Norway's government collapses over decision to allow ISIS bride to return to the country

[Swordsmyth]

Norway's government has collapsed over the decision to allow an ISIS bride to return to the country from Syria with her children.
The populist Progress Party pulled out of Norway's coalition government today after the mother was permitted repatriation so that her gravely ill five-year-old son could receive medical treatment.
The 29-year-old and her two children have been living in the Al-Hol camp in Syria - notorious in Britain as the detention centre which held Shamima Begum.
Prime Minister Erna Solberg said she would forge on with a minority government comprised of her Conservatives, the centrist Liberal Party and the Christian Democrats.


Progress Party leader Siv Jensen said that 'the cup is now full' after the decision to allow the woman to return to Norway, on which her anti-immigration party feels it was not consulted.
She added that when Solberg's coalition expanded a year ago to include the liberals and the Christian Democrats, veering more to the centre and becoming a majority government, 'enthusiasm dropped.'
'Over time, politics was too much based on compromises,' said Jensen, who is Norway's outgoing finance minister.
Prime Minister Solberg said she 'understood' why the Progress Party wanted to leave her coalition government, adding she would seek cooperation with the party - which is Norway's third-largest.


Norway's next parliamentary election is scheduled for September 2021.
To stay in office until then and pass legislation in the 169-seat parliament, Solberg needs the support of parties outside the government, including the Progress Party.

More at: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...try-Syria.html

[Zippyjuan]

Sort of. The Progressives withdrew from the coalition but the ruling party can still stay in control through 2021. It can also form a new coalition with other parties if they agree. The government has taken away the woman's children (one was sick which is why she returned) and made them wards of the state (taxpayer supported! Yay!). The Conservatives currently lead Norway.

Trump has encouraged European countries to accept such people.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/20/europ...ntl/index.html

The mother was arrested on arrival in Norway, while the children are receiving health care and will be monitored by child welfare services, the government added.

Solberg, who leads the Conservative Party, has been Norway's Prime Minister since 2013. She was re-elected in September 2017.
"Our dilemma became the following: bringing home the child with (his) mother, or risking that a Norwegian, a sick 5-year-old could die," Solberg said in a statement sent to CNN.

"Faced with these choices, we chose to work to bring the boy home, confident that his mother would be arrested and prosecuted when she came to Norway. Something that is now also happening," she said.

"I respect that FRP has a different view. This was a difficult trade-off. But for me it was right to help the boy come home to Norway and get help," added Solberg.

Solberg said her government will continue until 2021 as a minority propped up by the Liberal and Christian Democratic parties, as part of a confidence and supply deal agreed in January last year.

Many nations have been grappling with the issue of what to do with so-called ISIS brides -- women who traveled to the Middle East to join the Islamic caliphate.
European countries have been reluctant to accept ISIS members, and only a handful of countries, such as Russia, Indonesia, Lebanon and Sudan, have allowed ISIS followers to return.

US President Donald Trump has pressured European countries to take citizens who fought for ISIS back from US-controlled prisons in the Middle East, but there is little political will in Europe to allow that to happen.

[Swordsmyth]

Sort of. The Progressives withdrew from the coalition but the ruling party can still stay in control through 2021. It can also form a new coalition with other parties if they agree. The government has taken away the woman's children (one was sick which is why she returned) and made them wards of the state (taxpayer supported! Yay!). The Conservatives currently lead Norway.

Trump has encouraged European countries to accept such people.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/20/europ...ntl/index.html

Try reading what you respond to, most of what you said is in the OP.

And Trump wanted European countries to take such people into custody and try them, he didn't say they should release them into their population.