Multicultural List ( no, Flerkulturell liste, FKL) was a
Norwegian
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*Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe
* Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway
* Demographics of Norway
*The Norwegian language, including ...
immigrant political list.
History
The first and only time the party has completely independently run for election was in the 1995 municipal election in
Oslo
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where it received 2.600 votes in the city.norskinnvandrerforum.no This accounted for about 10-12% of the immigrant votes.vg.no - Vil sidestille urdu og samisk /ref> In the 1999 local elections the party cooperated with
Red Electoral Alliance
Red Electoral Alliance ( nb, Rød Valgallianse, nn, Raud Valallianse, RV) was an alliance of far-left groups formed into a Norwegian political party to promote revolutionary socialism ideals into the Norwegian parliament. The party dissolved itse ...
and got its leader and candidate Athar Ali elected as member of the Oslo city council.
Political profile
In February 1996 leader Athar Ali reacted strongly when a group of
Muslim
Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...
city councilmen in Oslo took indirect distance to the
Fatwā
A fatwā ( ; ar, فتوى; plural ''fatāwā'' ) is a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law (''sharia'') given by a qualified '' Faqih'' (Islamic jurist) in response to a question posed by a private individual, judge or government. A jurist i ...
against novelist
Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (; born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Wes ...
. Shortly after the 1999 election, Athar Ali also said that
arranged marriage
Arranged marriage is a type of marital union where the bride and groom are primarily selected by individuals other than the couple themselves, particularly by family members such as the parents. In some cultures a professional matchmaker may be us ...
s 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". Otherwise the Multicultural List also wanted the state to acknowledge languages such as
Arabic
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and
Vietnamese
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* Something of, from, or related to Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia
** A citizen of Vietnam. See Demographics of Vietnam.
* Vietnamese people, or Kinh people, a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Vietnam
** Overse ...
as official minority languages, thereby getting a status equal to
Sami
Acronyms
* SAMI, ''Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange'', a closed-captioning format developed by Microsoft
* Saudi Arabian Military Industries, a government-owned defence company
* South African Malaria Initiative, a virtual expertise net ...