Angry in the Great White North

From YNet News:

A teacher working at an adult education center who has been told to stop wearing a Star of David because it "provokes the many Muslim students at the school" in 2004 is now considering legal action against the ban, the Norwegian television network NRK has reported.

School head Kjell Gislefoss, said he thought that the Star of David can be seen to represent the State of Israel and is fearful of offending the school's Muslim students, citing immigrants from the Palestinian territories.

"The Star of David would be a symbol for one side in what is perhaps the world's most inflamed conflict at the moment."

"Many have a traumatic past that they have escaped and then we feel that if they are going to learn Norwegian then they can't sit an at the same time be reminded of the things they have traveled from," said Gislefoss.

You think the first thing they need to learn is that in Norway in particular, and in the West in general, an individual's religion is supposed to be irrelevant.

Funny thing is, of course, that the teacher in question isn't even Jewish.

A primary reason to emigrate is to escape the violence, not to bring it with you.

But in Norway, there is an assumption that immigrants who are Muslims will not be able to control themselves, and must not be provoked. So without any complaint on record, much less a violent reaction, school head Kjell Gislefoss has turned on a fellow Norwegian and put the Muslims in charge of policy.

At least famous Norwegian Vidkun Quisling had the decency to wait until Germany actually invaded on April 9, 1940, before turning tail.