Look how AFP slants its story. The person who chased and rammed the car is repeatedly described as a “woman.” That’s it. A “woman.” Meanwhile, the man who stood up for the freedom of expression at risk of life and limb is called an “extremist,” and others like him are called “militants.” Remember, those are common euphemisms the establishment media uses for terrorists.
Also, look at the last line: “While presented as an expression of freedom of speech, governments in Muslim majority countries have protested the burnings.”
So does the fact that Muslim governments have protested the burnings mean that the burnings are no longer an expression of freedom of speech? The Muslim governments’ outrage trumps the freedom of expression?
The worst aspect of this is that AFP isn’t even close to being the worst establishment media outlet.
“Woman jailed over car-chase with Norway anti-Islam activist,” AFP, January 27, 2024:
A Norwegian court has jailed for 19 months a woman who chased and then rammed a vehicle carrying an anti-Islam extremist who had just burned a Koran.
The woman was found guilty of an attempt to inflict serious bodily harm, according to the judgement, of which AFP received a copy on Friday.
The incident happened minutes after Lars Thoren, head of the Stop The Islamisation of Norway group, had burned a copy of the Koran outside a mosque in the Oslo suburbs.
Two women in a grey Mercedes went after him in a pursuit that was filmed and posted on social media.
Thoren’s sports utility truck was rammed and turned over onto its roof but none of the five occupants were seriously hurt.
The 49-year-old woman jailed was not driving at the time, but the car belonged to her and she was a passenger at the time. The court said she was guilty of having encouraged the chase….
Thoren is among a group of militants in Scandinavian countries, also including Rasmus Paludan, who have caused anger by burning copies of the Koran in Muslim districts of major cities.
While presented as an expression of freedom of speech, governments in Muslim majority countries have protested the burnings.
Westman says
That’s a light sentence for attempting vehicular homicide.
The media makes it sound as though we should care about what Shariah Governments think. If Hydrogen Fusion reactors ever succeed, we certainly won’t spend a moment of regret while viewing them in the rear view mirror. Modern society is leveraged on cheap energy, which is the only critical insecurity of the Western World(not to say that we can’t stupidly create more).
It is the West which is being invaded by migrants for what the cheap energy creates in the hands and minds of people who are un-enslaved by Islam.
Taffey says
Biden screwed the US on energy independence, first by shutting down the Keystone Pipeline as one of his first acts as president, and then chipping away at out energy independence throughout his presidency and then depleting our strategic petroleum reserves, essential to our national defense, because the price of gas took a quantum jump. The same holds true with The administration’s policy towards natural gas.
Note that the electric everything BS is economically doomed without government subsidies (at great expense to the rest of the economy). If o energy prices were allowed to plummet by having plentiful oil and natural gas, then electric vehicles, heat pumps, and other huge consumers of energy would be priced out of the market even with government subsidies.
Westman says
Right you are Taffey.
Poor Germany was de-industrialized, strangled, without cheap energy and the results are still falling out.
And subsidies for electric everything, along with the proxy war, are all paid by an increasing national debt.
Our gas bill was 30% higher in 2023 for the same Nat gas as 2022. It won’t be long before the electric company discovers it is getting paid less per unit energy and will demand an increase. I think that will be a future trend – same cost for a unit of energy regardless of the source. Of course, those electric cars will be no less expensive than ICE autos, likely more when repairs and battery pack replacements are counted.
40 rounds says
Two points: western “journalists” are cowards and so are Scandinavian courts
Hudson says
If he rammed her car, he would have gotten jail time.
James Lincoln says
According to the feature article:
“A Norwegian court has jailed for 19 months a woman who chased and then rammed a vehicle carrying an anti-Islam extremist who had just burned a Koran.”
So, just what is an “anti-islam extremist”?
Hudders. says
Good question @James.
I guess an ‘anti-islam extremist’ is anyone who refuses to bow & scrape to the ever increasing entitled demands of the invaders. Submit to islam or face the consequences.
Which is extreme here… The burning of a brutal how to hate manual, or the criminal jihadist chasing & ramming of a vehicle, in turn potentially murdering many people?
Heads is tails; up is down & evil is in fact good to these twisted left wing media puppets; the useful idiots who support their poisoned points of view & of course the demonic death cult of islam pulling the strings in the background.
James Lincoln says
Hudders,
Thank you for your informed reply.
Cherie says
One who speaks the Truth/Facts about Islam.
Hoi Polloi says
That was very violent with clear intent to kill; I remember being horrified. The protestors were fortunate and the charges should have been with intent to kill.
What a warped press organization; labeling people who burn a few pages as the extremists in a case such as this one.