Lars Gule
Lars Gule (* June 24, 1955 in Oslo) is a Norwegian philosopher, historian and social scientist.
Life
As a young man Lars Gule was arrested for the transfer of explosives, was intended for a terrorist attack of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine on a target in Israel, the Lebanese Beirut in 1977. Due to the illegal possession of explosives, he was sentenced to six months in prison, but not for participating in a terrorist action.
In 1978 he began studying philosophy, history and the social sciences at the University of Bergen. During this time, he distanced himself from Marxism as an ideology, rejecting the concept of class struggle and condemned the "left-wing violence Romance". He joined the Social Democratic youth organization work ern Ungdomsfylking and headed at times their academic group at the University of Bergen, but without being a member of the parent organization ( Arbeiderpartiet ).
After his studies, graduating in 1986 with a master's degree, Gule initially perceived various administrative duties at the University of Bergen, so in 1987 at the Institute for Languages and Cultures of the Middle East and the Institute of Philosophy of Science. In 1989 he moved to the Chr Michelsen Institutt, an independent research institute in Bergen, which deals with human rights and development issues. From 1998 to 2000 he was coordinator of the research program Nature, Society and Water at the University of Bergen. At the same university he received his doctorate in 2003 with the work of Social Development and Political Progress in Two Traditions. A Conceptual and Comparative Analysis of Western and Arab- Islamic Ideas of Social and Political Change and Improvement. Since 2006 he has been in scientific functions at the College Oslo (name since August 2011: University of Oslo / Akershus ) operates. Initially, he worked at the Center for Multicultural and International Labour, later, among other things in the Teacher Training.
From 2000 to 2005 was Secretary General of the Norwegian Humanist Gule Association (Human - Etisk Forbund, HEF ). During this time, and also in several publications after he complained several times to totalitarian ideologies and religions. Among other things, he criticized the oriented on Maoism former Norwegian Party (AKP today Rødt ), which at times exercised great influence on Norwegian intellectuals, for their conflicting human rights policies, which have the " brutality of Stalin, the cruel absurdities of Mao and the genocide of Pol Pot " systematically ignored. Gules repeated criticism raised on Islamic fundamentalism led to debates in his home country; the same time defending the religious freedom of Muslims in Norway.
His critical and sometimes negative attitude towards the State of Israel has maintained Gule. So he threw the country in a 2006 article published in front of a " racially discriminatory policies " against the Palestinians. In it, he distanced himself though by the Resolution 3379 of the UN General Assembly, which equated Zionism with racism lump sum, was however, legislation and political practice in Israel express to that " Palestinians are worth less than the Jews." The discriminatory policies of Israel call it forth parts of the Palestinian or Arab Jew-hatred. He also expressed the view that criticism of Israel, provided they are not " all Jews and Judaism with Israel identify ", was not as " classic anti-Semitism " equate. Gule also condemned " the attacks, oppression and discrimination " in the Arab states and the Palestinian use of terror as a political agent.
Interviews on the attacks in Norway 2011
In 2011, there were several Norwegian and international media, including the BBC that, interviews with Gule on the attacks in Norway, 2011. Via the political positions of the perpetrator Anders Behring Breivik said Gule, many in Norway and throughout Europe would think like Breivik. Only his radical action distinguishes it from the others. He worried how long this inhibition threshold to radical action, which was exceeded by Breivik, nor could it be maintained. For the fact Breivik there are two statements, one psychological and ideological: " Psychiatrists have to give their diagnosis only, but you can say that we are dealing with a megalomaniac narcissist. These systems have many why he was not, like others, mountaineer, or champion athlete? Because of his political interest and its ideological orientation, he found just for this action. The ideology was the personality of their direction. "