(Dagbladet): – I do not think Pegida march in Norway are particularly large. The profile they have chosen is very anti Islamic. In Germany they tried to maneuver themselves into a little more politically correct waters, but in Norway is quite narrow.
It says author Øyvind Strømmen, who has published several books about right extremism. For several years he mapped extremist and anti-Muslim blog environments. He says that the German movement is complex, and that ordinary Germans walks beside extreme right. What they share is anti Islamic ideas.
Read an interview with the initiator, Max Hermansen, here.
– I think many will have trouble swallowing the rhetoric of Hermansen. He addresses Islam and all Muslims, not just extremists. Even people who want tighter immigration, will in my view have trouble swallowing such rhetoric.
– Anti Islamic profile scares
Yet he little faith Pegida manage to establish themselves in Norway, pointing out the blunder last time an anti Islamic organization, English Defence League (NDL), tried to get a foothold.
– The Norwegian anti-Islamic environment has been riven by root and quarrel. Then this is something new, and maybe they can get something support, but it surprises me about this being big. But I’ve been surprised before.
Stream think the anti-Islamic profile may scare away some Islam skeptics.
– And when it comes in people from the extreme right, then it’s probably part others who will shadow path. Are you wary of Islam in Norway, so you have many ways to be there.
– Hitting a nerve
think the same author and Minerva journalist Lars Aker Haug. He has published a book about Muslim extremists.
– If persons from groups that NDL should take initiative or become dominant, then it will probably prevent support from those who basically are not racists or hostile to Muslims, but only critical of Islam, he said.
– Pegida is met with strong criticism, and it is very easy to imagine that this is just the extreme right. But it is too simple to prepare Islam-critical attitudes that extreme right. There are extreme right among them, they will always emerge when taken such initiatives. But I also think it might be a potential for a broader group composed, beyond the traditional right-wing extremist groups attempting to ride on the Islam-critical wave.
Aker Haug says he believes this is something “that moves in society greater extent than before. “
– Pegida is anything other than NDL and especially the EDL, which had originated from violent groups and compromising with militant rhetoric and symbolism. Pegida driver not like that, and therefore I think they are more able to hit a nerve, even though I have so far not think this is going to be so big.
– Fallout can lead to more extreme
He is critical of how Pegida been met in Germany. There, Angela Merkel criticized the movement in powerful terms, and both public and private institutions have been protests against Pegida.
– The act way is extremely little good. It is reacted in the same manner as in Sweden opposite Sweden Democrat. One sees that the political parties ending series against this movement, and stamps all that extreme right. Especially actions to extinguish the light on symbol heavy construction, as in Berlin, is a dangerous gamble. Risici that the group continues to grow, and see themselves on the outside of the good company. it can lead to more extreme, says Aker Haug.
He believes the Norwegian debate works better, pointing to people who FRP’s Christian Tybring- Pike and Hege Storhaug.
– It is legitimate to be critical of Islam, and målbringer concern to some critics of Islam in a good way.
– And we see that this is a big movement in Norway, it’s constantly a risk that we get a backlash in radical Islamist groups. It is foreshadowed one counter-demonstrations to Monday’s march, and we can already see that some radical elements involved there.
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