Norwegians more skeptical of Islam

Aftenposten ^ | February 8, 2006

[ConservativeStatement]

Nearly half of those polled say they have become more skeptical about Islam as a religion after the global uproar around the Mohammed caricatures.

The result comes from a survey carried out by InFact for Norway's best-selling newspaper VG.

According to the survey, which was carried out on Tuesday, 47.8 percent of those asked said they were more skeptical about Islam, while 36.7 percent their opinion of the religion had not been affected by the caricature controversy. A small group of 6.5 percent said they were less skeptical about Islam after the turmoil.

At the same time, 30.8 percent say that they have become more mistrustful towards Norwegian Muslims after the caricature reactions, while 53.6 percent say their attitude towards this group has not been affected. About 6.8 percent said they were less suspicious of Norwegian Muslims after the controversy.

Fully seven out of ten polled said they expected Muslims in Norway to have a harder time in the wake of the international controversy.

[mtbopfuyn]

Wake Up Europe!

Don't hold your breath. Many in the US are still asleep.

[VoodooEconomics]

I wanna be on that boat too!!

[ConservativeStatement]

Check out the link on the previous post. Of Norway's 4,438,547 citizens 1.5% (66,578) are Muslims. Which adds to my (and like-minded) astonishment of the others in the poll's percentage. I didn't see Denmark listed, though.

[mtbopfuyn]

The link doesn't show the stats for Denmark. It does have 1.5% for Norway but doesn't show Sweden or Finland. Nor does it give a date for the numbers. As fast as Islam is growing, the 5% we're questioning in the posted article might be spot on.

[ConservativeStatement]

I guess we did near simultaneous posts. :-)

Sweden and Finland are listed but not Norway and Denmark.

[kalee]

Blowing up buildings, theaters and subways; hacking off the heads off captives; and allowing girls to burn to death in a school fire because they weren't properly veiled didn't make them skeptical, but overreaction to a cartoon does.
Better late than never I guess, but hey you late sleepers I've been skeptical for a long time.

[Beckwith]

while 36.7 percent their opinion of the religion had not been affected by the caricature controversy.

while 53.6 percent say their attitude towards this group has not been affected.

I guess some folks need to be smacked between their eyes with a 2 X 4.

[layman]

In other words, 6.8 percent are Muslim?

Two percent are Muslim ... about 110,000.

[layman]

In other words, 6.8 percent are Muslim?

Opps! I thought we ere talking about Denmark. Norway is 1.8 percent Muslim ... about 83,000.

[AmericanChef]

-while 36.7 percent their opinion of the religion had not been affected by the caricature controversy.-

I have to assume that their opinion was very low to begin with; it hurts my brain to think that people can be so entirely stupid not to be influenced by the latest transparent behavior of the Religion of Pieces.

[Lady Heron]

while 36.7 percent their opinion of the religion had not been affected by the caricature controversy.

while 53.6 percent say their attitude towards this group has not been affected.

I guess some folks need to be smacked between their eyes with a 2 X 4.

I do not know, because if I had been asked this question I would have had to answer with them....No my opinion has not been affected by the cartoon controversy, because I knew what islam was about before the cartoons and they are just living up to it today, nor has my attitude toward islam changed, I still despise it.

[zeugma]

No my opinion has not been affected by the cartoon controversy, because I knew what islam was about before the cartoons and they are just living up to it today, nor has my attitude toward islam changed, I still despise it.

Good point. it points out one of the obvious problems with any poll that asks yes/no questions. I would have answered the same.

[doc30]

I would be in the group whose opinion has remained unchanged about muslims. My opinion changed the morning of 9/11.

[dennisw]

 

 

LOTS OF IDIOTS IN NORWAY STILL DON'T GET.
Damn leftists are still in love with Islam and do their best to harm Israel

 

 

 

 

 

 

Norway split over Israel boycott

Kristin Halvorsen, 45, has led the Socialist Left party since 1997

Norway's Finance Minister Kristin Halvorsen is backing a planned consumer boycott of Israeli goods, contradicting the coalition government's policy.

Ms Halvorsen voiced support for a campaign of solidarity with the Palestinians, due to be launched by her Socialist Left party this month.

"It is a long time since I bought any Israeli products," she told Norway's Dagbladet newspaper.

Norway's foreign ministry said such a boycott was not government policy.

Ms Halvorsen insisted she was expressing her party's view and not that of the government. She would not front the campaign, she added.

She gave the interview before Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a stroke on Wednesday.

Ms Halvorsen's party is a minority partner in a three-party coalition formed after elections in September, alongside the Labour Party and Centre Party.

Last month, the municipality of Soer-Trondelag in central Norway launched a boycott of Israeli goods and services.

A finance ministry spokesman, Runar Malkenes, told the BBC News website that "there are no moves to push for a boycott of Israeli goods" at government level.

He said such differences of view were part of coalition politics.

[sandbar]

Bout time

[Enchante]

re: 6.5%

An iron law of polling is that AT LEAST 6.5% of respondents are seriously brain damaged.....

Actually, in Europe it may be a MAJORITY...... and here the 'Rats are often getting close to 50% so that doesn't speak so well for our population, either...... :^)

[CzarNicky]

Makes you wonder about the people who fell into the 6.5% grouping.

Some of them just may have had their suspicions confirmed.

[bunches]

All true.

Try to rent or find on TV the movie "A Day in October" with D.B. Sweeney (he was in The Cutting Edge)which recounts how a wounded Danish resistance leader was taken in by a Jewish couple and their young daughter. They nurse him back to health and in the process of the story-telling we learn how the Danes heroically saved thousands of Jews and, as you said, got them to Sweden safely.

It was a quiet, intense, well-acted movie about a time in Denmark's history that I knew nothing about.

Good movie. Brave people.