16. juni 2004

Take responsibility for your actions   And make others take responsibility for theirs     Mullah Krekar has been on the newssheets here in Norway for many years now, and the authorities laid down the charges against him a few days ago. I Norway Mullah Krekar is a free man, but still face expulsion on grounds of being a risk to the national security.   Today Jordan sentenced Krekar and 14 others to different sentences for terrorism. This puts a weird fog over the situation, because Norway may have second thoughts of extradite him to Jordan, when there is a chance he could face a death sentence later on.   Norway does not return refugees if they can face a death sentence in their homeland. This is a very commendable rule but also a rule that can prohibit authorities in their homeland to punish criminals accordingly. Should Norway and other countries which denies to extradite certain persons, prosecute these criminals them selves?   In my opinion they should.   The way things are right now, mullah Krekar stand a chance to stay in Norway for the rest of his life as a free person.   And the rest of the world knows that if you are wanted in a country, and you face a death sentence, than go to Norway. After you arrive there go back to you homeland and lean on some possible witnesses, and the return assured that the Norwegian authorities will not expel you. Easy as picking your nose.   Think of this; A few years back a man from Chechnya hijacked a passenger airliner in Norway, and to day he is working as a free man in the national broadcasting company NRK.   Oh Norway you are so gullible! 11:52:46 PM    comment []

A new beginning... Don't we all need that some time? I have failed to fulfil my simplest wish, namely to have a word or two to say on this weblog each and every day, concerning my impartial view on international politics and the unrest throughout the world. But the bottom line in my texts is the defence of the individual. The individual human is above everything. Above presidents, kings and emperors, and above you and me. So we all need a scond chance, a new beginning so to speak. It is especially sad that there is so much intolerance in the world. People are getting killed because someone had determined that they do not deserve a second chance, or a new beginning. There is a paradox and a contradiction in killing people just because they belong to an other religion. How is the work to evangelise the people of the world to your religion if you kill them affected? This is one of the sad facets of terrorism. A terrorist group is usually formed on a political issue such as a skewed distribution of wealth and welfare. After perhaps decades of terrorising their political opponents, they have indeed built up a political force. They can threaten to send suicide bombers, or hijack planes and so forth as a sign of strength. The peculiar thing is that when their opponents, whom have failed in their effort to rid the country of this non-political movement, offer the terrorists a side at the negotiation tables, the terrorists in most cases do not respond positively to this approach. Why? Why do so many efforts to bring the terrorists to the tables to negotiate an agreement they both can live with go wrong? Why do the terrorists give up their hard earned power in favour of a futile killing rampage? Isn't that disrespectful of those who died for the cause? The PLO had this great chance in the late eighties and early nineties in Oslo. There the very important political foundation for creating a Palestinian state in Gaza and on the Westside was laid out on papers and those papers were signed. Even so, after getting as near to their main objective as they’ve ever been before, they still decline to a killing spree the world has never seen since the second world war. Does a terrorist group really have the right to be taken seriously when they reject to negotiate with their opponents in an effort to achieve another step towards their goals? Isn't it a sad fact that in a world with so many humans, and each and every one is different from the other, that the lesson of compromising is learned? If you cannot compromise with whom ever you coexists with, then you are the problem not everybody else. Zadig Galbaras 2004-06-16 - kl 01:57:59 1:59:10 AM    comment []