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human ring around synagogue
By Reuters
February 21, 2015 10:53 AM PST · Updated 9 years ago

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OSLO (Reuters) - More than 1000 Muslims formed a

human shield around Oslo's synagogue on Saturday,
offering symbolic protection for the city's Jewish
community and condemning an attack on a
synagogue in neighboring Denmark last weekend.

Chanting "No to anti-Semitism, no to Islamophobia,"

Norway's Muslims formed what they called a ring of
peace a week after Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein, a
Danish-born son of Palestinian immigrants, killed
two people at a synagogue and an event promoting
free speech in Copenhagen last weekend.

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"Humanity is one and we are here to demonstrate

that," Zeeshan Abdullah, one of the protest's
organizers told a crowd of Muslim immigrants and
ethnic Norwegians who filled the small street around
Oslo's only functioning synagogue.

"There are many more peace mongers than

warmongers," Abdullah said as organizers and
Jewish community leaders stood side by side.
"There’s still hope for humanity, for peace and love,
across religious differences and backgrounds."

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Norway's Jewish community is one of Europe's

smallest, numbering around 1000, and the Muslim
population, which has been growing steadily through
immigration, is 150,000 to 200,000. Norway has a
population of about 5.2 million.

The debate over immigration in the country came to

the forefront in 2011 when Anders Behring Breivik
killed 77 people and accused the government and the
then-ruling Labour party of facilitating Muslim
immigration and adulterating pure Norwegian blood.

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Support for immigration has been rising steadily

since those attacks, however, and an opinion poll late
last year found that 77 percent of people thought
immigrants made an important contribution to
Norwegian society.

Reporting by Balazs Koranyi; Editing by Pravin Char and

Stephen Powell

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