Norway: Muslim activists want stricter blasphemy law

Stung by Carl Hagen, Norwegian Muslims are trying to import blasphemy laws redolent of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to Norway. Hagen himself is standing in their way. From Nettavisen, with thanks to Ali Dashti:

Norwegian Muslims want to collect 15,000 signatures in order to gain support for a stricter blasphemy paragraph.

When it was discussed whether or not to cut the blasphemy paragraph, Carl I. Hagen and his party, the Progress Party, secured a majority for a continued ban on blasphemy in the penalty code in the nick of time. Hagen’s statements regarding Islam are now being used as a reason for why the blasphemy paragraph should become even stricter, reported the paper Vårt Land.

Due to Hagen’s statements in a speech at the independent congregation Levende Ord in Bergen earlier this summer, he was reported for blasphemy by Ashfaq Sadiq and Thyra Aisha Græsdal....

The activists have three demands; the politicians must ensure that the blasphemy law becomes effective, they have to ensure that the law is followed, and they have to protect against misuse of free speech.

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http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article845235.ece

Hagen wants to keep Taliban supporter out of Norway

Carl I Hagen, head of Norway's Progress Party, says Norwegian authorities should block the entry of a leading Pakistani politician known for backing both the Taliban and hailing Osama bin Laden. Qazi Hussain Ahmed is due to speak in Oslo later this month at a local Islamic Cultural Center.

"There's no reason to have any dialogue with Islamic fundamentalists," Hagen told newspaper Aftenposten. "And anyone who speaks warmly about the Taliban... is openly an Islamic fundamentalist." Hagen said he also expected Muslim leaders in Norway to distance themselves from Qazi Hussain Ahmed and his appearances.

HAGEN keep up the good fight there. We're all rooting for you,Carl.

I thought Norway was moving to ban Islam altogether, as all nations should do.

DC....we can only live in hope.........

DCWatson: There was a minority group from Hagens' Progress Party calling for this. Don't think it has any chance of being implemented:

http://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/english/article254421.ece

Right-wing politicians want to ban Islam

Central members of Kristiansand Progress party claims Hitler’s «Mein Kampf» and the Koran are one of the same, and they want Islam banned in Norway.

Karina Udnæs, deputy leader of the Progress party’s city council group in Kristiansand is pushing it even further. «It is about high time Norway and Europe make the ideology Islam and the practice of this, illegal and punishable in the same way as Nazism,» Udnæs said. «The prophet Muhammad urged them to kill everyone infidel.» «Udnæs’ comparison of Nazism and Islam is supported by many in Frp,» Hulaas said. «The religion as it is practiced is a threat against our social system and way of life.»


About Mr. Hagen's remarks:

http://www.norwaypost.no/content.asp?folder_id=1&cluster_id=25780

I can see no similarity with the concept of moral and justice found in Christianity, Hagen said. Hagen also said that if Israel loses in the Middle East, Europe will succumb to Islam next, if Islamic fundamentalists have it their way. -That's why Israel must be defended, Hagen stated, while at the same time emphasizing that there are also good and decent Muslims. Thelogian at the University of Oslo, Oddbjoern Leirvik, says Hagen's speech may be compared to the agitation against the Jews in the 1930s.


http://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/english/article253245.ece

The Muslims Thyra Græsdal and Ashfaq Sadiq filed a formal complaint against party leader Wednesday and claim that he has breeched the blasphemy paragraph. «We can not accept an attack of this dimension,» Sadiq said to the paper Dagbladet. «We will fight for a clear line in society which supports political and religious freedom. Hagen’s statement breaches UN’s human rights and the Geneva convention.»


The debate has been heating up, as 5 Muslim ambassadors to Norway wrote a letter protesting the attacks from the Progress Party on Islam:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article836294.ece

A Norwegian politician's recent assault on Islamic fundamentalists continues to spur reaction. Now a group of ambassadors have taken the unusual step of blasting Progress Party leader Carl I Hagen in a letter to newspaper Aftenposten, but Hagen isn't wavering. Ambassadors to Norway from Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan and Morocco, as well as the charge d'affaires from Tunisia, claim in their letter that Hagen has offended 1.3 billion Muslims around the world.

They also contend that Hagen has violated the principles of tolerance, understanding and cultual freedom on which the Norwegian society is built. They wrote that they find it difficult to find any justification for the harsh language used by Hagen, when he claimed at a Christian summer gathering in Bergen earlier this month that Mohammed was likely to exploit children in his efforts to "Islamify" the world. Hagen also claimed that Muslims already had come far in Africa and were making inroads into Europe, something that Christians must oppose. At one point in his remarks, Hagen compared Islamic fundamentalists to Hitler.

The ambassadors claimed that Hagen's remarks were inappropriate for a politician in his position, as a member of parliament and head of the Progress Party. Some Norwegian politicians agree, with both Vidar Helgesen of the Conservatives and Thorbjørn Jagland, a former foreign minister and Middle East expert from the Labour Party, saying they understand that Hagen's remarks were offensive.

I keep telling everyone I meet:

1) the first goal of Muslims is to ensure the continued, uninterrupted flow of Muslim immigration; 2) the second goal of Muslims is to have their own publicly funded schools and court systems in which, respectively, Islam can be taught in an unregulated fashion and in which Sharia justice can be administered in a similarly unregulated way; 3) the third goal of Muslims is the destruction of Israel; 4) the fourth goal of Muslims is the establishment of a Muslim state within the Western states to which they immigrate; 5) the fifth and final goal of Muslims is the re-establishment of the Caliphate and the establishment of Islam as the dominant religion throughout the world.

And the Left will let that all happen under the aegis of 'diversity.'

AUTHOR: Suzan
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The truth hurts, doesn't it muslims? Maybe that is why muslims can never tell the truth, everything that comes out of their foul-smelling mouths are lies. Of course, their reaction is soooo predictable. They are unable to rationally defend evil islam against any criticism, so they instead seek to ban all criticism of it.

Should there be a concern? You're damned right! This is an outrage that there would be even a consideration of this trash. It will do well for all to recognize that this insidious religion is working its way slowly, but surely into undermining the principles that we have live by for centuries. When will it stop?

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http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0810/p01s03-woam.htm

Can tolerant Canada tolerate sharia?
By Susan Bourette | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor

TORONTO - Their burnished domes rise high above the adjacent pizza parlors and drab strip malls, like beacons of sanctity in this largely secular country.

But the peaceful facades of the dozens of mosques in Canada's most populous province belie the public rancor that has been stirred up over the use of sharia, or Islamic law, by Ontario's Muslims.

Muslims here, supported by a 1991 provincial law, have been using sharia to mediate legal disputes, such as divorce and child custody. But in the spring, after a Muslim group proposed creating a formalized tribunal, what had been going on quietly for more than a decade became front-page fodder and led to a government review of the law. A report is expected next month.

While no one here expects the increasing use of sharia to lead to some of the more radical rulings associated with Islamic law - stonings or amputations - critics worry that the rights of women are being sacrificed for the sake of multiculturalism.

"It's shocking to see the seeds of an Islamic republic being sown here in Canada," one young woman shouted to vociferous applause at a recent Toronto rally, organized to denounce the practice of sharia in Ontario. "Sharia doesn't work anywhere else in the world. Why does the government believe it will work here?"

"Sharia doesn't work anywhere else in the world. Why does the government believe it will work here?"

Ah, lassie, but Sharia works very well and does just what it is designed to do: It keeps women and non-muslims subjugated, encourages conversion to Islam, and allows murder and the looting of non-muslim's property unless non-muslims pay protection money.

Sharia seeks to impose worldwide a variety of oriental despotism of type that Western Civilization has been fighting since 490 BCE. The defeat of East at Marathon did not end the war, but only allowed it to continue, as it has, to this present day.

The Greeks, however, did not allow, much less encourage, mass immigration of eastern barbarians into their countries. The Greeks might reasonably have suspected that such immigrants would seek to weaken, subvert and destroy their culture from within to achieve a result that they could not impose from without.

Thanks Mentat for the clear synopsis of Islamic 'goals'. I do not have any wisdom about emphasis, but I wonder about the ranking of 3). If the 'Zionist entity' is the 'source of all evil in the world', the 'secret', 'conspiratorial', controlling force standing in the way of the spread of Islam, then might the destruction of Israel be a higher priority on the list?

We are, of course, talking psychological emphasis here, not strict ideology. But, at the very least, hatred of Israel (read hatred of Jews. It amounts to the same thing in the end.), the demonization of Israel, is, without doubt, glue that binds hundreds of millions of Muslims, of diverse cultures, education, languages, into a single hateful force...the victory of Islam, the sense of overcoming of inadequacies, the projection self hatred, naturally spew forth from the giddy expectation that Israel will suffer and be 'obliterated'. Hence, Jewish lives are worth nothing (and this is reflected in the European press) Hence, anything Israel does is 'aggressive', including building a wall for its own defense. Hence, Israel is the greatest threat to world peace, and their 'puppet', the US is the devil, etc. etc.: The subtext of all this: would that Israel,'the evil Jews' die. Once again the logically end of 'Jew hatred' shows its face: nonexistence...There has been nothing like it in human history.


There are analogies and disanalogies here with National Socialism. National Socialism was guided by the Fuhrer Prinzip...and hence Hitler himself played a role in the prominence of 'Jew hatred' in Nazi policy. Take out Hitler and Jew hatred does not go away, of course, far from it, but it is dealt a powerful organizational blow. The current state of Islam, it seems to me, is far more dangerous to Jews. Hundreds of millions of Muslims hate Jews with an inexplicable lust and believe, as Hitler and many Europeans did in the 1930s, many of the same anti-Semitic lies: Jews control the media, Jews control the world economy, Jews have a plan to rule the world, Jews eat children, Jews are the source of every evil in the world (quite literally, if something bad happens, the Jews were behind it), Jews are greedy, lying, hook-nosed devils and so on. It looks to me like Islam is breeding hundreds of millions of Hitlers in the 'Islamic collective', whereas National Socialism just had one, with lots of followers whose depth of conviction was at least to some degree dependent on the existence of the powerful Fuhrer guiding the Reich to its destiny.

So, I vote for a higher ranking to 3) for what its worth.

Thanks Mentat for all your efforts.

This is the standard ploy,small amounts
of Muslims move into non-Islamic Country and even
though they boast of the 1.2 Billion on Earth they
exploit their minority status in Norway by demanding protection through hate-crimes laws.
I believe the next step will be to fabricate a
overt Islamophobia and racism to set a foundation to justify an Islamic state in Norway.I say this because it's in the Quran that all Muslims work towards claiming the world for Allah and having
one god ruling the world with Sheria law.
I wish I was joking,but here in Canada Muslims are about 1% of our population and now use Islamophobia and racism to teach the Quran in public school and demand Sheria Law be brought into the Canadian Court system dispite protests from Female-Muslim groups that petitioned the Government last year by explaining that it was
the Sharia Laws misogenist foundation that lead them to flee to Canada for our Charter of Rights
that applied to all Canadians.
Just this March 2004 a group of Muslims used the anniversary of the Iraq liberation to protest at Toronto's City.Hall Square with signs demanding an Islamic State in Canada.
Our gutless PC politicians think all of this is innocent and Muslims are followers of a Peaceful
faith that enriches the Multicultural mosiac of Canada. I say,if these people are so mush trouble now with only 1% of the population,just what will they be like when they gain political power through numbers.Since Muslims exceeded the Jewish
population there has been an increase in attacks on Jews and their property. The Government has shifted to a Muslim friendly stance and anti-Israel party policy.
Norway needs to stop the spread of Islamic cancer and ban the Quran just on it's vile murderous verses of killing Homosexual like the
public killing of Gays in Palestine.

ala-sux,

Do you know which schools in Canada are teaching the koran?? We live in Ontario and I have a son in grade 10 and one in grade 8....if their schools are teaching them the koran without my knowledge..or better yet PERMISSION I will raise holy hell...even sue if I have to. I ask the kids but of course get the usual teenage answer of "nothing" or "stuff" when I ask what they did in school...we go to the parent teacher meetings and no teacher has ever said "would you like to see your sons lessons on the koran"...there is no way in hell that any public school should be teaching islam AT ALL let alone without the parents permission (and they will NEVER have mine, I will educate my kids on that evil vile cult myself)...but it is a growing problem here...the muslims are walking around like they own the place and thumbing their noses at every Canadian law on the books...too bad the govt wont grow a set and do something...gets any worse and we are escaping back to the states.

USAgirl:

I telling the truth,the Quran and Islam have been snuck in through the back door. The Schools are mislead by Muslims claiming it's a Government funded workshop for ending Racism. Most production input is by about 14 Islamic org.'s and the City of Toronto's grantis what the Government funding ploy is for tricking the Schools. Also they list the Schools that accept the workshops on an Islamic website,this means Muslim can see the Schools that don't allow it,pretty sleazy if you ask me,hope they don't get bombed or get bomb threats.
The classroom production promotes the Hijab and denounces the 9/11 attack for blaming peaceful followers of Islam even though all the hijackers were Muslims.
I stumbled onto the information while surfing
for a Quranic verse on killing Jews and Christians to please Allah,seems these Islamic sites are hiding the truth from the general public.Check out the Jihadwatch.org story about the Muslim NAIC last weekend held at Square 1 in Mississauga,the WinnipegSun link talks about the classes for Muslims children that endorsed Jihad and suicide
bombing for Allah. The WhyIslam.org site listed the kids workshops as a chance to teach the youth their responsibility to obey the Quran and work towards making Canada an Islamic state. This includes terrorists methods to achive their goal,I'll posted the link to the Arab site that had the Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish( the one that said she hated those American bastards,in Public even and again on the Mike Bullard show) promoting the NAIC and she thanked the Muslims for electing her in the June election.
Check back to this headline in a bit,I'll search the archives on the site I found the news about Islam in Public schools. Also here's Carolyn Parrish touting the friendly conference she didn't attend.
The Globe and Mail article is repeated at the winnipegSun link.

For now take a deep breath and see the crap that's going on behind our backs.


http://www.arab2000.net/wnewsDetails.asp?id=10674&cid=48

Yes, like Hitler, the Muslims have learned how to use the rules of our civilization and tolerance against us. Hitler managed to gain control of Germany by using their constitution against them. Islam is using the PC garbage that comes out of the leftist thinking to their own advantage. The liberals allow it - despite their intollerant hatred of anything Judeo-Christian - even though it goes against their own vaunted "separation of Church and State" ideal. Sadly, these people are convinced that the Christians are the ones to worry about. I think they need to rethink their priorities. Else, they find themselves on a rug facing toward Mecca one day.

Truthfully, though, I can see why Islam is rising in the West. It is the perfect solution to the problem of our over-permissive society. It is the proper plaster (if you will) for the wound we have. Problem is, when all is said and done, how many lives will be lost before we wake up to the menace that is sitting in our back yards?

USAgirl:

Got some links showing Federal and Municipal funding and approval for Islamic teaching in Public Schools. The original article from a Islamic site isn't in their archives,but I kept digging and found the sub-link that looked very familiar and the bulk of my claim is in the links below. For a group of people that demand religion to be kept out of schools,they didn't waste time sneaking Allah in the back door and cramming it down the throughs of childred.
Take note of how Blacks are used to portray Muslims as victims of racism,thus in come the video's and Quran.

One link is the City of Toronto TRY program
on PDF and the page will open for you.
The next link is to MENTORS,a Muslim education network training out reach service that is the group piggybacking on TRY to preach Islam in classrooms in the guise of racism.

Please read the home page info on MENTORS and see the subtle racist hints at the Euro-centric school system that must change to reflect the new Multicultural mosaic of Canada. HRDC funded part of this and it didn't hurt the Liberals in the June Election.
************************************************** The Schools subscribe to a magazine called
ORBIT and that's what you need to ask your school board about,parents aren't informed on the entire content of these issues and anti-racism is the new euphism for teaching religion.Kids are also taught about 700 years of oppressed Muslims through Islamophobia( still can't find the word in the dictionary,or figure out why Arabs would make up a English word in the eighth century).

I'll try to post the article at the U.of.T
that asks students to dress modestly as to not offend Muslims,you'll love that one,next females will be asked to ware Hijabs to not offend Muslims.

http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/legdocs/2003/agendas/committees/cms/cms030501/it008.pdf

http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/orbit/anti-racism_sample.html

http://www.mentorscanada.com/index.php

I wish there were someway out of this mess that we have brought upon ourselves. I do not hate Muslims, just a kind of pity that such a large section of humanity has been so effectively brainwashed.

Muslims are the very first victims of Islam the ideology, as it completely closed their minds to all that is wonderful in the onward going saga of humanity. They are trapped in a 7th century mindset, almost a prison in time.

Islam means submission, and Muslims are really the slaves of Allah. Thus Islam is the ideology of slavery, masquerading as a religion. Somehow we have to liberate them, not just for Muslims sake, but for ours as well. The world will not be free from slavery till Muslims are released from Islam.

As such seek and employ every opportunity to encourage a Muslim away from Islam. Employ every opportunity that presents itself to inform a still gullible citizenry, of the evil of Islam.

Inform, Educate and Convert.