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It provokes reactions that SIAN leader Lars Thorsen even named which Muslims he wanted to send out of Norway when he was the Debatten guest on NRK yesterday. Lena Larsen is among those who react. TO VG fstates that it will appeal the program to the Norwegian Broadcasting Council.
Larsen is married to Basim Ghozlan, a former head of the Islamic Council and director of the Rabit Mosque in Oslo, who was among the Muslims mentioned by Thorsen.
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– It cannot be indisputable that people are suspected and should be deported. I don’t understand that it should be necessary to use people as victims to make the SIAN point, Larsen tells VG.
NRK news division editor Knut Magnus Berge defends the question to VG.
– We had a debate on the outer limit of freedom of expression and we thought it was a point to follow what SIAN really stands for. In that context, some names of public figures that he believes should be detained and deported, and we think that was illustrative of how extreme his opinions are, Berge tells VG.
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The campaign has been in contact with the MDG politician, Shoaib Sultan, who was also among those mentioned by Thorsen. She is highly critical of the way guests handled the issue later in the broadcast, including Justice Minister Monica Mæland, and that no one used their freedom of expression to counter what the SIAN leader had said.
– What do you think of the role of NRK here?
– I’m still not sure if I think it’s okay to give SIAN a platform, but once you have them there, I think Fredrik Solvang did a perfectly decent job, he tells Kampanje.
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(Article first published by Campaign)
