Norway: Muslims Demand Artwork With Muhammad’s Name Be Removed

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More of the wonderful contribution to Western societies we have come to expect from Islamic supremacists.

Muslims’ Calls to Remove ‘Offensive’ Artwork With Prophet Muhammad’s Name Polarise Norwegian City

Sputnik News, July 24, 2019:

According to local Muslims, the name plate set up in Norway’s third-largest city of Stavanger to honour Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is offensive as the Prophet’s name is being stepped upon.

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The Muslim Joint Council, which numbers some 8,000 members, has called for a plate set up to commemorate Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus to be removed from the ground. The rationale is that the award winner shares names with Islam’s main prophet, and trampling upon the holy man’s name is a sign of utter disrespect.

The Bronze plate to honour Muhammad Yunus, who won the 2006 Peace Prize for his pioneering work with microcredit loans, was set up seven years ago. Similar installations exist in Stavanger in honour of fellow peace prize winners Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama and Al Gore.

“Here it lies on the ground, people step on it, and no one sees what it is,” Summer Ejaz, spokesperson for Muslim Joint Council Rogaland, told national broadcaster NRK, calling the name Muhammad “respectable and gracious”.

By his own admission, criticism from fellow Muslims has been pouring in for several years, together with calls to elevate the bronze plate from the ground to eye level.

“Stavanger is a diverse city with inhabitants from 200 different countries. It is therefore important that the municipality safeguards the minority population’s feelings in this matter. It has to do with well-being and people’s mental health,” Ejaz explained.

The call has since polarised the city. Vice Mayor Bjørg Tysdal Moe of the Christian Democrats party said she understands the Muslims’ frustration and is open to accommodating their demands.

“When the Muslims respond, I take it seriously. And since this work of art has been there since 2012, it is important for us to get a dialogue about this,” Moe told NRK.

By contrast, the right-wing Progress Party was “extremely sceptical” about the request, suggesting that the plate should stay put.

“We cannot take into account each and every offence every time someone gets triggered,” Kristoffer Sivertsen, Progress Party leader in Stavanger told the newspaper Dagsavisen, calling it “offence hysteria”.

Ingrid Rosendorf Joys, the secretary general of The Council for Religious and Life Stance Communities in Norway found it “strange” that a tribute to a peace prize winner may be seen as “affront against the Prophet”.

The Norwegian Atheist Society defended the name plaque, asking “what has Prophet Muhammad done to deserve any respect?”

The turmoil reached the Bangladeshi entrepreneur himself, forcing him to weigh in on the debate.

“No society shall be hurt by my name written in their city”, Muhammad Yunus told Dagsavisen, supporting the local Muslims. “I can fully understand their feelings. In order for them not to perceive it as offensive, I believe that the plate should be removed from the ground,” the Peace Prize winner said.

Stavanger Mayor Sagen Helgø, of the Conservative Party, argued that the installations is “by far” appropriate in terms of freedom of expression. She stressed that it was “obvious” that the case was being made by private individuals.

79-year-old Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist, and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance, that is, loans given to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans.

Stavanger, often called “Norway’s oil capital” is the country’s third-largest city with 130,000 inhabitants, with immigrants constituting over 20 percent of the population.

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Ziggy46
Ziggy46
4 years ago

Norway sowed the seeds of its destruction and Islamization; I, for one, hold no empathy for Norway, other EU nations, or others that have capitulated to Islam. The banner in the photo confirms that Muslims are not an integral part of humanity. Islam is a Cult of unbridled nihilism, tyranny, perversity, Jew-hatred, and beholden to the murder en-masse of non-believers.

Tm.
Tm.
4 years ago
Reply to  Ziggy46

Actions and inactions have consequences. They made their choice or allowed it. No empathy.
They should have voted properly. They should have understood.
Let them embrace their wondrous diversity.
So many demands from a group. Same wherever they are, I do not recall my immigrant relatives making any demands whatsoever.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
4 years ago
Reply to  Tm.

Exactly, that is why I have no empathy for the Norwegians or other EU puppet states.

0349 JAT
0349 JAT
4 years ago
Reply to  Ziggy46

Death, destruction, chaos, fear and misery have been the five pillars of islam for 1400 years

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
4 years ago
Reply to  0349 JAT

Indeed, apparently there is no end in sight.

arturo
arturo
4 years ago

Moslems, marrying their cousins for 1400 years.

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
4 years ago

looks like a great place for a Great Dane to take a dump

Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
4 years ago

I’m okay with taking down the artwork. Let’s go a step further and remove all Islamic things. Mosques, clothing, head and face coverings, Arabic, and Muslim owned anything and everything. No Islamic symbols…

TD
TD
4 years ago

Wow! Even a freaking name plate is unacceptable to the radicals in moderate clothing.
Compatible with Western Society?! We can’t even honor them without them complaining about it.

If they don’t like a guy named Muhammad being honored, then they should STOP naming their children Muhammad! Sheesh!

Just Stopped By
Just Stopped By
4 years ago
Reply to  TD

THAT is the BEST solution to all of this – simple, straightforward, eliminates the problem entirely.

Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
4 years ago
Reply to  TD

They are honestly the most frustrating people on the planet!

Philip Dyer
Philip Dyer
4 years ago

What a splendid idea! I’ll second it!

Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
4 years ago
Reply to  Philip Dyer

Excellent!

CLO
CLO
4 years ago

Count me in as third!! (Philip Dyer seconded)

Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
4 years ago
Reply to  CLO

That’s awesome! Thank you!

patd
patd
4 years ago

musims are the parasitic scourge of the universe!!!!

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

Bwahahahahaha, a Nobel Peace Prize to a muslum for microcredit loans — yeah that’s really made the world a more peaceful place alright. How many lives were saved by creating a financial instrument that probably funds the worldwide jihad?
F*Ck Swedenistan, let them rot under their muslum masters’ boot heel.

MDT
MDT
4 years ago

“How many lives were saved by creating a financial instrument that probably funds the worldwide jihad?”

That hadn’t occurred to me as I read it. Thank you for pointing it out!

Warmac9999
Warmac9999
4 years ago

Norway: love it or leave it.

Thurston Howell III
Thurston Howell III
4 years ago

To hell with all of these countries that have allowed this mass infestation of “people” who HATE their new countries, HATE their new fellow countrymen, HATE everything about the culture THEY VOLUNTARILY MOVED INTO.

And F those invading animals for having the nerve to DEMAND all of these changes.

TD
TD
4 years ago

As an immigrant, I have a message for people who hate western civilization:
DON’T FOLLOW ME HERE! STAY RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE!
OR SEND YOURSELVES BACK!

If you don’t like us honoring someone named Muhammad, then STOP naming your children Muhammad! you opened the door!

TD
TD
4 years ago

As an immigrant, I have a message for people who hate western civilization:
DON’T FOLLOW ME HERE! STAY RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE!
OR SEND YOURSELVES BACK!

If you don’t like us honoring someone named Muhammad, then STOP naming your children Muhammad! you opened the door!

J k
J k
4 years ago

Let’s remove all them back to their respective sh*holes. Muslims, always a perpetual grievance. I would put the name on a toilet seat.

John Magne Trane
John Magne Trane
4 years ago

The mayor of Stavanger don’t mind donning a hijab, when talking to the New Master Race.

The Germans were bad, but the new Nazis occupying us are even worse. Now it isn’t just “Zutritt Verboten” signs all over. We can’t even write what we want.

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago

Remove the plaque and the Muslim vermin will find something else to complain about.

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
4 years ago

By by Denmark. My prediction is true. Muslims will dominate Europe and in 20 years the national flag of Europe will be Is Islam!

JeezOPete!
JeezOPete!
4 years ago

“…this work of art has been there since 2012,”…. It’s been there for 7 – SEVEN – years… get over it already!

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