We all know who the intolerant people among us are. We know who cannot tolerate freedom of expression, who demands censorship, and who demonises everyone who holds opinions different from their own.
This is not going to end by itself. Why should it, when their methods work? If the demonisation is to stop, those of us on the other side must stop being so afraid of awkwardness, ugly labels and people who shout the loudest.
The time has come to become a little tougher
The West has been marked by a collective sense of guilt following both the Second World War and the colonial era. We have been so afraid of repeating history that we have handed the power to define reality to people who would not merely have repeated it, but would gladly have gone much further.
In the West, we live somewhat according to the Cardamom Law (Kardemommeloven): “One shall not bother others, one shall be kind and nice, and otherwise one may do as one pleases.” That works perfectly well so long as everyone shares the same philosophy of life. But we know that is not the case.
Nevertheless, we have behaved as though everyone deep down wants the same things we do. That everyone dreams of democracy, freedom of expression, equality and individual liberty. That all conflicts are caused by misunderstandings that can be resolved through more dialogue, more understanding and a few extra billions for an integration project.
Here I am not speaking only about the many millions of non-Western immigrants that Europe has admitted. I am speaking just as much about the political left. About the Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet). About the climate fanatics. About the alphabet people and the entire Pride ideology.
All of them have gained ground by marketing themselves as “the tolerant” and “the kind”, those who supposedly appreciate the value of “diversity”. At the same time, they have demonised their political opponents, especially those on the right. They have used every trick in the book, and invented a few new ones along the way.
Oslo, 26 February 2025.
Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre (Labour Party) visited the Rabita Mosque in Oslo on Wednesday. There, the Prime Minister met a family from Gaza to hear how they are experiencing the situation in the Middle East. From left: Nor Alzayegh, Hadeel Alzayegh, Ezzedeen Alzayegh, Wafaa Alzayegh and Salame Alzayegh.
Photo: Javad Parsa / NTB
Norwegian conflict avoidance
There is something profoundly Western, and perhaps especially Norwegian, about this aversion to conflict. We are so concerned with maintaining a “pleasant atmosphere” that we allow the loudest people to dominate every room.
We allow our cousin to sit at the dinner table lecturing the entire family about climate change while complaining that too much meat is being served. We allow our aunt to weep over the “poor immigrants”. We allow our friend to don a Palestinian scarf and support Hamas, even though we know perfectly well the outcry there would be if someone pointed out what Hamas actually is.
It is about all the small situations in which people remain silent because they cannot be bothered with unpleasantness. I am not saying that one should start an argument at every family gathering, but we must at least stop allowing them to carry on unchallenged.
Imagine if the terrorist had been a Christian
Imagine if the terrorist attack on the Pride celebration in Berlin had been carried out by a Christian fundamentalist. Priests and pastors across Europe would have been put on the spot, Christian organisations would have been required to provide answers, and all Christian communities would have been asked to “confront the attitudes within their own ranks“. No one would have got away with saying that Christianity is really about love.
When the terrorist is an Islamist, the opposite happens. Then the most important thing is to emphasise that the act has nothing to do with Islam. The media find Muslims who say they are “deeply saddened”, and before the blood has dried, the story becomes about “racism”, “rising anti-Muslim hostility” and the danger that someone might ask uncomfortable questions.
If we attempt to hold the country’s imams and Muslim communities accountable, opinion pieces immediately appear about “isolated incidents” and Muslims who feel they are being unfairly suspected.
They know that being loud works. If they shout “racism” loudly enough, politicians, the media and ordinary people become afraid to engage in the debate. That is how they have been allowed to carry on for so long. But they should no longer be allowed to get away with it.
The imams must be put on the spot. Put them on live television, and by all means avoid Lilla Sølhusvik and the rest of NRK’s washed-up presenters. Ask them what they think about homosexuality, apostasy, blasphemy and women’s rights. Do not let them get away with rehearsed phrases about Islam meaning peace and love. We know exactly what taqiyya entails.
The vehicle used to ram into a crowd at the Pride March is removed in Berlin, Sunday, 26 July 2026. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
“Gays for Gaza” Meets Reality
For a long time, the most ardent advocates of Pride ideology in particular have believed that Muslims are their allies. They have uncritically bought the lie they have been sold and imagined that it is conservative Christians whom they should fear.
The gay author Bruce Bawer once moved from the United States to Europe, partly to escape conservative Christian views on homosexuality. Here he quickly discovered that the Islamists were far worse. Conservative Christians might refuse to let him marry his partner. The Islamists would kill him.
Under the Taliban in Afghanistan, men accused of homosexuality were placed in a pit before a wall was toppled onto them. That is quite a different threat from a conservative Christian who refuses to marry you in church.
The contradiction inherent in slogans such as “Gays for Gaza” and “Queers for Palestine” is difficult to ignore after Abdul Ballout attacked the Pride celebration in Berlin. We have seen the same thing here at home. First through the terrorist attack on London Pub, and later when a gay couple were subjected to a brutal knife attack at Tjuvholmen.
Yet large sections of the political left continue to behave as though the greatest threat to homosexuals is a Norwegian father of young children who does not want drag shows in nursery schools.
Homosexuals Are Turning to the Right
But not all homosexuals any longer allow themselves to be represented by the Pride movement. Both in France and Germany, we are seeing more homosexuals turn towards the political right. Before the German election in 2025, AfD received 27.9 per cent in a poll among around 60,500 users of the gay dating platform Romeo. The poll was not representative of all gay Germans, but the result was so clear that it caused panic within parts of the Pride movement.
The political right has also gained steadily increasing support among homosexuals in France. Those homosexuals who vote for the right have understood that their sexual orientation does not oblige them to support mass immigration, gender ideology and Palestinian activists who defend Hamas. They also know what awaits them if Islam gains ever greater power in Europe, and that it is entirely possible to defend the right of homosexuals to live freely without endorsing the entire Pride ideology.
66,872 “Isolated Incidents”
When it comes to Islamist terrorism, we long ago passed the point where the phrase “isolated incident” can be taken seriously. We must stop accepting that they continue to describe it in those terms. By April 2024, the French think tank Fondapol had already recorded 66,872 Islamist terrorist attacks worldwide since 1979. The jihadists had killed at least 249,941 people. Since then, the figure has continued to rise.
We are now seeing glimpses of even the Labour Party and parts of the political left saying that “radical Islamism” has no place in the West. But all Islamism is radical. Islamism is political Islam, meaning that the whole of society is subordinated to Islam. There is no moderate version of it.
Nor does the problem stop with those who openly describe themselves as Islamists. Islam’s view of freedom of expression, homosexuality, women, apostasy and the relationship between religion and the state is fundamentally incompatible with Western values. We have been thoroughly warned. Yet despite the truly appalling developments across Europe, many still choose to turn a deaf ear.
On 13 November 2015, Paris was struck by a series of terrorist attacks. The terrorists attacked six locations, killing 130 people. Some time later, several French newspapers stopped identifying terrorists. Archive photo: Jacques Brinon / AP / NTB
Europe Is Turning
Across Europe, parties that want to halt mass immigration and preserve their countries are growing. People have had enough of being told that freedom of expression must give way every time a religious fanatic feels offended.
We are, of course, lagging behind in Norway because the Labour Party and the media have been free to brand everyone to the right of the Conservative Party as extremists. Far too many have been, and still are, afraid of the labels. They have been afraid of being called racists, Islamophobes, transphobes, climate change deniers, or whatever the political left happens to invent this week.
It is time to stop caring so much if someone gets upset.
Not One Millimetre More
They have had decades of dialogue, understanding, special treatment and billions of taxpayers’ money. They have prioritised people who hate us while our elderly are deprioritised, schools are closed and some of our most important wealth creators are driven out of the country. In return, we have received more censorship, more crime, more segregation, more demands and less respect for the society that took them in.
They may write as many opinion pieces as they like, shout about racism and tell us how upset they are. We shall nevertheless neither bend nor give them a single millimetre more. They have exhausted all goodwill. As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
We have tolerated the intolerant for long enough.