Nordic Views on Islam Sour after Global Attacks

The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S. and the July bombings in London, as well as other action by extremist Islamists, have soured attitudes towards Islam among the predominantly Lutheran populations of Europe's north.

In Norway, the anti-immigration Progress Party won a record 22% of parliamentary seats in a September election.

A poll by Sweden's Integration Board in September showed that 40% did not want a mosque in their neighborhood.