A Mullah deprived of his rights?!?

The Iraqi/Kurdish Mullah Krekar has just managed to top a long list of ridiculous statements. This time he is claiming that he has lost all his rights, that he has been labeled a threat to the Norwegian state, and that he has been deprived of social security and any possibility to work in Norway, where he has been staying the last 16 years. Mullah Krekar came to Norway as a refugee from Iraq in 1991. I`ll leave the last couple of statements alone and concentrate on the first one, that he`s been deprived of his "rights".

After having been the leader of Ansar al-Islam, having threatened Norway with revenge in form of terrorist acts in case he will be expelled, and having publicly declared his support for Osama bin Laden and his war against western civilization, it is amusing that Mullah Krekar got the nerve to claim any rights at all. And in response to his victimizing of himself in this respect; of course it is reasonable to label him as a threat to the state.

In any state, its members (which by I mean the people living in it, including refugees, e.g. Mullah Krekar) has got certain rights and certain obligations. One of the most basic obligations, of course, is not to harm or destroy the society in which you live. If you cannot even fulfill this obligation, how can you even think of claiming to have any rights in this society? Can you really expect the state to do anything for you then? Personally, I don`t think so.

So in Mullah Krekar`s case the Norwegian state has more than given him his rights. The main reason for not expelling Mullah Krekar is that Iraq will not give any promise that Krekar will not be tortured or killed if he returns to Iraq. Thus, the Norwegian state cannot expell him.

This threat of being tortured or killed if he returns, is something that Mullah Krekar seems to have an on-and-off fear of. It is not, it seems, his main concern when he goes on holiday to Iraq. When he is in Norway, though, it seems to be a very overhanging danger that he will be tortured and killed if he returns..