Norwegian muslim political party being launched in Pakistan…..
Ghufoor Butt is one of those Western Muslim men who are always being labeled moderates because they dress in Western fashion, don’t have beards, speak the language of the country they live in, have achieved a degree of professional success, and just plain look and sound seem like reasonable guys who are comfortable with Western values. Butt, who according to Dagbladet “has acted in 20 Pakistani movies, is still a big name in Pakistan and was a famous Pakistani political journalist,” moved to Norway in 1974, making him a member of the first wave of Muslim immigrants to the land of the fjords, and now owns a thriving DVD outlet in Oslo’s immigrant quarter. Now Butt (who told Dagbladet that “if Norwegians didn’t drink alcohol, have sex, and eat pork they would be the world’s best Muslims”) has founded a new political party that seeks to woo the nation’s Muslim voters, and in the fall will head up his party’s slate of candidates for Parliament.
What is his party’s platform? Well, for one