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  • Immigrants to Oslo (Norway)

    02/17/2006 8:15:16 AM PST · by Kurt_Hectic · 5 replies · 340+ views
    www.aftenposten.no ^ | 17 Feb 2006, 10:32 | Aftenposten English Web Desk/NTB
    Capital Oslo remains the first choice for non-western immigrants and refugees looking to settle in Norway. Friends and a familiar community plus a belief in better job opportunities keep immigrants heading to Oslo, newspaper Bergens Tidende reports. In Oslo 18 percent of the population has a non-western background, compared to just 6 percent in Bergen. Researcher Tanja Seland Forgaard can see several explanations for the stream towards Oslo and eastern Norway. "First, it is important that there are many immigrants in the Oslo area from before. Many have friends and acquaintances there and want to live nearer them. In addition,...
  • How to Oppose Liberal Intolerance

    08/11/2004 7:40:13 AM PDT · by albertp · 14 replies · 974+ views
    FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | August 11, 2004 | Lawrence Auster
    How to Oppose Liberal Intolerance By Lawrence Auster FrontPageMagazine.com | August 11, 2004 The double standard may well be the most characteristic feature of the leftist cultural order under which we now live. A particularly revealing instance of the double standard was the media's wall-to-wall obsession with the Abu Ghraib abuses, combined with its refusal to show the tape of the savage beheadings of innocent Americans by Islamist killers. While conservatives complain endlessly (one might even say boringly) about the double standard, however, they have signally failed to understand it. One explanation may be that today's leftists deceptively describe their...