النرويج: دراسة تكشف قلق النرويجيين تجاه الحجاب

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

أظهرت نتائج دراسة أُجريت عبر الإنترنت أن النرويجيين يحملون قلقًا تجاه المسلمات المحجبات؛ وذلك لاعتبارهم الحجاب رمزًا أجنبيًّا، وذلك طبقًا لتصريحات "زان ستراباك"، الأستاذ المساعد بكلية جامعة "سور تروندلاج" النرويجية.

وأشار "ستراباك" إلى أن الحجاب ذاته مصدر القلق وليس معتقد المرأة المسلمة.

وقد طالب "ماركو فالينتا" - أستاذ العمل الاجتماعي وعلم الصحة - المسلمات بالحفاظ على ارتداء الحجاب رغمًا عن ثمن التمسك بتلك الشعيرة.

وقد أشارت مصادر موثوقة إلى أن "النرويج" بها نحو 150 ألف مسلم، وأن دول شمال أوروبا بها نحو 90 مركزًا ومؤسسةً إسلامية؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Norwegians Skeptical To Muslims’ Hijab

A new online study on attitudes towards immigrants has found that Norwegians are more skeptical to Muslim women donning hijab, considering the Muslim veil as a symbol of “foreignness”.

“The Hijab seems to have been an important symbol of ‘foreignness’,” Zan Strabac, an associate professor at Sør-Trøndelag University College, told Klassekampen, The Foreigner reported on Thursday, September 19.

“It would be interesting to know exactly what negative connotations the Hijab awakens in the majority population,” he added.

Performing an experimental study researching Norwegians’ attitudes to immigrants, participants in the online survey were shown different images of the same woman, both with and without the Hijab.

Those taking part were shown images of the same women with and without the Hijab.

The images were labeled stating the subject was a “Christian” or a “Muslim” without the Hijab, and a “Muslim” with a hijab.

The subject was a Portuguese research colleague who could have seemed to be of Middle-Eastern origin.

According to Strabac, who was one of several collaborated in the study, the results suggested that it is not the woman's religion that causes skepticism amongst Norwegians but the hijab itself.

Islam sees hijab as an obligatory code of dress, not a religious symbol displaying one's affiliations.

Hijab has been in the eye of storm since France banned the headscarf in public places in 2004.

Since then, several European countries have followed suit.

Hijab came to headline in January 2013 after the Norwegian government rejected a proposal to allow female police officers to wear hijab (Muslim headscarf) while on duty.

Wear Hijab

In spite of the study’s results, a Norwegian professor of social work urged Muslim women to keep their hijabs on.

“The cost of wearing the Hijab is quite high,” Marco Valenta, a professor at Trondheim’s University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Social Work and Health Science, said.

“But attitudes towards Muslim women were not more negative than attitudes toward other women with immigrant backgrounds when they did not wear it.”

The poll’s results are “just something we observe objectively,” he added.

“The scores are not as bad as expected for Muslims who do have Muslim symbols on their personage,” Klassekampen reported Valenta as saying.

“There is a social distance regarding both Christians and Muslims, there is always an immigrant effect, but we did not find this was larger when it came to Muslims.”

Norwegian Muslims are estimated at 150,000 out of the country's 4.5 million population, mostly of Pakistan, Somali, Iraqi and Moroccan backgrounds.

There are nearly 90 Muslim organizations and Islamic centers across the northern European country.