Communist daily Klassekampen
Communist daily Klassekampen has little love for Israel but is pitching in against anti-Semitism – in its own way. Unauthorized translation from “We need to clean house“, with General Secretary Shoaib Sultan of the Islamic Council
- We need to know more, says Sultan to Klassekampen.
- Concrete measures demand a better mapping of the conditions. It is important that such a process also includes mapping of all kinds of harassment against minorities, including muslims, says Sultan who earlier this week also declared his support to the Mosaic Religious Community’s proposal of ascertaining hatred against Jewish students.
- What concrete measures can the Islamic Council carry out yourselves?
- We can first and foremost carry out attitudinal work, by trying to create arenas for dialogue with youths, to counteract bad and un-islamic attitudes in general and Jew-baiting especially. But attitudinal work is a continuous process which needs to be intensified, and therefore will largely depend on resources – which unfortunately is scarce with the Islamic Council of Norway.
- Last winter one saw aggressive muslim youths protesting against Israel’s warfare in Gaza – Islamic Council cannot have been completely unknowing of how there among some muslims exists a bad feeling for Israel and Jews?
- The statements which were made during the broadcast on NRK were much harsher than anything we have seen before.
Sultan does not do a very good job here: he asks for funds to carry out attitudinal work – for muslims as well as for Jews. And regarding the riots in January of 2009 – we have not seen anything harsher than that since the war.
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