النرويج: اتهام سياسي تقدمي بجريمة كراهية بسبب الاستهزاء بالمسلمين

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

تعرَّض "جوني أولاوسين" مرشح الحزب التقدمي لمنصب عمدة مدينة "جمفيك" بمقاطعة "فينمارك الشمالية" في "النرويج" - للاتهام بجريمة كراهية، وذلك بعد تقديمه مقطعًا تمثيليًّا ساخرًا ينتقد فيه علاقة المرأة المسلمة بزوجها.

وقد قام السياسي المتهم بتلوين وجهه بالأسود والاستهزاء بالمسلمين في مقطع وصفه السياسيون بالعنصرية التي طالت المعتقَد وشعائره، وكذلك العِرق.

وقد أعرب ممثل حزب المحافظين المشارك للحزب التقدمي بالحكومة عن أسفه للمضايقة التي تعرض لها المسلمون، خاصةً وأن الحزب التقدمي يتبنى جدول أعمال يقوم على تبنِّي مواقفَ مناهضة للهجرة والأجانب؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Progress mayor blacks up for Muslim sketch

A mayoral candidate for Norway’s ruling Progress Party has been accused of hate crimes after he blacked up his face for a sketch lampooning Muslim women who are beaten by their husbands.

Johnny Olaussen, who Progress has put forward to be mayor of Gamvik in Norway's far northern Finnmark county, performed the sketch at a party meeting over the weekend.

“They’re blacking themselves up and ridiculing foreigners,” Annik Eriksson from the Nora centre against violence and abuse told NRK. “These are hate crimes. The Progress Party must reject this and apologise.”

“This is just ‘good old-fashioned racist humour’,” added Rune Berglund Steen of the Norwegian Centre against Racism. "Blackface originated in the US and was a coarse, racist representation of African Americans as stupid. There would be a public outcry if anyone in political circles were to do anything like this in the US."

But Per Sandberg, the party's deputy leader, who was at the event, said he saw nothing wrong with the sketch.

"It is so politically correct that I can not help but laugh at the criticism," he said. "I am totally unconcerned about what the Norwegian Centre against Racism thinks today, yesterday or tomorrow. They are totally frivolous and have no agenda other than to tell untruths."

Jo Inge Hesjevik, the local head of the Conservative party, which together with Progress forms Norway's ruling coalition government, said that he would never have allowed such a sketch at one of his meetings.

“I believe my Muslim friends would experience this as hurtful. This isn’t something I could allowed in a Conservative meeting,” he said.