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Is Norway an inhuman, insane, nihilistic country?

Sep 15, 2013 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Let me make it quite plain; I will never live in Norway. They say one should never say never, but I am saying I will never live in Norway. Life has fantastic, unseen ironies, in that my only child may one day live in Norway. That is her choice. But from what I know of that country the past two years, I want nothing to do with it.
I have read a plethora of columns in which analysts and commentators around the world expressed absolute horror at the light jail sentence Anders Brevik got. This man blew up part of a Ministry killing eight innocent public employees. He then took a sub-machine gun, went to a summer camp and killed not nine or ten or fifteen teenagers but sixty-nine. It was one of modern civilization’s worst sociological crimes.
Is Norway a normal country? This man got 21 years in jail for one of the most unspeakable criminal acts since the Second World War. In 21 years he will be out walking the streets of Norway and living like any other Norwegian citizen. Now read this. Anders Brevik applied for admission to the most prestigious university in Norway and was accepted.
Books will be sent to him in prison from the University of Oslo. What was most nauseating was the defence of his admission by the rector of the university. This incredibly shameless man said that Brevik is welcomed because everyone has a right to education.You know there is a popular saying in Guyana – “who feels it, knows it.” If that University President had lost his kids in that mass shooting would he have said those mellifluous words about Brevik? And to think there were no protests in Norway against this university rector.
Ask the victims of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany and Rwanda. I would suggest you read an interesting column in the June 28, 2012 online edition of the New York Times on why Obama won a victory in the conservative Supreme Court over his health care Bill.
The writer suggested that the conservative Chief Justice sided with the four liberal Justices because in 2007, he suffered a seizure and was hospitalized overnight. He knew the value of health care. Yes, who feels it, knows it.
The University rector’s statement was one of the most sickening things I have ever read the past forty years. I was reading the Guardian online edition when I saw the University’s shameless support of this man’s application and my daughter was in front of me looking at the television. I turned to her and said; “Something is definitely wrong with this world.”
The organization to which Brevik belongs, the Progress Party, came in third in the election last week and now is part of the coalition that forms the Government in Norway.
The sixty-nine teenagers that Brevik murdered in the summer camp were part of a Labour Party outing for young members. Some of the survivors were on the party’s election list. Yet the Labour Party lost the poll.
The people of Norway turned their backs on the victims of the Labour Party and voted into power the entity that Brevik belongs to. The Progress Party is an extreme right wing, racist group that hates non-white people and Muslims and they are boastful in this attitude. Such a party is now part of the Government of Norway.
How do you comprehend this modern form of nihilism in one of the world’s richest countries?
Every night in last week, my wife and I saw a movie on Nazi Germany. One of the most interesting ones was a French film, “The Army of Crime” about Nazi-occupied France and the French resistance. The Nazis were brutal in trying to put down the French resistance and after each act of bestiality, my wife would say; “how could people be so cruel to each other.” I turned to her and said; “it could happen again.”
How do you as a human comprehend what is going on in Norway? Is it surreal? Is it real what is taking place in Norway or is our imagination deceiving us? I don’t believe in the death penalty and I am revolted at torture by state security, but Brevik needed to have some “nice treatment” that came from the American administration that preceded the Obama presidency.
How in God’s name can you give a mere 21-year sentence to a man who murdered 77 humans in the space of one hour, then accept him as a student at the most eminent university in the land? Why was Brevik treated so favourably in Norway and his party is now in power? At his trial, Brevik said he killed to protect Norway from multi-culturalism.
Remember the Jews and Hitler? It can happen again in this world!  Yes it can!

 

 

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