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Jews warned against harassment (Norway)
www.aftenposten.no ^ | 20 Jul 2006, 12:02 | Aftenposten English Web Desk/NTB

Posted on 07/20/2006 6:50:55 AM PDT by Kurt_Hectic

The Mosaic Religious Community has advised its Jewish members against speaking Hebrew loudly on the streets of Oslo or wearing Jewish emblems. The suggestion has infuriated some in the membership.

It comes after a Jewish man wearing a kippah, or yarmulke, was assaulted on an Oslo street Saturday. The Mosaic Religious Community wants its members to be careful.

"We have encouraged our members to avoid speaking Hebrew loudly on the street," Anne Sender of the Jewish organization told newspaper Vårt Land. She also told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) that men may want to reconsider wearing the yarmulke.

That's provoked journalist Mona Levin, daughter of the late pianist Robert Levin. "We can't conceal that we're Jews," Levin said, adding that she intended to start wearing her Star of David. "That's letting ourselves down."

Sender said she wanted to stress that "the situation for Jews in Norway is better than it has been for a long time," despite current tensions caused by the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel that broke out last week.

Norway's government has supported Israel for years and actively worked to bring peace to the Middle East. At the same, there's also strong sympathy and support for the Palestinians.

The Mosaic Religious Community, which represents Jewish interests in Norway, has around 850 members in Oslo alone. The community reports "a steady flow" of new people joining from other countries or through conversion to Judaism.

The community also has actively sought to include the Israeli citizens living in Norway.

Community leaders claim on their web site that the Jewish community in Oslo is "very much a part of the Norwegian society at large, while, at the same time, maintaining its uniqueness."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: assault; jewishcommunity; jews; norway; oslo
Another newssource reports that it was several arabic men that attacked the jewish man. Disgusting...
1 posted on 07/20/2006 6:50:56 AM PDT by Kurt_Hectic
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To: Kurt_Hectic

Should they get nose jobs too? extreme sarc


2 posted on 07/20/2006 6:52:57 AM PDT by massgopguy (massgopguy)
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To: Kurt_Hectic

Must be those insufferable Hare Krishnas again, attacking everything in sight. Damn Hare Krishnas.


3 posted on 07/20/2006 6:54:14 AM PDT by Shaun_MD (In God We Trust. In Might We Remain Free)
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To: Kurt_Hectic

So it's OK to be Muslim but not OK to be Jewish in Norway? Sheesh. Damn squareheads.


4 posted on 07/20/2006 6:55:51 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (All Marines can throw a grenade. The really, really good ones can throw a slider with one.)
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To: Kurt_Hectic

It's ok to march through European capitals carrying banners calling for the beheading of infidels who insult Mohammed via cartoons, but you better not wear a yamulke! Disgusting!


5 posted on 07/20/2006 7:07:45 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Kurt_Hectic
Make it mandatory for all Jews in Norway to be armed to the teeth and travel in groups of three when in public. They can then talk as loud as they damn well please and wear whatever they want on their persons.
6 posted on 07/20/2006 7:18:05 AM PDT by yooling (I don't have anything nice to say...)
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7 posted on 07/20/2006 7:19:37 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do!)
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To: Kurt_Hectic
"reconsider wearing" a kippah?

That's like telling a Catholic to reconsider wearing a crucifix.

Total garbage and cowardice.

8 posted on 07/20/2006 7:26:13 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: CholeraJoe

They need some sense knocked into them, preferably with a frozen tray of lutafisk!


9 posted on 07/20/2006 7:33:18 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: wideawake
Where is the UN on this? ...... [sound of crickets]

Where is the SoS Rice on this? ...... [sound of crickets]

Where is the Kofi Annan on this? ...... [sound of crickets]

Where is the EU on this? ...... [sound of crickets]

10 posted on 07/20/2006 7:40:56 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: sheik yerbouty
"preferably with a frozen tray of lutafisk!

That'll leave a mark!
11 posted on 07/20/2006 8:34:09 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA (The Arab League jihad continues on like a fart in an elevator - FR American in Israel)
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To: CholeraJoe
So it's OK to be Muslim but not OK to be Jewish in Norway?

That needed bumping to the top.

12 posted on 07/20/2006 8:42:46 AM PDT by cpdiii (Socialism is popular with the ruling class. It gives legitimacy to tyranny and despotism.)
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To: Kurt_Hectic

The vast majority of victims in Norway are the Norwegian natives, who are in fact being subjected to what amounts to a slow extermination policy by their own elites, but they don't count.


13 posted on 07/20/2006 10:50:11 AM PDT by jordan8
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To: jordan8

I know! Came out of the gym today and there were somalis everywere; they had been to the mosque (it's friday)...


14 posted on 07/21/2006 7:09:13 AM PDT by Kurt_Hectic (Trust only what you see, not what you hear)
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To: wideawake

In Judaism, any head covering will do. (Ever notice the Lubavitchers with their showy tophats?)


15 posted on 07/21/2006 7:11:53 AM PDT by The Red Zone
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To: jordan8
The vast majority of victims in Norway are the Norwegian natives, who are in fact being subjected to what amounts to a slow extermination policy by their own elites, but they don't count.

Needs to be said, even if no one pays attention.

16 posted on 07/21/2006 7:12:44 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
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