A Muslim mother reacted severely after her child was placed into the care of lesbian foster parents in Trondheim. The municipality states that they think they have handled things correctly. The child has many psychological problems, as do the parents of the child, who experienced torture in their homeland. Jorid Midtlyng of the municipal council…
The World Islamic Mission’s mosque in Oslo boosted security measures after someone left a pig’s head and Nazi flag inside the mosque’s entrance during Friday prayer services. It’s clear that someone has done this to provoke us said Jehangr Bahadur, chairman of the World Islamic Mission. Bahadur said that the mosque has also received racist…
Thomas Heggehammer of the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment says that fighting Islamophobia and racism bring about security problems – the more Norwegians hate Muslim, the more likely it will be to see Islamic violence in the country. The more aggression Muslims experience from Norwegians, the more tensions will rise and radicalization may increase. Heggehammer says…
According to a study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, mental health discrepancies can be seen along national, sex, and other lines of difference. The report clashes with the assumption that immigrant youth have a higher risk of developing mental health illnesses in comparison to other youth in the country. However, according to the…
Eight Somalian imams met in Trondheim to make a declaration against female circumcision, with the goal of the declaration serving as the basis for a fatwa. Trondheim’s imam Sheikh Abdinur Mahamoud met with seven other imams in a conference on how to stop female circumcision, meant to affirm the position that the custom is not…
