Hege Storhaug
Hege Storhaug | |
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Storhaug at the Warsaw Book Fair in 2017 | |
Born | Arendal, Aust-Agder, Norway | 21 May 1962
Occupation | Activist, writer, author |
Nationality | Norwegian |
Subject | Criticism of Islam, immigration and multiculturalism |
Notable awards | Southern Norway's Literary Prize, 2007[1] |
Hege Storhaug (born 21 May 1962) is a Norwegian political activist, writer and author. She has been known for her criticism of Islamic cultural practices since the 1990s, and later also opposition to immigration.[2][3] She formerly worked as a journalist, and has run the small organisation Human Rights Service with her partner since 2002. In 2015 she published the bestselling book Islam, den 11. landeplage, later translated to English as Islam: Europe Invaded. America Warned, which claimed that Islam is a "plague".[4][5] Formerly an active volleyball player, Storhaug is a certified athletic trainer with a degree from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, and has highlighted eating disorders among female athletes. She began playing on the Norway women's national volleyball team when she was sixteen years old.
Sports and early life
Storhaug was born in Arendal, and grew up on the island of Hisøya in the municipality of Hisøy.[6] She was an active volleyball player in her youth, and won the Norwegian Championship as part of the team Hisøy IL when she was fourteen and sixteen years old. When she was sixteen years old, she made her debut on the junior national team, as well as the senior national team.[7] She started her education at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in 1984, and graduated as a certified athletic trainer in 1987.[2] From 1986 to 1987 she studied health and sports biology, and wrote a paper based on her mapping of the extent of eating disorders among female athletes. It was the first such mapping in Norway, and it brought considerable attention, including being on the first page of newspaper Dagbladet.[8] She spoke in the media about her own eating disorder as a young athlete, which led to major public debate about the problem in Norway. In the wake of this, she co-founded the Interest Group for Women with Eating Disorders,[8] and functioned as the press and information director of the organisation from 1987 to 1990.[2]
Journalism
Storhaug worked as a journalist for the left-wing newspaper Klassekampen from 1989 to 1990. She completed a degree in journalism at the Norwegian School of Journalism in 1992, after which she worked as a freelance journalist.[2] One of her earliest journalistic efforts, for Dagbladet in 1992, was the first report in Norway about the forced marriages of young Muslim women.[8] Before working with the story she adhered to left-wing "anti-racist" beliefs, and was shocked by her findings.[6] The report in turn led to the passing of a law banning forced marriages in Norway.[9] For further research she lived in Pakistan for two years in the mid-1990s, and wrote a book about her experience titled Mashallah. En reise blant kvinner i Pakistan.[6] As of 2015 she has visited Pakistan seventeen times, and has several of her closest friends there.[6] After the publication of her book Hellig tvang in 1998, Storhaug had a leading role in the production of two documentaries for Rikets tilstand and TV 2 that aired in October 1999 about forced marriages and honor killings in Norway, which had a major impact on Norwegian society.[9][10] She thereafter conceived and researched the documentary Norske jenter omskjæres which revealed that girls in Norway were being subjected to female genital mutilation and that imams in the country secretly supported this practice. The program, which aired on TV 2 in October 2000 caused a considerable outcry, not least because imams who condemned this practice in interviews were caught on hidden cameras openly expressing their approval and encouragement of the procedure.[8][11][12][13] The documentary won a SKUP diploma in 2000[11] and the Gullruten award for best documentary in 2001.[14] In 2002, Storhaug released a report that described nine likely honor killings that had taken place in Norway by 2001.[15]
Works
Bibliography
- Når følelser blir mat. Kvinner og spiseforstyrrelser [When feelings become food. Women and eating disorders]. Co-authored with Christensen, Karin. Aschehoug. 1990. ISBN 978-8203162367.
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: CS1 maint: others (link) - Mashallah. En reise blant kvinner i Pakistan [Mashallah. A journey among women in Pakistan]. Aschehoug. 1996. ISBN 978-8203261152.
- Hellig tvang. Unge norske muslimer om kjærlighet og ekteskap [Holy force. Young Norwegian Muslims about love and marriage]. Aschehoug. 1998. ISBN 978-8203223211.
- Feminin integrering. Utfordringer i et fleretnisk samfunn. Kolofon. 2003. ISBN 978-8230000397.
- Human Visas: A Report from the Front Lines of Europe's Integration Crisis. English translation by Bawer, Bruce. Kolofon. 2003. ISBN 978-8230000496.
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- Human Visas: A Report from the Front Lines of Europe's Integration Crisis. English translation by Bawer, Bruce. Kolofon. 2003. ISBN 978-8230000496.
- Men størst av alt er friheten. Om innvandringens konsekvenser. Kagge. 2006. ISBN 978-8248906551.
- But the Greatest of These is Freedom: The Consequences of Immigration in Europe. Revised and updated English translation. Create Space. 2011. ISBN 978-1456452872.
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- But the Greatest of These is Freedom: The Consequences of Immigration in Europe. Revised and updated English translation. Create Space. 2011. ISBN 978-1456452872.
- Tilslørt. Avslørt. Et oppgjør med norsk naivisme [Covered. Exposed. A settlement with Norwegian naivety]. Kagge. 2007. ISBN 978-8248907404.
- Jeg er Mia [I am Mia]. Co-authored with Gundersen, Mia. Aschehoug. 2008. ISBN 978-8203291449.
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: CS1 maint: others (link) - Rundlurt. Om innvandring og islam i Norge [Tricked. About immigration and Islam in Norway]. Kagge. 2009. ISBN 978-8248908920.
- Islam, den 11. landeplage. Kolofon. 2015. ISBN 978-8230013458.
- Islam: Europe Invaded. America Warned. English translation. Kassandra. 2018. ISBN 978-8230339596.
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- Islam: Europe Invaded. America Warned. English translation. Kassandra. 2018. ISBN 978-8230339596.
Documentaries
Storhaug worked as the chief researcher for the following television documentaries:
- Tvangsekteskap og æresdrap i det muslimske miljøet i Norge [Forced marriage and honour killings in the Muslim community in Norway] (two parts). TV 2. Rikets tilstand. 1999.
- Norske jenter omskjæres [Norwegian girls are being circumcised] (two parts). TV 2. Rikets tilstand. 2000.
Awards
- Chief researcher for the documentary Rikets tilstand: Norske jenter omskjæres, which won a SKUP diploma (2000)[11] and Gullruten (2001)[14]
- Southern Norway's Literary Prize (2007), for her book Men størst av alt er friheten (But the Greatest of These is Freedom)[1]
References
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Hege Storhaug". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). 30 May 2012.
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ Haglund, Anniken (2008). "'For Women and Children!' The Family and Immigration Politics in Scandinavia". In Grillo, R. D. (ed.). The Family in Question: Immigrant and Ethnic Minorities in Multicultural Europe. Amsterdam University Press. pp. 76–78. ISBN 9789053568699.
- ↑ Rogne, Vebjørn (26 February 2016). "Storhaugs landeplage". BOK365.no (in norsk).
- ↑ Storhaug, Hege (20 October 2018). "Landeplagen på engelsk". Human Rights Service (in norsk).
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Blaker, Magnus (20 December 2015). "- Det er helt psycho, og jeg blir så fortvilet". Nettavisen (in Norwegian).
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Frihetens forpost". Bergens Tidende (in Norwegian). 26 April 2003. p. 39.
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Gjerstad, Tore (30 October 2006). "Krigsklar". Dagbladet (in norsk).
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Metoderapport for "Rikets tilstand" (PDF). SKUP (Report) (in norsk). 25 January 2000. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016.
- ↑ Wikan, Unni (2002). Generous Betrayal: Politics of Culture in the New Europe. University of Chicago Press. p. 230. ISBN 9780226896854.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 "Støtter omskjæring". TV 2 (in norsk). October 2000.
- ↑ Hansen, Frode; Jarlsbo, Rønnaug (5 October 2000). "- Jeg måtte bare gjøre det!". Dagbladet (in Norwegian).
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ Helskog, Gerhard (2000). Metoderapport for "Rikets tilstand": "Norske jenter omskjæres" (PDF). Rikets tilstand (Report) (in norsk).
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Gullruten". Store norske leksikon (in norsk). 26 May 2015.
- ↑ Tjersland, Espen (24 January 2002). "Minst ni æresdrap i Norge". Bergens Tidende (in norsk). Archived from the original on 5 March 2016.
- 1962 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Norwegian journalists
- 20th-century Norwegian women writers
- 21st-century Norwegian women writers
- Activists against female genital mutilation
- Anti-immigration politics in Norway
- Counter-jihad activists
- Critics of multiculturalism
- Klassekampen people
- Journalists from Oslo
- Norwegian critics of Islam
- Norwegian expatriates in Pakistan
- Norwegian School of Sport Sciences alumni
- Norwegian women journalists
- Norwegian women non-fiction writers
- Norwegian women's volleyball players
- People from Arendal
- Writers from Oslo