Category — Islam

Picture from: http://pressthat.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/reinterpreting-islam/

Most of the links contained in this article point to Norwegian-language websites – as such I hope those of you who do not speak Norwegian and are interested in their contents make good use of Google translate. All the quotes below are translated from the original Norwegian by myself. If any Norwegians amongst you find any wrong or questionable translations, please email me and I will do my best to correct them.

During the last few weeks the homeland of Evolution-Revolution’s authors has been the stage of a fiery public debate after Dagbladet, one of the biggest newspapers in Norway, printed a picture on their front page of the Islamic Prophet Mohammed as a pig scribbling in the Koran with his trotters. However, despite its unpleasantness, the still ongoing furore following the publication has arguably been very valuable in that we have learned a whole lot about the state of immigration, integration, and Islam in Norway.

The picture in question was linked to in a post on the the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST’s) Facebook-page discussion board, amongst other posts containing highly racist remarks. After recieving a tip about it, Dagbladet wrote an article presumably meant to criticize PST for allowing a considerable amount of hateful and racist statements to be posted on their discussion board with apparent impunity. In doing so, however, they put the  - to Muslims – extremely offensive caricature in question on the front page of their print edition.

Predictably, there were heated reactions from many of Norway’s approximately 140 000 Muslims. In particular, many saw [Read more →]