...Who would have thought that Krekar's carefully manufactured image as a member of the Norwegian multicultural rainbow, a pious Muslim persecuted because he's different, would crack over his fear of being touched by a woman? I'm reminded of the Simpsons episode where Monty Burns runs for office, but fails because he can't eat the mutant three-eyed fish Marge has prepared for a televised dinner at their house. He has lost before the piece he spits out hits the floor. There's something similar happening here - or I hope so. Yes, it was crude and childish, but when all other ways of showing that Krekar isn't the cozy grandfather he claims to be has failed, when stories of abuse and fanaticism are shrugged off as American and PUK propaganda, this simple test proved .. well it didn't prove that he is an evil fanatic, or a terrorist. It just pricked a hole in his tolerance balloon...