Holy crap...
From one of the reader reactions:
Middle East researcher Hilde Henriksen Waage was hardly surprised by the reaction provoked by Jostein Gaarder.
"If I had read Jostein Gaarder's article before it went to print I would have, pointedly, advised him: Get police protection, get a lawyer and leave the country," Henriksen Waage told Aftenposten.no.
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1414428.ece
Holy crap...""
I am so totally ashamed of someone from my ancestoral country, I do not have the words...