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 and Zahoor Ahmad Ch., leader of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Norway, are among those invited from non-Christian faith communities.
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 be banned. The previous year, he had been named a national role model. At the time, he represented the Socialist Left Party (SV); today, he is a politician for the Tynset Centre Party.
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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