Opinion

The Raymond Johansen Case: From City Hall to NGO’s Israelophobic campaign

Raymond Johansen, the former Mayor of Oslo, has become Secretary General of Norwegian People’s Aid and has promptly thrown himself into what is described as a campaign against Israel. He calls Israelis “terrorists” and urges tough sanctions against what is presented as the Middle East’s only democracy. Figures like Johansen, it is argued, tend to move directly from politics into roles in quasi-public aid programmes, NGOs, or senior regional administrative posts. According to this view, they never truly disappear from public life.

There is only one war

Our restless world can seem too complicated to grasp an overview of. But if you look closely, the pattern is clear: the war against the West. This war is being waged both in the Middle East and in Western countries themselves. Now that the United States has finally gotten a president who fights for the West, he encounters such fierce opposition on the home front that it bears witness to the fact that the war is raging full force inside our own countries.

Belarus trains migrants to break through Europe’s borders

Belarus has for years imported migrants and sought to force them into neighbouring countries. It is now claimed that migrants are in fact given combat training before being sent to the “front line” – the border.

When immigrants think the “wrong” way

The backlash against Swedish Liberal leader Simona Mohamsson reveals a deeper problem on the left: an expectation that people with certain backgrounds must hold certain opinions—or be accused of betraying their identity.

Nordics must build a New World order, says Danish PM

“We must build a new world order,” said Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen during a meeting with Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, other Nordic leaders, and Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney on Sunday. But with what—regulation, platitudes, moralizing, and climate policy? While Frederiksen practices psychological defense, the rest of the world builds energy and industry.

The bottomless pit

Major democratic countries such as the USA, the UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands are reducing aid to developing countries because it does not work. But as soon as Venstre proposes the same in Denmark, the reprimand comes immediately from the media, politicians and the Foreign Minister. The Social Democrats claim, incorrectly, that the aid keeps migration under control. The problems of the developing countries are due to corruption, and the aid nourishes it.

A warm welcome, Satan

Critics of the United States’ and Israel’s attempts to remove the man-eaters in Tehran are effectively trying to save a regime that competes with China and North Korea for first place as the most evil in the world. Whether driven by antisemitism, hatred of the West, or simply hatred of Donald Trump, it amounts to a perverse desire to welcome Satan.

Another mosque planned in northern Sweden – now the funding is being reported to the security service

Plans to establish a large mosque on Frösön, just outside Östersund, have sparked debate in the local community. The municipality has now confirmed that questions regarding the project’s financing have been referred to the Swedish Security Service (Säpo): “There are connections here that could be of extreme significance. This could involve Salafism or Islamism.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Islamists will flock to the West as they lose in the Middle East

We are witnessing a major shift: Islamists are losing ground in the Middle East, but where will they go? They already have footholds in Western diasporas and will flock to the United States and Western Europe. Yet with Trump closing the borders in the United States, the flow will instead be directed toward an already weakened Western Europe. What we have seen so far is only the beginning, warns Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Where is the Church of Norway heading?

What was long Norway’s seminary for priests has now appointed an imam from Islam Net. Where, then, is the Church of Norway heading? Should Norway’s moral foundation be shaped by Christian tradition, or by its historical opponents?