![]() ![]() Muslim young people organized this to support Norway’s Jewish community after the anti-Jewish attacks in Denmark and other parts of Europe.Ī young Muslim embraces someone from the Oslo Jewish community after the ‘Ring of Peace’, February 21, 2015. Young Muslim women hand-in-hand with more than 1,000 Norwegians of all religions, in front of the Oslo Synagogue, at the ‘Ring of Peace’, February 21, 2015. ‘We stand together against all forms of hate, violence, terrorism and extremism – they have no place in our society.’įlowers at the Oslo Synagogue to remember Dan Uzan (shot and killed when guarding a synagogue in Copenhagen, Denmark, February 21, 2015). ‘It’s important to focus on the new illness in Europe - hate against Muslims and minorities – the Jewish minority as well,’ said Afsar. ‘It’s the person that does something bad – not the religion.’ ‘When a Christian does something bad they don’t talk about their religion,’ said organizer Gitte Myhre. ![]() ‘This Saturday, non-Muslims made a ring in front of a mosque, to show that we do not want hate and violence against Muslims.’ It was beautiful,’ said Mehtab Afsar, secretary general of the Islamic Council of Norway. ‘Last week it was the Muslim youth who started the ring. Because of this violence, and because many refugees and asylum seekers are moving to Norway and other northern European countries, there are more anti-immigrant, and especially anti-Muslim, feelings. They want to fight against negative impressions of Muslims because of news reports of the recent violence in France and Denmark. The organisers called this the ‘Solidarity Ring’. This time they protested against hatred of Islam. One week later, many Norwegians stood in front of an Oslo mosque in another ring of solidarity. Michael Gritzman of the Jewish Community in Oslo said ‘I hope this will happen in other countries too.’ People from the Jewish community at the ‘Ring of Peace’ said thank you for the support. Then many were taken away in the Nazi occupation. They are a very small group because anti-Semitism in the past did not allow Jewish people into Norway until the mid-1800s. This is about the same number as the Jewish population of Norway. There were about 1,300 supporters in the street outside the only working synagogue in Oslo. ‘The “Ring of Peace” shows we stand with them – we will not let anyone stop us being a multicultural and multi-religious society.’ ‘The Jewish groups are facing difficulties, as we have seen in Paris and Copenhagen,’ said Hassan Raja, one of the organizers. ![]() With their community they made a ‘Ring of Peace’ around the main synagogue in Oslo to show they stand together against extremism. In Norway, Jews and Muslims stand up against hate speech, writes Ryan Rodrick Beiler.Īfter the violence against Jewish people across Europe, young Muslims in Norway decided to do something in public. ![]()
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