Hege Storhaug is an intelligent, courageous Human Rights activist who lives in Norway. Here’s an excerpt from an article “Hege Storhaug, Fighting for Human Rights in Norway” by Bruce Bawer:
Fewer have heard of Hege Storhaug, who for many years has been fighting the same fight in Norway. She is co-founder and information director of Human Rights Service, a non-partisan think tank in Oslo that studies problems arising out of Norway’s ethnic and religious diversity – especially those affecting Muslim women and children whose rights are denied to them by the imams and family patriarchs that run their communities – and proposes policy changes.
HRS, which Storhaug founded with her partner, Rita Karlsen, in 2001, has focused public attention on such widespread phenomena as forced marriage, honor killing, female genital mutilation (a brutal procedure performed on small girls in many immigrant communities), divorce rights (a Muslim man can divorce his wife at will, while a Muslim wife seeking divorce is subjected by sharia law to a long, drawn-out procedure which may or may not go her way), the abuse of immigration laws, and the sending of Norwegian Muslim children to their parents’ homelands to attend primitive schools where they learn only about the Koran.
HRS has trained a spotlight on these problems – and challenged politicians and bureaucrats to take action. Read the rest of Bruce Bawer’s article HERE.
