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 Norwegian police said Saturday that on-duty officers would be armed following threats made against the Muslim community. https://www.thelocal.no/20240407/norwegian-police-to-carry-arms-after-threats-against-muslims Sun, 07 Apr 2024 14:43:05 +0200 norwegian-police-to-carry-arms-after-threats-against-muslims Norway is not particularly racist, according to the readers who replied to our survey, with less than one in six telling us they felt "very unwelcome" in the country. However, several reported occasional experiences of subtle racism. https://www.thelocal.no/20240327/survey-all-of-my-bad-encounters-in-norway-have-been-subtle-tacit-racism Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:38:41 +0100 survey-all-of-my-bad-encounters-in-norway-have-been-subtle-tacit-racism Mona Abdel-Fadil, one of the researchers and curators behind the Everyday Racism exhibition at Oslo's Holocaust Centre, tells The Local that everybody in Norway needs to accept that they are part of the problem. https://www.thelocal.no/20240304/if-we-cant-admit-that-racism-is-a-problem-in-norway-well-never-move-past-it Mon, 04 Mar 2024 12:18:34 +0100 if-we-cant-admit-that-racism-is-a-problem-in-norway-well-never-move-past-it A memorial to a teenage boy murdered in a racist attack was on Tuesday vandalised with the message 'Brevik was right', two days before the tenth anniversary of the July 22nd terror attacks in Norway. https://www.thelocal.no/20210720/memorial-of-norwegian-teen-killed-in-2001-racist-attack-vandalised Tue, 20 Jul 2021 19:04:00 +0200 memorial-of-norwegian-teen-killed-in-2001-racist-attack-vandalised Norwegian MP Petter Eide has nominated Black Lives Matter for the Nobel Peace Prize, reportedly stating that the movement had "forced countries other than the US to face up to racism within their own societies." https://www.thelocal.no/20210130/norwegian-mp-proposes-black-lives-matter-for-nobel-peace-prize Sat, 30 Jan 2021 18:59:36 +0100 norwegian-mp-proposes-black-lives-matter-for-nobel-peace-prize One of the estimated 15,000 protestors who gathered outside Norway's parliament to protest racism and police brutality at the start of this month has tested positive for coronavirus. https://www.thelocal.no/20200622/person-infected-at-norway-black-lives-matter-demo Mon, 22 Jun 2020 14:59:53 +0200 person-infected-at-norway-black-lives-matter-demo A Facebook group for Norwegians opposed to immigration was widely mocked after members apparently could not tell the difference between empty bus seats and burka-clad women. https://www.thelocal.no/20170731/norwegian-anti-immigrant-facebook-groups-confuses-empty-bus-seats-with-terrorists Mon, 31 Jul 2017 19:05:14 +0200 norwegian-anti-immigrant-facebook-groups-confuses-empty-bus-seats-with-terrorists In the comments on the Facebook pages of two government ministers from the anti-immigration Progress Party, immigrants are called monkeys, Africans are “birthing machines” and there is implied support for “civil war”. https://www.thelocal.no/20161014/hate-speech-flourishes-on-norwegian-politicians-facebook-pages Fri, 14 Oct 2016 13:28:49 +0200 hate-speech-flourishes-on-norwegian-politicians-facebook-pages Several high-profile Norwegian celebrities have publicly confirmed study findings showing many clubs and bars in the city have racist entry policies. https://www.thelocal.no/20151229/racial-discrimination-at-seven-out-of-eleven-oslo-bars Tue, 29 Dec 2015 14:48:14 +0100 racial-discrimination-at-seven-out-of-eleven-oslo-bars Norway's authorities are doing too little to combat the threat of racism and far-right extremist violence, a damning new report from the UN has concluded. https://www.thelocal.no/20150819/un-too-much-racism-in-norway Thu, 20 Aug 2015 00:16:11 +0200 un-too-much-racism-in-norway A Norwegian photographer who specialises in Vikings has started a Facebook campaign to protest white supremacist groups' use of his photos without permission. https://www.thelocal.no/20150810/viking Tue, 11 Aug 2015 00:42:23 +0200 viking A Norwegian heavy metal musician accused of inciting racial hatred denied posting racist blogs as he went on trial Tuesday in France, claiming they were penned by someone posing to be him. https://www.thelocal.no/20140604/neo-nazi-vikernes-denies-posting-racist-blogs Wed, 04 Jun 2014 11:25:24 +0200 neo-nazi-vikernes-denies-posting-racist-blogs The artist whose provocative chair outraged race and women's rights campaigners last week has accused his critics of reacting "out of all proportion" to the work. https://www.thelocal.no/20140127/i-am-not-a-racist-says-norways-bad-boy-artist Mon, 27 Jan 2014 10:15:00 +0100 i-am-not-a-racist-says-norways-bad-boy-artist Norway's Center Against Racism has reported a second anti-semitic blog, subtitled 'Jewish Hands are Drenched in Aryan Blood" to the Norwegian police for violating racism laws. https://www.thelocal.no/20131127/racism-watchdog-reports-second-extremist-blog Wed, 27 Nov 2013 15:13:00 +0100 racism-watchdog-reports-second-extremist-blog Police in Norway have arrested a man for making racist comments on the micro-blogging service Twitter under the account name "@Negerjeger", or "Nigger hunter". https://www.thelocal.no/20131125/police-in-norway-arrest-racist-tweeter Mon, 25 Nov 2013 14:01:49 +0100 police-in-norway-arrest-racist-tweeter Norway's Centre Against Racism has reported a right-wing blog to the police for the first time in five years, citing its fantasies that the Jews, described as "Satan's Children" would be "eradicated from the face of the earth". https://www.thelocal.no/20131125/racism-centre-reports-pro-breivik-antisemitic-blog Mon, 25 Nov 2013 09:50:00 +0100 racism-centre-reports-pro-breivik-antisemitic-blog Norwegians with ethnic backgrounds have flooded Twitter with personal stories of racism after a 23-year-old medical student tweeted a moving post with the hashtag #Norskrasisme. https://www.thelocal.no/20131119/norwegian-racism-trigger-twitter-storm Tue, 19 Nov 2013 13:32:00 +0100 norwegian-racism-trigger-twitter-storm One of the leading figures in Norwegian campaign group Youth Against Racism was forced to pull out of an event commemorating Kristallnacht on Sunday night, after receiving a death threat over the phone. https://www.thelocal.no/20131111/kristallnacht-speaker-pulls-out-after-death-threats Mon, 11 Nov 2013 18:39:00 +0100 kristallnacht-speaker-pulls-out-after-death-threats A top division Norwegian ice-hockey player was forced to leave a game early on Sunday after he faced a chorus of racist abuse from supporters of the opposing team. https://www.thelocal.no/20131021/norwegian-ice-hockey-star-faced-racist-chants Mon, 21 Oct 2013 16:39:00 +0200 norwegian-ice-hockey-star-faced-racist-chants Swedish hip-hop star Timbuktu labelled as "ignorant" and "offensive" a cartoon by Norwegian artist Frode Øverli that prompted a barrage of complaints from newspaper readers who perceived the cartoon to be racist. https://www.thelocal.no/20120112/swedish-hip-hop-star-slams-norwegian-cartoonist-over-racist-pic Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:05:34 +0100 swedish-hip-hop-star-slams-norwegian-cartoonist-over-racist-pic