Thursday, June 22, 2006

Oslo,Norway can ban niqab















The City of Oslo has received clearance from the Directorate for Primary and Secondary Education to forbid veils that cover all of the face but the eyes.
City Council leader will introduce a ban on this type of veil because he believes it makes it difficult for teachers when they cannot see their students' faces.

Teachers agree that education is more difficult when they cannot see facial expressions or the mouths of a student.
Norway becomes the third European country, after Sweden and France, to forbid the use of the niqab in schools.
My opinion in this case is that is a wrong decision...

Thursday, June 15, 2006

Broken glass in sausage

Norway's dominant meat production cooperative Gilde goes from scandal to scandal.

Ten-year-old Joakim Karlsen bit into a two-centimeter long shard of glass while having smoked sausage from Gilde for dinner.
"My mouth started bleeding," Joakim told. The youngster says that Gilde sausages are not on his menu any more, especially at the school barbecue coming up.
Gilde instructed her to send in the sausage, packaging and piece of glass, but what angered her the most was the lack of an apology, and the impression that this was a mundane occurrence.
"Now that we were just starting to get over the E. coli (scandal), this happens. Think if a small child had eaten this sausage,"his mother said.
Norwegian