Norway attempts to relocate Islamic hate preacher Mullah Krekar to remote village 300 miles north of Oslo

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.