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This book has significantly altered my world view. I've been one of those western liberals, thinking that Islam is mostly about peace and that the violence of it stems only from the fanatics. I'm revising that stance now and am wondering how I could ever have been so blind.

Here in Norway, where I live, everyone is ever so willing to adapt to immigrants. We change our school traditions so that we do not offend people who have chosen to come here. It's ridiculous. It would never happen the other way around. This book confirms my view and is concerned at how (some) asylum seekers form enclaves and refuse to adapt to western society. I saw this particularly during the years I lived in Germany, with the Muslim women who could not speak a word of German. I too was an immigrant, but I learned German enough to get by in six months.

I am straying. Anyhow. This book is about the life of Ayaan. She is Somali and grew up in several countries. Already in the 1980's Somalia was being torn apart in internal fighting between clans. Her story is quite horrid. The subjugation of women in the name of Islam was everywhere, starting with the female gender mutiliation of children. Women's sexuality must be repressed at any cost, otherwise society would fall apart, Ayaan was told. When her father finally, after many years of absence, decide to marry her off to a man she had never met, she balked and ran away to Holland. The second part of the book is about Ayaan's emancipation from clan and religion.

This is a powerful book about a woman with more strength and courage than I thought imaginable. The conent has shaken me to my core. Highly recommended.

What school traditions have been changed in Norway because of muslim immigrants?

Kanskje hun tenker på kristendomsfaget? Men å si at dette er endret på grunn av muslimske innvandrere blir feil, da dette faget har vært i endring lenge på grunn av at Norge også faglig er blitt mer åpen i forhold til religionsfrihet og andre (ikkereligiøse) livssyn. Eller kanskje det er "Nisseluetradisjonen" ?

Hvis du tenker på denne saken i fra Buskerud 2011 var det ikke muslimer det gjaldt:

"Elever ble nektet å bruke nisseluer

Avgjørelsen om at man droppet nisseluer og gjorde juleavslutningen om til en vinterfest er ikke tatt av hensyn til elever med fremmedkulturell bakgrunn, sier rektor.

Les mer: http://www.nrk.no/buskerud/1.7914172

Kildekritikk blir bare viktigere. På sosiale medier lever historier som denne sitt eget liv.

Nei, det blir jo litt som med dette ramaskriket mot muslimer pga hun som ikke fikk bruke korset på TV. " Alle " bare gikk ut ifra det selvfølgelig var muslimer som sto bak. Det var det je egentlig mente, at både kristendomsfaget og nisseluetradisjonen er noe som skyldes uberettiget på muslimer. Ser jo nå at akkurat dét ikke kom frem i kommentaren min.

Uansett bra om andre som har hørt om nissenekten uten å ha fått med alt ser det:) Bra at du gir et annet eksempel også.