Sylvi Listhaug
Norwegian minister targeted because she wears crucifix
A Norwegian minister was accused of wearing a Christian crucifix as a “prop” to promote “xenophobic” views, but Sylvi Listhaug, Norway’s Minister of Migration and Integration, says the liberal media ignores facts in their fervour to attack right-leaning politicians.
Published: March 8, 2017, 10:02 am
Listhaug is a member of the Progress Party, which serves in Norway’s governing coalition along with the majority Conservative Party.
“They have an agenda, which is attacking the right. They have no standards and they don’t care about the facts – everything is okay as long as I or the Progress Party is the target,” she said.
Journalist Sven Egil Omdal, who writes for Stavanger Aftenblad, a newspaper based in the Norwegian city of Stavanger, claims Listhaug had never worn a crucifix before being appointed to her current government position.
“She looks like a bishop even when she says that it ‘has never been something for us’ to live side by side with people from another culture,” Omdal wrote in a posting on Facebook.
“Sylvi Listhaug is almost always seen wearing the cross now, and she is always talking about how important it is for her. But I’ve been through all images in the Scanpix database in the period from 2001 to December 15, 2015, when she became immigration and integration minister. She does not wear the cross necklace on one of them.” But his statement is bare-faced lie, the minister says.
“He has received well over 1 000 likes, many of them from journalists and media professionals on an outright lie”, she wrote to Facebook. She then pointed to at least three Scanpix photos from 2006 and 2007 attached to the post in which she can be seen wearing the crucifix, to disprove the journalist’s false claim.
Omdal accused Listhaug of wearing the crucifix as a “political prop to appeal to strange people who think xenophobia is a Christian virtue.”
Listhaug wore the crucifix recently while speaking at the Oslo Symposium.
Listhaug says the crucifix was a gift from her grandmother, who is nearly 100 years old. “It is important for me to correct him. It is a piece of jewelry that means a lot to me, that I have had for many years and that gives me comfort, especially when a lot is going on and I need to perform,” she told NRK.
She called out the “vile attack”, by the “media mogul” as “fake news”, adding that Omdal “invented it to make me look evil and cynical”.
Last year Listhaug was mocked by leftists and asked to “reconsider her position” after telling the country’s Muslims to adapt to Norway’s culture.
She posted on Facebook on the eve of a national integration conference: “I think those who come to Norway need to adapt to our society.” The comment was liked more than 20 000 times.
“Here we eat pork, drink alcohol and show our face. You must abide by the values, laws and regulations that are in Norway when you come here.”
Listhaug echoed Prime Minister Erna Solberg who said in an interview that she would not employ someone wearing an Islamic face veil.
But Norway’s Labour party politician Zaineb Al-Samarai wrote in an article for Dagbladet newspaper: “If you are to be integration minister, you must begin to integrate. Do not frighten and separate people.” He did not explain why only Norwegians should adapt, but not the rest.
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