Islam Net leader Fahad Qureshi is now positioning himself to milk the Norwegian state treasury. While he complains about membership irregularities in the Church of Norway, new figures show that Islamic religious communities receive over 283 million kroner annually from Norwegian taxpayers.

In a recent video published on Facebook, the Islam Net leader strongly criticizes what he considers to be membership irregularities in the Church of Norway. Qureshi claims that he himself had been registered as a member of the church without knowing it, and uses this as an argument in his campaign to legitimize his own organization and its claims to public funding. That a prominent Islamist leader allegedly should have been an unwitting member of the state church for years appears to many as scarcely credible. There is reason to believe that the statement is a calculated maneuver to discredit the existing system and pave the way for Islam Net’s own applications for state support. Qureshi has never concealed what is the organization’s overarching objective: A colonization and Islamization of Norwegian society. Now he wants Norwegian taxpayers to finance the project.

Enormous flow of money to Islam

The background to Qureshi’s engagement is the enormous sums at stake. Figures to which Document has gained access reveal the scope of the monetary transfers to religious communities outside the Church of Norway. In 2025, a total of 1,142,606,472 kroner – over 1.1 billion – will be disbursed in state support to various religious and life-stance communities. The rate has increased sharply and now stands at 1,554 kroner per member. It is Islam that is the major beneficiary in this system. With 182,420 registered members, Islamic religious communities receive a full 283,480,680 kroner in 2025. This makes Islam the largest recipient group, ahead of both the Catholic Church (261 million) and the Norwegian Humanist Association (217 million).

Small Christian congregations affected

While the millions flow into Islamic environments, the grip is tightened around smaller Christian congregations. Previously, religious communities received support from both the state and the municipality, but from 2021 all disbursement was centralized with the County Governor (Statsforvalteren). For 2026, the requirement for the number of members to qualify for support has been increased to 100. This has a highly uneven impact. Based on the 2025 figures, as many as 137 Christian religious communities will lose state support as a result of this requirement. By comparison, only 17 Islamic religious communities will be affected by the same rule.

Imported orthodoxy

The statistics also show significant growth in support to foreign Christian congregations, which are often linked to immigration. In total, this group receives nearly 96 million kroner. The largest groups here are Eritrean and Ethiopian Orthodox churches, which alone draw out over 25 million kroner. The Russian Orthodox Church also receives significant sums, with over 10 million kroner in state support distributed among nearly 6,500 members. It is this inexhaustible well of tax money that Fahad Qureshi now seeks access to. With a rate of over 1,500 kroner per head, the potential for revenue is enormous for an organization that actively works to change Norway’s value foundation. Here is the video in which Qureshi confirms the strategy of transferring members into his own religious community: https://youtu.be/YG7rqXeJDHo