Hallgrim Berg

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Hallgrim Berg
Member of the Norwegian Parliament
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13 January 1982 30 September 1997

Hallgrim Berg (born 28 January 1945) is a Norwegian author, traditional folk musician, and former politician for the Conservative Party. He was a member of the Norwegian Parliament from 1982 to 1997, representing Buskerud. He has released several books and been involved in several musical albums, and held numerous public positions. [1]

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Biography

Berg was born in Ål. He became cand.philol. majoring in history from the University of Oslo in 1972. After being a lecturer at Geilo and Gol, he was self-employed in Geilo from 1974 to 1986. [1]

He was a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from 1977 to 1985, began meeting regularly from 1982 for Minister of Justice Mona Røkke, and was then elected as a regular representative for three terms from 1985 to 1997, before again becoming a deputy representative from 1997 to 2001. [1] He served as a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1986 to 1989, and as a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) from 1989 to 1997, until 1993 as deputy leader. [2] He was also a member of the Ål municipal council from 1975 to 1987, and again from 1999 to 2003, and of the Buskerud county council from 1999 to 2007. [1]

In 2007 he released his book Amerikabrevet: Europa i fare, translated to English and published in the United States as Letter to Lady Liberty: Europe in Danger, about what he called "the Muslim invasion of Europe". [3] The book was later noted to have cited counter-jihad blogger Fjordman as an "authoritative source", [4] although only once in the context of his collection of the writings of Bat Ye'or. [5] Berg has endorsed Ye'or's Eurabia thesis, [6] [7] [8] and has been described as "the most prominent Eurabia author in Norway" by social anthropologist Sindre Bangstad. [4] In 2013 he released a follow-up book titled Demokrati eller islamisme. Europa under islam where he continues to warn against Muslim immigration. [1]

In her 2004 book The Force of Reason , Eurabia-author Oriana Fallaci says there is "only one hero", namely Berg who was praised over four pages for speaking out against a report on Islamic relations in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg in 1991. [9] [10]

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