Editorials

Radical Islam Net imam hired by Norway’s former conservative seminary – Embraced by academia

Since Document revealed on 7 March that an imam from the radical Islamist group Islam Net was hired as a researcher at Norway’s former conservative seminary, media coverage has exploded. One would have expected strong criticism of this historic theological school — conservative for over a century — employing an imam from one of Norway’s most extreme Islamic environments. Instead, the opposite happened.

Man is a frail, partially blind creature under a restless sky

Odd Nerdrum’s paintings show man embedded in an order he has not created. Instead of staging the sovereignty of the liberal individual, he reveals that humans confront something older and more inscrutable than themselves: earth, sky, time, guilt, fate, and tragedy. Nerdrum paints what our age prefers to explain away. Truth appears as sudden revelations — pictorial shocks that cannot be explained, only endured.

The Age of Predators

The Italian political scientist Giuliano Da Empoli teaches political propaganda at Sciences Po in Paris. He purports to solve the riddle of our time: our societies are being taken over by technology giants who seek to eliminate the old elite that stood for order and regularity. Empoli holds Trump in contempt, comparing him to the Borgias of the Renaissance: ruthless men of action. Contempt for Americans is soon the only thing well-educated Europeans have left—a meagre consolation on the way down.

Pope Leo has become a political football

If the Pope does not understand that some are trying to use him in a political game directed against the US president, it is not easy to help him. He appears to be walking straight into the trap and is using words and expressions associated with the left and woke ideology. Marxists are experts at using terms like “neocolonialist”. Why does the Pope have to use such words?

Trump wins – must be taken down

Every time Trump looks set to win, counterattacks claim he is actually losing. This time the attack comes from the Wall Street Journal: In its “Trump on the crazy train” series, it claims he rants for hours to staff and must be kept out of the Situation Room because he only causes chaos.

Democracy also needs limits

Democracy cannot be based on “truth”, since truth may shift with majority opinion, argues Nils Rune Langeland. Yet his understanding of truth is not Christian. Christian truth imposes normative limits on leadership. Today’s ideologues claim the right to stand above a higher, divine law, believing an action is good because they declare it so. For Christians, God is the centre of truth.

State broadcaster claims every Norwegian is a net burden

NRK journalists Karina K. Jørgensen and Tuva Skog Christiansen claim that the average Norwegian is a ‘minus citizen’ who costs the state a net 10 million kroner from cradle to grave. By doing so, NRK rewinds the public debate by 13 years. The deficit is mainly linked to non-Western immigrants’ low tax contributions and high use of welfare services.

The media is fighting a war against Trump but cannot admit he is winning

The media has staked its entire prestige on Trump losing the war. But when Trump says a deal is within reach that will force Iran to abandon its nuclear program, they face a defeat they cannot escape. NTB has insisted Iran has no nuclear program. Steven Witkoff says the Iranians boasted they have enough uranium for 11 atomic bombs. One of them is lying.

USS «Abraham Lincoln» vs. the Revolutionary Guard’s Mosquito Fleet

America’s conventional power projection is being challenged by new technology, Iran’s asymmetric naval strategy, and its willingness to absorb losses. This won’t defeat superior U.S. naval power, but it may be enough to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed. Time will tell — Trump is likely overly optimistic in claiming the war is close to over.

Blaming the elderly: How they’re hiding the real welfare scandal

NAV (Norway’s welfare agency) claims the coming wave of elderly will drive up National Insurance costs and warns of higher taxes. In reality, the majority of spending goes to people of working age, where non-Western immigrants — especially from Islamic countries — dominate the recipient lists, according to SSB figures. NAV does not mention this. Nor does Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg, who is responsible for the policies that enabled it.