Norway Refuses Millions of Dollars From Saudi Arabia for Mosque Building

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The Norwegian foreign minister Jonas Gahr Støre ( known as Bin Gahr Støhre since he ran around apologizing during the mohammed cartoon crisis) has made a surprising turn today. He refused millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia to build mosques in Norway.
The Saudi government and rich private Saudis want to build mosques that cost tens of millions of dollars in Norway. Norway is a free democratic country. People can build any house of worship they like. However, the Norwegian government have to approve any financial support for such projects.
The Norwegain foreign ministry refused to accept the mosque building contributions. In the government’s answer to Tawfiiq islamic center the foreign ministry stated that “It would be a paradox and unnatural if it gave acceptance to funding from sources in a country where there is no religious freedom”. Jonas Gahr also stated that “We could have just said no, but the acceptance of such money would be a paradox since it is a punishable crime to establish the Christian faith in Saudi Arabia”.
The Norwegian State secretary Espen Barth Eide is visiting Saudi-Arabia, and will discuss the topic of financial support.
Many European countries have similar issues with Saudi Arabia. Norway plans to bring up this issue in the European council according to Støre.
The question is: Does this mean a limit put on the possibility of financially supporting faith groups? The answer depends on the outcome of debating the issue by the Norwegian government and the European council.
The Norwegian foreign ministry said that another giant mosque planned in Tromsø, supported by the Saudis, will get a similar response, and the millions of dollars will be rejected.
Just last week the newspaper Nordlys have written an article series with headlines like “Muslim leader in Tromsø linked to terrorist network” and “Islamic Fundamentalists in Saudi Arabia Sponsoring Mosque in Tromsø”. ( Due to this newspapers excellent investigative journalism, the mayor and ruling parties of the city council in Tromsø have now turned from being all useful idiots to being against the Tromsø Mosque project and wanting to stop it,).
One can wonder if the Saudi direction of Islam, Wahabi, too controversial for Norway? Norway have freedom of religions. Islam want to establish itself as a domineering religion; an anti Norway and anti democracy system. The simple answer is a resounding “NO”. Islam is not good for Norway. It is not good for anyone, anywhere.
In another piece of news, the Norwegian minister of justice Knut Storberget announced yesterday that they are targeting and working against “Islamic Extremism” with the same methods used against Neo nazi groups in the latest years; Meaning they will watch them a bit, and if they show tendencies towards extremism (Islam), they will call them in, have a sit down and basically, in a principal, tell them “we see what your doing, and we don’t like it, shape up or else you will face dier consequences.”
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Nekter å godkjenne moskémillioner - VG Nett om Islam-debatten

 

[P.kid]

how bout donating that money to the poor? cough flood, famine etc...

 

[PAKFA]

Islamophobia on its peak.

 

[JanjaWeed]

good move by norwegians. it's not good for any non muslim country to accept financial aids to build mosque from saudis. These guys do control the mosques they have financed & use them to preach some dangerous veriety of islam. We have a few of saudi sponsored mosque in britain & they are always on the eyes of authorites due to some readical preachings coming out of these places!!

 

[Spring Onion]

So Norway is going to build these by own ?

 

[Hyde]

So Norway is going to build these by own ?

Norway don't even need foreign assistance, It has a very low Muslim population and everybody is too rich that they can build as many mosques as they want.

Post Edited: Zaki

So rejecting this aid will not and should not effect any Muslim community here, like somebody said before, they can donate this money to poor peoples instead who can eat food for couple of days...instead of donating to economy rich Norway

Another Mosque

 

[Anonymous_Clown]

Wonderful that Scandinavian countries are standing up to the Saudis. A couple of days back I saw something about Sweden protesting arms sale to Saudi.

This remings me, some years back Saudi told Russia that they would build a HUGE Mosque in Moscow. Russia responded by saying ok, but only if we build an orthodox Christian church in Riyadh/Jeddah!

Saudi Arabia is the most duplicitous country in the world, and they are responsible for a large amount of the Islamic terrorism we see in the world today. Thumbs up to Norway.

 

[Kambojaric]

Wonderful that Scandinavian countries are standing up to the Saudis. A couple of days back I saw something about Sweden protesting arms sale to Saudi.

This remings me, some years back Saudi told Russia that they would build a HUGE Mosque in Moscow. Russia responded by saying ok, but only if we build an orthodox Christian church in Riyadh/Jeddah!

Saudi Arabia is the most duplicitous country in the world, and they are responsible for a large amount of the Islamic terrorism we see in the world today. Thumbs up to Norway.

Lol dude, it was vice versa, sweden was being critisized for making an arms deal with the Saudis

 

[s90]

Good decision, keep wahabis out!

 

[naumananjum]

well that really logical that if Norway is economically good they can reject any donation given to them
This is very simple
Saudis try to give
Norway has enough so they apologize
not more then this...!!!!

 

[silent hill]

Wonderful that Scandinavian countries are standing up to the Saudis. A couple of days back I saw something about Sweden protesting arms sale to Saudi.

This remings me, some years back Saudi told Russia that they would build a HUGE Mosque in Moscow. Russia responded by saying ok, but only if we build an orthodox Christian church in Riyadh/Jeddah!

Saudi Arabia is the most duplicitous country in the world, and they are responsible for a large amount of the Islamic terrorism we see in the world today. Thumbs up to Norway.

the saudi oil is also running the economy of several countries, do countries need to boycott their oil too??

its not a long time ago when indians were jumping for a saudi head to visit india

 

[PAKFA]

the saudi oil is also running the economy of several countries, do countries need to boycott their oil too??

So you want to say saudi will stop oil supply to several country when there donation is refused by one country.


[/quote]its not a long time ago when indians were jumping for a saudi head to visit india[/quote]

What India has to do with it . Relationship with saudi are mutually based partnership .

 

[Anonymous_Clown]

the saudi oil is also running the economy of several countries, do countries need to boycott their oil too??

its not a long time ago when indians were jumping for a saudi head to visit india

Actually, mankind's addiction to fossil fuel and the resulting barrage of money flow into Saudi is one of the main reasons for Islamic terrorism to have become what it is today.

The day man learns to obtain cheap and easily usable energy from alternative sources, terrorism will drop drastically.

 

[StingRoy]

Don't see a reason for concern here since the writer has mentioned the nonreciprocating paradox in this situation. It has nothing to do with the Wahabis or fear of Islam, just the ideology of accepting money for a religious motive where freedom on religion is not allowed.

"We could have just said no, but the acceptance of such money would be a paradox since it is a punishable crime to establish the Christian faith in Saudi Arabia"

 

[silent hill]

Actually, mankind's addiction to fossil fuel and the resulting barrage of money flow into Saudi is one of the main reasons for Islamic terrorism to have become what it is today.

The day man learns to obtain cheap and easily usable energy from alternative sources, terrorism will drop drastically.

so you mean, the necessity has enabled you to support terrorism?????