Arkiv for: juni, 2015
We are not in Mecca
Starting with prayer on Fridays,
Just like church bells.
From today 26.06.2015 starts Mosque in Sandnessjøen with prayer over loudspeakers outside.
It is met with very mixed reactions among the citizens.
The municipality has given permission, but that this will become a weekly fixture in the center, has created reactions among people in the municipality.
Of course, that people react, just as she writes in her article; We are not in Mecca.
What the world are thinking in Sandnessjoen, they should have a serious talk with Moss municipality, where they know how to do it in this country.
Source Sandnessjøen: http://www.nrk.no/nordland/na-kan-helgelendinger-hore-bonnerop-herfra-1.12429090
Source Moss; http://www.tv2.no/a/7062043
Threat to Russia
Islamic State threat to Russia is real
“The threat from ISIS is real because quite a lot of citizens from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization(SCO) are taking part in its activities,” deputy director of Russia’s Federal Security Service told reporters Friday after a session of the SCO’s regional anti-terror body.
A senior security official has said that the threat coming from the so called Islamic State [also known as ISIS, or ISIL] was absolutely real for Russia and its neighbors.
Patrushev told reporters that he and other Russian officials preferred to use the term “Islamic State” in quotation marks to avoid insults to true Muslims who, in his view, had no relation to terrorists and extremists. For the same reason he called on people to refer to it by its original name – the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL.
Source: http://rt.com/politics/248685-russia-islamic-state-threat/
Fear of war
Fear of war is increasing among Norwegians
The proportion who are not worried about war or attack on Norwegian territory has dropped by 20 percent in one year. Meanwhile weaken confidence that the defense capabilities to ensure peace in Norway.
A more tense relations with Russia, the use of military force in Ukraine and an increased threat from terrorist organizations that IS makes people become more aware of a possible threat, says defense chief Haakon Bruun-Hanssen. Friday afternoon he presented figures from this year’s resident survey conducted by Ipsos MMI.
The proportion who are not worried about war or attack on Norwegian territory has dropped sharply from 53 percent in 2014 to 37 percent in 2015. There are women, young people and residents of Finnmark and Østfold who worry most, it emerges in the survey. Fully 30 percent of 18-24 year-olds are very or fairly concerned about the war in Norway.
Weakened confidence in the Norwegian Armed Forces
The new survey clearly shows that people’s confidence in the the Norwegian Armed Forces is weakened. One out of four Norwegians think the Norwegian Armed Forces is somewhat or very poorly suited to safeguard Norwegian sovereignty. Only 36 percent of respondents have a good or very good impression of the Armed Forces’ ability to meet the threat of war or attacks on Norwegian soil. In 2014 there were 42 percent who said the same.
Especially in Finnmark come this clear. At the same percentage plummeted from 44 to 24 percent.
Last year it was 60 percent of respondents who believed that the military was in pretty good condition to help defend Norway and allied countries. This year, the proportion who thinks the same dropped to 50 percent.
Source: http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/Frykten-for-krig-oker-blant-nordmenn-8073335.html
