Clash Of The Gods: It's Odin Versus Allah In Norway Where Social Upheaval Looms Large | Zero Hedge

Clash Of The Gods: It's Odin Versus Allah In Norway Where Social Upheaval Looms Large

Last month, we introduced you to “The Soldiers of Odin.”

The “soldiers” are Nordic patriots dedicated to keeping the streets of Finland, Sweden, and Norway safe from the threat posed by marauding gangs of Mid-East migrants hell bent on accosting women.

Well that, or they’re the Nordic equivalent of a biker gang set to capitalize on a groundswell of nationalistic fervor drummed up by the far-right in the wake of Europe’s worsening migrant crisis.

Obviously, the truth is somewhere in-between, but there’s significant comedic value in presenting the extremes.

In any event, the Finnish chapter of the “soldiers” says the group merely seeks to serve as a “preventive soothe” (to quote a Google translation of a statement from National Police Commissioner Seppo Kolehmainen) against the growing threat posed by refugees.

But not everyone sees it that way. "The leaders of the 'Soldiers of Odin' are proven to have criminal backgrounds, in cases of racist violence and other violent or drug offenses," Dan Koivulaakso, local politician and expert on rights movements in Finland says. The movement has spread to Norway, as is evident from the following visual: 

“Progress of course doesn’t give unlimited support to the Soldiers of Odin. But the situation is that we have for a long time had a situation in our streets that nobody wants, where crimes are committed and other actions we don’t want occur and the Norwegian police don’t have the resources to do the job. Thus we think that any citizen who wants to contribute to reducing insecurity and reducing crime should be praised for it,” the Progress Party’s Jan Arlid Ellingsen said earlier this week.

Norwegian PM Erna Solberg (who recently said she was willing to effectively contravene the Geneva Convention to keep Norway's border safe in the event Sweden "collapses") went out of her way to distance herself from the group. “The Soldiers of Odin have no place in keeping the streets safe. Dangerous values. Ellingsen’s remarks do not represent the government,” a Twitter post reads. 

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