What passes for fair comment in Norway

http://www.israelwhat.com/2011/08/08/hate-speech-of-the-day-a-poem/

August 8, 2011
By McGonagall

The “eclatante” poem below is a talkback to an oped on Nye Meninger, the debate forum for the Labour mouthpiece dagsavisen on June 29, 2011

The oped deals with the failed flotilla, and is, in and of itself, insignificant, riddled with homemade definitions of international Law, but in the end risible, although it does trigger an urge to curl toes and fingers in deep embarrassment for such lack of knowledge.

My jaws however, drop open with disbelief and disgust on finding this talkback, even worse, that the moderator would let it slip through:

There is an ugly holy cow

Some place in the Middle East

The cow’s name is Israel

No guarantee for peace

She is so big and ugly and fat

eating ever more

do not care for other’s rights

has no idea of common sense

taking every opportunity

thirst for what is yours

rushing over lands and fields

a self-declared matriarch

with demonic appetite

oh-brrr

A cow which gores

the cow sees herself as sacred

yet is megalomaniac

lying there, masticating

burping political absurdity

one day the race shall be over

probably it shall find it’s grave

at the bottom of the Dead sea

people will wonder

was it murder

No, it was mad cow disease.

The author of the light verse above, Helge Vladimir Tiller is born in 1941, lives in Oslo, and is a regular contributor to Dagsavisen, Norway’s leading left wing daily, commonly regarded as the mouthpiece of the Norwegian Labor party.