Well, I guess you’ve all heard about Norway being somewhere round the top of al Qaida’s country hit-list, huh? Not quite sure what to think about that, but I would like to put the best bit of advice I can think of here in nice friendly letters:
This is a necessary bit of advice, because people are, quite clearly, panicking. A firm of builders who were contracted to build a garage for a 27-year old Norwegian who happens to have a Pakistani background have cancelled the deal. This, according to the owner, because: “Du er trolig muslim, og etter de siste muslimske terrortrusler vil ingen av mine ansatte arbeide for muslimer.” (“You’re probably a muslim and after the last muslim terror threats none of my employees want to work for muslims.”)
How daft is that? I mean, even according to their own panicky, twisted logic (“All muslims are terrorists”) this is daft. If you’re afraid of suffering a terrorist attack, surely pissing the terrorists off by refusing to build their garages is a bad idea?
I also like (as in “would be amused by, if it wasn’t all so sad”) the “trolig” (“probably”).
Voice in my head: Bob Dylan – Masters of War