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Fjordman visits Breivik

Fjord­man has star­ted a review of Anders Behring Brei­vik. The first install­ment cal­led Is the Mass Mur­de­rer Anders Behring Brei­vik Insane?
The article is not wit­hout merit, dra­wing atten­tion to the simi­larity between Brei­vik and vio­lent jiha­dists. Does Brei­vik repre­sent a…

Rattling the panes

22/7 is shaking offi­cial Nor­way to its foun­da­tions. Now a jihad-video has demon­strated that radi­cal isla­mists con­sti­tute a dan­ger.
On the very same day that the chief of security police, PST, Janne Kris­ti­an­sen pre­sented the yearly threat report, the video…

Enlightenment or confusion in the Breivik-case

The proce­e­dings in the case against mass­mur­de­rer Anders Behring Brei­vik took a new turn Fri­day when the jud­ges appointed two new psychia­trists to under­take a new judi­cial review.
The pre­si­ding jude expressed the hope that anot­her review would shed new…

Norwegian foreign minister rebukes US

Norway’s for­eign minis­ter Jonas Gahr Støre deplo­res that the mili­tary option is pro­mi­nent in the debate about what to do with the Ira­nian nuclear pro­gramme.
In an inter­view with state broad­cas­ting NRK, Gahr Støre, says there are no mili­tary solution…

In the balance

Nor­we­gian Broad­cas­ting, NRK, last night scre­ened a docu­men­tary featuring Anders Behring Breivik’s fat­her and step­fat­her. It was a reve­aling insight into Breivik’s back­ground and psyche.
The pro­gram seemed to reveal a boy who was men­tally woun­ded from a very early age.…

Norwegian peace-researcher: Israel behind Breivik?

The Nor­we­gian peace-researcher Ola Tunan­der has com­mit­ted an article that will raise eye­brows in many quar­ters. He links Anders Behring Brei­vik to Israel.
The article appears in the respectable jour­nal Nytt Nor­disk Tids­skrift, at pre­sent under the edi­to­rial of Cathrine Holst.…

Rumour: rapes in Oslo greeted with glee?

Bits of infor­ma­tion are making the rounds on the net, coale­scing into somet­hing new. A story by an Israeli blog­ger attri­bu­tes a state­ment to a Nor­we­gian minis­ter that “Israel would be glad to hear of the assault rapes in Oslo”.
This…

Into the unknown

Today mar­ked a dark day in Norway’s poli­ti­cal his­tory. A well known par­lia­men­ta­rian from the Pro­gress Party has rece­i­ved death threats, and the police take them seriously.
He and his family are advised not to use pub­lic trans­port, not to…

A national doll’s house

In a nation and a cul­ture that is small in size, and where the impor­tant pub­lic debate takes place in a lan­guage not shared with anyone else, the num­ber of people with the intel­lec­tual capi­tal that is avai­lable to deal…

Murray

When liste­ning to Douglas Mur­ray one is remin­ded of the fact that idiom is eve­rything. Wit­hout idiom you can­not express what you feel.
Lan­guage is anot­her mat­ter. There will always be lan­guage. But idiom is dif­fe­rent.
How is it that what…

Freedom of Speech, Norwegian Style

The day before the Nor­we­gian prime minis­ter Jens Stol­ten­berg spoke in the par­lia­ment about what exactly he meant with the term “more open­ness” after the 22/7 ter­ror attacks, the state owned Nor­we­gian Broad­cas­ting Cor­po­ra­tion (NRK) show­cased their inter­pre­ta­tion of free…