Walid al-Kubaisi

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Walid al-Kubaisi
Born(1958-02-09)9 February 1958
Baghdad, Iraq
Died31 July 2018(2018-07-31) (aged 60)
Oslo, Norway
CitizenshipNorwegian
Alma materUniversity of Baghdad
Occupation(s)Author, translator, journalist
AwardsSkjervheim Award (2003)
Fritt Ord Honorary Award (2016)

Walid al-Kubaisi (9 February 1958 – 31 July 2018) was a Norwegian-Iraqi author, writer, journalist, translator and government scholar. He notably criticised the alleged influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe in the documentary film Freedom, Equality and the Muslim Brotherhood in 2010.[1]

Personal life and career

Al-Kubaisi was born in Baghdad, Iraq, and received a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering at the University of Baghdad.[2] He fled Iraq as a political refugee in 1981 owing to war,[3] first to Syria and Lebanon, before he arrived in Norway in 1986[4] and gained Norwegian citizenship.[5] He regarded himself as an "apostate" shortly after his arrival in Norway,[2] an "atheist" in 2008,[2] but a "secular Muslim" in 2010,[6] and was from 2016 a board member of Ex-Muslims of Norway.[7]

In addition to writing books himself, he translated selected Norwegian literature by Erling Kittelsen, Håvard Rem, Jan Olav Brynjulfsen, Kirsti Blom, Camilla Juel Eide, Arnljot Eggen, Ingvar Ambjørnsen, Kjell Askildsen and Dag Solstad to Arabic.[8] He also translated Arabic poetry to Norwegian: poems by Faisal Hashmi in 2008 and by Eftikhar Ismaeil in 2010.[9][10]

He was nominated to the Brage Prize in 1996,[8] and won the Skjervheim Award in 2003.[1] He was appointed a government scholar in 2006,[1] and received the Fritt Ord Honorary Award in 2016.[11]

He worked as a journalist for the weekly newspaper Dag og Tid for the last fifteen years of his life. Like the written form used by the newspaper, he was very fond of the written standard Nynorsk.[4]

He wrote the script for the 2010 documentary film Freedom, Equality and the Muslim Brotherhood, which was directed by Per Christian Magnus.[1]

Al-Kubaisi died in 2018 of cancer.[4]

Views on political Islam

Al-Kubaisi argued that the

Iranian revolution, and that it, unlike national Islamic dresses such as the burqa, is a dress exclusively created for the universal political Islamist movement.[12]

He claimed that Tariq Ramadan was an Islamist, who "spoke with two tongues": smoothly and articulate in the West, yet purely Islamist in the Muslim community and the suburbs. He held that Ramadan sought to Islamise the West, but in a more patient manner than the likes of Osama bin Laden.[6]

He believed that the Muslim Brotherhood was the "mother organization" for the world's Islamist political ideology. He said that the Muslim Brotherhood has a plan to conquer Europe by the hijab, high birth rates and democracy; Islamists were exploiting Western democracy to reach their own anti-democratic goals.[12] His 2010 documentary Freedom, Equality and the Muslim Brotherhood discussed this, in which he also interviewed several Arab intellectuals who espoused his views.[13] He also claimed that notable Norwegian Muslims such as Mohammad Usman Rana, Lena Larsen and Basim Ghozlan represented the ideology of the Brotherhood in Norway, and that Abid Raja of the Norwegian Liberal Party was a "running boy" for Islamists.[14]

He has been described by social anthropologist Sindre Bangstad and Mohammad Usman Rana as a "propagator of

Eurabia-views", and that his documentary echoed "Eurabia-literature".[15][16] His documentary also proved very popular on counter-jihad websites.[2] In February 2011, al-Kubaisi participated in a meeting hosted by Stop Islamisation of Norway where he held a speech,[17] after having established contacts with the organisation since 2004.[18]

Works

Bibliography

Documentary film

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Walid al-Kubaisi". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 3 March 2013.
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  3. ^ "Walid al-Kubaisi". Morgenbladet (in Norwegian). 3 December 2010. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 19 December 2010.
  4. ^ a b c "Forfattar, målmann og samfunnsdebatant Walid al-Kubaisi er død". Framtida/Dag og Tid (in Norwegian). 2 August 2018.
  5. ^ Leer-Salvesen, Tarjei (12 April 2003). "Våger ikke å juble". Klassekampen (in Norwegian). Retrieved 19 December 2010.
  6. ^ a b Brandvold, Åse (12 February 2010). "- Ikke glem de sekulære". Klassekampen (in Norwegian). Retrieved 19 December 2010.
  7. ^ "Presentasjon av Ex-Muslims of Norway (EX-MN)". Litteraturhuset (in Norwegian). 17 November 2016.
  8. ^ a b "Walid al-Kubaisi: forfatter/jornalist/skribent". Volapük litteratur- og kulturforum (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 25 July 2014. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
  9. ^ Entry Archived 2012-03-14 at the Wayback Machine for Som en forvirret i en viss tid by Faisal Hashmi in BIBSYS
  10. ^ Entry Archived 2012-03-14 at the Wayback Machine for De første dråper by Eftikhar Ismaeil in BIBSYS
  11. ^ Torgersen, Hans O. (31 July 2018). "Walid al-Kubaisi (60) er død". Aftenposten (in Norwegian).
  12. ^ a b al-Kubaisi, Walid (3 February 2004). "Den sanne historien om slør og skaut i islam". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Retrieved 19 December 2010.
  13. ^ Persen, Kjell (28 November 2010). "Muslimleder: – Vi vil danne en samlet islamsk stat". TV 2 (in Norwegian). Retrieved 19 December 2010.
  14. ^ Bisgaard, Anders Breivik (3 December 2010). "Vil spre "sunn frykt"". Morgenbladet (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 19 December 2010.
  15. ^ Bangstad, Sindre (22 August 2011). "Norway: terror and Islamophobia in the mirror". opendemocracy.
  16. ^ Rana, Mohammad Usman (2 September 2011). "Norges Eurabia-ideolog". Morgenbladet (in Norwegian).
  17. ^ Olsen, Asbjørn (28 February 2011). "PST frykter ekstrem anti-islamisme". TV 2 (in Norwegian). Retrieved 1 March 2011.
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