Reykjavík Grapevine - 06.12.2019, Blaðsíða 40

L IF E , T R AV EL & EN T ER TA INMEN T IN ICEL A ND
Issue 21 " 2019
Dec 6th—Jan 9th
www.grapevine.is
LAST WORDS
Diversity Is
The Reality
Words: Muhammed Emin Kizilkaya
Many foreign students arrived at the Univer-
sity of Iceland early last month to the sight
of Nazi stickers spread out all around the
campus. Several foreign students, who live
in the student apartments on Sæmundar-
gata, complained that they had received bro-
chures of Nazi propoganda through their
mailboxes.
This university houses over 1,000 foreign
students, and many students condemned
the incident on social media, especially in
the group International Students at the Uni-
versity of Iceland, where I’m an admin.
These flyers and accompanying ideology
do not represent Iceland, nor the university,
nor the general Icelandic population. Nor do
they in any way represent peace and consen-
sus. These messages symbolize segregation,
hate and extreme thoughts and misguided
fantasies of a “utopian” future Iceland.
We must condemn these utterly disgust-
ing acts through universal human values
and the art of living together. We are in no
way accepting this in or around the univer-
sity, as this does not represent pure freedom
of speech, but is a way of mobilising people
into segregation, polarisation and violence.
This does not represent us, but is a represen-
tation of ignorance and isolation from the
social reality.
We live in a globalised world village,
where people—no matter their ethnicity,
religion or cultural background—live side by
side, and where diversity is and has always
been unavoidable. The tiny groups of losers
from all corners of the Earth, who represent
extreme ideologies and harbour fantasies of
a glorified, segregated and polarised world,
exaggerated through force and violence,
shall never be representative of the common
world population.
The world is how you make it to be, and
you can only change the world positively by
changing yourself.
Together we are and together we will be.
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