A new report from Integrerings- och mangfoldsdirektoratet (Directory of Integration and Multitude) show that Norwegian newspapers published 77,670 articles on the subject of Islam in 2009. Out of all articles written on immigrant issues 71 percent could be considered to hold a negative view. Immigrants are written about, but seldome listened to. Only in two…
This new report from Integrerings- och mangfoldsdirektoratet (Directory of Integration and Multitude) show that Norwegian newspapers published 77 670 articles on the subject of Islam in 2009. Out of all articles written on immigrant issues 71 percent could be considered to hold a negative view. Immigrants are written about, but seldome listened to. Only in…
Politiken newspaper, one of 11 Danish newspapers that reprinted the Mohammed cartoons, has issued an apology to eight Muslim organizations for offending Muslims – allegedly to avoid a lawsuit. The settlement reached between the paper and the organizations does not, however, apologize for the printing of the cartoons, nor prevent the paper from reprinting them…
Said Ida Hassan, former director of the Moroccan News Agency in Madrid, has founded the first Spanish online newspaper in Arabic, Andalus Press. The newspaper tries to reach the Arabic-speaking population in Spain providing it with general information about Spain. It tries to follow the model of other newspapers that already exist in Chinese or…
In Norway the debate on the so called Muhammad cartoons is back on the agenda as a result of the January 1 attack on Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. Per Edgar Kokkvold, secretary general of the Norwegian Press Association, is critical of the general decision among Norwegian newspapers not to publish the caricatures. Not to publish…
