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> Anti-Racism Witch Hunts
>
> Fjordman - 12/9/2008
>
> The leading Norwegian blog Document.no tells the horrifying story
> about how two decent white men in 2007 were attacked by a media lynch
> mob for their supposed "racism." As it turns out later, the mainstream
> media didn't present nearly all of the information relevant to the
> case at the time, which didn't prevent them from nearly destroying
> these two men. This happened at the same time as there is a growing
> wave of crime and violence targeting the natives. The response of the
> authorities to rising levels of racist violence targeting the natives
> has been to increase crackdowns on "racism" – by the white natives. In
> 2005 the Norwegian parliament – with the support of 85% of MPs –
> passed a new Discrimination Act, prepared by then Minister of
> Integration from the Conservative Party, Erna Solberg, who had earlier
> called for the establishment of a sharia council in Norway.
>
> A spokesman for the right-wing Progress Party, Per Sandberg, feared
> that the law would jeopardize the rights of law-abiding citizens.
> Reverse burden of proof is combined with liability to pay
> compensation, which means that innocent persons risk having to pay
> huge sums for things they didn't do. If an immigrant claims that a
> native has somehow discriminated against him or made a discriminatory
> remark, the native person has to mount proof of his own innocence.
> This harsh law was passed despite the fact that most immigrants
> themselves claimed they had encountered little discrimination.
>
> I have later discovered that similar laws have been passed across much
> of Western Europe, encouraged by the EU and the Council of Europe
> (CoE) in cooperation with international Islamic organizations. The
> Norwegian law followed an initiative from the CoE. There was virtually
> no public debate about this law, which was passed in relative silence
> prior to the national elections that year. Not a single journalist
> genuinely criticized it, and most barely mentioned it at all before it
> was passed. The same journalists otherwise tend to be very concerned
> about the legal or "human rights" of Islamic terrorists, but
> apparently not of their own people.
>
> The Equality and Anti-discrimination Ombud Beate Gangås, a white
> lesbian feminist, before the municipal elections in 2007 warned all
> political parties against making "discriminatory" remarks regarding
> immigration policies, but called for actively reducing the number of
> white, heterosexual men in politics. There was little real debate
> about immigration in the heavily left-leaning media that year, but an
> all the more passionate witch-hunt looking for racists, and by that I
> mean whites only. The left-wing coalition government, after a meeting
> with immigrant organizations, announced that racists, apparently
> meaning white natives only, should be "smoked out" of all public
> sector jobs.
>
> The same government in October 2008 funded a conference in Oslo
> involving "dialogue" with a number of hardline sharia-sponsoring
> groups from the Middle East, including the Egyptian branch of the
> Muslim Brotherhood. The section Fred og Forsoning ("Peace and
> Reconciliation") of the Foreign Ministry financed the research project
> "Fault Lines of Islamism" [pdf] led by Bjørn Olav Utvik of the
> University of Oslo. Gry Larsen from the Labor Party, representing the
> Ministry, was scheduled to meet with representatives of these groups.
> The left-wing government can thus meet with radical Islamic groups,
> but want to silence those among the natives who don't want Muslims
> with such views to settle in their country. No "dialogue" with them.
>
> Two ambulance drivers in Oslo, both of them white native Norwegians,
> were in August 2007 involved in what became a massively hyped case
> supposedly involving "white racism." The ambulance had arrived to pick
> up an African man who was injured. As ambulance driver Erik Schjenken
> months later explained, the man "pulled down his pants and urinated on
> my colleague's leg. My colleague was surprised, pulled away and called
> him a pig. That's when we viewed the man as a problem, and decided it
> was best if the police took him to the clinic." Ali Farah, the
> Somalian man in question, had more severe head injuries than the
> drivers assumed at that point. "We made a mistake, because we
> interpreted his urination as willful and a provocation, but NOT
> because we had racist or discriminatory motives," Schjenken wrote.
>
> Based on weak suspicions of "racism," the mass media, leading
> intellectuals and politicians launched what can only be described as a
> witch-hunt against the two ambulance drivers. "This would never happen
> to a white man," said the prominent Norwegian-Pakistani lawyer Abid Q.
> Raja, representing Farah and his family. Author Anne Holt, who once
> served as Minister of Justice for the Labor Party, wrote an essay in
> newspaper Aftenposten which in my view amounted to a verbal execution
> of the drivers. Both of them were suspended from service and became
> the target of widespread, negative media coverage. They were later
> cleared after an investigation of the incident by the Norwegian Board
> of Health Supervision. However, the Equality and Anti-Discrimination
> Ombud, or the Multicultural Inquisition as I like to call it, ruled
> that Farah was a victim of discrimination and that the ambulance
> personnel broke the anti-discrimination laws. As noted before, the
> anti-discrimination law states that natives are guilty of
> "discrimination" almost as soon as they are suspected of it.
>
> It should be mentioned here that this African man was injured in the
> first place because he was beaten by another African man, from Ghana.
> In Norway, a country straddling the Arctic Circle and with no colonial
> history, one African man beats another African man, and the result is
> that the white ambulance drivers, who have dedicated their lives to
> helping other people, become the targets of a lynch mob led by the
> country's media. Driver Erik Schjenken needed professional help as he
> was brought to the brink of suicide.
>
> According to Hans Rustad from the major blog Document.no, the ideology
> of anti-racism in some cases resembles what we have seen from
> Communists regimes. The term "racist" is similar to being called a
> "class traitor" under Communism. The mere accusation is powerful
> enough to destroy lives. Rustad fears that anti-racism in some cases
> leads to lawlessness. Ambulance driver Schjenken was a well-regarded
> employee who had performed thousands of calls and saved many lives,
> yet because of one error of judgment, which in my view was
> understandable given the situation, his life was ruined. All because
> he had a politically incorrect skin color while the other person was
> non-white.
>
> What makes this even more absurd is that in Norway, as throughout the
> Western world, white-on-non-white violence is exceedingly rare. The
> vast majority of racism and racist violence comes from non-whites
> against whites, or between different groups of non-whites. In Oslo,
> young girls are raped; schoolchildren are threatened with death,
> robbed and assaulted. The police have warned against "an alarming rise
> in street violence" in urban areas across the country. This is
> directly caused by mass immigration, which is nevertheless still
> championed by the very same media who attacked these two ambulance
> drivers.
>
> For instance, a 17-year-old Somalian was convicted of the rape of a
> young girl in Oslo. The court stated that the rape was unusually
> brutal and lasted for several hours. The man choked the girl for so
> long that the medical doctor who examined her said that she could have
> died. The girl suffers from severe psychological problems in the
> aftermath of the attack. The African youth was sentenced to four and
> half years in prison. This sentence included another rape, where his
> Norwegian-Moroccan friend raped a 13-year-old girl whilst the Somalian
> helped to threaten her and keep guard. She has naturally been
> traumatized from the incident.
>
> Numerous natives have had their lives ruined by similar attacks, yet
> anti-white racism is rarely mentioned as a problem by the mainstream
> media. Whites are apparently fair game. The more vicious the rapes,
> muggings, and stabbings targeting whites in their own country get, the
> more aggressive and hysterical the witch-hunt on "white racism"
> becomes. French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut has warned that "the
> lofty idea of 'the war on racism' is gradually turning into a
> hideously false ideology. And this anti-racism will be for the 21st
> century what Communism was for the 20th century: A source of
> violence."
>
> Professor Sigurd Skirbekk of the University of Oslo notes that "In
> 1994, the German periodical Focus pointed to opinion polls taken in
> Germany, France and England in which 55, 52 and 50 per cent,
> respectively, felt that their countries accepted too many immigrants.
> From Norway we have a representative study from 1987 which showed that
> 51% of the people felt that the country should accept fewer
> immigrants; 25% felt that politicians should stick to current
> practice, while only 8% wanted to accept more immigrants. A similar
> study in Sweden, made a couple of years later, showed that 54% of
> Swedes felt that too many people were immigrating to Sweden. In later
> studies the figures have varied somewhat; but there have always been
> more people who have favored a restrictive policy than those who
> favored liberalization." Thus, according to Skirbekk, "the extent of
> recent immigration cannot be explained on the basis of popular opinion
> [my emphasis]."
>
> Skirbekk wonders whether there is a quasi-religious undercurrent to
> the anti-racist movement, and that it is quite literally the
> equivalent of the witch-hunts of previous ages:
>
> "A number of researchers have come to see that certain issues in the
> migration debate has religious connotations. The Norwegian social
> anthropologist Inger Lise Lien, for instance, has written that
> 'racism' in the public immigration debate has become a word used to
> label the demons among us, the impure from whom all decent people
> should remain aloof. We have every reason to believe that the use of
> the term 'racist' in our day has many functional similarities with the
> use of the word 'heretic' three hundred years ago….It is presumably
> fully possible to join anti-racist movements with the sole motive of
> identifying with something that appears to be politically correct, or
> in order to be a part of a collective that entitles one to demonstrate
> and to harass splinter groups that no one cares to defend." But
> "behind the slogan 'crush the racists,' there might well be something
> more than a primitive desire to exercise violence. The battle also
> involves an element of being in a struggle for purity versus impurity.
> And since racism is something murky, anti-racism and the colorful
> community it purportedly represents, becomes an expression of what is
> pure."
>
> The Norwegian left-wing author Torgrim Eggen warns against "race wars"
> brought about by mass immigration yet continues to support it.
> Questioned about what we can do to avoid this scenario he states:
> "That's a very stupid question to ask to an author. This presupposes
> that I want everybody to be happy, have a good time and don't have any
> problems. If so, what do they want me to write about?"
>
> I will give him credit for his honesty: This is the most frank
> admission I have seen of the fact that some people don't WANT society
> to be harmonious; they think it's boring. There is no worse fate for a
> self-professed intellectual than to live in a nation that is by and
> large prosperous, peaceful and well-functioning because nobody will
> care about his advice or follow his guidance, as is befitting a person
> of his intelligence.
>
> During the Multicultural craze of the 1990s, Eggen in an essay
> entitled "The psychotic racism" warned against turbulence caused by
> mass immigration. The solution to this was not to limit immigration,
> but to limit criticism of immigration. According to him, xenophobia
> and opposition to mass immigration should be viewed as a mental
> illness, and hence "the solution to this xenophobia is that you should
> distribute medication to those who are seriously affected. I have
> discussed this with professor of community medicine, Dr. Per Fugelli,
> and he liked the idea." Mr. Fugelli suggested putting anti psychotic
> drugs in the city's drinking water.
>
> This may sound too extreme to be meant seriously, but Fugelli has
> continued to chastise those who are critical of national immigration
> policies. Eggen warned that arguments about how ordinary people are
> concerned over mass immigration shouldn't be accepted because this
> could lead to Fascism: "One should be on one's guard against people,
> especially politicians, who invoke xenophobia on behalf of others. And
> if certain people start their reasoning with phrases such as 'ordinary
> people feel that,' one shouldn't argue at all, one should hit [them]."
>
> Thomas Hylland Eriksen, professor of social anthropology at the
> University of Oslo, heads a multi-million project sponsored by the
> state trying to envision how the new Multicultural society will work.
> He is a career Multiculturalist and intellectual celebrity in his
> country, a frequent contributor to the public debate and lives,
> according to himself, in a boring, monocultural part of the city,
> insulated from the effects of cultural diversity. Hylland Eriksen has
> proclaimed the death of (Western) nations as if he derives pleasure
> from it, and has stated that the Nidaros Cathedral (Nidarosdomen), the
> most prominent church in the country, should no longer serve as a
> national symbol in our Multicultural society.
>
> Mr. Eriksen has clashed with Ole-Jørgen Anfindsen, who runs the
> bilingual quality website HonestThinking.org and warns against the
> effects of uncontrolled mass immigration. According to Hylland
> Eriksen, "Cosmopolites insist on a world comprising of more colors
> than black and white. In such a world, the problems presented by Ole-
> Jørgen Anfindsen are not just petty, but irrelevant."
>
> What are the problems presented by Mr. Anfindsen? Well, he has
> published numbers indicating that if the current immigration
> continues, native Norwegians will be a minority in their own country
> within a couple of generations. Given the fact that ethnic groups who
> become minorities in their own lands usually have a hard time, and
> always get persecuted when the newcomers are Muslims, one would assume
> that this would be interesting information. But for self-proclaimed
> "Multicultural cosmopolites," it is "petty and irrelevant" to even
> consider that this could represent a problem. Eriksen calls Anfindsen
> "stupid and ignorant," and hints that "Maybe Anfindsen's agenda is
> inspired by a kind of perverted Christianity (he has a Christian
> background)."
>
> "He has a Christian background." Is that supposed to be an insult and
> disqualify a person from worrying about whether his grandchildren will
> be persecuted? Mr. Eriksen, like other Western Multiculturalists,
> worries about Islamophobia but is more than willing to mock
> Christianity. A newspaper essay co-authored by Eriksen states that:
> "Is he [Anfindsen] asking us to once again repeat the obvious in that
> the murder of Theo van Gogh, various acts of terrorism and death
> threats against newspaper editors have nothing to do with Islam?"
>
> Nothing to do with Islam? Really?
>
> Mohammed Bouyeri, born in Amsterdam of Moroccan parents, killed Theo
> van Gogh as he was cycling in Amsterdam on Nov. 2, 2004, shooting and
> stabbing before slashing his throat and pinning a note to his body
> with a knife. "I did what I did purely out my beliefs," he told judges
> while clutching a Koran. "I want you to know that I acted out of
> conviction and not that I took his life because he was Dutch or
> because I was Moroccan," but because he believed van Gogh insulted
> Islam in his film criticizing the treatment of Muslim women.
>
> So a peaceful Christian man is accused of having a dark, secret
> agenda, while a Muslim murderer who brags about his Islamic
> motivations has nothing to do with Islam? A Serbian doctor from the
> former Yugoslavia, where a Multicultural society recently collapsed in
> a horrific civil war, warned against the effects of unchecked mass
> immigration. Thomas Hylland Eriksen responded by chastising her for
> her "lack of visions."
>
> Apparently, your worth as an intellectual is measured in how grandiose
> your ideas are. The greater your visions, the more dazzling your
> intellect is and thus the greater prestige should be awarded to you.
> Whether those visions actually correspond to reality and human nature
> is of secondary importance. In fact, many a self-proclaimed
> intellectual will be downright offended by the petty considerations of
> his more pedestrian fellow citizens, concerned with what effects his
> ideas will have in real life. The fact that some people could get hurt
> from his ideas doesn't discourage him. Truly great advances for
> mankind can only be accomplished though sacrifices, preferably made by
> others than himself.
>
> Those who champion mass immigration take no self-criticism for the
> violence their policies have brought. On the contrary, they want more
> immigration. Following the release of a UN population report in 2007
> which indicated a global population increase of several billion people
> over the coming decades, Marie Simonsen, the political editor of
> Norwegian left-wing newspaper Dagbladet, which has spent decades
> denouncing the right-wing Progress Party for their "racist" policies
> of limiting mass immigration, wrote that it should be considered a
> universal human right for people everywhere to migrate wherever they
> want to. This would mean virtually certain annihilation for a tiny,
> wealthy and naive Scandinavian nation. Ms. Simonsen thus endorsed the
> gradual eradication of her own people, no doubt congratulating herself
> for her tolerance. Not a single word of protest was voiced by any
> other journalist to this statement.
>
> "Human rights" was a concept originally intended to ensure liberty.
> Now it's used to eradicate an entire civilization, in the name of
> tolerance and diversity, and the natives are specifically banned from
> protesting against this.
> Fjordman is a noted Norwegian blogger who has written for many
> conservative web sites. He used to have his own Fjordman Blog in the
> past, but it is no longer active.
>
>
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