Norway, Israel and the Jews
Aftenposten today reports on how Danish newspaper Politiken has settled with muslim groups who were upset by Politiken’s re-publishing of the Muhammed cartoon in 2008. While Politiken does not apologize for having published the cartoon, nor promises to refrain from doing so again, the newspaper does apologize to “everyone who has been transgressed against“....
In the aftermath of the ruccus over Mohyeldeen Mohammed’s extremist views, the media (and public) has showed a renewed interest in Norwegian Islamisim. Dagbladet‘s Astrid Meland has written a long article on conservative Islam at the Univeristy College of Oslo where the muslim network Islamnet is active (see Islamnet.no). There are a lot of...
Abid Raja is a prominent politician with the Liberals (Venstre). In Dagbladet today he blames the red-green coalition government for islamist extremism in Norway. Unauthorized translation: 24-year old Mohyeldeen Mohammad from Larvik attracted both attention and upheaval with his statements during the demonstration in Oslo on Friday where he warned against a September 11th...
The European Council for fatwa and research is heeded by Norwegian muslims, who look to the council for deliberations upon theological issues. One of the clerics at the institute is Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who made headlines in the Norwegian media on February 15th after having praised the holocaust as a divine punishment on an Al-jazeera show. Qaradawi had...
Aftenposten has regrettably discontinued its excellent english-news service. Here is an excerpt from a 2008 article on rising radicalism: Security agency warns of rising radicalism in Norway. The PST, in charge of intelligence gathering in Norway, repeated earlier claims that most Islamic extremist activity in Norway comes in the form of support operations for...
The above is a letter to Aftenposten of June 13th 1967, written by one Truls Bølstad for Islam’s Ahmadiyya congregation in Norway. The letter states that Norwegian Muslims – this is the first time this group is identified in Aftenposten – distance themselves from the Arab countries “holy war” against Israel. The letter furthermore...