From the Telegraph
Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad, known as Mullah Krekar, was the original leader of an Iraqi jihadist group with links to al-Qaeda, and once called Osama bin Laden a “jewel in the crown of Islam”. The Norwegian Supreme Court has declared him a threat to national security, but Norway cannot deport him because he faces a potential death sentence in his native Iraq.
The Norwegian government came up with a novel solution to the problem, ordering Krekar’s relocation to Kyrksæterøra, (a remote village of 2,500 people, 300 miles from Oslo) where it believes he will be able to do less harm.
But Krekar has appealed against the ruling, saying it is an infringement of his human rights. A court hearing on Friday was unable to come to a decision on the case, and adjourned it to Monday. The Oslo government wants to force Krekar into the rural retreat in an area which is 70 miles from the nearest settlement of any size, Trondheim, and has no mosque.
Krekar, who is on a UN terror list, and has just been released from jail after serving part of a five-year sentence for making repeated death threats against Norwegian politicians. Under the government plan, he will be housed in a hostel for asylum-seekers, and will have to report to local police three times a week, effectively confining him to the remote community. Krekar said the decision will separate him from his wife and four children, who live in Oslo. Laywers have argued the move is against the Norwegian constitution.
“Of course I wish we had an agreement to return him [to Iraq] in place, but we do what we can within the framework of human rights,” Anders Anundsen, Norwegian justice minister, told NRK.
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One Response
What an idiotic “framework of human rights” it has proved itself to be, when a mad-dog like Krekar cannot be deported. If the rule is that no one can be sent to a place where he might be killed, then that means that no one can be sent back to the most violent places, which is to say Muslim lands. And that means, all the countries in Western Europe can deport, for example, the citizens of the civilized West, but cannot deport Muslims.
Furthermore, it should not be beyond the wit of the Norwegian government to decide that whatever pious promises were made in the past, the present shows those promises based on assumptions that no longer hold; Norway, even though its policies toward Israel have been unsympathetic and at times atrocious (see Bruce Bawer’s book on that country, and such people as Jost Gaarder), should not be forced to to endure this.there are many places in Iraq where Krekar would be welcome — in all the areas held by the Islamic State he would be taken in, happily — and besides Iraq, there are more than 50 Muslim states, and if the American government can find countries willing to take people held in Guantanamo, the Norwegians can do the same.
Norwegians, like many Europeans, are getting fed up with Islam, and the more they learn about what is contained in Qur’an, Sunnah, Hadith, the more horrified they are, or become. And since these texts so obviously explain the observable behavior of Muslims not only in Europe, but all around the world Norwegians must like others be getting enraged with how the E.U. has imposed such straitjackets on them, as this business of not deporting someone to a place where he “might” be killed. Who cares what happens to the krekars of this world?
The People’s Party ought to hold up for inspection and ridicule the case of Krekar, and promise that it will find ways to deport him, and not to despoil the arctic any further.
Besides, there are many places in Iraq where Krekar would be welcome — in all the areas held by the Islamic State he would be taken in, happily — and besides Iraq, there are more than 50 Muslim states, and if the American government can find countries willing to take people held in Guantanamo, the Nor