Verldens Gang reports that the Islamist network Hizb ut-Tahrir is trying to establish themselves in Norway. Norwegian secret police (PST) says they have got individuals involved with the network under surveillance. Anonymous sources say to Verldens Gang that Hizb ut-Tahrir have been recruiting among young Muslims in Norway since some time. Norwegian Pakistani columnist Usman…
Ambreen Pervez, former leader of the Norwegian Pakistani Student Organization, responds to last week’s debate on moral control in the neighborhood of Grønland, Oslo. She recognizes problems, but wants mostly to draw attention to the social control experienced daily by Norwegian Muslims, especially Muslim women wearing the hijab, as they are being marginalized in labor…
Trond Ali Linstad – a Norwegian convert to shi’ite Islam – published a manifest in Aftenposten, Monday January 25. The goals of this manifest are unclear. The fifteen items, abbreviated, reads as follows: 1. “Norwegian Muslims are to know how to relate to everyday life and to greater issues. This is a Muslim manifest for…
The Christian newspaper Vårt land reports less than 3 percent of Muslims in leadership positions in Norway are women.
In a contribution to a debate in Norwegian Aftenposten, Editor and Media Researcher Knut Olav Åmås writes that ethnic and religious minorities in Norway are being categorized – and tend to categorize themselves – in terms of their religious or ethnic belonging. Columnists of Muslim background feel forced to discuss religious issues and claim to…
