The debate about multicultural Norway before and after 22 July 2011

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Notes

1. http://desi.no/forum/ [Accessed 8 August 2011] Desi.no is Norway's – and according to the web page also Scandinavia's – most visited website created by and for ethnic minorities. It was created for Desis, people with South Asian backgrounds, but it is also used by ethnic Norwegians and other minority groups. The most frequent users are people with backgrounds from Pakistan and India. The website was created in 1998 by two data engineers with Pakistani backgrounds; according to their self-report, they had 100,000 visitors in 2009. The moderators argue, ‘What makes Desi.no unique is that it is a place where minorities can exchange meanings, and not the least get information about what concerns minorities, whether this relates to what happens in society, finding food recipes or looking at the cinema program of the month.’

2. http://www.dagbladet.no/2011/08/04/nyheter/politikk/erna_solberg/innenriks/17548191/ [Accessed 15 February 2012].

3. These words are part of the Shahada, the Muslim declaration of belief in the oneness of God: ‘there is no god but God’.

4. http://morgenbladet.no/samfunn/2012/stadig_grunn_til_begeistring [Published 9 February 2012, Accessed 20 February 2012].