Oslo: A young Muslim woman has been named a culture minister for the first time in the history of the Scandinavian country.<\/p>\n
“We have made these changes to make room for new values, new force and new ideas,<\/em>” Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told reporters, Reuters reported. “It is a combination of renewal and continuity<\/em>“, he added.<\/p>\n Hadia<\/em> Tajik, a 29-year-old Muslim, was named Friday, September 22, a culture minister as part of a cabinet reshuffle.<\/p>\n Hadia<\/em> replaced Anniken Huitfeldt<\/em>, who became the new Minister of Labour<\/em> and Social affairs.<\/p>\n Born to Pakistani parents, Tajik is a member of parliament for the Labour<\/em> Party.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tajik, the youngest government minister in the Scandinavian country, said culture diversity would top her ministry\u2019s program in the coming period.<\/p>\n Tajik had served as a political adviser to Minister of Justice Knut Storberget<\/em> from 2008 to 2009.<\/p>\n At the time, Tajik played an active role in a decision to allow police women to wear hijab while in service.<\/p>\n The decision, however, caused a storm in the country, forcing the minister to withdraw the decision.<\/p>\n The cabinet reshuffle also saw moving Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere<\/em> to the health ministry, a key position for a government hoping to strengthen the extensive social safety net.<\/p>\n Defense Minister Espen<\/em> Barth Eide<\/em> was also moved to take the foreign ministry portfolio.<\/p>\n The reshuffle is seen as a last big effort by Stoltenberg to shape up the team that would campaign for Labor’s third straight term.<\/p>\n Norwegian Muslims are estimated at 150,000 out of the country’s 4.5 million population, mostly of Pakistan, Somali, Iraqi and Moroccan backgrounds.<\/p>\n There are nearly 90 Muslim organizations and Islamic centers across the northern European country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oslo: A young Muslim woman has been named a culture minister for the first time in the history of the Scandinavian country. “We have made these changes to make room for new values, new...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[199],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-muslim-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1584,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions\/1584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigate-islam.com\/web\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}