt Westergaard will be hero of Islam" and calling to boycott all Norwegian products. Professor Tore Bjørgo of the Police University College in Oslo doesn't expect any violent responses. Aftenposten is just one of many newspapers who have reprinted the cartoons. Laila Bokhari of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs says that it all depends on how the news spreads and who will pick up on it and use it. Norwegian Parliamentarian Ulf Erik Knudsen (Progress Party) posted the cartoon on his Facebook page, leading to further rage in Pakistan, but later removed the image. At least 6 other newspapers in Belgium, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Portugal and Suriname published the cartoons following the attacks. Norwegian site Nettavisen published the cartoon for a short time before removing it. In Belgium, the ex-Muslim group "People Against Islam" announced a Muhammed cartoon contest on their site, saying they were inspired by Aftenposten. Meanwhile, more details are coming out about the US plot against Jyllands-Posten. The American-Canadian terrorists planned to blow up a truck outside the Jyllands-Posten offices. A Pakistani terror group put the two in touch with associates in European countries, who could supply them with money, weapons and manpower for the attack. Following the attack on Westergaard Danish authorities decided to provide him with additional security. The 30 agents needed for round-the-clock cover are expected to cost about 19.5 million kroner a year. Sources: PressTV, DAWN, Washington Times, Copenhagen Post 1, 2 (English), NRK, Nettavisen, VG, Aftenposten (Norwegian), Fyens Stiftstidende (Danish), Standaard (Dutch)
 A veteran Iranian diplomat based in Norway has resigned from his post, denounced his government and urged colleagues around the world to do the same after the regime’s brutal suppression of huge opposition demonstrations last month. Mohammed-Reza Heydari, Iran’s consul in Oslo, is the first Iranian diplomat to publicly quit and condemn the regime.
He revealed that it sought to lure him back to Tehran after rumors of his defection surfaced last week. At the time, the Iranian Foreign Ministry insisted that the rumors were baseless. In an interview with the Norwegian television channel NRK, Heydari said that he decided to resign after Iranian security forces killed a dozen demonstrators on Dec. 27. “I hope my friends and colleagues in other parts of the world who see and hear me now and know me will move in the same direction as their people. I hope they will manage to sacrifice some personal interests and rather think of what is in the interest of their people and their nation,” he said. Heydari said that he did not fear for his life, but in the past the regime has arrested the relatives of those, such as Shirin Ebadi, the Nobel peace laureate, who criticize it from abroad. Opposition Web sites said that Heydari’s brother was a well-known Iranian television presenter. More on this story from the Times of London. Fox News
 by Ryan Mauro Pajamas Media has a great article about a moderate Muslim organization called LIM in Norway that is reacting to the attack on one of the Prophet Mohammed cartoonists by organizing a demonstration for free speech.
The spokesperson, Sheikh Rehman, is challenging the Islamic Council of Norway to do the same, but says he thinks they won’t do it because they worry they will “lose face in the Muslim world.” Rehman even supports the publication of the cartoons, saying: Muhammed didn’t want to be depicted, because he didn’t want to be turned into a false god. When Muslims believe that depictions of the prophet insult him, then they are turning him into just such a false god. There should thus be no reason not to caricature him. I would go so far as to say that Muslim leaders are unqualified. The second article comes from the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada.
Twenty imams that are patrt of the group published a fatwa on January 8 saying any attack on the U.S. or Canada is an attack on all the Muslims living there, and “Islam requires Muslims to stand up to this evil.” And there’s also this very important line in the fatwa: In fact, the constitutions of the United States and Canada are very close to the Islamic guiding principles of human rights and freedom. There is no conflict between the Islamic values of freedom and justice and the Canadian /US values of freedom and justice. Irfan al-Alawi and Stephen Schwartz in The Weekly Standard write about the All-India Ulema Mashaikh Board, and how the group’s secretary-general has called for Wahhabist control of the country’s Islamic institutions to be ended. They write that the majority of Sunni Muslims in India and Pakistan “are conservative but adhere to the spiritual Islam of Sufism.” He even puts a number on it, saying 80% of India’s Muslims practice Sufi traditions. World Threats 
 A group of liberal Muslims in Norway is calling on the Islamic Council of Norway to demonstrate in order to support Muhammed cartoonist Kurt Westergaard.(Pictured)"It wasn't a mistake that the caricatures of Muhammed were printed, and in any case it doesn't justify violence. Muslims have just a great interest in protecting freedom of expression as all others. Therefore Muslims should also support Kurt Westergaard," writer Shakil Rehman of the liberal Muslim network LIM (Equality, integration, multiculturalism) told Klassekampen. Rehman is looking for a response from the Islamic Council of Norway after the attack on Westergaard. He calls on the Islamic Council to arrange a demonstration to support freedom of speech. If the Islamic Council doesn't rise to the challenge, his network themselves will take the initiative. "I'm afraid they won't rise to the challenge, because they don't want to lose face in the Muslim world. But if they support freedom of speech, they should also be able to show that they mean it in practice," says Rehman. "Muhammed didn't want to be depicted because he didn't want to be worshipped like an idol. When Muslims think the prophet is insulted by being depicted, then they make him into precisely such an idol. Therefore there shouldn't be any problem to make a caricature of him. I will go so far to say that Muslim leaders are unqualified." Q: Maybe they respond most to the strong connotations of violence? A: He was also an army chief. That is one of his worse sides. We should be able to criticize that. Muslims shouldn't be so holy that we can't criticize him," says Rehman. Norweigan-Somali SV politician Hamsa Mohamed was against publishing the Muhammed caricatures in 2005, but now he's changed his mind. "For me it's completely fine now. I don't respond as vigorously as before. Afterward I saw that people responded unnecessarily vigorously from the Muslim side. Caricatures are drawn all over the world," says Mohammed, who sympathizes with Rehman's liberal view of Islam. "Many say that the Prophet himself had a lot of tolerance, but that it was his followers who did the opposite of what the Prophet stood for. I agree with the interpretations. Many Somalis I speak to are discussing this now, and think that the reaction to the caricatures was an over-reaction," says Mohamed. He would like to participate in a demonstration for freedom of speech, but he's skeptic about a demonstration with only supports urt Westergaard. He also thinks that it's important to correct the image created after the tragic incident in Aarhus. "What happened in Aarhus, made the possibly positive impression that we've succeeded in creating for Muslims change around in minutes. Even of people become more tolerant, and admit that we've overreacted, one person can destroy for all of us," says Mohamed. He's just come back from Christmas vacation in Hargeisa in Somalia. He met there many who were concerened about the rise of the Al-Shabab terror organization. He thinks it's important to prevent youth from being recruited by such extreme groups. "We can do that by preventing stigmatization. The media is also responsible here. When Somali youth experience stigmatization, there many can think of looking towards communities who think extreme things about the majority society, among them there are those who are violent," says Mohamed. In 2006 the Anti-racist Center and 43 other organization took the initiative for a big demonstration for freedom of speech and against threats and violence. This came in response to the riots following the publication of the Muhammed cartoons. The Islamic Council was invited, but decided not to participate. The head of the Anti-racist Center, Kari Helene Partapuoli, thinks such a demonstration is a good idea, but is skeptical about the liberal Muslims fronting it. Partapuoli says it's important to be careful. If liberal Muslims front the demonstration, what does that say about the other Muslims? It would be better if the initiative came from "Norwegian Muslims" or "Muslims in Norway". She thinks that one shouldn't demand of Norwegian Muslims to distance themselves from what one Muslim did in Denmark. Partapuoli says that it's reasonable to demand that society understand the difference between extremists and common Norwegian Muslims. A demonstration done in the right way might get the majority to understand this. General Secretary Shoaib Sultan of the Islamic Council of Norway says they will make a decision about the request for a demonstration for fredom of speech and against violence in the ordinary way, but that there are no plans to support anything.Sultan says that if the main slogan would be like in 2006 "Respect freedom of speech. No to violence and threats" then they support it. Sources: Klassekampen, VG (Norwegian)
 IT is almost seven years since Australian cameraman Paul Moran was killed by a suicide bomber in northern Iraq while covering the first days of the 2003 Iraq war. He left behind a grieving widow and a baby daughter, born only seven weeks before his death. In those seven years there has been no investigation into Moran's death. The founder and trainer of the terrorist group responsible for his murder has been living freely in Norway as a political refugee while continuing to advocate the killing of Western infidels, including Australians. He has not been investigated by Australian authorities nor any attempt made to interview him. Now, prompted by the Australian Federal Police decision to launch a war-crimes investigation into the 1975 murder of five Australian journalists in East Timor, Moran's ABC colleagues are pushing to have his killers brought to justice. "`Why has there been no investigation into the murder?" asks Mark Corcoran, presenter and veteran reporter with ABC TV's Foreign Correspondent program. "As of December 2009, I have still not seen any evidence of an investigation, either formally or informally, by any Australian official." Corcoran had never met Moran, a 39-year-old freelancer from Adelaide who got his first TV break as a camera operator on Here's Humphrey, but clearly feels a personal responsibility to ensure he is not forgotten. "Moran was murdered in 2003.
Mullah Krekar, the terrorist leader who created the suicide bomber unit that killed Moran, is alive and well. He is living in Norway and taunting the Australian government to come and get him. Yet Canberra does nothing," Corcoran says. His frustration is echoed by Campbell, who suffered shrapnel injuries, permanent hearing loss and post-traumatic stress disorder after the bombing. "If there's a chance this guy can be prosecuted for the murder of an Australian abroad, he should be prosecuted. There's a far more pressing need for this than for the Balibo five, which happened 34 years ago," Campbell says. "This was six years ago, in a war that's still going on. And it involves the international jihadist movement which is targeting Australians right now." The bombing that killed Moran was carried out by Ansar al-Islam, a militant group fighting for an Islamic state in the northern Kurdish region of Iraq. Its responsibility for the killing was later confirmed by the group's founder and former leader, an Iraqi national, Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad, widely known as Mullah Krekar. In 2007, Corcoran tracked Krekar down in Oslo, where he boasted about the suicide squad he established which killed Moran. "There's no difference between suicide bombs and using Kalashnikov," Krekar said. "What's the difference, when you send the fighters to death, what's the difference between someone who uses only on-off [switch] or someone who use his finger -- what's the difference? It's the same." When Corcoran asked him what he would say to Moran's widow and daughter, he replied: "`I say to all the Western women, don't send your sons to kill us." To Krekar, the fact that Moran was a cameraman, not a soldier, made no difference. "He was also with our enemy . . . In this area it is allowed for me in Islam to kill [a soldier], to kill his translator, to kill the people which give him food, give him water, give him medicine -- all of them is in the line of war." Campbell says: "It's very galling when you have this guy openly gloating about Ansar al-Islam and savouring the details of Paul Moran's murder, and nothing happens." The US and Australian authorities have amassed a wealth of evidence against Krekar, who founded Ansar al-Islam in December 2001. An ASIO assessment presented to the parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security in June this year said Ansar has claimed responsibility for more than 1600 terrorist attacks in Iraq. In February, Iraqi security forces announced the arrest of a female member of the group who was accused of training some 80 female suicide-bombers and dispatching at least 28 of them to carry out attacks. The report says Ansar has six divisions with between 500 and 1000 members, has historical links to al-Qa'ida and has openly declared fealty to Osama bin Laden. ASIO's assessment blaming Krekar's group squarely for Moran's death was the basis for the listing of Ansar as a terrorist organisation a week after his death, and its re-listing by the federal government this year. "On one hand, they cite Paul Moran's murder as a reason to list Ansar al-Islam and they cite Krekar's name in the listing," says Corcoran. "Yet they don't pursue him or even try to interview him, even though he's living openly in Norway." Krekar claims to have relinquished command of Ansar in 2002. But in 2006, his name was added to the UN Security Council's list of individuals belonging to or associated with al-Qa'ida, and he was designated by the US Treasury Department as someone providing financial support to al-Qa'ida and/or other terrorist organisations and facilitating terrorist activity. The designation, which froze Krekar's assets and prohibited any financial transactions by or with him, said Krekar supports "every stage of the terrorist life-cycle, from financing terrorist groups and activity to facilitating deadly attacks". US officials say Krekar established at least two sniper teams in Iraq and recruited and trained jihadist fighters. Krekar was granted political asylum in Norway in 1991 but has continued to commute regularly to Iraq, using his Oslo sanctuary as a remote headquarters, safe haven and fundraising base. The US Treasury's report says a supposed charity Krekar founded has "sent money to [and] actively recruited European citizens into terrorist organisations". Krekar's immigration status in Norway was revoked after the authorities there learned of his repeated trips to Iraq, and in 2007 he lost an appeal against deportation in the Supreme Court of Norway. But he is unlikely to ever be evicted as Norway has a firm policy of not deporting individuals to countries that use torture or have the death penalty, such as Iraq or the US. Corcoran wants him extradited to Australia. "The AFP should launch a war crimes investigation into Krekar," Corcoran says. "This should include a thorough examination of all US, UN and Norwegian intelligence documents, including intercepts of his phone calls, email and online activity." Corcoran believes these would show that Krekar still exerts control of Ansar al-Islam, despite his denials. The ABC has been reluctant to back its journalists in their push for a war-crimes investigation into Moran's death, although a spokesman says the ABC "would assist in any way we can if there is an inquiry". Corcoran, who has reported from war zones for the national broadcaster for 13 years, says the ABC and other media organisationshave a responsibility to do more. He's pushing for the introduction of a protocol requiring the ABC to launch its own internal investigation into any incident in which an employee or contractor is killed or seriously injured. "Journalists and media workers in conflict zones are increasingly viewed as soft or easy targets. Failing to respond immediately in a rigorous manner only reinforces this perception and, in my view, increases our vulnerability. Those who would consider targeting journalists and media workers need to be sent a clear message that there will be serious consequences for such actions." His call is supported by Tony Loughran, who was head of the BBC's high-risk team from 1995 to 2003, and introduced a policy of holding an independent investigation into the death of any working BBC employee, whether in a car accident or a conflict zone. Loughran says he was shocked to learn the ABC had not investigated Moran's death and that Australian news outlets in general do not make it their business to conduct such investigations. Loughran, who holds hostile-environment training courses for media groups including the ABC and SBS, says such investigations should be mandatory. "Absolutely. There's a lot of issues that need to be closed off. Morally, you need it to bring closure to the family by examining exactly what occurred. And there are a lot of lessons to learn. For organisations like the ABC it's very important to have all this stuff documented to minimise the risk of it happening again." This week the journalists' union, the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, took up Corcoran's call and wrote to the Attorney-General asking him to refer Moran's death to the AFP for investigation. "It's clearly a war crime," says MEAA federal secretary Chris Warren, who is also on the executive of the International Federation of Journalists. "A deliberate attack on a journalist is a breach of the Geneva Conventions. In Paul Moran's case it's pretty clear that a case can be made, and the AFP should act." Eric Campbell has urged the federal government to take the request seriously, saying Krekar's 2007 declaration that Australians are legitimate targets proves he still poses a threat to Australians abroad. "The Australian government should be very concerned about that and should bring him to account." Sally Neighbour is a senior contributor to The Australian, a reporter for ABC's Four Corners and author of The Mother of Mohammed. The Australian
 IRAN has confiscated the Nobel peace medal and diploma of Shirin Ebadi, the human rights lawyer who is one of the hardline regime's most outspoken critics. Her bank account has also been frozen on the pretext that she owes almost £250,000 in tax. The seizure of the award, unprecedented in its 108-year history, caused outrage in Olso, where the Nobel Peace Committee is based.
The Norwegian Government summoned the Iranian envoy to protest, and the committee said that it would make a formal complaint.
"Such an act leaves us feeling shock and disbelief," said Jonas Gahr Store, the Norwegian Foreign Minister.
Geir Lundestad, secretary of the committee, said that Iran's action was unacceptable. "A laureate has never been treated like that. Even political dissidents such as [Andrei] Sakharov and [Lech] Walesa were better treated in their countries," he added, referring to the Russian dissident and the Polish trade union leader, both of whom won the prize while living in the Soviet bloc.
 The Muslim Student Society asked to use a gym hall at Oslo university (Blindern) for half an hour every Friday for prayer, but the university administration is skeptic.Deans Hans Petter Graver (Law) and Trygve Wyller (Theology) are critical of such use of common areas. They want a principle debate on how you can meet the demands for exercising one's religion and at the same time protect the common, secular space, reports Uniforum, the university's newspaper. There's an especially big influx into the university's prayer room for Muslims on Friday afternoon, when 40-80 Muslims come in to pray. "That we are so many means that we must stand in line to pray in several rounds," says Bushra Ishaq, head of the Muslim Student Society at Oslo University. "We humbly asked to use an aerobics hall for prayer for half an hour every Friday, and it amazes me that the deans are making such a big issue out of it," she says. Ishaq thinks the Muslims' Friday prayer can't be compared to Christian Sunday mass, as dean Trygve Wyller claims. "Islam enjoins us to pray Friday prayer, but this lasts at most 20 minutes," says Ishaq. Dean Hans Petter Graver emphasizes that allowing Muslim students to conduct such a ceremony in such a visible place as the gym hall will alter the secular space, and so before allowing such a major change, they should have a principle discussion. Source: Budstikka (Norwegian), h/t R
 It seems that most, if not all, of these rapes were committed by African asylum-seekers.
16 of the 17 aggravated rapes and rape attempts in Stavanger (Norway) in the past two years were committed by men of non-Western background.
Of the 18 men involved, only one was ethnic Norwegian. The violent rapes included six 'taxi rapes' [ed: these caused the police to advise women not to get into taxis alone].
Police sergeant Tor Erik Riska Thorsen of the Rogaland police district specializes in investigating sexual attacks. He thinks the explanation for why non-Western men are overrepresented in the statistics is simple: An primitive attitude towards women and little openness for sexuality.
Many of the immigrants in Rogaland come from remote areas where a prehistoric attitude towards women is still alive and well, explains Thorsen. This attitude is carried by the men to other countries.
"When a lightly dressed, intoxicated woman gets in alone into a taxi, the starting point is that she's already sinned. A Muslim woman can't do that.
Those who attacked and raped women in the street thought that they were within their rights. They saw an intoxicated woman without an escort.
She's then considered fair game in some Muslim communities. And by their own perception, the men think that women have no value as witnesses in a criminal case," says Thorsen.
Source: VG (Norwegian)
See also: Oslo: Rapes are the fault of Norwegian girls With thanks to Islam in Europe
 Apparently with help from Sweden and the UK.A 40 year old Norwegian citizen has been charged with collecting at least 200,000 Norwegian kroner for terror groups in Somalia.According to the Norwegian security service PST, the man was a central figure in sending money to the Somali Islamist group al-Shabaab, which declared its loyalty to Osama bin-Laden in September. According to the charges, the man sent about 135,000 kroner to al-Shabaab between August 2007 and February 2008. The prosecution say they can prove that he sent 10,000 dollars to Aden Hashi Farah Ayrow in January 2008. The al-Shabaab leader was killed in an American air-attack on May 1, 2008. The suspect also sent a smaller sum, $500, to another central leader in al-Shabaab, Swedish citizen Fuad Khalaf. According to the charges, the terror groups conducted a series of attacks against civil and military targets in the time-period that they've received the money. This is the first time that the prosecution presses charges according to a new article in the penal code from June 2002. The charge carries a punishment of up to ten years in prison. The 40 year old made the account available to Banadir Welfare Organisation, and came to the attention of the police in the fall of 2007. The organization's stated goal was to help Somali refugees in South-Somalia and the organization was supposed to run collection drives and collect money from private persons and companies. But the PST think that the organization was used to transfer money which went to financing terrorist against civilians in Somalia. In August 2007 the PST started investigation the then 38 year old man. According to TV 2, in October 2007, the police economic crime unit (Økokrim ) got a report of money laundering. A large Norwegian bank noted that the organization received cash payments and sent to the money to various recipients in Dubai. The bank reported to Økokrim that they thought they uncovered a completely new network for transferring money. On Februrary 28, 2008, PST arrested the Norwegian-Somali on charges of terrorism financing, together with two other people. The arrests were conducted with aid from Økokrim, Kripos and the Oslo police department. The Norwegian police also searched several internet cafes and seized computers and documents. The 40 year old was accused of having contacts and talks with central figures in al-Shabaab. According to TV 2 sources, PST's investigation revealed that the 40 year old had contact with radical communities in Sweden and the UK. The 40 year old had earlier admitted to supporting al-Shabaab, but claims that the militant Islamic group is a resistance movement that doesn't commit terror acts. The charges point out that according to a UN security council decision on sanctions against Somalia, it is forbidden to deliver weapons and military equipment of any type to Somalia, as well as financing such supplies. It is also forbidden to render any technical or financial support to military activities. The 40 year old Norwegian-Somali got his passport back from the PST and it was alleged that he was no longer in Norway. Prosecutor Pål Lønseth did not wish to comment on whether the prosecution knows where the the 40 year old is now. Source: TV 2 Nyhetene (Norwegian)
Western Muslims' Racist Rape Spree
By: Sharon Lapkin FrontPageMagazine.com Tuesday, December 27, 2005 In Australia, Norway, Sweden and other Western nations, there is a distinct race-based crime in motion being ignored by the diversity police: Islamic men are raping Western women for ethnic reasons. We know this because the rapists have openly declared their sectarian motivations.When a number of teenage Australian girls were subjected to hours of sexual degradation during a spate of gang rapes in Sydney that occurred between 1998 and 2002, the perpetrators of these assaults framed their rationale in ethnic terms. The young victims were informed that they were “sluts” and “Aussie pigs” while they were being hunted down and abused. In Australia's New South Wales Supreme Court in December 2005, a visiting Pakistani rapist testified that his victims had no right to say no, because they were not wearing a headscarf. And earlier this year Australians were outraged when Lebanese Sheik Faiz Mohammed gave a lecture in Sydney where he informed his audience that rape victims had no one to blame but themselves. Women, he said, who wore skimpy clothing, invited men to rape them.A few months earlier, in Copenhagen, Islamic mufti and scholar, Shahid Mehdi created uproar when – like his peer in Australia – he stated that women who did not wear a headscarf were asking to be raped.And with haunting synchronicity in 2004, the London Telegraph reported that visiting Egyptian scholar Sheik Yusaf al-Qaradawi claimed female rape victims should be punished if they were dressed immodestly when they were raped. He added, “For her to be absolved from guilt, a raped woman must have shown good conduct.”In Norway and Sweden, journalist Fjordman warns of a rape epidemic. Police Inspector Gunnar Larsen stated that the steady increase of rape-cases and the link to ethnicity are clear, unmistakable trends. Two out of three persecutions for rape in Oslo are immigrants with a non-Western background and 80 percent of the victims are Norwegian women.In Sweden, according to translator for Jihad Watch, Ali Dashti, “Gang rapes, usually involving Muslim immigrant males and native Swedish girls, have become commonplace.” A few weeks ago she said, “Five Kurds brutally raped a 13-year-old Swedish girl.”In France, Samira Bellil broke her silence – after enduring years of repeated gang rapes in one of the Muslim populated public housing projects – and wrote a book, In the hell of the tournantes, that shocked France. Describing how gang rape is rampant in the banlieues, she explained to Time that, “any neighborhood girl who smokes, uses makeup or wears attractive clothes is a whore.”
Unfortunately, Western women are not the only victims in this epidemic. In Indonesia, in 1998, human rights groups documented the testimony of over 100 Chinese women who were gang raped during the riots that preceded the fall of President Suharto. Many of them were told: “You must be raped, because you are Chinese and non-Muslim.”
Christian Solidarity Worldwide reported that in April 2005, a 9-year-old Pakistani girl was raped, beaten with a cricket bat, hanged upside down from the ceiling, had spoonfuls of chillies poured into her mouth, and repeatedly bashed while handcuffed. Her Muslim neighbours told her they were taking revenge for the American bombing of Iraqi children and informed her they were doing it because she was an “infidel and a Christian.”
In Sudan – where Arab Muslims slaughter black Muslim and Christian Sudanese in an ongoing genocide – former Sudanese slave and now a human rights’ activist Simon Deng says he witnessed girls and women being raped and that the Arab regime of Khartoum sends its soldiers to the field to rape and murder. In other reports, women who are captured by government forces are asked; “Are you Christian or Muslim?” and those who answer Christian, are gang raped before having their breasts cut off.This phenomenon of Islamic sexual violence against women should be treated as the urgent, violent, repressive epidemic it is. Instead, journalists, academics, and politicians ignore it, rationalize it, or ostracize those who dare discuss it. In Australia, when journalist Paul Sheehan reported honestly on the Sydney gang rapes, he was called a racist and accused of stirring up anti-Muslim hatred. And when he reported in his Sydney Morning Herald column that there was a high incidence of crime amongst Sydney’s Lebanese community, fellow journalist, David Marr sent him an e-mail stating, “That is a disgraceful column that reflects poorly on us all at the Herald.”
Keysar Trad, vice-president of the Australian Lebanese Muslim Association said the gang rapes were a “heinous” crime but complained it was “rather unfair” that the ethnicity of the rapists had been reported.Journalist Miranda Devine reported during the same rape trials that all reference to ethnicity had been deleted from the victim impact statement because the prosecutors wanted to negotiate a plea bargain. So when Judge Megan Latham declared, “There is no evidence before me of any racial element in the commission of these offences,” everyone believed her. And the court, the politicians and most of the press may as well have raped the girls again.Retired Australian detective Tim Priest warned in 2004 that the Lebanese gangs, which emerged in Sydney in the 1990s – when the police were asleep – had morphed out of control. “The Lebanese groups,” he said, “ were ruthless, extremely violent, and they intimidated not only innocent witnesses, but even the police that attempted to arrest them.”Priest describes how in 2001, in a Muslim dominated area of Sydney two policemen stopped a car containing three well-known Middle Eastern men to search for stolen property. As the police carried out their search they were physically threatened and the three men claimed they were going to track them down, kill them and then rape their girlfriends. According to Priest, it didn’t end there. As the Sydney police called for backup the three men used their mobile phones to call their associates, and within minutes, 20 Middle Eastern men arrived on the scene. They punched and pushed the police and damaged state vehicles. The police retreated and the gang followed them to the police station where they intimidated staff, damaged property and held the police station hostage.Eventually the gang left, the police licked their wounds, and not one of them took action against the Middle Eastern men. Priest claims, “In the minds of the local population, the police are cowards and the message was, 'Lebanese [Muslim gangs] rule the streets.'”In France, in the banlieues, where gang rape is now known simply as tournantes or ‘pass-around,’ victims know the police will not protect them. If they complain, Samir Bellil said, they know that they and their families will be threatened.However, Muslim women in the French ghettos are finally fighting back against gang rape and police non-action. They have begun a movement called, “We’re neither whores nor doormats.” They are struggling against the intrinsic violence that plagues their neighbourhoods and the culture that condones it. In most French prosecutions, the Muslim rapists state that they do not believe they have committed a crime. And in a frightening parallel with the gang rapists in Australia, they claim the victim herself is to blame and accuse her of being a “slut” or a “whore.”According to The Guardian, during the recent French riots, a Saudi Prince with shares in News Corporation boasted to a conference in Dubai that he had phoned Rupert Murdoch and complained about Fox News describing the disturbances as “Muslim riots.” Within half an hour he said, it was changed to “civil riots.”Swedish translator, Ali Dashti, stated that in Sweden when three men raped a 22-year-old woman recently, they said one word to her. “Whore.” Such stories, according to Dashti, are in the Swedish newspapers every week. And, the politically correct “take great care not to mention the ethnic background of the perpetrators.” Sweden’s English newspaper The Local reported in July that Malmo police commander Bengt Lindström had been charged with inciting racial hatred. He sent e-mails from his home computer to two city officials. To the head of healthcare, he wrote: “You...treat old Swedes who have worked hard building up the fatherland like parasites and would rather give my taxes to criminals called Mohammed from Rosengärd.”In Malmo, the third largest city in Sweden, the police have admitted, Dashti says, that they no longer control the city. “It is effectively ruled by violent gangs of Muslim immigrants.” Ambulance personnel are regularly attacked and spat upon and are now refusing to help until a police escort arrives. The police are too afraid to enter parts of the city without backup.In early 2005, Norwegian newspapers reported that Oslo had recorded the highest ever number of rape cases in the previous twelve months. However, Fjordman explained, the official statistics contained no data regarding “how immigrants were grossly over represented in rape cases”, and the media remain so strangely silent. Oslo Professor of Anthropology, Unni Wikan, said Norwegian women must take responsibility for the fact that Muslim men find their manner of dress provocative. And since these men believe women are responsible for rape, she stated, the women must adapt to the multicultural society around them.The BBC pulled a documentary scheduled for screening in 2004, after police in Britain warned it could increase racial tension. “In these exceptional circumstances... Channel 4 as a responsible broadcaster has agreed to the police’s request...” The documentary was to show how Pakistani and other Muslim men sexually abused young, white English girls as young as 11.The number of rapes committed by Muslim men against women in the last decade is so incredibly high that it cannot be viewed as anything other than culturally implicit behaviour. It is overtly reinforced and sanctioned by Islamic religious leaders who blame the victims and excuse the rapists.In three decades of immigration into Western countries, Islam has caused social upheaval and havoc in every one of its host countries. No other immigration program has encountered the problems of non-assimilation and religious ambiguity. Everywhere in the world, Muslims are in conflict with their neighbours. And as Mark Steyn recently said, every conflict appears to have originated by someone with the name of Mohammed.In July 2005, Melbourne Sheik Mohammad Omran told Sixty Minutes that “...we believe we have more rights than you because we choose Australia to be our home and you didn’t. “In the same interview visiting Sheik Khalid Yasin warned “There’s no such thing as a Muslim having a non-Muslim friend, so a non-Muslim could be your associate but they can't be a friend. They're not your friend because they don't understand your religious principles and they cannot because they don't understand your faith.”Despite being told over and over by Islamic scholars, and witnessing massive influxes of Islamic crime, Western countries continue to believe in the reality of assimilation and moral relativism.In Australia, Lebanese Christians have assimilated and become a respected part of our community. The Premier of Victoria is a Lebanese Christian as is the Governor Of New South Wales. However, Lebanese Muslims have encountered serious problems because of their refusal to accept our right to live our way of life. Nothing so clearly demonstrates that it is not an issue of race — but of culture. Source: http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=6161 Muslim Rape Wave in Sweden
By: Fjordman Fjordman Thursday, December 15, 2005 Swedish girls Malin and Amanda were on their way to a party on New Year's Eve when they were assaulted, raped and beaten half to death by four Somali immigrants. Sweden's largest newspaper has presented the perpetrators as "two men from Sweden, one from Finland and one from Somalia", a testimony as to how bad the informal censorship is in stories related to immigration in Sweden. Similar incidents are reported with shocking frequency, to the point where some observers fear that law and order is completely breaking down in the country. The number of rape charges in Sweden has tripled in just above twenty years. Rape cases involving children under the age of 15 are six - 6 - times as common today as they were a generation ago. Most other kinds of violent crime have rapidly increased, too. Instability is spreading to most urban and suburban areas.According to a new study from the Crime Prevention Council, Brå, it is four times more likely that a known rapist is born abroad, compared to persons born in Sweden. Resident aliens from Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia dominate the group of rape suspects. According to these statistics, almost half of all perpetrators are immigrants. In Norway and Denmark, we know that non-Western immigrants, which frequently means Muslims, are grossly overrepresented on rape statistics. In Oslo, Norway, immigrants were involved in two out of three rape charges in 2001. The numbers in Denmark were the same, and even higher in the city of Copenhagen with three out of four rape charges. Sweden has a larger immigrant, including Muslim, population than any other country in northern Europe. The numbers there are likely to be at least as bad as with its Scandinavian neighbors. The actual number is thus probably even higher than what the authorities are reporting now, as it doesn't include second generation immigrants. Lawyer Ann Christine Hjelm, who has investigated violent crimes in Svea high court, found that 85 per cent of the convicted rapists were born on foreign soil or by foreign parents.A group of Swedish teenage girls has designed a belt that requires two hands to remove and which they hope will deter would-be rapists. "It's like a reverse chastity belt," one of the creators, 19-year-old Nadja Björk, told AFP, meaning that the wearer is in control, instead of being controlled. Björk and one of her partners now plan to start a business to mass produce the belts and are currently in negotiations with potential partners. "But I'm not doing this for the money," she said. "I'm really passionate about stopping rape. I think it's terrible." In an online readers' poll from the newspaper Aftonbladet, 82% of the women expressed fear to go outside after dark. There are reports of rapes happening in broad daylight. 30 guests in a Swedish public bath watched as 17 girl was raped recently, and nobody did anything. The girl was first approached by 16-year-old boy. He and his friends followed her as she walked away to the grotto, and inside the grotto he got her blocked in the corner, ripped off her bikini and raped her, while his friend held her firm.There are even reports of Swedish girls being attacked and cut with knives on the dance floor. A 21-year-old man who came to Sweden a couple of years ago admits that he has a low opinion of Swedish females –or “whores” as he calls them. He is now prosecuted, suspecteded of cutting eight girls in several pubs. He is also charged with raping a girl at a private party, and with sexually harassing another girl in the apartment. Several witnesses claim that the 21 year old has said that he hates Swedish women.Some Muslim immigrants admit their bias quite openly. An Islamic Mufti in Copenhagen sparked a political outcry after publicly declaring that women who refuse to wear headscarves are "asking for rape." Apparently, he's not the only one thinking this way. “It is not as wrong raping a Swedish girl as raping an Arab girl,” says Hamid. “The Swedish girl gets a lot of help afterwards, and she had probably fucked before, anyway. But the Arab girl will get problems with her family. For her, being raped is a source of shame. It is important that she retains her virginity until she marries.” It was no coincidence that it was a Swedish girl that was gang raped in Rissne – this becomes obvious from the discussion with Ali, Hamid, Abdallah and Richard. All four have disparaging views on Swedish girls, and think this attitude is common among young men with immigrant background. “It is far too easy to get a Swedish whore…… girl, I mean;” says Hamid, and laughs over his own choice of words. “Many immigrant boys have Swedish girlfriends when they are teenagers. But when they get married, they get a proper woman from their own culture who has never been with a boy. That’s what I am going to do. I don’t have too much respect for Swedish girls. I guess you can say they get fucked to pieces.”The number of rapes committed by Muslim immigrants in Western nations are so extremely high that it is difficult to view them only as random acts of individuals. It resembles warfare. Muhammad himself had forced sex (rape) with several of his slave girls/concubines. This is perfectly allowed, both in the sunna and in the Koran. If you postulate that many of the Muslims in Europe view themselves as a conquering army and that European women are simply war booty, it all makes perfect sense and is in full accordance with Islamic law. Western women are not so much regarded by most Muslims as individuals, but as "their women," the women who "belong" to hostile Infidels. They are booty, to be taken, just as the land of the Infidels someday will drop, it is believed, into Muslim hand. This is not mere crime, but ideologically-justified crime or rather, in Muslim eyes, attacks on Infidels scarcely qualify as crime. Western women are cheap and offensive. We Muslims are here, here to stay, and we have a right to take advantage of this situation. It is our view of the matter that should prevail. Western goods, like the land on which we now live, belong to Allah and to the best of men -- his Believers. Western women, too, essentially belong to us -- our future booty. No wonder there is a deep and increasing suspicion against Muslims in the Swedish and European public.Sweden has national elections less than a year from now. Here is a suggested draft email, in English and Swedish, that you can send in to Swedish politicians and media to protest the lack of honesty about what Muslim immigration is doing to the country:I would hereby like to protest against the passivity and the lack of resolve demonstrated by Swedish authorities in the face of a huge spike in the number of rapes in their country. It is time for Swedish politicians, Swedish media and the Swedish public to admit that the large increase in the number of rape charges in their country during the past generation is intimately tied to the immigration that has taken place during that same time period. The attitude among many Muslim men is that women who are not veiled and act properly submissive have themselves to blame if something happens to them. Such a line of thinking is incompatible with the culture of freedom in any Western country. It means that as long as Muslim immigration continues, Sweden will continue to import an Islamic culture that will destroy women’s freedom in Swedish society. The strains caused by immigration are now so large that unless something serious is done about this, pretty soon Sweden will face the same kind of riots we have recently seen in France, and will approach the point of permanent ethnic and religious strife. Swedish politicians and media need to put the well-being of their daughters above that of political correctness and their own Multicultural vanity, and it is shocking that they actually need to be reminded of this. It is an international embarrassment to Sweden as a nation that Swedes travel around the world to lecture about women’s rights, and at the same time their own young women are finding that their most basic rights, such as being able to go outside wearing normal clothes without being harassed, are slipping away. It’s a sham, and it needs to end. Unless Swedish authorities are able to provide basic security to a population that pays some of the highest tax rates in the world, the Swedish government should publicly admit its inadequacy and resign from office. At the very least, it should be honest enough to tell Swedish citizens that they have to provide security for themselves, and stop making it difficult for people to do this. The Swedish general elections are less than a year away, and this time, Muslim immigration needs to be raised to the very top of the public agenda. Source: http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=6251
 At the Telemark county library in Ulefoss, an exhibition was promptly subjected to damage and the library asked the artists to remove it. It is now being shown in Porsgrunn. The exhibition "Det er ikke forbudt å tenke" ("It's not forbidden to think") was assembled at Porsgrunn library yesterday. In a series of 12 graphic images the artist, Ahmed Mashhouri, picked out the most controversial quotes from the Quran. "My aim is not to insult anybody and their faith. It's to get a better understanding of the laws found in the Quran. These laws perhaps fit better in the old days, but today they just seem inhuman. I hope that my works will be a wake-up for my dear coreligionists," he says. Mashhouri and his wife worked for human rights in Iran. They sought asylum in Norway and now live in Skien. The images were prepared in Norway and translated to Norwegian from Persian and English. "In discussions people love to hear that such thing aren't found in the Quran. We want to show that they actually do," says Mashhouri. When before Christmas the couple turned to the Telemark library in Ulefoss, they were invited to come. Read more ...Source: Islam in EuropeH/T: Jihad Watch
Great video of a woman burning her hijab. Its good to know at least someone remembers the bra burning of the 60s except this one is actually meaningful. Congratulations to this courageous woman and I'm thrilled to know at least some women are demanding their rights to freedom publicly.
Sarah Azmeh Rasmussen, a Norwegian lesbian ex-Muslim of Syrian origin burns a hijab in March 2009 on International Women’s Day to protest against repression of women in Islam.
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After the official ceremony marking International Womens Day in Oslo, Sara Azmeh Rasmussen burned a hijab in front of the crowd. The burning was announced beforehand in the media by Rasmussen. Although she was hit in the head with a snowball, she said she had been expecting much worse.
 Don't worry Norway, I'm a PhD, I
can vouch that it'll be good for you! Norwegian judges should learn Islamic Sharia law, not least as it relates to family, considers Norwegian law researcher. Katja Jansen Fredriksen at the University of Bergen researched into what happens when Sharia standards collide with the Norwegian family. She has, inter alia, examined 120 decisions in which at least one of the parties are Muslim. This can include the marriage contract entered into in a Muslim country or a battle of who under Islamic law have the right to seek divorce. She has not found it as the xenophobic Progress Party leader Siv Jensen called stealth Islamization of Norwegian courts. It becomes a problem, not that judges should be guided by the Sharia, but because they do not understand the gate in the conflicts of the judging it. Knowledge of the Sharia laws should therefore be included in legal education, considers Jansen Fredriksen. Norges judgments league think it is interesting. Read more ...Source: Tundra TabloidsKatja Jansen Fredriksen
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 Muslim girls who don't wear the hijab all the time are beaten, says Gerd Fleischer, of Self-Help for Immigrants and Refugees (Seif).
"In my office, women cried brave tears over having to go with a hijab. Countless young women despairingly told me that they don't have the hijab on all the time, they'll get a beating."
"These don't dare appear in the public debate," Fleischer told Vårt Land.
She's upset that young Muslim women say they are free to choose if they want to go with a hijab.
She says that the proud educated women who appear with the hijab, know too that their sisters are coerced. But they speak little of it. Fleischer says it should be part of their women's liberation to also support them. The coercion many women experience, is barely mentioned as an aside.
She says young girls have to move to other places in the country and live in secret addresses, also because they don't want to go with a hijab.
"Parents often beat their daughters into obedience and virtue and the hijab as a rule constitutes part of the control," says Fleischer.
She agree with Progress Party (Frp) head Siv Jensen that the women's movement of the left in Norway doesn't care about non-Western women.
Liberal politician Abid Q. Raja will head the parties work with the minority issue. He thinks the Labor Party (Ap) wronged the immigrants more than the progress Party.
"Frp just used scolding, but Ap completely neglected the problem areas for fear of being called racists. Not making demands from fellow citizens is not taking them seriously. We don't need to be pissed on behind our backs," says Raja. Source: Aftenposten (Norwegian)H/T: Islam in Europe
 Head of the Progress Party (Frp) Siv Jensen thinks that the fight against radical Islam is just as important as the fight against Nazism.
"Throughout history we managed to fight totalitarian ideas like Nazism and later Communism. As a liberal I will always fight against such ideas and movements. Radical Islam is a dark and scary ideology and fighting it is our era's most important struggle," Jensen told Klassekampen (Norway's Communist newspaper).
She accuses opponents in other parties of running into the trenches when the Frp takes up these issues.
"It's most probably an expression that they don't know what's happening in the society around them. They shut their eyes and try to appear tolerant and liberal, while in reality they are deeply intolerant," says Jensen. She explains the argument by saying that her opponents, regardless of how well-meaning they are, ignore attacks against individuals in Norway. The women's movement is the worst, Jensen thinks.
She claims she was contacted by 'very many of immigrant background' recently.
"These are people who are in Norway because they fled totalitarian and oppressive regimes. They tell me that they are terrified that the totalitarian powers will come after them. I see the the debate is better and more extensive in the immigrant community than in the political community," says Jensen. Source: Aftenposten (Norwegian)H/T: Islam in EuropeSiv Jensen
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Hijab in the police, Muslim school, a hospital for Muslims, simpler visa rules, mother-tongue education and shutting down toll roads in Oslo. These are the issues the newly created Independent Labour Party will be fighting for. Among those responsible for the party is Ghufoor Butt. This week he handed in the signatures needed to register a party for the fall elections. His goal is to get to parliament. "Today's immigrant politicians don't do enough for us," says Butt to Aften. He thinks they're bound by their parties and don't dare to take a stand on important issues. "They're not good enough," says Butt. Read more ...Source: Dagsavisen (Norwegian)H/T: Islam in Europe
On Friday, Dec. 19th, the Justice Ministry sent out a press release headlined: “New Penal code: Better protection against hateful expressions”. In it Knut Storberget (Labor) explained that the government had finally decided to remove the blasphemy article. What didn’t get as much attention was that the government proposed to expand section 185 against hateful expressions: “The government will therefore propose to expand article 185 on hateful expressions so that the provision attends to the need for criminal protections against qualified attack on religions and life outlooks.” “So how did the Norwegian press respond to having freedom of speech curtailed because it can cause conflicts, and that Norwegian law should be changed because some immigrant groups don’t tolerate it like sturdy, Christian and ethnic Norwegians? With almost total silence,” writes journalist Jon Hustad in Dag og Tid in his article “fear of criticism of religion”, which was published Jan. 22. Read more ...Source: IFPS
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