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"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul in the process?" - Mark 8:36
Eiglad also mentions that, through two left-wing bodies, Blitz and Anti-Fascist Action, he had participated "in mobilizations against neo-Nazis and other fascists in Sweden, Germany, Denmark as well as Norway. I've engaged in street fighting.”
Since I can’t possibly do a better job of reviewing the book than did Dr Manfred Gerstenfeld, I reproduce some of it here:
“The book covers a period of four days - 8-11 January 2009 - and also includes some later reflections about what Eiglad witnessed. In the first paragraph he writes: "I never thought I would live to see anti-Jewish riots in the Norwegian capital."
The author, Eiglad, who lives outside Oslo, notes that he writes from a leftist perspective: "I am a social-ecologist, believing in direct democracy, the Enlightenment and a libertarian form of socialism.”
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As the anti-Israeli incitement in Norway by much of the so-called "progressive elite," the anti-Semitism there, and the hate manifestations get little attention abroad, it is best first to relate the essence of the author's story. Eiglad was visiting Oslo on Thursday, 8 January, a cold day with icy winds, when two demonstrations against the Gaza war took place. There was also a pro-Israeli demonstration; the participants were gathered in a fenced-off area, protected by the police, while Hamas supporters were throwing bottles and small rocks at them.
Eiglad, who was standing outside this area, was attacked by a number of what he calls "first- and second-generation" immigrants who thought he was pro-Israeli or, even worse, a Jew. It is not considered politically correct in Norway to be more precise and call the attackers "violent Muslims."
Later, the author watched a demonstration in "favor of peace," in which about ten thousand people participated. Some of them shouted "Kill the Jews" or "Slaughter the Jews" in Arabic. A leaflet handed out suggested that people "empty their trash outside the synagogue" and "place pig heads on the cemetery."
After there were calls to burn the Israeli embassy, a number of demonstrators went over to the building but found it heavily guarded. They then smashed the windows of a nearby beauty salon that belongs to a well-known homosexual. In addition, several pro-Israeli people were beaten up or injured. Eiglad titles the chapter dealing with that Thursday, "I Have Seen the Future."
He relates that the next day, the daily Dagbladet's website showed a video of youths kicking to the ground a seventy-three-year-old man, Sverre Martin Haug, who was carrying an Israeli flag, while shouting "Bloody Jew - get him!" Two young Muslims rescued Haug, and the other Muslim youths stopped attacking him because they realized that he was a non-Jewish Norwegian.
Two days later a pro-Palestinian demonstration took place. In addition to Muslims, many socialists also participated. [Author’s note: This is the demonstration at which then Finance Minister, now Education Minister Kristin Halvorsen, the leader of the Socialist Left Party, was photographed.]
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