“Throughout the trial, Ahmad denied any wrongdoing, arguing his statements were an interpretation of Sharia law.” Indeed: Sharia mandates death for blasphemy. But that a Norwegian court should excuse his calling for enforcement of Sharia laws outside Sharia states is another matter.
“Iraqi-Born Cleric Jailed in Norway for Praising Paris Attack,” Associated Press, October 30, 2015:
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A Norwegian court has sentenced an Iraqi-born cleric to 18 months in jail for praising the slaying of cartoonists at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which had lampooned Islam and other religions.
The Oslo city court also found Najmaddin Faraj Ahmad, known as Mullah Krekar, guilty of urging others to kill a Kurdish immigrant in Norway in the same interview with Norwegian broadcaster NRK.
“Whoever offends our religion and our honor must understand that this is a conflict about life and death,” Ahmad told NRK, adding a cartoonist is “a fighting heathen whom it is permissible to kill.” The interview was broadcast Feb. 26 — the day after he was arrested.
On Jan. 7, two Islamic extremists attacked the paper in Paris, leaving 12 people dead. A second attack two days later on a Kosher grocery store in the French capital killed five others. All three gunmen died in clashes with police.
Ahmad also was ordered to pay 75,000 kroner ($8,750) in compensation to Halmat Goran, the Kurdish immigrant .
Throughout the trial, Ahmad denied any wrongdoing, arguing his statements were an interpretation of Sharia law.
Earlier this year, Ahmad was freed after nearly three years’ imprisonment for making death threats. The 59-year-old Kurd, who came to Norway as a refugee in 1991, was convicted in 2005 for a similar offense….
Norway and the United States have accused Ahmad of financing a defunct Iraqi Sunni insurgent group called Ansar al-Islam. It reportedly merged with the Islamic State group last year.

Angemon says
Will he be allowed to stay in Norway after doing his time? If so, why?
Now wait just a damn minute. Reza Aslan and many other professional clowns assured us that sharia law is not incompatible with Western values. I say we get Reza and this cleric together in a room and let them debate it over.
Budvarakbar says
Why waste the time and space – what could either of these two a$$clowns have to say except spewing out their dam lies!
Huck Folder says
Is this not the same Mullah Krekar who
INSTIGATED the Danish cartoon riots?
Or are there more of them
from the same litter?
Jerry says
Unfortunately, they and their kind are littering the whole of Europe
eduardo odraude says
He should be kept in jail much longer, or better, he should be booted from the country. The fine should have been ten times what it was.
Matthieu Baudin says
Strip him of his Norwegian residency rights and deport him. He doesn’t belong in Europe so why keep him at great cost and as a permanent risk to public safety?
Katnis says
Good for the Norwegian court.
Budvarakbar says
What the hell is it going to take to get the western nations to wise up to the fact that it is ALL muslims that ARE the enemy — Islam is no more a religion than Nazism or Communism !!
gravenimage says
Throughout the trial, Ahmad denied any wrongdoing, arguing his statements were an interpretation of Sharia law.”
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The infamous Mullah Krekar is not wrong, of course.
He has also praised the Jihad murders of Charlie Hebdo cartoonists. He said, when a cartoonist “tramples on our dignity, our principles and our faith, he must die.”
Then back in 2010 uttered death threats against ex-minister Erna Solberg and several Kurds.
In 2012, Krekar was sentenced to 5 years in prison for making death threats–but for some reason he was out in 2014 and free to attend a Daesh (ISIS) meeting in Amman, Jordan), to prepare for the the invasion of Iraq.
Just another example of the wonderful “diversity” Muslims bring to civilized society…sarc/off
Dave J says
If any MUSLIM criticizes or mocks Islam then by all means slay the blasphemer. It’s all part of the cultism and they know that and apparently agree.
What non-Muslims do is none of their goddamn business, we are not subject to their 7th Century laws and they need to learn that right quick.
mortimer says
Dave wrote: “we are not subject to their 7th Century laws and they need to learn that right quick.”
Muslim already know that we ‘reject’ Islam’s totalitarianism and they consider it the worst sin and crime that must be punished. The Koran tells them to impose submission on the kafirs ‘no matter how much they are averse.’
They are at war and hate because Allah wants them to hate. Muslims need to be deprogrammed out of Islam, because Islam is based on the practice of hate.
mortimer says
The convicted Najmaddin Faraj Ahmad said, “a fighting heathen whom it is permissible to kill.”
In Arabic it is “KAFIR HARBI” … that is a ‘denier at war with Islam’.
According to Sharia law, VERBAL OPPOSITION to Islam MUST be punished by DEATH. The killer may be any person and there is no punishment for murdering a KAFIR HARBI.
The Norwegian court is getting a crash course in ISLAMIC VIGILANTE LAW…which they ought to have had already.
Sharia law is totally incompatible with all national legal systems that are based on modern principles of human rights.
Sharia law is a 7th or 8th century law code and is therefore HOPELESSLY incompatible with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights we adhere to today. Practicing Muslims cannot be loyal members of Western states because they cannot support the modern constitutions that call for equality and that oppose vigilantism.
Vigilantism is normative Islam and Najmaddin Faraj Ahmad was asking Muslims to act as vigilante murders in the name of Islam.
Jay Boo says
Let’s be honest, if it wasn’t for fear of another Anders Breivik, the Norwegian court would have merely admonished him.
Taher Taher says
IN THE NAME OF ALLAH. ISLAM IS ABOUT PEACE. PEACE SELF AND COMMUNITY. PEACE WITH GOD. MAY ALMIGHTY GOD ALLAH SEND PEACE TO ALL PEOPLES AROUND THE GLOBE.
IMAM TAHER TAHER.
Emay See says
IMAM TAHER TAHER., why no comment on why he said what he said. It’s against the Law
gravenimage says
Is that so? And yet, your fellow cleric is praising the murder of those who dare criticize the savagery of Islam.
Where are you on this?
Can anyone question the barbarism of Islam, or is part of the “peace” of this foul creed the murder of “blasphemers”?
Joseph says
Taher Taher,
If Islam is about peace could you please explain the 27,194 deadly terror attacks since 9/11/2001?
Could you please explain why your clerics call for the death of all the Jews and the decimation of Israel off the world map?
Could you explain why Middle Eastern children shows teach them to hate Jews?
Could you please explain why it is OK for a muslim man to rape white European girls?
Could you please explain why it is OK to throw gay men off of buildings?
Could you please explain why when a woman reports a rape she is the one that is stoned to death?
Baucent says
Anyone pick up why Ahmed was “urging others to kill a Kurdish immigrant in Norway ”
He himself I understand is a Kurd.
BC says
If the Kurdish immigrant was non Muslim it would not make any difference, after all they kill their own children for being unIslamic.
BTW if you changed his hat to a homberg he would look like an orthodox Jew which illustrates the fact they are basically the same semite sub group, divided by religion
Mazo says
Yes, Mullah Krekar and his buddies in Ansar al-Islam are Kurdish Islamists. Ansar al-Islam is a Kurdish Islamist group. He was trying to have another Kurd murdered.
Alot of Kurds are deeply religious and pious. Calling them “secular” is the biggest joke by dumb westerners.
There was a big clash between Muslim Kurds and Yazidis in a refugee camp because the Yazidis tried to stop the Kurds from building a Mosque in the camp.
http://www.aina .org/news/20151030202412.htm
Kurdish Peshmerga fighters say the Takbir (Allahu Akbar) when firing mortars against ISIL
https://www.youtube .com/watch?v=KbsesrAMjTw
Kurdish Peshmerga also do Islamic prayers publicly in front of the cameras for the reporters to see. Just go look up “peshmerga praying” in the image field of any search engine and there will be plenty of journalist’s pictures.
It is the Communist Marxist Kurdish PKK/YPG/YPJ which is secular, and alot of what they do goes against traditional religious Kurdish culture. The PKK/YPJ take Kurdish youth and girls and teach them to be against traditional “feudal” Kurdish traditions, indoctrinate them with Marxism and teach the girls feminism, telling them to leave their traditional child bearing roles in the house and run away from their families. The PKK did the same with Yazidi girls. This is why Islamists hate PKK so much. Traditional Yazidis don’t like it either. They make their girls marry young and keep them in domestic roles and don’t let them marry non Yazidi boys.
http://www.niqash .org/en/articles/security/5146/Iraq’s-Yazidi-Women-Defend-Themselves-Change-Culture-One-Girl-At-a-Time.htm
David M says
So basically he was jailed for being a pious Muslim, he just followed instructions from the Quran & got himself locked up because of it. Shows how incompatible Islam & the west are. He can’t be too happy to be locked up for basically being a good Muslim, something will have to give big time in the conflict between Islam & the west.
Max Publius says
Note to all those who support the Kurds, this guy is Kurdish (as are many other jihadists). At the end of the day, the bloodthirsty imamocracy is always in charge, and trumps any transitory or illusional appearance of rational behavior in Muslim communities, which are anti-humanist, unscientific, and tyrannical by definition.
Dave J says
“Deprogramming” of Muslims seems very difficult – the cult is designed to resist all reform or moderation. The mechanisms of punishment by death for “blasphemy” or for leaving the belief system work pretty well. In addition the brain virus appears to permanently both lower the IQ and elevate the level of emotional hotheadedness of it’s victims. Islam is a self-reinforcing one way street in many respects and the urge to expand it’s reach, power and geography is built in to the ideology.
There is more hope in our recognizing the problem than in an internal reformation on their part.
f c king says
Every country should have the death sentence for these types. He’s no different than Charles Manson. He incites the murder of innocent people, and is just as guilty as any of the murderers.