https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Norway in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A new, gay-friendly mosque planned in Oslo will allow female imams and men and women praying together. https://www.thelocal.no/20170620/norwegian-muslim-plans-liberal-mosque-in-oslo Tue, 20 Jun 2017 19:39:39 +0200 norwegian-muslim-plans-liberal-mosque-in-oslo 30,000 Norwegian Muslims could change membership to a new umbrella organisation set up to replace the controversy-hit Islamsk Råd Norge (Islamic Council Norway, IRN). https://www.thelocal.no/20170330/norwegian-muslims-plan-replacement-islamic-council Thu, 30 Mar 2017 18:28:42 +0200 norwegian-muslims-plan-replacement-islamic-council Norwegian Muslim umbrella organisation Islamic Council Norway has been criticised for hiring a woman who wears the full face-covering niqab as a communications officer. https://www.thelocal.no/20170328/islamic-council-norway-hires-woman-in-niqab-as-communications-officer Tue, 28 Mar 2017 19:01:56 +0200 islamic-council-norway-hires-woman-in-niqab-as-communications-officer Norwegian bank Storebrand is offering new ‘halal loans’ based on Islamic principles. https://www.thelocal.no/20170120/norwegian-bank-tests-islamic-loan-concept Fri, 20 Jan 2017 12:54:28 +0100 norwegian-bank-tests-islamic-loan-concept Norway's right-wing government on Wednesday announced plans to ban the full-face Islamic veil from classrooms and university lecture halls. https://www.thelocal.no/20161006/norway-seeks-ban-on-burqas-in-the-classroom Thu, 06 Oct 2016 11:05:50 +0200 norway-seeks-ban-on-burqas-in-the-classroom Ubaydullah Hussain, an Islamist who has had numerous run-ins with the law, on Monday became the first person in Norway to be officially charged with recruiting terrorists. https://www.thelocal.no/20160920/norway-files-terror-recruitment-charges-for-first-time Tue, 20 Sep 2016 12:25:33 +0200 norway-files-terror-recruitment-charges-for-first-time A new report from the Norwegian Police Security Service (Politiets Sikkerhetstjeneste - PST) has found that nearly every fifth radicalized Muslim is a convert to the religion. https://www.thelocal.no/20160915/every-fifth-extremist-in-norway-is-a-muslim-convert-pst Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:34:26 +0200 every-fifth-extremist-in-norway-is-a-muslim-convert-pst Fahad Qureshi, who founded the Salafist Islam Net organisation, says his previous statements that homosexuals should be punished by the death sentence had been "misunderstood". https://www.thelocal.no/20160617/norway-salafist-denies-support-for-homosexual-death-penalty Fri, 17 Jun 2016 12:36:33 +0200 norway-salafist-denies-support-for-homosexual-death-penalty A woman was filmed by security cameras attempting to set fire to the World Islamic Mission in Oslo earlier this week, mosque officials said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.no/20160520/woman-attempted-to-set-fire-to-oslo-mosque Fri, 20 May 2016 12:00:57 +0200 woman-attempted-to-set-fire-to-oslo-mosque Norway’s Ministry of Justice announced on Wednesday that it would take a hard look at rules regulating the entry and residency of so-called ‘hate preachers’. https://www.thelocal.no/20160427/norway-moves-to-bar-entry-to-hate-preachers Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:41:55 +0200 norway-moves-to-bar-entry-to-hate-preachers A foundation that applied to establish a Muslim primary school in the Oslo district of Grønland was rejected by the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training (Utdanningsdirektoratet), Kommunal Rapport reported. https://www.thelocal.no/20160412/norway-officials-reject-muslim-school-in-oslo Tue, 12 Apr 2016 16:48:37 +0200 norway-officials-reject-muslim-school-in-oslo Imam Abdikadir Mahamed Yussuf in Kristiansand thinks that Muslims shouldn’t wish people happy birthday, attend birthday parties or say ‘Merry Christmas’. https://www.thelocal.no/20160114/norway-imam-muslim-kids-shouldnt-go-to-birthday-parties Thu, 14 Jan 2016 11:22:17 +0100 norway-imam-muslim-kids-shouldnt-go-to-birthday-parties The head of the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) told a Swedish security conference on Monday that immigration from Muslim countries will lead to societal conflicts and the rise of far-right groups. https://www.thelocal.no/20160112/norway-security-agency-muslim-immigration-brings-problems Tue, 12 Jan 2016 10:36:39 +0100 norway-security-agency-muslim-immigration-brings-problems One of Oslo's leading mosques has been banned from accommodating refugees after the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI) ruled that organisation's providing emergency help should be "neutral". https://www.thelocal.no/20150909/oslo-muslims-not-allowed-to-help-refugees Wed, 09 Sep 2015 13:28:00 +0200 oslo-muslims-not-allowed-to-help-refugees To hear some politicians talk, you’d think Norway was a breath away from becoming a Muslim country. But in fact the country’s second largest ‘religion’ after Christianity isn’t even Islam, it’s no religion at all. https://www.thelocal.no/20150623/norways-second-biggest-religion-is-none Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:33:31 +0200 norways-second-biggest-religion-is-none The main mosque in Bergen has thrown out a man they claim was a recruiter for the banned terror organisation Islamic State (IS), accusing him of spreading propaganda to young people in the congregation. https://www.thelocal.no/20150413/bergen-mosque-expels-is-recruiter Mon, 13 Apr 2015 10:08:01 +0200 bergen-mosque-expels-is-recruiter A Norwegian on trial for fighting with the banned terror group Isis, has told an Oslo court that he went to Syria out of of anger at the “injustice” of the Assad regime, and that it had “nothing to do with becoming a Muslim”. https://www.thelocal.no/20150225/i-didnt-go-to-syria-because-i-became-a-muslim Wed, 25 Feb 2015 14:15:53 +0100 i-didnt-go-to-syria-because-i-became-a-muslim The Norway head of anti-Islam movement Pegida has turned down a group of young Muslims who offered to clean his book shop's walls and windows after the words “Nazi Swine” were spray-painted all over them on Saturday night. https://www.thelocal.no/20150222/pegida Sun, 22 Feb 2015 23:12:00 +0100 pegida Norwegian Muslims organised a peace vigil in Oslo on Saturday in a show of solidarity with Jews a week after fatal shootings in Denmark targeted a synagogue and free speech seminar. https://www.thelocal.no/20150221/muslims-form-ring-of-peace-around-oslo-synagogue Sat, 21 Feb 2015 22:36:00 +0100 muslims-form-ring-of-peace-around-oslo-synagogue A Norwegian prison is to bring in a local imam to prevent Muslim inmates becoming radicalised in the same way as the young Dane who carried out brutal twin attacks in Copenhagen over the weekend. https://www.thelocal.no/20150219/norway-prison-sends-imam-to-muslim-inmates Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:44:03 +0100 norway-prison-sends-imam-to-muslim-inmates