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Multicultural List

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Multicultural List (Norwegian: Flerkulturell liste, FKL) was a Norwegian immigrant political party.

History

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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

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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

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  1. ^ a b norskinnvandrerforum.no Archived 2010-01-20 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b vg.no - Vil sidestille urdu og samisk
  3. ^ dagbladet.no - - Er presset til fatwa-nei
  4. ^ Hollekim, Vibeke (17 October 1999). "– Arrangerte ekteskap er bra". Aftenposten (in Norwegian).
  5. ^ dagbladet.no - Støtter Kristin