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March 18, 2006
Norway: Ansar al-Islam Leader Soon To Be Deported
We earlier linked to an interview with Mullah Krekar, who currently resides in Norway. Mullah Krekar is the founder of the Islamist group Ansar-al-Islam, a Kurdish Iraqi group, responsible for street killings of women who do not wear the burka.
The full name of the group is Ansar al-Islam fi Kurdistan, or "Supporters of Islam in Kurdistan". In Iraq its main activities are around Halabja in the Hawraman region of Sulaimaniya province, which lies next to Iran. It was founded in September 2001, and its terror activities have led it to placed on a UK list of banned groups. As well as slaughtering women deemed "un-Islamic", the group has burned down beauty salons and has burned a school for girls.
Though not a member of the EU, Norway suffers from European tolerance of the intolerable, and has allowed Mullah Krekar (pictured above) to claim sanctuary, and he is currently free to travel and to preach his messages of hate. Though based in Norway, he has regularly travelled back to Iraq to found and organise the Ansar al-Islam group, while showing no loyalty to his Scandinavian host nation, which has given him and his children shelter for the past fourteen years.
Last September Krekar made a veiled threat against his host, while reacting to a decision by the Norwegian authorities to plan to have him deported back to Iraq.
An order was made in February 2003 by Cabinet Minister Erna Solberg, stating he should be expelled from Norway. He made a statement to Al Jazeera TV on August 31 2005 that he would face torture and a death sentence if returned, and said that "everyone must know" that such a move "is an offence that shouldn't be made without punishment."
He stated "I have faith in Allah. I defend my rights in their court just like Western people defend their rights. I am patient like they are patient. But if my patience runs out, I will react like Orientals do." He would not be pressed to reveal what reactions would be made.
Recently, moves for Krekar's deportation have been stepped up. Norwegian Minister of Labor and Social Inclusion, Bjarne Hakon Hanssen has said that Kerkar could be on a plane to Iraw within two months, states Aftenposten.
A president and new government will be appointed by Iraq's national assembly within 60 days.
Speaking to Norwegian newspaer Dagbladet, the minister said that there is no reason to wait for the Court of Appeals to deal with Krekar's complaints. As soon as the new government is sworn in and agrees to accept Krekar, the minister said that the only caveat required now is a guarantee from the Iraqi government to not submit the Mullah, who openly supports bin Laden, to the death penalty upon his arrival.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at March 18, 2006 8:52 AM
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