Three immigrants raped a 17-year-old and laughed at her in court. Yet podcaster Øyunn Krogh believes that the real scandal is that people are talking about it. “For most people, the most shocking thing about the case would be the brutality, the total lack of respect for the victim.
In the podcast Coffee Bowl with Øyunn Krogh and Frida Hollund, Document’s TikTok video discusses one of the most grotesque rape cases in recent times. Two Somali men and an Afghan man have been convicted of an aggravated gang rape of a Norwegian 17-year-old. When the girl testified in court, her attackers reacted by laughing derisively at her.
For most people, the most shocking aspect of the case would be the brutality, the total lack of respect for the victim. Such abuse has become part of the new Norwegian reality.
When the truth becomes hate speech
Not for Krogh & co. What really upset them was that I pointed out the non-Western background of the perpetrators. According to Krogh, the fact that the perpetrators were non-Western was “the most exciting thing” for me in the case. Interesting prioritisation.</p
The fact that three men raped a girl, desecrated her during the assault and mocked her afterwards is apparently secondary. The real offence, according to them, was that someone dared to talk about ethnic and cultural factors in crime.
So indignant was Krogh that she resorted to the usual rhetorical device: She accused me and Document of spreading “hate” and “scaremongering”.
This is not just an intellectual fallacy. It’s a deliberate attempt to silence any debate about the reality of today’s multicultural Norway.
Is there really equality before the law in Norway?
Krogh claims that we have equality before the law in Norway. A claim that, at best, testifies to a fundamental naivety.
Imagine the following scenario: If three ethnic Norwegian men had gang-raped a Muslim girl, the reactions would have been completely different. The press would be unanimous in its coverage. Academics would have written long analyses about structural racism. The prosecution would probably have considered adding a hate crime to the indictment.
But when the victim is Norwegian and the perpetrators have an immigrant background, this analysis disappears like dew before the sun. Then it’s suddenly about “men” in general. Or, as in this case, about “Nordfjordinger”. Because NRK refused to write that the perpetrators were actually foreigners.
The justice of low expectations
If ethnic Norwegians have committed rape, the perpetrators are often portrayed as both immoral individuals and representatives of a toxic male culture. They have had free will and have chosen to commit a crime.
If, on the other hand, non-Western immigrants have committed rape, the whistle blows differently. Not only is the background of the perpetrators downplayed or directly misrepresented. The language goes from active to passive. It is not an Arab who has committed rape. A rape has been committed. The perpetrator disappears. The socio-economic structures take his place. Rape becomes a result of overcrowding and a lack of youth clubs. Doubt is sown. Should Norwegian girls dress more modestly? What have we done wrong in our integration policy? Isn’t the perpetrator really a victim? A victim of 500 years of white colonialism?
Every rape committed by a white Norwegian is a tragedy. 10,000 rapes committed by immigrants is a statistic.
So yes, we have equality before the law in Norway – but immigrants are slightly more equal before the law than ethnic Norwegians. The racism of low expectations, put into a legal system.
“But they were Norwegian”
One of the fads of Krogh and co. is that those convicted were “100 per cent Norwegian” because they had Norwegian citizenship.
But how Norwegian are you really if you don’t even understand the language of the country you claim to belong to? Is it an unreasonable expectation that a Norwegian citizen should be able to hold a simple conversation in Norwegian? That he should understand the judge in a court case?
However, Krogh and her sidekick went ballistic when I pointed out the obvious: If a defendant needs an interpreter to understand what’s going on in a Norwegian courtroom, on what basis can he be called Norwegian – other than as an administrative category? In that case, “Norwegian-ness” is reduced to a technocratic, abstracted view of the state, where only what is legible to the bureaucracy counts – the stamp in the passport – while culture, language and loyalty are ignored.
The numbers don’t lie – ethnicity is a factor
Krogh goes on to argue that “ethnicity has nothing to do with crime” and that it is “racist” to claim otherwise. She argues that crime is caused by poverty and exclusion – as if there is a linear relationship between economics and violence.
But this is simply not true.
According to the Store norske leksikon, ethnicity is defined as follows: “Ethnicity is an expression of the fact that a group of people perceive themselves as a distinct group in relation to others, based on a common language, culture, religion, traditions and values.” It is not, as Krogh seems to believe, about skin colour alone.
Here are the realities Krogh refuses to deal with:
– According to Statistics Norway (SSB), people with a non-Western immigrant background are greatly overrepresented in crime statistics.
– A report from the Oslo Police District (2022) showed that over 70 per cent of all assault rapes in the capital were committed by men with a non-Western background.
– The NOVA report from 2021 found that young girls in Oslo are increasingly reporting sexual harassment and assaults committed by immigrant boys.
These figures are not “racist”. They are statistics. They are hard facts.
Yet Krogh sits in his podcast and talks about how terrible it is that anyone dares to point this out at all. While Krogh lets his indignation overflow, Frida Hollund acts as a dutiful parrot on his shoulder, nodding affirmatively and repeating Krogh’s points with solemn, affected seriousness.
At one point Hollund even exclaims: “That she is not ashamed!”
Well, I’m not at all ashamed of pointing out facts that can protect future victims. The fact that Krogh and Hollund, on the other hand, are ashamed of reality says more about their morality than it does about mine.
Crime follows cultural norms
If poverty were the decisive factor, crime should be evenly distributed among all poor groups in Norway. But this is not the case.
Why don’t poor Vietnamese or Filipinos commit crime to the same extent? Why don’t we see the same rape patterns among Baltic migrant workers?
The difference lies in culture.
The difference lies in culture. And culture is not random – it is shaped by norms, values and expectations of behaviour. When women are systematically subordinated to men in certain non-Western cultures, it is not surprising that this also influences the behaviour of some men from these environments.
While Krogh poses as a liberated café feminist on NRK, many immigrant girls live under strict cultural and religious constraints that she refuses to recognise.
Racism does not only affect minorities
Krogh also argues that Norwegians can never experience racism, because we are the “majority”. However, racism is not about who is the majority, but about prejudice, discrimination and ethnic divisions.
A gang rape with racist undertones against a Norwegian girl shows that ethnic Norwegians can also be affected by racism.
According to Store norske leksikon, racism is defined as follows: “Racism is the idea that people can be divided into races based on biological or cultural traits, and that some groups are superior or inferior to others.” It is not the case that racism can only affect minorities.
When a Norwegian girl is raped by men who obviously have no respect for her, it is perfectly legitimate to ask whether ethnicity was a factor. Just as it is legitimate to ask whether ethnicity is a factor in the phenomenon of degrading robbery that is ravaging our societies in the age of mass immigration.
Sylvi Listhaug gets the blame – again
No left-wing tirade is complete without an obligatory criticism of Sylvi Listhaug.
According to Krogh, Listhaug “makes soil for these forces”. Perhaps she means that Listhaug is fuelling something? Or that she is facilitating it?
But the real grammatical blunder here is not in the choice of words, but in the logic: The left is always looking for a scapegoat when faced with problems they refuse to recognise. And here they also come up with the well-known keyword: right-wing extremism.
Because what could be more convenient than suggesting that any criticism of immigration policy has dark undertones? When the realities become too uncomfortable, the left resorts to its favourite trick: They link ordinary conservative opinions with radicalism and extremism. That way, they can dismiss the facts without discussing them.
It’s not Listhaug who has made Norwegian streets unsafe. It is not Listhaug who is behind the increasing violence in our cities. It is the new reality of our society, even if Krogh and Hollund refuse to deal with this reality.
Facts or feelings – what drives society?
What are we left with? A podcast where a former reality TV contestant – best known for crying on TV because a cow was called a “negro cow” – lectures us on crime, racism and societal problems.
We have a conversation where facts are not discussed, but disqualified and defined. Where a podcast host calls statistics “scaremongering” and analyses “hate”. Where the problem is not the rape itself or the perpetrators’ total lack of empathy – but that someone dared to mention an obvious reality: that the assailants were not Norwegian, despite what their citizenship might suggest on paper.
This isn’t analysis – it’s an emotion-based misreading of reality. It is not those who talk about facts that contribute to polarisation and distrust in society. It’s those who refuse to deal with them. Those who believe there is no woke brain virus should listen to this episode.
So thank you for the “analysis”, Øyunn and Frida. Facts can be uncomfortable, but reality unfortunately does not take into account their feelings.