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The Nissan Juke-R sliding around Losna Isbane Ice Track in Norway

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Two Brave Women Honored for Speaking Out About Extremism in Norway

"Louiza Louhibi, an atheist who grew up with Muslim parents, has attracted front-page attention in Norway, first for speaking out on behalf of rape victims and then for alerting police and anti-terror investigators to videos on Islamic websites that threatened Norway’s royal family and members of the government.

Louhibi, a 21-year-old rape victim herself, ended up being the target of harassment and threats for her efforts to counter the shame many rape victims feel, and especially for reporting the threats made against Norwegian officials. She received horrific messages and was the subject of online debate of the lowest sort on extremist websites, where some wrote that she’d deserved to be raped (allegedly for wearing western-style clothing and daring to walk alone at night), that she had no right to complain about being raped, and that she even deserved to be killed or raped again.

Several of those threatening Louhibi also hail Mullah Krekar, the Muslim cleric who remains jailed in Oslo pending appeal of a five-year prison term for threatening both terrorist acts and death against named individuals including Erna Solberg, the head of Norway’s Conservative Party.

Meanwhile, Sara Azmeh Rasmussen, who immigrated to Norway from Syria in 1995, has been carrying on her efforts to promote tolerance, improve the rights of persons regardless of sexual identity and criticize Islam over what she views as its lack of tolerance and repression of women and homosexuals. Rasmussen has been a frequent participant in demonstrations and commentator in the media, not least in newspaper Aftenposten.

Both women thus earned special recognition recently from the Norwegian foundation dedicated to preserving freedom of expression, Fritt Ord. Louhibi won Fritt Ord’s Honnør prize for 2012, for her bravery in the debate over sexual violence against women and for actively opposing extremist attitudes based on religion and politics. The Honnør prize recognizes valuable work within freedom of expression, often tied to a specific issue.

Rasmussen won Fritt Ord’s highest award, just three years after publicly criticizing the foundation for awarding its Fritt Ord Pris to Nina Karin Monsen, a Norwegian philosopher who has fought against Norway’s partnership law for homosexuals. “When a highly respected institution that’s a powerful player in cultural life rewards a representative for intolerance, there’s reason for concern,” Rasmussen wrote in Aftenposten in 2009, when Monsen won the prize.

The foundation recognizes freedom of expression in all its forms, however, and Rasmussen accepted her own prize earlier this month. She now lives in Stockholm but most of her family remains in Syria, a country now caught in bloody conflict between the government and opposition forces. Rasmussen continues to speak out against the regime she fled.""Louiza Louhibi, an atheist who grew up with Muslim parents, has attracted... more

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Cold Response 2012 - NATO are preparing for a new kind of Cold War in the Arctic

The Western campaign for global dominance has reached the top of the world. To the... more

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How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the '1 Percent'

Scandinavian workers realized that, electoral “democracy” was stacked... more

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Norway terrorist asks for military honours at hearing

Norwegian law enforcement officials never did release the evidence of additional... more

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Crystallomancy brings the best of Norway's art scene to LA's Control Room

LA's own William Kaminski and Evelena Ruether of Control Room proudly bring to... more

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Swedish Professor links Israel to Norway Terror Massacre

Never forget the mainstream media, quoting bloggers masquarading as "intelligence... more

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Buttered Up: Colbert Mocks Norway's Butter Shortage (VIDEO)

Norwegians have depleted their butter reserves due to a high-fat, low-carb diet craze... more

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In-House Artist Interview with Eddie Jensen, Artist for digital hobo

An interview with Norwegian artist, Eddie Jensen.

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Norway offers residence permits in exchange for children

This from Pravda - so take with a grain of salt...... Norway offers residence... more

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Norway Killer Anders Behring Breivik Retraces Island Massacre Steps

Pointing his finger like a gun, the monster who killed 69 people in the Norwegian... more

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Teenage Hacker Breaks Into Norway Shooter’s Email

Hackers have reportedly broken into Norway shooter Anders Behring Breivik's email... more

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If a Married Lesbian Couple Saves 40 Teens from the Norway Massacre and No One Writes About it, Did it Really Happen?

By this point, most of you have heard about the tragedy in Norway a few weeks ago when... more

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Anders Behring Breivik Could End Up in Halden Prison - a Luxury Jail

Anders Behring Breivik Could End Up in Halden Prison - a Luxury Jail...According to... more

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Oslo Killer Was a Microsoft Word Fanatic

In his 1500-page manifesto—spammed to one thousand people more than one hour... more

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Norwegian Massacre Suspect Breivik May Die In Prison

In the days following Friday's attacks it was revealed the maximum sentence that... more

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Norway attacks: 'No proof of UK link to Breivik'

Norway's domestic intelligence chief has told the BBC no proof has yet been found... more

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Hysteria

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Norway attacks: Anders Behring Breivik is 'insane' says lawyer

The lawyer defending Anders Behring Breivik, the suspect behind the horrific terror... more

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English Defence League (EDL) leader interviewed on Newsnight about the tragic events in Norway

The English Defence League (EDL) has defended claims that Anders Behring Breivik, who... more

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