Khalid Chaudry Mahmood (born 12 April 1959) is a Pakistani Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. Born in Pakistan, he migrated to Norway as a teenager and studied

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at the

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. Mahmood has also worked as a journalist, author and been on the board of several organisations. In 1983 he was elected to serve in Oslo city council. He was re-elected in 1987, not in 1991 but again in 1995. Having originally represented the

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, he joined the Labour Party in 1995. He left the Conservative Party in protest against a proposal to introduce financial reports regarding the immigrant population. He was re-elected to the city council in 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011. In 2011, he was placed on the last spot on the Labour

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, but was elected due to getting most personal votes of all candidates. In 2015, he was named the longest sitting city council representative, having been elected for eight periods. He also served as a deputy representative to the

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from 2005.

Islamophobia

According to a 2009

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article, Mahmood believes that there is persecution against

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. In the article, he was quoted: "Muslims are the Jews of our times, stigmatised, generalised and presented as a threat to society. We are portrayed as uncivilised people living double lives - orderly and behaved when in public, but at home fundamentalists suppressing and physically abusing women."

References

1959 births Living people Pakistani emigrants to Norway Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Labour Party (Norway) politicians Deputy members of the Storting Politicians from Oslo University of Oslo alumni Norwegian people of Pakistani descent {{Norway-politician-1950s-stub