This is a commentary and expresses the author’s own views.
In 2018, wrote in Klassekampen that people simply had to get used to her loud voice, and that she would never allow herself to be silenced. She has most definitely kept that promise. She is the woman who sees racism in every nook and cranny of our country.
The immigrant from Somalia ought to learn from the legendary actor Morgan Freeman. When Mike Wallace from “60 Minutes” asked him how we could get rid of racism, Freeman replied: “We stop talking about it.”
Snow-white Norway is so unfair and nauseating
Jirde Ali has done the opposite throughout her public career. She came from Somalia to Bodø as a seven-year-old in 2005. Only ten years later, she was given a platform in Aftenposten to express her contempt for our society. At the time, she was only 17 years old.
After a summer trip to London, she wrote that it was outrageous that Norwegian women’s magazines, advertisements, and public institutions were snow-white. She believed that it was not enough for immigrants to adapt, but that integration had to be a two-way process.
Screenshot, Aftenposten.
We Norwegians must adapt to her, in other words. And if there is one thing that is true, it is precisely that the Norwegian people have done exactly that for decades.
Jirde Ali applauded London because it continually made her stop in front of large posters that were so far removed from the snow-white faces she had become accustomed to in Norway. The girl who had lived in Norway for only ten years wrote:
There is so much in today’s society that only satisfies one group, and it is so unfair and nauseating to witness. How am I supposed to rise and grow when my shoots are cast aside before they have had a chance to grow?
The contribution in Aftenposten’s Si ;D section set the tone for everything she has written and expressed since. Norway gave her security, education, opportunities, and a national platform, but from the very beginning she has portrayed the country as systematically racist and exclusionary.
Today she is an award-winning author, poet, literary critic, and playwright. As an immigrant with brown skin and racism as her principal theme, she is automatically welcomed into “good society”. There she functions as a useful instrument serving two purposes. She showcases their moral superiority while simultaneously functioning as an effective weapon against the Progress Party and everyone else who does not share their views.
Norway’s answer to Ilhan Omar
Jirde Ali bears a strong resemblance to Ilhan Omar, another Somali refugee who has been granted enormous opportunities in the West, yet who appears permanently dissatisfied with her new home. Omar arrived in the United States as a refugee with her family in 1995 and now occupies the highest office an immigrant can attain in the country.
Yet she does nothing but blacken the country, its people, and everything they stand for. That is precisely why many Americans, who are normally very welcoming towards immigrants, have had enough of people like Ilhan Omar.
The same can be said of Sumaya Jirde Ali. Many of us Norwegians are simply tired of being labelled racists and xenophobes by immigrants who have received opportunities that many people can only dream of.
And it is not racist to say this. I would gladly have voted for the Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali for Congress, or for Cemal Knutsen Yücel for the Storting. It is precisely such integrated, courageous, and grateful voices that Norway and the United States need.
But in the Islamic ideology that Jirde Ali defends, people such as Ayaan and Cemal risk the death penalty for having left Islam. Would she defend their right to criticise Islam and break with the culture from which she herself originates? Or would she remain silent, as she does about so much else that does not fit into the victim narrative?
Racism cuts both ways, Jirde Ali
I do not doubt that Jirde Ali has experienced racism. Most of us have experienced various forms of discrimination or unfairness in life. And even though we white people are not permitted to cry racism, anti-white racism is a reality, and it is widespread.
When Sumaya Jirde Ali year after year complains about snow-white Norway, and apparently wishes to change or reduce the Norwegian majority population, she is an anti-white racist.
Her own people number around 40 million worldwide, and there are more than two billion Muslims. Yet it is our people that she constantly wants less of in order to achieve greater diversity. With such an attitude, she will encounter resistance, which she naturally interprets as pure and simple racism.
The “Backward Step Party’s” selective moral alarm
Jirde Ali has 13,000 followers on Facebook and has recently written extensive commentaries on two cases that have dominated the headlines in recent times: the Hårek Hansen case and the assault on the 17-year-old blue-russ (blåruss) in Bergen on Constitution Day, 17 May.
Both commentaries revolve around the Progress Party, which she consistently refers to as the “Backward Step Party” (Bakskrittspartiet). Once again, she reveals her true self, and not least how deeply she despises the Progress Party, and indirectly more than 30 per cent of the Norwegian electorate.
Following the brutal attack on the 17-year-old in Bergen on 17 May, she accused the Progress Party of “selective moral alarm”. She claims that the Progress Party and Jon Helgheim are quick to turn violence committed by minorities into questions of culture, immigration, and communities, but treat white people who commit violence against minorities as isolated individual acts.
Jirde Ali finds it quite impressive how many conclusions Helgheim draws after first admitting that he does not know much about the background to the attack in Bergen. And it is precisely here that the problem lies, she believes:
Helgheim is not merely writing about a specific act of violence. He is using a specific act of violence to cast suspicion on entire groups. It is no longer certain youths, in a certain street, on a certain evening, who are to be investigated for a certain act. Suddenly the case is about “Africa, Asia and the Middle East”. About “immigrant communities”. About “clan culture”. About “the homeland”. About an entire category of people who are made responsible for what a few have done.
Does Jirde Ali not understand that this is exactly what she herself has done ever since she set foot on Norwegian soil? For her, it has always been “us versus them”. She has generalised, cast suspicion upon, and collectively judged an entire country as systematically racist. The nauseating snow-white Norway, where she can stand on a stage and say “fuck the police” and “fuck Sylvi Listhaug” without blinking.
And while Jirde Ali is occupied with searching high and low for racism, the pattern to which Helgheim points is real. The fact is that gangs with immigrant backgrounds, particularly from parts of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, attack, rob, and beat up solitary Norwegian boys.
Helgheim referred to statistics from Oslo District Court in 2021 showing that in robberies involving youths under the age of 18, it is almost exclusively ethnically Norwegian boys who are the victims. The principal pattern is groups with minority backgrounds robbing one or two Norwegian boys of roughly the same age. This sometimes occurs through threats involving knives or machetes, and the typical spoils are expensive jackets, clothes, belts, and AirPods.
And since Jirde Ali is from Somalia, it is worth mentioning that young Somali men in Oslo top the list of criminal charges: Per 1,000 inhabitants, men aged between 15 and 24 with a Somali background accounted for 2,119 charges during the period 2020 to 2023. For the remainder of Oslo’s residents, the corresponding figure is 209.
Yet this is the pattern that Jirde Ali refuses to see or discuss when she demands individual responsibility and calls every generalisation racism.
A self-fulfilling prophecy of racism
The Progress Party does the opposite when it suits them, Jirde Ali claims. She does the same herself.
She writes that human beings are not determined by heredity, culture, skin colour, religion, or origin, and that even those who commit serious, criminal, and reprehensible acts should still be treated as responsible individuals, not as representatives of an entire group.
Yet she has no problem doing precisely that when it comes to “us white people” and our youth. For what she calls “selective moral alarm” in the Progress Party is, in reality, that Jon Helgheim does not wish to speak about “Norwegian alcohol culture, aggressive and sexist russ culture, class, masculinity, parental responsibility, violence among young people in general, or society’s failure in prevention.”
Jirde Ali also hijacks this story and turns it into her own self-fulfilling prophecy of racism. That a 17-year-old Norwegian boy was beaten up by a gang sharing her own background is not the central problem for her. What she cannot tolerate is the truth, and that people such as Jon Helgheim dared to say aloud what is actually happening.
And had she been paying attention, she would have seen that we have been discussing Norwegian alcohol culture, youth drinking, russ culture, and parental responsibility for years. There has never been any shortage of discussion surrounding these issues among the snow-white population.
What has, by contrast, been almost entirely absent is an honest conversation about the problems within her own culture: honour-based violence, the oppression of women, clan culture, and the Islamist doctrine that glorifies violence and submission.
Jirde Ali concludes her lengthy and condemnatory commentary with the following message:
And if violence only becomes politically interesting when the perpetrator can be used to confirm the Backward Step Party’s narrative about immigration, then it is not primarily about violence. Then it is about whom this political party needs us to be afraid of.
Thus, Jirde Ali uses the entire brutal episode of violence against the 17-year-old boy as a tool for her own agenda. She completely ignores both facts, statistics, and court reports demonstrating real patterns, simply in order to paint the Progress Party as racists and portray herself and her people as victims.
Two billion eternal victims, but never responsibility
Jirde Ali paints the same picture of the Progress Party and large parts of Norway in her column about Hårek Hansen in Filter Nyheter, entitled “Racism is particularly brutal when it is directed not only at those of us who are here, but at those who do not yet exist.”
She takes one private drunken remark by Hårek Hansen and uses it to place the entire Progress Party, and indirectly hundreds of thousands of Norwegian voters, beneath a single racist umbrella. One inappropriate statement becomes, for her, proof that the Progress Party wishes to determine who shall exist in Norway’s future.
But Hårek Hansen’s ideas are neither new nor do they come from nowhere, Jirde Ali claims. She then provides us with a lengthy history lesson concerning the party’s allegedly racist culture, in which Muslims are the greatest victims. Both Kent Andersen and Espen Teigen are granted the honour of participating in this story, which began with the Mustafa letter in 1987 and continued through “stealth Islamisation” in 2009.
Since that time, the Muslim presence in Norway has repeatedly been portrayed as a threat. This forms part of a political pattern that the Progress Party has had many opportunities to confront, Jirde Ali believes. The examples are numerous:
Per-Willy Amundsen’s statement that “Arabs kill people, that is what you do”, Christian Tybring-Gjedde and Kent Andersen’s column in which they wrote that they do not believe in multicultural Norway and warned that Norwegian culture is being replaced, the blackface sketch “the Muslim” at a Progress Party meeting in 2015, in which a mayoral candidate played a Muslim, broken-speaking wife-beater, and Espen Teigen’s statement earlier this year that he prefers dogs to Muslims.
Impressive. She truly had to dig deep to find five meaningless examples from the history of the Progress Party dating all the way back to 1987. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of her own people have been killed by warlords, Al-Shabaab terrorists, and Somali government forces since the 1980s. And since 1979, the “religion” she follows has been responsible for more than 66,872 Islamist terrorist attacks worldwide, which have cost at least 249,941 people their lives.
Nothing to see here. Let us instead talk about racist Norway.
According to Jirde Ali, all these cases form part of a “clear pattern demonstrating a political culture in which minorities, and Muslims in particular, are repeatedly made into a problem from which Norway must be protected”.
And that is, of course, not true. Most Norwegians are not afraid of minorities in general. But we wish to be protected from those who create problems and commit crime. And unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of this comes from the Muslim immigrant population. Much of the fear also concerns Islam. Quite simply, we do not want it in Norway.
They must get used to our loud voice
Jirde Ali has the audacity to claim that the majority population “is allowed to live as individuals, with mistakes, weaknesses, choices, and lives that are not immediately made into expressions of an entire group”. This demonstrates her complete lack of empathy for the many marginalised Norwegians who actually suffer in everyday life.
Jirde Ali demands that the Progress Party confront its alleged racist history, while she herself refuses to address the countless problems and challenges among her own people.
This is the same woman who, in 2016, demanded that the snow-white Norwegian society be changed in order to reflect her identity and keep her satisfied, while today she refuses to allow Norwegians to speak openly about the brutal attack that took place on our Constitution Day.
When we pause for a moment and reflect upon how she and others like her have for decades been celebrated for denigrating everything we stand for, both as a country and as a people, it becomes both absurd and provocative. Yet we are expected to receive all this criticism with gratitude and silence.
Something changed after 17 May this year. We see an unrest and an anger unlike anything we have witnessed before, a justified frustration at how unfair our country has become. We shall no longer put up with it. We Norwegians have had enough now.
Those who own the discourse in Norway should simply get used to the fact that it is now our turn to use our loud voice. We refuse to allow ourselves to be silenced. Racism exists, but not of the kind that the Left invents and uses against us. They should take Morgan Freeman’s words to heart.