Born Free, Shabana Rehman | So why couldn’t they just grease up slices of bread, these immigrant women?

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In recent months, the news that the Born Free organization, led by Shabana Rehman, has lost its state support, has been constantly in the news.

Some kind of urgent questioning from Ernst & Young, coupled with a poor report, has been the reason, plus a couple of whistleblowers.

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The online newspaper has followed the case closely, and editor and commentator Erik Stephansen has written quite lengthy and detailed comments on the flawed report.

Morten Strøknes has also done the same in the weekly Dag og Tid.

It was revealed yesterday that an additional millions are now being withheld in operational support to the organization.

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On losing the foothold of the platform

This is how “Cancel culture” works.

You never get a concrete answer. Someone’s feelings have been hurt, there is talk of discomfort, hurt feelings. Some speculate, others gossip and that’s how it goes bad.

And voila! Some have lost their platform. In recent months, this has affected Shabana.

The week before, it was Kadra who was the guest of a women’s seminar under the auspices of Dialogforum Østfold. There is talk of “malaise” again. Then you “mutter somehow”, like Houdini.

This is what “Cancel Culture” is all about. Vague statements, gossip and “Fifty shades of nothing.”

Interestingly, it is mostly secular forces that “retreat.”

There are millions of budgets for religious who do theater and show after show at NRK. There is a storm of complaints against NRK, but boy, nothing is apologized or canceled.

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– Unheard of and rude

We have heard of these vague accusations against Shabana. “Alcohol” was served! Imagine that immigrant women, who are going to help other immigrant women, drink wine at dinner where the guests of your seminars had been invited from abroad.

It’s so outrageous and “rude”!

Born Free, by the way, has done 30 seminars. More than any other organization. When other organizations do the same, that’s okay.

But immigrant women? That is the limit! God forbid!

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Dogs, spa and catering

Then there are their dogs. Someone must have taken care of them for her. Think about it! Or the trip to the spa with Zahid Ali, blink blink … A spa hotel, which also had a seminar room, or was it really the other way around? And the catering that was done by family members at the last minute as an emergency solution?

So why couldn’t they just grease up slices of bread, these immigrant women?

I have nothing to do with Born Free. He wasn’t their partner or anything.

However, one problem I noticed with Shabana was when she invited me and several social debaters to her birthday party a couple of years ago.

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YMCA for everyone

It was pretty wild. People who couldn’t even be invited to sit on the same panel had managed to gather under one roof: to celebrate.

We even danced together at the YMCA. Laity and religious, politicians and artists.

I remember well when he gave his speech. He expressed his joy that it was so good that everyone was gathered here, different people of different origins and ethnicities.

It should be so, he said smiling. It’s in!

We immigrants cannot cooperate

His words were about reconciliation and cooperation. For some reason, it is exactly one of the things that immigrants cannot do; it is to cooperate and unify.

We must bring clan and religion and our tribal wars here to Norway.

We can’t cooperate, we have to get on each other’s back. We work together in a way, but not “horizontal” and equally. We are the first man to come, you know.

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And when envious Norwegians, especially women, politicians and comrades, are added to the mix, the result is “dynamite.”

I am not writing this for Shabana. I write this out of fear of the future.

If it is the case that people like Shabana and Kadra have to be invited and canceled, then the race has been made for people like me and others.

Or as they say in great English; then we are done.