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NORWAY2011
SLIKTNOEGJRMANDAIKKE!

ShaykhDr.AbdalqadirasSufi

In 1890on theOslostageHeddaGabler,thebeautiful daughterofa

cavalryofficer,sawnowaytothefuture,andtookherfatherspistol
andblewherbrainsout.Thejudgewhohadtrappedherintoafatal
impasse on seeing the dead woman exclaimed these famous words:
Sliktnoegjrmandaikke!Peopledontdosuchthings!
In masterpiece after masterpiece, Ibsens seven great prose plays
demonstratedtoastunnedNorwaythatEuropeanculturehadcome
to a nihilistic end. It was over. The Christian claim to recover a
purpose to life, even after its useless attempt at rescue by
Reformation, had failed. A great people under an ancient
dispensationhadforgedasocietythatonincomparablelongboats,
stillthewonderoftheworldhadsaileddowntheVolgaintheeast
and to the Atlantic coast below them in France leaving a vibrant
culture, one which from Normandy its Norsemen had raised up
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primitive England to a complex society that would form the

foundation of the modern State. It was the restrictive, guiltridden
new religion, built on the lie of redemption, that extinguished the
lightoftheVikingpeoples.
Europe embraced Ibsens tragic vision of an endgame without
escape Shaw in England, Rilke in Germany recognised that Ibsen
had seen the future. In his own country, the Norwegians could not
admitwhathehadseen.Theyturnedawayfromthereleasingtragic
vision and lost themselves in a futile crisis of identity and language.
Nationalism,thenewidoldistractedthemasScandinaviawascarved
anew into capitalist kingdoms under the linked families around
Victoria.
In 1940 Norway was occupied by nationalist, raceobsessed German
military power. Norways leading, Nobelprize writer, Knut Hamsun,
looked to a revival of the ancient Viking force under Hitlerian
inspiration. Faced with his treason they preferred to humiliate him
anddeclarehimmad.Hiswritinghadbeenfoundedonarejectionof
theIbsenicmomentoftruth.
Now,today,thelargestPunjabipopulationoutsidePakistanisliving,
marryinganddyinginNorway.Whenthepoor,lostHamsunitekiller
in an ultranihilistic act killed over a hundred young Norwegians the
reaction seemed worse than the hideous crime. The nationalist King
wept openly. Kings do not weep. The masses did not flock to the
Christian Church. The masses gathered in the public square for a
minutes silence, which, far from being a Christian ritual, was the
humanistatheist response to the millionsdead soldiers of the
meaningless First World War. It is a ritual of confessed ignorance.
Yearly in London on November 11, the masses gather around the
Cenotaphforthesacredsilence.OntheCenotaph iscarvedthenew
creedofhumanism:Onedaywewillunderstand.
It is time for the Europeans to recognise the new reality. Once they
swarmedoverAmerica,India,AfricaandAsiatheChristianhordes.
Now, as the Vikings, the Huns and the Romans before them, have
come the Pathan and the Punjabis to Scandinavia and Britain, the
TurkstoGermany,andtheBerberstoFranceandSpain.
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What is needed now has been defined by Knut Hamsun: hesaid,In

theNorthlandwehadsomethingwhichwecalledGANGSYN,SEETO
WALK.
TheEuropeansnowmustacquireGANGSYN.