There has been some overt acts like the shooting of the head of the publishing company who published "Satantical Verses". The publisher did survive the assasination attempt. I man mistaken for a journalist who had made fun of Islam was severely molested by a gang of Pakistan youth.
However, mostly there have been a large numbers of murders, stabbings and gang rapes perpetrated by muslims against non-muslims. If their reason was islamic? Who knows? Many of the rapes probably are related to Islamic reasoning I would venture to guess.
Just during this Ramadan, a young girls was found murdered in her dormitory room by a Somali man. And a few days ago a 15 year old girl was abducted by one Iranian and three Kosovo Albanians and gang raped for hours in my little town. This August, a Somalian man went berserk on a tram and stabbed several people, killing one boy who was blind, and thus was unable to get away.
Personally I have been beaten up by a gang of Kosovars, and a close friend of mine was raped by a Somali. Such events are too commonplace to even warrant mentioning.
Add to this that the good doctor Zawahiri tends to pop up from time to time in is tapes and threaten Norway, there is a lot of anger and resentment building up.
And if I understand correctly, the translators of the "Satanic Verses" were assassinated.
You're notes are rather helpful. We have a large Somali community and we've gotten along somewhat cordially.
My post is long, so if you don't read it all or have problems understanding it; that's ok.
Soccer/Football is a big sport in Norway, this is where I have met some Somalians from. On this level they are fine. I've come across them working at the Airport. Again, in this situation, they have been alright.
My post is a bit long, excuse me. I wonder if Norway and Holland and other European countries might see the Moslems that have migrated live in more isolation and that more radical thinkings and ideas might be more possible? Out of the 80 or 90,000 that are in Minnesota, possibly a handful, maybe as small as 2 or 3 have been shown to have been involved in terrorism.
I did not need to understand Somalian, I feel one day I was out at the airport shortly after the invasion of Iraq and one man, with the Moslem type of beard was pretty adamant in a conversation they were having and I just knew they must have been speaking about the war.
Many of them are taxi drivers; one day out at the airport, the taxi parking lot they drive into, all of those taxis were being searched.
On a bit of the other side of the coin, I know that in the past 16 months, one Somali store owner and two Somali taxi drivers have been murdered and it all points to Inner City hoodlums having done this.
Forgive me for a rather long post, but it is interesting to compare similarities and differences in this. I like to give all people the benefit of the doubt but obviously here, one must be extra cautious because much is at stake.