Norway’s Progress Party has called for the immediate arrest of Mullah Krekar after the firebrand jihadist spoke of the need for renewed Islamic terrorist attacks on the United States

The Norway-based Islmaic extremist made the comments in an interview with Finland’s MTV3. He also claimed that Islam will control the entire world within the next 20 years. More than a decade on from the devastating Islamic terrorist attacks in the United States that left almost 3,000 people dead, Krekar said: “They have learned nothing from the 9/11 attacks. That’s why they need two more attacks. It’s the only way the Americans will understand that we [Muslims] are people and not animals or slaves.” Morten Ørsal Johansen, immigration policy spokesman for the populist Progress Party, said the remarks merited placing Krekar under arrest. “We have just passed a new law stating that anybody who poses a threat to basic national interests may be subject to arrest. There’s no doubt that Krekar should now be apprehended,” he said. Krekar, the co-founder of Islamist militant group Ansar al-Islam, moved to Norway as a refugee from northern Iraq in 1991. In the Finnish TV interview, he also spoke cryptically of how European-style democracy would never take root in the Middle East. Likening the export of Western democracy to a plastic banana, he said it would never work in the Arab world because, unlike the real thing, you can’t eat it. He also argued in the interview that further Islamic terrorist attacks were unavoidable. “It’s going to happen. It’s meant to happen. Jihad is meant to happen, I’m certain of it. Jihad is like a cat. If you lock up a cat it becomes dangerous,” said Krekar. The radical Islamist is set to appear in court in Norway in February 2012 after issuing verbal death threats to five different people, including Conservative Party (Høyre) leader Erna Solberg.