Ahead of Sunday’s election, messages are being spread on Arabic-language social media claiming that Sweden’s Muslims risk being deported if they do not vote for the left. When political mobilization is based on fear, disinformation and comparisons with the Nazis’ persecution of Jews, an uncomfortable question arises: how free is an election when voters are not exposed to any alternative perspective?
9/11 cannot be passed over, but it can be used by America’s enemies, such as NRK. The cultural divide is enormous, and a state broadcaster has no qualms about using 9/11 against MAGA. We are witnessing historical revisionism in real time. Nyhetsmorgen brings Øyvind Strømmen down from the attic and dusts him off. 22 July and 9/11 flow into one another. NRK wants control of the historical narrative. While the…
Increasing numbers of Norwegian pupils are leaving compulsory school without mastering reading or basic mathematics. The same decline can be seen across much of Western Europe. The knowledge that made the continent rich, free and admired is crumbling away. The willingness to discuss the causes appears to be absent.
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The Norwegian-German Chamber helps companies research markets, identify potential partners and arrange meetings. Standard membership costs between NOK 3,700 and NOK 7,000, while market-entry assignments are priced separately. The value…
Neither the Methodist Church, the Free Evangelical Lutheran Church in Norway nor the Baptist Church has been invited to King Harald’s funeral. Imam Faruk Terzic of the Muslim Dialogue Network…
Helsingør City Council has voted by a broad majority against the construction of a 1,200-square-metre mosque right next to the city’s existing mosque. The Muslim Dikev Foundation, which is among…
If Trump comes to Norway in connection with King Harald’s funeral, it is urgent that the media have a plan for the worst-case scenario: that he actually boards a plane…
Fjellregionen Islamic Cultural Centre has recently opened its new mosque in Tynset. Cultural centre board member Mahdi Hassan caused some controversy a few years ago because he believed homosexuality should…
Some of the most vocal critics of Islam’s growing presence in America are black Americans. It may be an unintended consequence of the left’s embrace of Islam that they probably…
The defeat in the state election in Saxony-Anhalt is the CDU’s worst in several decades, according to Friedrich Merz. It must have consequences, says the German Chancellor, but he does…
Salwa Jwad and Kais Kassem fraudulently obtained benefits from two separate countries for at least 16 years. ‘I didn’t know it was illegal,’ the woman says.
Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide (Labour) proudly proclaims Norway’s support for Syria and Lebanon, but fails to mention Hezbollah’s iron grip on Lebanon and Turkey’s de facto occupation of parts…
An experienced caseworker at the British Home Office says the asylum system is riddled with fraud. He describes how hundreds of Pakistani men name the same gay boyfriend as the…
The AfD’s triumph shows that the politicians who set about abolishing Germany are being replaced. This powerful trend is evident across Europe. People have abandoned established political parties because they…
AmCham Norway connects companies through events, policy representation and transatlantic business networks. Its community spans 20 industries, while 487 active US entities employ nearly 49,000 people in Norway. Public information…
According to human rights organisations, 13-year-old Christian girl Amber Nadeem was abducted, forcibly converted to Islam and forcibly married to a Muslim man. A Pakistani district judge granted the man…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claims that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is ‘in practice declaring war’ on Russia over the drone attack on Leipzig Airport in early March. Lavrov categorically…
An exit poll from the state election in Saxony-Anhalt suggests that the AfD has become by far the largest party, with 44 per cent of the vote. That may be…
A right-wing group calling itself Det Danske Folk marched through Østerbro in Copenhagen on Saturday. They were far more numerous than before. Such demonstrations have usually been met by counter-demonstrators…
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced that the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR and Antifa will be designated as terrorist organisations. In addition, 90 foreign organisations will be designated as terrorist organisations…
Italian archaeologists have uncovered remains of an ancient landscape beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem that correspond with New Testament descriptions of the place where Jesus was…
The taxi industry has been hit by fraud before, as we remember from the taxi scandal in Oslo many years ago. Now a network of companies is being linked to…
Christopher Nolan’s film The Odyssey tones down the brutality of antiquity, particularly the satisfaction of revenge. Odysseus is given a conscience that was alien to Homer’s time. The spiritual revolution…
A senior Iranian source told Reuters that Iran has only about two months’ worth of petrol left in its stockpiles. At that point, its ability to wage war will disappear.…
A dolphin calf approached the shore at El Trampolín beach in Ceuta on Wednesday. Minutes later, it lay dead at the water’s edge with blood beneath one eye.
They are young, but already tired. They sleep poorly, lack energy, struggle to concentrate and experience anxiety, stress and low mood. The problem lies not primarily with young people themselves,…
When foreigners arrive in a multicultural country, they are already integrated, because the national culture is gone. But even dissolved societies need something around which to unite. So instead, people…
On Saturday, hundreds of masked and black-clad demonstrators caused disruption in Dover, where the port is the point of arrival for the vast majority of illegal migrants reaching British soil…
Is North Africa exporting criminals instead of imprisoning them? In Switzerland, 80.5 per cent of asylum seekers from North African countries have been charged with one or more offences during…
Migration is driven by poverty, we are constantly told. The Pope repeats it all the time. But it is not true. Morocco is among Africa’s most prosperous countries, yet migration…
A 42-year-old man with a Middle Eastern background is charged with striking a boy born in 2019 in the face inside a municipal nursery in Oslo’s East End. Two months…
It has been a recurring theme in these columns that politics is subject to the iron law of oligarchy. Those with power accumulate it and hold all the cards. The…
Bangladeshi Muslims are threatening strikes and street protests after Venice’s mayor halted the construction of a large mosque and Islamic cultural centre costing €20 million in Mestre on the mainland.
It is of course legitimate to commemorate a popular king. It is quite another matter when the state broadcaster and the media machine use the funeral to obsessively push the…
Russia claims that Norway has placed Russians on Svalbard under blockade. It is a serious accusation. Will the Russians do anything to break it? Meanwhile, the Norwegian authorities insist that…
CDU’s firewall against the AfD is completely crazy, says CDU politician Martina Schweinsburg, who sits in the Thuringian state parliament, just before the state election in Saxony-Anhalt, where the AfD…
The United States has designated the British group Palestine Action as a global terrorist organisation. The group is thereby placed in the same category as Hamas, al-Qaeda and Islamic State,…
More and more European countries are trying to do something about an asylum policy that appears to be out of control. Denmark is now working with four other EU countries…
American socialists have markedly fewer children on average than conservatives. They struggle with parenthood, mental health and fears of passing on their bad genes.