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In 1996, the Muslim Youth of Norway (NMU) was founded. [45] In 1999, NMU began publishing Explore (later called Ung Muslim) a magazine geared towards Norwegian Muslim youth. [46] By 2005, only one purpose-built mosque existed in Norway, built by the Sufi-inspired [47] Sunni Muslim World Islamic Mission in Oslo in 1995.
Stop Islamisation of Norway (Norwegian: Stopp islamiseringen av Norge, SIAN) is a Norwegian anti-Muslim [1] [2] [3] group that was originally established in 2000. Its stated aim is to work against Islam, which it defines as a totalitarian political ideology that violates the Norwegian Constitution as well as democratic and human values. [4]
The Mustafa Letter (Norwegian: Mustafa-brevet) was a controversial letter that the leader of the Progress Party, Carl I. Hagen, used in the electoral campaign for the 1987 Norwegian local elections. The letter was signed Mohammad Mustafa, a Muslim immigrant to Norway, but the media soon proved the letter to be false. The letter became ...
The organisation has since its foundation been in active dialogue with the Church of Norway Council on Ecumenical and International Relations. [6]The council's work is organised in issue-specific committees, such as a hilal committee that works to advise Norwegian Muslims on how the Islamic calendar should be interpreted in Norway, a Halal committee that oversees ritual slaughtering, in ...
A number of different attitudes regarding democracy are also represented among the general Muslim public, with polls indicating that majorities in the Muslim world desire a religious democracy where democratic institutions and values can coexist with the values and principles of Islam, seeing no contradiction between the two.
The Black Muslim Leadership Council Fund had withheld its support for Biden over his handling of the Israel-Hamas war. Black Muslim group endorses Harris after its 'uncommitted' stance on Biden ...
Norway's wealth fund, which owns 1.5% of all the world's listed stocks, also in 2022 backed a shareholder proposal calling on Tesla to adopt a policy of respecting labour rights such as freedom of ...
In Norway as of 2019, 68.7% of the population are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church as compared to 96% in the 1960s. [2] Kevin Boyle's 1997 global study of freedom of religion states that "Most members of the state church are not active adherents, except for the rituals of birth, confirmation, weddings, and burials.