Time offers us a chalice, and to be real people in a real world, we must share it and drink it. The bitterness is the taste of truth. History is to the Western man something fundamental, ever since Herodotus. The chronicles of the past are more than just facts, a recording. Historical truth is inseparable […]
Sidsel Wold has been Middle Eastern-correspondent for the state broadcaster NRK for many years. She is currently on leave, writing a book about her years as a reporter, mainly from Israel and the Palestinian territories. Wold has become an irritant to many people who are fed up with years of anti-Israeli propaganda from a public […]
Israel has banned Mads Gilbert from entering Gaza for an indefinite periode of time citing security reasons. Norwegian media are up in arms. They have made Gilbert a national icon. This fact speaks volumes about a gradual shift in the political landscape in Norway that have elevated a hardcore activist to the position of national […]
Imran Firasat’s expulsion from Span to Indonesia was upheld by a Spanish court 27th of October. If Indonesia within 40 days give assurances that he will not be sentenced to death, he will be expelled. Firasat writes from prison that he fears for his life and asks the world to react.
Let there be no doubt. A third intifada will be different from the other two. It will be jihad. The West should stop pretending that it doesn’t understand. The Jews already know. In order to unleash the Palestinian wrath, one must pretend that the Jews are about to trample on the holiness of the Temple […]
Two reporters from the Washington Post, Anthony Faiola and Souad Mekhennet, wanted to write an article on how Muslims fare in today’s Europa, in the shadow on radicalization and the war on ISIS. But instead of delving into a difficult subject, they preferred to play the victim-card: Muslims are subject to a growing animosity and […]
In year 2005, Jermaine Walker, a Dutch islamist, while praising Mohammed Bouyeri’s murderous assault on filmproducer Theo van Gogh, said to journalists: «It was good … who dares to talk dirty about Islam now? No one!» This is an example of the Islamic mentality and shows how Muslims intimidate modern and free societies by killing […]
We often see dramatic words being used in the Israeli-Palestine conflict about people – and children – getting killed – even though many – if not most – are accidental. It seems people today do not remember – or realize – that in war accidents do happen. They happen – almost like a force of nature.
Somewhere in the early 4th century, 301 AD onwards, the roman emperor Diocletian tried to solve his problems with inflation. He ended up skipping money altogether. Instead he collected taxes in goods and services. But to make future “income” predictable he had to make sure no-one could change their profession to something “easier”. “Diocletian restricted […]
The wellknown islam-critic Imran Firasat (36) was Monaday afternoon put on a plane and sent back to Spain. Firasat came to Norway July 8th, and hoped to apply for asylum. Instead he was put in prison, in the very same wing where the notorious mullah Krekar is sitting. But while Krekar can enjoy the right […]
