(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
The true Garden presented itself in Bergen the 13 July when he spoke to the Living Word congregation. Hagen emerged as an Israeli friend by making crude statements about Islam and about Prophet Muhammad. Subsequent scornful laughter from the congregation reinforced the speech's meaning. Thus, it appeared as highly stigmatizing and demonizing to an entire religion and its believers.
The garden spoke for in tongues. On the contrary, the content was clear and not to be misunderstood. Therefore, Hagen's powerful outcomes naturally created headlines nationally and internationally. The news channel Al Arabiya brought the news of Hagan's Islam the following day, while Asharq Al-Awasat newspaper, which is based in London, had headlines about Hagan's speech in its Thursday edition the same week.
Islamic Council Norway writes in a press release that Muslims in Norway are tired of constant attacks on Islam and stigmatization of Muslims from a FrP on desperate voting. In a post in Aftenposten 17. In July, five ambassadors in Norway from Muslim countries strongly objected, and wrote, among other things, that Hagen has offended 1,3 billions of Muslims and violated the principles of tolerance and cultural freedom on which Norwegian society is founded.
Hagen also faced criticism from several politicians in Norway: Thorbjørn Jagland said that Hagen plays the game of terrorists. The priest and Prime Minister Bondevik were also quite critical of Hagen's statements. Christian People's Party representative in the Foreign Affairs Committee Lars Rise said that Hagen has crossed a border. Deputy Representative Afshan Rafiq for the Right said the plays seem offensive to her. In other words, it is clear that Hagen has made serious attacks in a proclamation at the Living Word meeting. He has even been reported for violating the blasphemy clause following the attacks against Islam.
Known rhetoric
Hagen defends himself by saying that he did not attack Islam or Muhammad, but Islamic fundamentalists and terrorists. Furthermore, he finds it "sensational" that ambassadors who are to represent their countries make themselves representatives of an entire religion and all its followers. While it is perfectly fine for Hagen to represent all Christians and the whole of Europe, as he put it in the speech: "We Christians are very concerned about children", "hope for Europe". In Hagen's opinion, the five ambassadors are intervening in a debate they have nothing to do with. But when the ambassador from the USA about a year ago interfered directly in Norwegian politics in his statements about the invasion of Iraq, he received wholehearted support from Hagen. At the time, other key politicians in Norway thought that this interference was untimely.
Hagen refuses to take self-criticism and also reacts to the fact that he is accused of blasphemy. He claims that “Blasphemy means blasphemy. Muhammad is not a god, he is a prophet ”. This is nonsense, because according to the Penal Code section 142 (blasphemy section) it is a criminal offense in word or deed to publicly insult or in an insulting or hurtful way to show contempt for "any creed if the practice in this kingdom is permitted or any legal religion or godliness ”. With creed is meant religious beliefs and anything that is considered religiously sacred or precious within the particular religious community.
It's amazing that Chairman Hagen doesn't seem to know what blasphemy is. It is clear that he deliberately arranged himself to make friends among fundamentalist Christians. Hagen's words are well-considered precisely because he is keen to tempt voters from KrF to FrP. Thus, a deliberate tactic from a skilled media manipulator and a particularly opportunistic politician.
Modern Crusade
Religious freedom is about everyone having the right to build their preaching on a religious and political worldview. Freedom of speech is about everyone having the right to characterize religious and political opponents. Living Words is a church where Enevald Flåten is pastor, and Hagen is chairman of a political party. Unlike Living Word and the church's pastor, FrP and Chairman Hagen are responsible for their statements in contexts other than facing an uncritical hallelujah gang in the church.
Enthusiasm for Hagen's incitement against Islam and the Prophet Muhammad among parts of Christian Norway did not wait either. Torill Selsvold Nyborg, county mayor and county leader of Hordaland KrF, gives full support to Hagen's view of Israel and Islam, while KrF's parliamentary representative Anita Apelthun Sæle has supported Hagen in his view of Israel and Islam to Bergens Tidende. Key members of Kristiansand FrP equate Hitler's "Mein kampf" and the Koran. Chairman of Kristiansand FrP and deputy leader of FrP's city council group tells Dagbladet that "it is high time that Norway and Europe make the ideology Islam, and the practice of this, forbidden and punishable in line with Nazism…"
The crusades in Europe are history, but a prolonged opportunistic construction has led Islam and Muslims to fit into the perfect enemy image again. In November last year, Høyre's municipal minister Erna Solberg created rebellions when she demanded that Islam in Europe must be modernized. This year, then, populist Hagen has compared the Muslims to Hitler's Nazis, claiming that the Muslims had a long-term plan to Islamize the world.
This summer, five members of the British National Party were arrested following a BBC documentary. A BBC reporter filmed for six months with a hidden camera and gathered evidence of party members' views on immigrants. Many of their statements pertained to Islam and Muslims, and the police felt that their statements were offensive to certain people groups and religion. They called for racial hatred. In Hagen's case, you do not need a hidden recording. For Hagen, fundamentalist Christian voters are so important that he openly promotes intolerance, conflict and hatred. The garden's statements about Islam and Muslims are very similar to the propaganda that the Nazis carried out against Jews and Judaism in the interwar years.
Toxic black widow
In his efforts to become something in politics, Hagen has held the chairmanship of the FrP like any other capable dictator. He has not spared any tricks. He has had to purify his leadership several times, either because some of them were very skilled, or because they had too visible sympathies for racism and Nazism. The garden itself would appear to be clean and serious.
The garden's trademark has always been the pick of some: single parents, Sami, Norwegians and immigrants have been the most well-liked chickens. He is a master at finding groups in society and then stigmatizing, criminalizing and mocking them. For decades he has pursued political tyranny. This brown politician has systematically spread dangerous poison as a black widow to a multicultural society. He practices psychological terror and takes away from people the right to live in dignity.
Now Hagen has finally understood that such political rabies does not qualify for the post of Minister or President of the Storting. Now he has given up being a serious party chairman, and the true Hagen stands out. Despite the fact that Hagen has previously gotten away with both excuses, counter-attacks and accusations that others do not read / hear well enough, we must not fall into the same trap now. This time, the stigmatizing rhetoric and intolerance of Hagen's statements is so obvious and strong that there is a need to draw a line. Apparently, this time Hagen has stumbled into his own doorstep – a doorstep that he has soiled for decades.
No group should be singled out and subjected to stigma or abuse based on their beliefs, language or culture. Although the Freedom of Expression Commission proposes to repeal the provision on blasphemy in section 142 of the Criminal Code, and recommends that the term "confession" be removed from section 135a of the Criminal Code (the racism section), protection of religion is still part of Norwegian criminal law. Originally, the blasphemy clause was intended to protect the state religion alone, but in 1934 it was extended to apply to all religions that are legal in Norway, and by an amendment in 1973, the prosecution under the Penal Code section 142 was made conditional on public interest requiring it. In other words, blasphemy has evolved from being a crime against the state to protecting the individual's religious feelings from violation. The law has been referred to as a dormant section, but after Hagen's well-directed media show from the congregation Levende Ord's premises in Bergen, it looks as if the section has gained new relevance.
1
