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His name is Simen Bondevik. Now twenty-two, he’s head of the youth division of Norway’s Center Party and a candidate in this year’s election, scheduled for September 11, for Oslo’s City Council. When I moved to Norway, he wasn’t born yet, and his grandfather, Kjell Magne Bondevik, was the country’s prime minister.
Norway was a somewhat different country then, and Oslo a very different city. I had moved there from Amsterdam, where, after several months of ignorant bliss, I stumbled across one of the Dutch capital’s Muslim neighborhoods. Looking into the matter, I discovered that – thanks to irresponsible immigration policies and generous welfare programs – Western Europe was being steadily Islamized.
When I moved to Oslo in 1999, there were Muslims there, too, but the city seemed to be in an earlier stage of Islamization than Amsterdam was. Still, a few valiant souls were already expressing concern, especially about the sprawling east Oslo valley of Groruddalen. Five years ago, in an article for City Journal entitled “The Islamization of Oslo,” I focused on Groruddalen, whose problems with Muslim crime, violence, welfare dependency, and resistance to integration have grown steadily over the years.
A few brief highlights from that piece: as early as 2001, noting that city officials were “filling entire apartment buildings” in Groruddalen “with asylum seekers and refugees,” a politician named Thorbjørn Berntsen warned that the valley was approaching the limit of the number of immigrants it could accept; other politicians dismissed his concerns and called him a bigot, and the influx of Muslims into Groruddalen continued. In 2015, Halvor Fosli published a book, Strangers in One’s Own Country, about the increasing cultural isolation of ethnic Norwegians in Groruddalen; the media savaged him, and the cultural isolation kept growing. In 2017, a new report sounded an alarm about the massive scale of violence directed by Muslim boys at Muslim girls and non-Muslim kids in Groruddalen; but the respected research website that publicized these findings entirely misrepresented them, claiming that the report showed young people in the valley were “thriving” and “satisfied.” In 2017, NRK television ran an honest report on the high level of crime in Groruddalen, and Aftenposten was quick to publish a furious denial.
To be sure, these social pathologies haven’t been confined to Groruddalen, or even to Oslo. During the twenty-four years since I moved to Norway, the number of Muslims in the country has tripled. Women in hijab, which you used to see only in larger cities, can now be observed everywhere; you never used to see the more extreme garment, the niqab (only eyes visible), but now you do. Central Oslo once felt safe; it no longer does. A couple of atrocities hit me personally. In 2006, Stein Sjaastad, a doctor who was a friendly acquaintance of mine, was stabbed to death in his downtown Oslo clinic by one of his patients, an Algerian Muslim; on June 25 of last year, an Iranian Muslim killed two people, also acquaintances of mine, and injured 21 in a shooting outside Oslo’s biggest gay bar. Almost every weekend nowadays brings news of one or more major acts of Muslim violence in the city.
Recently a couple of relatively minor but illuminating stories have occasioned widespread comment. A reporter for Aftenposten spoke to an ethnic Norwegian family in east Oslo who’d taken their 11-year-old daughter out of their local school because the “cultural differences” had become too great. (White flight on an immense scale has, as it happens, been a fact of life in east Oslo for a long time now.) Another school in east Oslo made the news when several 10th-grade Muslim boys refused to shake the female principal’s hand at a graduation ceremony. (Far worse Muslim-related problems, it should be noted, have been commonplace for years in the schools of east Oslo.)
Observing these developments – and looking abroad to such sobering events as the recent riots in France – some Norwegian politicians are willing to acknowledge, with a relatively minor degree of euphemism and circumlocution, the grim facts about the consequences of mass Muslim immigration. But these politicians remain a minority. In a recent interview, Ola Svenneby, the leader of the Young Conservatives, had the candor to admit that there are unintegrated immigrant communities in Norway, and that there’s a need for serious initiatives to address this problem. In the meantime, argued Svenneby, in violation of his own party’s official positions, “quota immigration” should be paused, immigration through “family reunification” should be severely limited, and the country’s asylum system should be entirely overhauled.
Some of us have been saying such things for a long time – and have been widely castigated for it – but Svenneby deserves credit for breaking Conservative ranks to speak the truth. Too many other politicians, when discussing these matters, still act as if immigration in Norway – and throughout Western Europe – has been a glorious success. Which brings us back to Simen Bondevik, the 22-year-old who’s running for a seat on Oslo’s City Council – and who obviously has loftier long-term ambitions that his famous name may well help him to achieve.
On July 11 Bondevik responded to Svenneby in an op-ed entitled “Immigration is an Enrichment for Norway.” Seeing the headline, I wondered: is he too young to know what a cliché this is, or has he consciously made a career decision to stand firm for assertions, however outrageously false, that are patently designed to flatter and appease Oslo’s huge and ever-swelling Islamic electorate? Norway, Bondevik insists, isn’t in any danger of falling apart, certainly not as a result of immigration. On the contrary, he declares, immigration is an entirely positive phenomenon, providing “a sorely needed workforce and cultural enrichment.”
A workforce? Yes, there are people who move to Norway to work – mostly from places like Poland, Lithuania, and Sweden – and whose presence in this country isn’t a problem for anybody. I live near Kongsberg, where many highly educated foreigners work in the aerospace field. The economy of Stavanger, on the North Sea coast, is centered on the offshore petroleum industry, which employs skilled workers from around the world. These people are nothing but a plus for Norway, and it goes without saying that when at least some of us in Norway dare to discuss difficulties related to immigration and integration, we’re not talking about immigrants like these (or, for that matter, like me); we’re talking about the ones who move to Norway to freeload, make mischief, and live in Muslim enclaves.
As for “cultural enrichment,” it’s remarkable to see anybody in Western Europe in the year 2023 dragging out that ridiculous phrase. Bondevik even dusts off this line: “Diversity isn’t damaging, but a strength for our society.” If you asked a chatbot to churn out 500 words or so of multicultural clichés about Muslim immigration it couldn’t have done better.
For none of his contentions, moreover, does Bondevik provide even a scintilla of evidence. And his handful of proposals for improving integration are vague and silly. For example, he asks: “What about better Norwegian instruction?” In fact, the free language instruction provided to immigrants by the government of Norway is terrific. I took advantage of this offer 23 years ago, to my great benefit. The problem isn’t the instruction – it’s the immigrants who don’t bother to sign up for it, and who spend decades living in Norway without being able to speak more than a few mangled words of the language.
Bondevik also suggests that the Norwegian government provide better “leisure-time activities” for Muslim youths. In fact, these youths have all the recreational options that their non-Muslim agemates have. The government spends hefty sums every year to feed, clothe, and house Muslim families. Should it spend even more to build world-class libraries, gyms, and community centers just for young Muslims? Cities all over France did so – only to see these facilities burned to the ground in the recent riots by the very people for whom they were intended.
Bondevik concludes his article with a call to reject “simplistic and populistic solutions to complex problems”and instead “create an inclusive society” that “gives all people equal opportunities to succeed.” How? He doesn’t say. He has no answers. All he appears to have is a burning ambition to follow in Grandpa’s footsteps.
Ah, and about his grandfather: Kjell Magne Bondevik, 75, politician and Lutheran pastor, was in his heyday a reliable fount of vapid slogans about the environment, Third World poverty, and interfaith dialogue, and a ready defender of Islam from any and all critics. As prime minister, he was gung-ho about mass Islamic immigration; after leaving office, he founded a Clinton-like organization called the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights, and in 2021, via the Oslo Center, he was given millions of kroner by the Muslim World League, a Saudi government entity, in exchange for political contacts and a prestigious prize.
Simen Bondevik, then, looks like a chip off the old block. But he’s not alone, and I don’t mean to single him out. On the contrary, the only reason I’m giving him any attention at all is that, in contrast to Svenneby, Bondevik’s number is legion. He’s the anti-Geert Wilders, the non-Marine Le Pen. He’s a man without conviction or courage, without an idea in his head, and without any sense of obligation to preserve Western European liberty. He’s a junior-league version of Macron. Multiply him by a few dozen and you have the gutless wonders in the Dutch Parliament who were made uneasy by Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s grit. In short, he’s the kind of politician who today is content to utter the most mind-numbing progressive platitudes and who tomorrow will meekly take part in the handover of Western Europe to the enemy within.
Decades ago, the current crisis of Western European Islamization was created by spineless, short-sighted, self-righteous fools like Bondevik’s grandfather, who knew absolutely nothing about Islam and who, years later, seeing the results of their folly, weren’t ever willing to admit that they’d made a colossal mistake. Now, in the wake of the French riots, it’s more urgent than ever, in Oslo and throughout Western Europe, that the pusillanimous likes of Simen Bondevik be recognized for the existential menaces that they are and banished, once and for all, from the corridors of power, while the few brave voices of truth, such as Ole Svenneby, are given the chance to save the countries they love.
This is, alas, easier said than done. The 2016 election of Trump, who, unlike the establishment leaders of the two major U.S. parties, actually took on the issues that preoccupied American voters, was enough of a miracle. But most of the Western European electoral systems are designed to make it very tough indeed for dissenters from the elite consensus to gain power. Pim Fortuyn, and later Geert Wilders, had to start their own parties. Even when given the option of supporting strong immigration-focused parties, such as the Sweden Democrats, voters can be maddeningly fickle. This has to stop. The Bondeviks have to go. The future of Western freedom hangs in the balance.
Unfortunately it is probable and obvious that The Bondeviks were/are quite aware that they are destroying Norway and are basically communists doing the old destroy it in order to rebuild it in their Marxist image routine, and there is absolutely nothing that you can do about it on till those destructive parasites have a Muslim knife in their bellies or their house is being burned by a Muslim mob and their family members are being raped or slaughtered in the streets, in other words, til it’s too late.. The globalists probably have the elections fixed and Bondevik will be a winner until then.
The Bondeviks (Bolsheviks?) are only partially aware of what they are doing. Yes, they are using Islamization in order to overturn the freedoms that Norwegians take for granted–but they are quite mistaken that they will be the ones in power once the dust settles.
Lenin called their type “useful idiots”, but the Leninists are not benefitting from their idiocy, the Muzzies are.
And why is it wearing an “Orange County California” T-shirt? The majority of O.C. cities are clean and conservative. Freaks like that aren’t welcome there. He should be wearing a “Santa Ana” or “Garbage Grove California” T-shirt. Every county probably has cities which suck, and boy, do those two blow. To add insult to injury, Santa Ana is the county Capitol!
But maybe not. Semen Bolshevik would get stomped if he wen’t to either of those cities. The Mexicans and Samoans don’t take kindly to weirdos like that. The Vietnamese who are taking over Santa Ana from the Mexicans would probably tolerate that thing but they wouldn’t be polite.
Thanks Bruce. Some people never learn.
But why don’t they. Even a child only puts their hand on a hot stove once. They must see the evidence all around them throughout western Europe. It’s so delusional and destructive to their own countries. I just don’t get it at all. It’s malevolent.
It’s ALTRUISM versus RATIONAL SELFISHNESS.
If you want to end COLLECTIVISM in its multitude of forms: tribalism, racism, theocracy, Marxism, Nazism, fascism, Environmentalism, Globalism, feminism, etc., etc., you must unmask and discredit the moral code of altruism for the evil it really is and discover and fight for Ayn Rand’s moral code of self-interest, self-preservation, personal and individual happiness, freedom, liberty, and capitalism, her moral code of rational selfishness.
So long as people believe that altruism is a noble morality, there is no way to fight it. You cannot stop a noble morality–not if it really is noble. The only way you can defeat it is to unmask it–to show that it is the very opposite of noble. Then at least you have a fighting chance.
So long as people believe that self-interest, self-preservation, i.e., rational selfishness, constitute an evil morality, or are inferior to altruism and self-sacrifice, there is no way to defend them. You cannot champion an evil morality–not if it really is evil. The only way you can defend it is to show that it is the very opposite of evil. That self-interest and self-preservation are in fact noble. Then at least you have a fighting chance.
“In spite of all their irrationalities, inconsistencies, hypocrisies and evasions, the majority of men will not act, in major issues, without a sense of being MORALLY RIGHT and will not oppose the morality they have accepted. They will break it, they will cheat on it, but they will not oppose it; and when they break it, they take the blame on themselves. The power of morality is the greatest of all intellectual powers—and mankind’s tragedy lies in the fact that the vicious moral code men have accepted [altruism] destroys them by means of the best within them.” – Ayn Rand
One would think that, after the a$$-kicking you took over the weekend you would take a break from your endless propagandizing. But no.
Basically your Objectivism For Dummies course consists of the following:
Altruism…bad.
Jesus…..bad
Christianity…………bad
Judaism…….bad
Judeo-Christianity is Leftism……bad
Judaism and Christianity are oriental…..bad
Christianity prepared the ground for modern totalitarianism….bad
Medieval Christianity was a totalitarian system…..bad
God and magical thinking…….bad
Atheism….good
Greeks……good
Christian Dark Age….bad
Renaissance and enlightenment …..good
Greek philosophers……good
Christian philosophers…….bad
selfishness “properly defined”, rational selfishness….good
Rational Selfishness….good
Objectivist reason and reality….good
Altruism…bad.
Repeat ad infinitum. The Big Lie in practice.
And there we have the simplistic world according to our rezidentura fraud…..THX
We could assume that they have bolt-holes in countries that they assume will be safe from Muslim incursions. As if there are such countries, or that if they exist they will admit the very people who destroyed their own countries.
How ironic that this is said by the man that refuses to learn the real meaning of ALTRUISM and the real meaning of RATIONAL SELFISHNESS.
“If there’s one thing people hate worse than thinking, it is rethinking!” – William B. Irvine
Actually the only thing you want us to learn is YOUR meaning of the phrase rational selfishness. But I have yet to see your word salad explaining it. Just Ayn Rand’s word salad.
Personally I will take altruism, independence, freedom, individualism and God, over your version of Objectivist slavery any day.
I did a quick search of William B. Irvine. Here’s a little list of who he has written for: Huffington Post, Salon, Time, and the BBC, all progressive outlets. He also taught Inductive Logic Symbolic Logic, and the Philosophy of Science (whatever that is….) at UCLA back in the 1980s. Basically this guy is an uber-liberal and appears to be quite full of it. Is it any wonder why you won’t admit to who and what you are.
Just say it. You are either a liberal, a leftist, a socialist or a communist or some version of all of them. I always knew you were a liar about yourself.
William B. Irvine. Definitely a lying left-wing monster and no doubt a Dirtbagocrat.
It’s not altruistic it’s selfish. It’s coordinated by the United Nations who get paid by islamic dictators and communist tyrants. Currently there are farrrr more of them than democracies in the world.
Yes, you think that altruism is just a fancy word for kindness, charity, generosity, helping others, compassion, etc., but it is NOT.
Altruism means that no man has the right to be independent of others, no man is an end in himself, no man has the right to be left alone to enjoy his own life and happiness, but that every man is a sacrificial animal whose moral duty is to offer himself up to society as a SHMOO to be sacrificially devoured by others.
The common but mistaken misunderstanding of altruism as just a fancy word for kindness is a package deal, trojan horse, to get the naive and gullible to swallow the poison of altruism. But the philosophers, theologians, and intellectuals at the universities teaching the future government tyrants understand what altruism really means and demands. And their students eventually become the Simen Bondaviks, Obamas, Hillarys, AOCs, and Greta Thunbergs of the world.
“Facts don’t matter when you’re morally right” – Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
“It stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice [altruism], there’s someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there’s someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice [altruism], speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.” – Ayn Rand
“Ayn Rand – Why Altruism is Evil”
Oh God, not that video again.
Sorry, I don’t think altruism is ending anytime soon. It seems to be ingrained in our psyche. But Objectivism is definitely on the ropes.
You are so broken, so psychologically damaged and depraved, you are the archetype version of totalitarian tyrant,
Other than your silly and repetitive comments, it’s good thing that you have zero influence over anything or anybody.
Is Simem Bondevik transgender? He sure looks like a women to me
His lips are too thin, and his chin is too strong, but otherwise he does look like a they/them.
S/he/them/zir would probably say “I have no ‘toxic masculinity’!” Like Jazz Jennings. Or Barack Hussein Osama and Justin Castreau.
Yeah, I can’t tell if that’s a boy or a girl. Not that it matters to his beloved islamopithecines. They’d be more than happy to rape it either way. They’re not picky that way. Even its name is asexual. “Simen Bondevik.” Sounds like something I’d leave in a condom.
A soy-boi with no chance of survival in the future it wants to impose on our world.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED ….H G WELLS PREDICTED THIS OVER A 100 YEARS AGO
YOUTUBE ..THE TIME MACHINE /MEET THE ELOI / BOOKS CRUMBLE TO DUST (3mins)
This is Western Europe committing suicide by decadent government
Not only is it the dearth of masculinity and common sense, it’s the dearth of the ”Grown Up”
Nor is it surprising that Norway, Sweden and Denmark are the most spineless and decadent as they all avoided WW1 and did their best to avoid WW2, even then surrendering with very little fighting and enduring a relatively benign German occupation . Without the Allies they have never regained their liberty
The fact is that we humans can survive struggle and adversity, but none too much peace and prosperity without becoming feminised, spineless, decadent and degenerate
The YouTube clip from the Time Machine movie is worth three minutes.
“The Time Machine?” Oh. I thought that was a clip of a typical school library, without the porn.
All thats missing is the stupid smart phones, the iconic tattoos and the bi-s*xuals
Yep, if a photo can be worth a 1000 words then this is it ; All thats missing is the stupid smart phones, the iconic tattoos and the bi-s*xuals
So primitive, brutish, savagery, violence, privation, and starvation, is the ideal social system for mankind. The Muslims agree, the Communists agree, the Nazis agree, the Antebellum South agrees.
“Get those whips and concentration camps out boys, their good for the soul!”
You would fit right in with the Muslims, the Communists, the Nazis and the old South.
I love everything Bruce writes. Powerful, strong, clear as steel logical truth about matters that, honestly, ain’t rocket science. But simple truth is almost unspeakable these days. Thank, Bruce, indeed.
You took the words right off my keyboard.
Look up this name: Horst Kasner. He’s the reason Germany fell to the Muslims in 2015.
“his grandfather, Kjell Magne Bondevik, was the country’s prime minister.”
That in itself should prevent him being elected, this is corruption and abuse of power using his families influence.
Mr. Bawer’s words are to live by and I stand ready to criticize the destructors of Norway Sweden Germany by the muslim hordes. But I live in America, you know the country with a mind numbing memorial to a muslim attack that slaughtered over 3000 of my fellow countrymen. And just yesterday a muslim assassinated by ambush an American LEO in FARGO NDAK for crying out loud and the local powers that be are navel gazing as to WHY?????? Yeah Bruce we’re all in trouble and looking to Charles Martel to rise from the ramparts and save us yet again.
It’s up to us, the people, to not only speak up loudly, but also act swiftly and constantly to stop the islamic infestation.
This gutless pandering fool should take up residence a muslim cesspool enclave.
The punk would either learn why they’re called “No Go zones”, or be buried in one.
Geert has had attempts on his life from muslims, and threatened with prison from politicians – politicians who know Geert won’t park a car-bomb in front of their house, but the “religion-of-peace” most certainly will.
Why are Norwegians letting children run their country? The Nazi occupation was only 80 years ago. Did they learn nothing.
This is what happens when you let children run things. Is this stupid child trans gender BTW. Something looks seriously off with him.
He looks like a sissy and most likely is one.
Yeah, he/she/it takes it up the butt.
Thanks for another good analysis, Bruce. I hope we, and others, will wake up.
There is an issue missing in this article.
At issue is not only that islamic enclaves never integrate into the host (which is very bad in itself). Imagine, that some other foreign people do integrate well and become productive citizens: yet they are ethnically different people!
Shouldn’t Norway – and any mono-ethnic nation X – be concerned to preserve its own ethnicity as the first priority? Many of the European nations are small a few million people nations only. If they let in foreigners even well-behaved and productive, their own ethnicity will dissolve until it disappears! That must be the main concern of every non-suicidal nation!
If Bondevik could achieve the level of “shit for brains” , he could be Justin Trudeau!
Speaking the language is irrelevant. It doesn’t change the cultural baggage 3d world immigrants bring with or are raise with. I an confident most of the 2d and 3d generation “cultural enrichers” who want to destroy western culture and society speak the language of their host country fluently. “it’s the immigrants who don’t bother to sign up for it, and who spend decades living in Norway without being able to speak more than a few mangled words of the language.”
The problem will never be solved by peaceful means. At some point the multkulti friction must lead to violence. My concern is that soy boy wimps like this hereditary elitist sprog will postpone the event until there are so many orks that the native Europeans will be defeated. Far better to get rid of Islam in Europe now, while there is at least a chance of success
Germans have always been a conservative people, but due to Holocaust and war guilt, they are more liberal/open borders than the Nordics
The Lady Benevolent mindset and the mindset of Noblesse Oblige are where those who are pampered and sheltered go to be honored and celebrated, and to feel good about themselves—quite apart from having to have too much involvement in the nitty gritty of whatever they are celebrating themselves for.
The mindset is a perfect vehicle for clever and ambitious people to make use of in order to accomplish the kind of goals that most of (at least the older) Lady Bountiful types probably WOULDN’’T sign up for. (Gen Z may be so mind-blown that they really ARE on board with the ugly reality behind the euphemisms and the platitudes they regurgitate.)
And a further thought: mass migration will combine with shutdowns in energy and food production in predictable and foreseeable ways.
As resources are made artificially more scarce than they need to be, things will get ugly..
Wait till there’s not enough food—thanks to the same cohort of virtue -signalers bringing you open borders.
Simen Bondevik is head of the youth division of the party “Sentrum” (founded 2020).
The Centre Party (founded 1920) is a different party.