This summer has brought no shortage of tragic news about women who have been mutilated and murdered, some by their partners. Such crimes have occurred throughout history and will no doubt continue to occur, but the statistics are clear: certain groups are more violent than others, and commit certain forms of violence and abuse more frequently than others. It is no secret which groups are being referred to. Gad Saad’s book Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind, which Document will soon publish in Norwegian, summarises the problem in its very title: in our attempts to show empathy, we instead end up being slaughtered.

This summer it is above all the fate of Maren Sømme that has shocked us here in Norway. How could a previously violence-convicted Afghan man, who had been ordered deported, nevertheless be allowed to remain in Norway, and even escape police attention after being reported only a few weeks earlier? Why did the hospital allow Maren, a 30-year-old woman from Jæren, to return directly to the violent man who had caused her hospitalisation? The brutal murder has received considerable attention, but on the political left it is, of course, about men in general – the perpetrator’s ethnicity and cultural background must, naturally, not be mentioned. And those who do mention it, such as our own journalists Espen Teigen and Jannicke Almenning, are, of course, to be demonised by the tolerant left, whose tolerance extends only to its own preferred causes. In this way they attempt to redirect the debate towards “racism”, “hatred”, “polarisation” and “politicisation”, whereas in reality it is their own role that ought to be subjected to scrutiny.

The Left prevents Document journalists from taking part in memorial gathering of murder victim

Sadly, Maren is not the only woman to have met a horrific death at the hands of men who have immigrated to the West. Another Afghan was responsible for the death of Elisabeth Ross, this time in Greece. Ross, 38, was from Edinburgh and had travelled to Athens to help refugees. It remains unclear exactly how she came into contact with her killer, but through her work as an aid worker she was in regular contact with refugees and homeless people. The 26-year-old murderer was identified after police analysed CCTV footage, and his girlfriend handed money she believed had belonged to Ross over to the police. He had also used Ross’s mobile phone to send uncharacteristic messages to her friends and family, raising suspicions that something criminal had happened to her. She was found dismembered and stuffed into a suitcase. Ross was a Christian and is said to have tried to convert her killer’s girlfriend to Christianity.

Travelled to Greece to help migrants – Ended up dead in a suitcase

Last month, the American woman Jamey Carney (43) was murdered by her Jordanian boyfriend, who had sought asylum in Ireland. After the murder, he immediately fled back to Jordan. It has now emerged that Carney had recently inherited a substantial sum from her father. Carney was strangled and struck on the head with a heavy toilet cistern lid. She had been outspoken in her political belief that immigration to Ireland and other Western countries was a positive thing. Carney had told a friend that Ahmad Al-Saqar, as her boyfriend was called, had asked her for five thousand euros a week before she was killed. He had also told his Muslim friends that the two had married in a mosque. Carney had moved from the United States to Killarney in Ireland five years earlier and was known for her generosity. She was also a passionate supporter of Palestine and met Al-Saqar at a demonstration in support of Gaza.

These three tragedies have one thing in common: they were committed by men from highly patriarchal, medieval cultures in the Middle East, and they could have been avoided. None of these men were genuine refugees, but opportunists. They sought a better life with greater opportunities than those available in their own countries – countries marked by widespread poverty, where women and minorities enjoy very few rights – but instead of embracing the culture of the countries to which they came, they brought with them their medieval view of women and their violent tendencies.

Dying to Be Kind

The murders also illustrate the consequences of the distorted view of foreign cultures with which younger generations of women have grown up. We have been taught to treat all people as though they are inherently good; there are no cultural differences between Ola and Ahmed. “An angel full of innocence and goodness” was how Elisabeth Ross’s friends described her; she was also known as Lisa. An angel full of innocence and goodness. And it is precisely this goodness that many – though certainly not all – non-Western men exploit. They see Western women as easy prey. Their own women are, of course, also exploited, abused and killed, but from childhood they are taught to fear men: they wear the hijab, do not walk alone, and remain under the close supervision of their fathers and brothers (although these, too, may pose a danger to them, as honour-based violence and honour killings demonstrate). We modern Western women are accustomed to standing on an equal footing with men – to dressing as we please, walking home at night without fear, working alongside them, or even supervising them in the workplace. It is a profound cultural clash that we are now witnessing.

DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion – has done us women no favours in the encounter between our Western liberal culture and the authoritarian, woman-hostile culture that many men from the Middle East and Africa bring with them. According to DEI, which has all but replaced our Christian values, men such as Al-Saqar, the Afghan migrant in Greece, and Nawid Bayan, who is charged with the murder of Sømme, are victims: they are minorities (for the time being) in our Western societies and are therefore regarded as oppressed.

We must therefore begin to speak honestly about the state of affairs. As early as 2009, it was clear that certain forms of violence were not merely overrepresented among non-Western immigrants, but almost entirely dominated by them. In an article published by Aftenposten in 2009, we read:

“Figures from the Oslo Police Violence and Sexual Offences Unit show that all 41 reported stranger rapes during the years 2006–2008 involved a non-Western perpetrator. ‘The perpetrators are relatively young men who come from other countries. They are often asylum seekers and frequently come from traumatised countries or countries with a completely different view of women than we have in Norway,’ said Hanne Kristin Rohde, head of the Oslo Police Violence and Sexual Offences Unit.”

We already knew this then, yet our elected representatives and public authorities still considered it worthwhile to continue mass immigration precisely from non-Western, “traumatised” countries whose view of women collides with that of Norway. Similar statistics exist in other countries as well. It is not only women who suffer when we are assaulted and, in the worst cases, killed. Families, friends and local communities are left to live with the loss of mothers, friends, daughters and colleagues.

The velvet gloves must come off. We cannot afford to lose more women because, as a society, we have decided to erase ourselves in favour of newly arrived immigrants who have no interest in becoming part of, or respecting, the societies that Norwegians, Britons, Irish people and Greeks have built over centuries. The apologists for mass immigration, Islam and the cultures it produces must be held accountable for what they have permitted. Young girls and women must protect themselves until society as a whole realises that they are in danger and takes the necessary steps to make life safe for women once again. I myself grew up during the 1980s and 1990s and benefited from freedoms that future generations of women are unlikely to enjoy. We were taught to be sensible, not naïve, because men have always posed a certain danger to women in some situations, but Norwegian men are generally peaceful and respectful towards women. Now an entirely new reality has emerged, a reality that many women still have not fully grasped. May the tragic murders of Jamey, Lisa and Maren serve as a wake-up call to us all.