Multicultural List
Multicultural List (Norwegian: Flerkulturell liste, FKL) was a Norwegian immigrant political list.
History[edit]
The first and only time the party has completely independently run for election was in the 1995 municipal election in Oslo where it received 2.600 votes in the city.[1] This accounted for about 10-12% of the immigrant votes.[2] In the 1999 local elections the party cooperated with Red Electoral Alliance and got its leader and candidate Athar Ali elected as member of the Oslo city council.[1]
Political profile[edit]
In February 1996 leader Athar Ali reacted strongly when a group of Muslim city councilmen in Oslo took indirect distance to the Fatwā against novelist Salman Rushdie.[3] Shortly after the 1999 election, Athar Ali also said that arranged marriages should be accepted, stating that: "Arranged marriage is all in all a good arrangement, where two families agree to a sort of contract. [...] no-one wants to hurt and disappoint their parents. I believe indigenous Norwegians have difficulties understanding this. For you it seems completely absurd that a marriage should be directed by something else than love between two persons".[4] Otherwise the Multicultural List also wanted the state to acknowledge languages such as Urdu, Turkish, Arabic and Vietnamese as official minority languages, thereby getting a status equal to Sami.[2] Other than cooperating with Red Electoral Alliance, the list has also expressed support for the Socialist Left Party.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ a b norskinnvandrerforum.no Archived 2010-01-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b vg.no - Vil sidestille urdu og samisk
- ^ dagbladet.no - - Er presset til fatwa-nei
- ^ Hollekim, Vibeke (17 October 1999). "– Arrangerte ekteskap er bra". Aftenposten (in Norwegian).
- ^ dagbladet.no - Støtter Kristin