Tag: Islam
Mosque shooting widely condemned
A young Norwegian man who fired shots inside a mosque in suburban Oslo Saturday evening was refusing to talk with police on Sunday. He's...
Women’s murderers sentenced to death
Norway generally condemns death sentences, but those handed out to three men convicted of having murdered two young Scandinavian women on holiday in Morocco...
Solheim stunned by terror in Sri Lanka
Erik Solheim, the former Norwegian politician who spent years brokering peace on Sri Lanka, was among those wondering whether the brutal terrorist group IS...
Islamist sentenced for making threats
A court in Oslo sentenced Islamic extremist Mohyeldeen Mohammad to two-and-a-half years in prison on Tuesday, for making threats against politician Abid Raja, a...
Islamist denies sending threats
Norwegian Islamist Mohyeldeen Mohammad finally showed up in an Oslo Court on Tuesday, after being arrested once again for failing to appear in a...
Islamist fled his own trial
Norwegian authorities have issued an international warrant for Mohyeldeen Mohammad, a radical Islamist charged with making threats against a Member of Parliament. They've also...
‘Several’ charged in attack on publisher
Norway's state police unit Kripos has charged "several" people in connection with the attempted assassination of William Nygaard in 1993. Nygaard headed Oslo publishing...
High court upholds Islamist’s jail term
Norway's highest court (Høyesterett) has sentenced Islamic extremist Ubaydullah Hussain to nine years in prison for taking part in the brutal terrorist organization IS....
Somalian leader to probe ‘Koran schools’
Prime Minister Erna Solberg met with her Somalian counterpart at the World Economic Summit in Davos this week, and he promised her that he...
Islamist guilty of terror recruiting
An appeals court in Oslo has found Ubaydullah Hussain, a self-proclaimed Islamist, guilty of supporting the terrorist organization ISIL and recruiting "vulnerable souls" for...
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