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Thursday, April 19, 2007

Landed on Positivity : Scandinavia Research Encounter

I know some of my friends know about my trip plan.
It's plan for this May. Good to have a working progress plan, but i can only hope and see.
It's not really a big trip or anything, only 10 days of sightseeing and i'll be scheduled the whole time anyway. Its not like i'll be exploring each country in Scandinavia.
For those who's not familiar (i know i didn't)

Scandinavia ( North Europe) consists of countries of
1. Denmark (Copanhagen) with national language ; Danish
2. Sweden ( Stockholm) with Swedish (largest country among others)
3. Norway (Oslo) with Norweigan-a northern Germany-
4. Finland ( Helsinki ) with Finnish
5. Iceland (
Reykjavik )with Icelandic

my travel list excludes iceland...gr8! coz i hate cold places.

Among all the countries above, today I was particularly researching about Sweden.
OFFICIAL NAME : Kingdom of Sweden
( STOCKHOLM )
Photo: www.imagebank.sweden.se / Richard Ryan

Anyway, I have something to share while i was occupied with research.
I wanted to know how Islam is doing there. Like people's acceptance, government policies, just general views of the everyday Muslims there.

They have CASTLES!!! aahh! even from 11th century! Damn old & very intriguing.
Google ,'list of castle in Sweden'..voila!


( Kalmar Castle, South of Sweden)

The language..even the general greetings? Very hard to pronounce!!!
Say this ---> "Namen!" (what?!) and "Jo" (yep : its pronounce noise is like you are slurping !)
Erm, what else. Oh...they love drinking COFFEE!!! ( common i guess in Europe )
Monarchy with Lutherans as major religion.
The lights there is unique so its a good place for photographers.
Living Moose.hehehe...
The landscapes?amazing!

After browsing the obvious, I look more about Islam there in Sweden.
And i found it normal, that many accepts and many just plain arrogance.
Then i found this article titled : "Islam is and will be a European Religion"
Its a long read, but i was glad that i read that.
It was posted today.

here's the link : http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=105153

That's all!

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