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I stumbled across an article during lunch today that made me rage so hard I couldn't focus on work for the rest of the day. I had a very physical reaction to the article, and it sickens me that there are people in power with these attitudes in Norway.
This, to me, represents everything that's wrong with the world.
The article is in Norwegian, but I'm linking a Google translated version so you can get the gist of the original text.
The Christian Democratic Party in Sarpsborg (a municipality and city in the south-eastern part of Norway) held an open meeting where they invited a man called Per Haakonsen to give a speech on antisemitism in Norway. In this speech he somehow manages to link an oil rig accident that happened back in 1980 (123 people killed) and the recent massacre at Utøya (77 people killed) with Norway's relationship to Israel. He points out that the oil rig accident happened shortly after Norway refused to sell oil to Israel, and claims that the recent massacre at Utøya could be viewed in light of the ongoing bad relationship between the two countries. He then asks: Could these events have been avoided if our relationship with Israel was better?
This man legitimately believes that the massacre at Utøya was a warning from God that we need to run the country according to "God's plan", otherwise even worse things might happen. And Inger Marit Sverresen, the leader of Sarpsborg's fraction of the Christian Democratic Party, agrees!
The ignorance and disrespect is layered on so thick, I wish someone could take both of these people and send them back to school. Sverresen's only given reason for believing what Haakonsen says?
Haakonsen has studied this. He's well educated and has a lot of knowledge on the matter. When someone like him presents these kinds of warnings I think we should look at the facts, and consider the possibility that he's right - not simply report on how terrible it is.
Someone seriously needs to teach her something about being critical of sources. Oh, he's studied at University you say? Well then everything he says must be true, obviously. How is it possible for someone as naive as this to be leader of a political party? Religious ties or not, I thought we knew better.
I shrugged off Glenn Beck when he compared Utøya to a Hitler youth camp, because Glenn Beck is a joke, and how could you ever expect him to understand how Norwegian youth politics work. But this, this is not okay.
Source article (Google translated from Norwegian).
ETA: a link to an article on the same subject, but at a site not polluted by annoying ads
NRK (Google translated from Norwegian)
This, to me, represents everything that's wrong with the world.
The article is in Norwegian, but I'm linking a Google translated version so you can get the gist of the original text.
The Christian Democratic Party in Sarpsborg (a municipality and city in the south-eastern part of Norway) held an open meeting where they invited a man called Per Haakonsen to give a speech on antisemitism in Norway. In this speech he somehow manages to link an oil rig accident that happened back in 1980 (123 people killed) and the recent massacre at Utøya (77 people killed) with Norway's relationship to Israel. He points out that the oil rig accident happened shortly after Norway refused to sell oil to Israel, and claims that the recent massacre at Utøya could be viewed in light of the ongoing bad relationship between the two countries. He then asks: Could these events have been avoided if our relationship with Israel was better?
This man legitimately believes that the massacre at Utøya was a warning from God that we need to run the country according to "God's plan", otherwise even worse things might happen. And Inger Marit Sverresen, the leader of Sarpsborg's fraction of the Christian Democratic Party, agrees!
The ignorance and disrespect is layered on so thick, I wish someone could take both of these people and send them back to school. Sverresen's only given reason for believing what Haakonsen says?
Haakonsen has studied this. He's well educated and has a lot of knowledge on the matter. When someone like him presents these kinds of warnings I think we should look at the facts, and consider the possibility that he's right - not simply report on how terrible it is.
Someone seriously needs to teach her something about being critical of sources. Oh, he's studied at University you say? Well then everything he says must be true, obviously. How is it possible for someone as naive as this to be leader of a political party? Religious ties or not, I thought we knew better.
I shrugged off Glenn Beck when he compared Utøya to a Hitler youth camp, because Glenn Beck is a joke, and how could you ever expect him to understand how Norwegian youth politics work. But this, this is not okay.
Source article (Google translated from Norwegian).
ETA: a link to an article on the same subject, but at a site not polluted by annoying ads
NRK (Google translated from Norwegian)