Discopants and Haircuts

I belong to this forum in yahoo called "New To Oslo." I think the idea is a great one. Connect people from other countries, living in a new one,  to each other so they may share their experience and knowledge about anything under the sun. Today I saw someone ask where they could find mustard seed. Sure enough, someone answered them.

It’s also a great place to meet up with others like yourself. They have a monthly ‘pub’ night where everyone gets together to share stories and meet face-to-face.

 It’s also a place where people can discuss topics that may be difficult to discuss with people in your new adopted country.

 Well, being the wonderful person I am, decided to post a link to a news articles about how there has been an ever increasing rate of rapes in Norway, Sweden and several other countries by immigrants of Muslim descent. I posted it with this message:

Very scary and interesting. I haven’t seen this in the papers here but find the news disturbing enough to pass it on. I hope we all keep an open mind and remember a small few’s actions  don’t represent everyone.  And yes. it is a Conservative Zine.. Take it all with a grain of salt.

Link

I checked several sources online that found this information to have some merit.

Well, all hell broke loose after that. I was told this stuff wasn’t appropriate for the forum, I was offending people and that this was all a joke. In other words, people reacted.. many as if they didn’t even read what I had written.

Many jumped in and a few, one who is Muslim, defended my point. I simply wanted to ask and discuss whether others had encountered or read about this.

Then, I got this e-mail from a girl I met in town who is in the forum… She said something to me that made a whole lot of sense.

Whenever you bring up a minority group, people feel that they are being "objective" by just defending the minority, but they don’t care to analyze the issue at hand and therefore become very subjective in their opinions. It is no different than when you bring up the boy/girl issue. Let’s face it, there are things boys are better at than girls–it’s been proven, but don’t ever say that to a feminist! You’ll only get arguments that have no proof. I believe in equal rights, but I am a realist as well! 

Amen to that..