Where Quistling Went

In 1941 one of Norway's own, like America's Benedict Arnold, Vidkun Quistling, helped the Nazis take Norway, furthering his own craving for power. He was responsible for the deportation of Jews to slaughter, for encouraging Norwegians to volunteer for the SS and for keeping Norway pacified throughout World War II.

The tumor was excised: Quistling and two of his fellows were executed for crimes of high treason. But it had already metastasized. Norway, over the years, has become a haven for anti-semitic hate speech. And where the Norwegian church had distanced itself from Quistling, and kept him from power until he grabbed it, the same church has been notably quiet in its to the rising tide of hate speech.

The current "seminar" series composed exclusively of anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist speakers, with not even a cursory nod to providing a balanced viewpoint, is as much an indictment of Norwegian intelligencia (which eschewed Quistling) as it is for a modern government that has abdicated its role as an active part of the Norwegian people.

The Norwegian's have been quistled again, and again by their own people.