Editorials

Calculated evil

The anti-Trump camp likes to present itself as the very definition of decency. In reality, it represents calculated evil — a systematic attempt to overthrow a democratically elected president.
The fake news media are exactly what Trump says they are. But it takes time and effort to expose them in a country where all the media move in lockstep.

The fight against online hate: Are death threats against Trump fair game?

While Norway’s broadcaster NRK and Digitalisation Minister Karianne Tung are sounding the alarm about online hate in private comment sections like Espen Teigen’s, death threats against Donald Trump have been allowed to stand unchallenged in editorially controlled media. Read the letter and questions sent to NRK, tabloid VG, broadsheet Aftenposten and Karianne Tung.

Iranian-born lecturer returns top teaching award in protest after colleague called Oct 7 massacre “Beautiful”

Senior Lecturer Alireza Ashrafian at NTNU has renounced his status as a meritorious teacher in protest against what he sees as the university’s failure to condemn Professor Bassam Hussein’s description of the October 7 massacre as “beautiful”. Ashrafian is originally from Iran. In November 2024, he was one of twelve academics awarded the status of meritorious teacher at NTNU. He is now relinquishing this honour.

“But the guy is still alive” – NRK’s flippant reaction to Trump assassination attempts

After the third assassination attempt on Trump, NRK’s team wandered Washington D.C. spreading conspiracy theories, while their USA correspondent quipped: “But the guy is still alive?” Hours before the shooting, major Norwegian papers claimed Butler was staged. Sixty percent of VG’s readers suspect something is off, and the papers host death threats against Trump on Facebook. Legacy media’s hate, lies and half-truths know no bounds.

This is what getting dragged into the war looks like

Denmark and Norway are in the process of being sucked into the war in Ukraine by allowing Ukrainian companies to produce weapons on their territory. This makes us legitimate targets and opens the door to Ukrainian corruption. The company Fire Point, which Prime Minister Støre was so enthusiastic about during his visit in February, is now deeply embroiled in a major corruption scandal involving Zelenskyy’s inner circle.

Muslim leaders from all over Europe meet in Kristiansand

Muslim leaders from large parts of Europe are gathering in Kristiansand from 1 to 5 May. The Muslim European Empowerment Programme (MEET), which aims to strengthen Muslims in Europe, was established in the southern Norwegian town in 2022. Among the topics is how Muslim communities can “strengthen Europe’s democratic culture”. The Islam Net imam from MF is participating. Sponsored by the Norwegian free speech foundation Fritt Ord.

Double standards in new Norway: Merciless towards Norwegians, submissive towards immigrants

If your name is Hussein, you are a professor who praises terror against Jews, and you are respected. If your name is Hansen, you are a political adviser who drunkenly blurts something stupid about Pakistanis, and you are cast out into the cold. In Norwegian public life, Norwegians are second-class citizens, while immigrants from Muslim countries are the new nobility.

Socialism gives us neither freedom nor prosperity

The Bible mentions in several places the rights that working people should have, such as just wages paid on time and the right to rest. The background is that we are all created in the image of God. The fact that socialism does not create the goods that Christianity and capitalism do, but instead creates want, is connected to its lack of divine standards for what is just.

“Euphoria” is a more subtle series than progressive critics can see

HBO’s “Euphoria” shows our own culture without filters. It paints a merciless picture of a society where old virtues like moderation, shame, honour, family and faith have been so ridiculed that few can even speak of them, let alone live by them. The result is not liberated happiness, but fentanyl, OnlyFans and dead naked bodies. The young who call themselves open and inclusive are in practice deeply intolerant of faith and tradition.

How do you destroy a civilization? With demoralisation and self-contempt

The KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov once explained how other countries can be undermined through demoralisation. Now we are here. A culture that no longer believes in itself can easily be colonised. The others don’t need any Trojan horses — everyone can see that we are building them ourselves. We are now smashing at breakneck speed a civilisation that took millennia to develop.