Norwegian TV2 News reports that “just this year more than a hundred Norwegians became Muslims”. The estimation is made after talking to leaders at the most central mosques around Norway. In June five persons became Muslims in a “mass conversion” at a meeting with the American preacher Yusuf Estes at the University College of Oslo,…
Support for Norway’s Progress Party rose this month, with one pollster ranking it the country’s biggest political group, as voters backed its anti-immigration stance less than six months before parliamentary elections. While governments in other parts of Europe lose support as voters condemn their handling of the financial crisis, Norway’s Labor government is struggling in…
A majority vote in the Oslo municipal council rejected a proposal to establish a Muslim school in the capital city, overturning the Municipal Executive board. The council was considering a recommendation by the education ministry concerning an application by the School of Peace to start a Muslim school in Oslo. The application sought to establish…
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…
More than 100 students have failed to show up for school this fall, a month after the school year started. Officials fear the truant children, most of them from immigrant families, have been sent back to their parents’ homeland. Some of the truant children may be attending Koran or military schools in Pakistan or other…
