Saturday, December 15, 2012

On Not Being a Useful Idiot for the Radical Left

Our Norwegian correspondent The Observer sends this brief report on the NDL/SIOE rally that was held today in Oslo, plus some commentary about the “friendly fire” the protesters are taking from the armchair-general wing of the Norwegian Counterjihad.

Ummah Norway

Time to get up off the couch
By The Observer

It’s not really worth writing too much about the event. As predicted, the event only attracted around 40-50 individuals, most of them members of the two organizations. The rally could just as easily have been held at the headquarters of the NDL as a “members only” event.

Rune Hauge, the leader of the NDL, was correct when he stated in an interview earlier this year that Norwegians who are critical of Islam need to get up off the couch and become more actively involved in the fight against this evil ideology. It’s no good limiting oneself to writing indignant post and comments on the Internet. Sure, writing on the web has an impact, but at some point people need to get off their bums and actually start doing some constructive organizational work and make their voices heard, and demonstrating in a public area is a good start.

If ten thousand people had showed up at the event in Oslo on Saturday, and at similar events across the country in the future, the authorities and the MSM wouldn’t be able to simply brush them off any longer as ‘radical loons’ without public support. I’m pretty confident that there are hundreds of thousands of Norwegians who share the concerns of the NDL and SIOE, but their reluctance to demonstrate and take part in rallies is a mystery to me. There threat of violence will always hang over such events as an invisible glove, and, yes, it could have negative repercussions for some people’s careers, but that’s just the way it is.

How do people expect to stop the spread of Islam in Norway in the future if they’re not even willing to stand up to this undemocratic ideology today? Norwegian politicians are most definitely not going to stop it; they are the ones who got us in this mess in the first place by opening the doors for it. Unfortunately, the responsibility for halting the tidal wave of Islam falls upon the people who oppose it. It is as simple as that, and subsequently those people who at a great personal cost are willing to stand up as an example for others to follow should be commended and praised. They certainly shouldn’t be ridiculed and mocked, especially not by other Norwegians who are equally critical of this ideology, but who limit themselves in venting their frustration about Islam online.

I had a look at Document.no yesterday and I was saddened to see the editor of the website, Hans Rustad, belittling and lecturing those who dare to stick their necks out and stand up for something they believe in. These are principles that should be applauded, not derided. It is especially sad because Document.no is one of the biggest Islam-critical websites in Norway, and people listen to Hans Rustad.

I’ve translated some of Rustad’s poisonous remarks below:

When reading and watching NRK’s reports on the Norwegian Defense League and Stop The Islamisation of Europe, one is almost overcome by a claustrophobic anxiety. It is difficult to distinguish between NRK’s political grip and the activists’ simplicity. It takes two to tango.

But the activists are playing the cards that they have been dealt as effectively as possible. To demonstrate in a public area, and one where there is a large immigrant population, is a hopeless undertaking. In theory, NDL leader Rune Hauge’s idea to show that Grønland is also part of Norway has some validity. But one cannot ignore the consequences: that it is going to provoke the residents of the area and that opposing forces will mobilize. And among those opposing forces are people who feel that they have every right to resort to violence.

If the activists are serious about their commitment then they have to listen to the wishes of the people. People don’t accept confrontations provided that there is a specific issue that is of such importance that one simply can’t keep quiet about it. The fact that people failed to support them on Saturday in Grønland does not mean people don’t take these issues seriously. You don’t get people involved by scaring them away.

I would venture that Islam definitely qualifies as a ‘specific issue’ that has to be opposed in the most rigorous manner even if that includes the likelihood of getting physically attacked, because rest assured the rise of Islam in Norway will eventually result in violence and brutality, and it will be directed at those who are too cowardly to oppose it today, and their offspring. There’s no need to try to sugar-coat the inevitable.

Perhaps it would be a better idea, if Document.no and Hans Rustad are so concerned about the NDL/SIOE’s lack of oral skills and inadequacies in presenting views on national TV, to encourage people with those skills to join these organizations and not drive people away from them.

On previous occasions Hans Rustad has condescendingly described members of the EDL as unemployed hooligan thugs who are only interested in fighting and drinking. Is that also how he sees the people of the NDL and SIOE?

Are they not educated enough for him?

It would be even better if Rustad and the milieu around Document.no started organizing similar rallies across Oslo — and the rest of the country for that matter — on their own terms of course, and began getting the masses more involved in this fight. It’s no good criticising and belittling those who actually have taken the leap and who are willing to give it a go. Demonizing and ridiculing those who have the guts to stand up to Islam only proves that one is a useful idiot for the radical Left, who must be rubbing their hands in joy when they see the biggest Islam-critical website in Norway fronting their views in this particular matter.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

It seems that the dictator, "who shall not be named," took away Norwegians's will to fight 65 or so years ago, doesn't it?

Anonymous said...


"On previous occasions Hans Rustad has condescendingly described members of the EDL as unemployed hooligan thugs who are only interested in fighting and drinking."

A bad case of Progressive Social Elitism, a European sociopolitical shift from the historical indigenous class structures to a caste system where the white working class are the panchama (literally, the fifth).

Conservative political thinking in the U.K has been particularly susceptible to Progressive Social Elitism.


Jolie Rouge

dymphna said...

@Jolie Rouge -

I enjoy your comments and pov. Informative...this word, panchama, fits the situation quite well.

In the US, there is a whole substratum of poor whites who are shoved thru the school system without ever being expected to learn anything. It is worse in urban areas, for poor blacks. Government education is a public sector unionized sinecure for managers and administrators. Poor teachers cannot be fired.

In NYC the situation is so bad that there is a "rubber room" for the truly inept or damaging teachers. They are "employed" but they don't teach. Instead they go each day to The Room to sit and while away the hours till retirement.

In other words, we have patches of Greece here already.

Our rural county is too poor to permit such nonsense. And not unionized, either, though it is burdened with many federal rules and some kids fall through the cracks to become, as you put it, "panchama".

However, it differs from Europe in that many of them work or live off their families. And the making of crystal meth and such is employment of a kind...

Anonymous said...

Sadly, most Norwegians are far too cowardly and/or apathetic to put up any formal resistance to Islamization. The author notes that the rise of Islam in Norway 'could' lead to violence and brutality: in fact, over the past three decades, Muslims in Norway have murdered approximately 50 Norwegians, and have beaten, robbed, and raped many thousands more. Norwegian Muslims are also heavily involved in narcotics smuggling and social benefit- and tax fraud. Still, the average Norwegian just sits in front of his TV and ignores it, unless it's to condemn or ridicule those who dare to mention the problem and try to do something about it.

I have had some debates with the people behind Document.no. My impression of them, further confirmed by this article, is that they are quite contemptuous of the individuals and groups who are doing any active work to limit islamic influences, both in Norway and abroad. One of them (not Rustad) told me that his intent was to be a sort of conduit for information that could bring about change, without personally taking action of any kind to effect this change. This attitude seems to be prevalent with his colleagues as well.

I have been involved in Norway's anti-islamization movement for a few years, but am starting to lose interest. While it is now actually possible in the public sphere to mention the negative effects associated with Islamization and Muslim immigrants –which was definitely not the case five years ago – there is still no authentic broad-based desire to effect change, and those opposed to islamization and mass muslim immigration continue to be marginalized and ridiculed. Norwegians only have to look at the on-going nightmare of murder, rape, and gangs that muslim immigration has inflicted upon Sweden to see their own future, but they just don't care. Neither are any of the main Norwegian political parties willing to take effective steps.

I'm starting to think that Norwegians deserve what they get. I'm tired of having my heart broken over and over again by people who just don't give a damn.

Anonymous said...

@dymphna,

:-)

The long march through the institutions, the (teachers) professional "rubber room" associations turned out to be far more potent and subversive than the (janitors)coalface trade unions.


Jolie Rouge