Document.no

Document.no is a Norwegian conservative online newspaper that describes itself as focusing on politics, public debate, media criticism and culture. The website espouses views that are critical towards Islam and immigration , and supportive of Israel and the United States . Some have labelled the site Islamophobic, but the Norwegian Centre Against Racism considers it only sometimes Islamophobic, while others consider it to be within legitimate political debate. The National Library of Norway classifies it as a web periodical focusing on culture, politics and political science. Document originally began as a small publishing company, and in addition to books it has also published a printed periodical starting in 2013. The website was launched in 2003, and is owned by the limited company with the same name. The founder and editor is Hans Rustad (born 1950), a former journalist for the news agency NTB . The website played a key part in exposing the blasphemy bill proposed by the Norwegian government in 2009, and the "Roma woman" feature by public service broadcaster NRK in 2013. At times, the website can lie close to Islamophobia and publish Islamophobic texts, but the editorial team behind the website has to a large extent attempted to mark a line about where the distinctions between Islam-criticism and Islamophobia goes [...] to label the website as far-right or onesidedly Islamophobic would however be wrong. : Cite journal requires |journal= ( help ) Shakeel Rehman. "Document.no : politisk analyse, kulturdebatt, mediekritikk" (in Norwegian). National Library of Norway .

Norwegian far-right anti-immigration website Document.no is a Norwegian far-right anti-immigration online newspaper. Academics have identified Document.no as an anti-Muslim website permeated by the Eurabia conspiracy theory . The website received global media attention in connection with the 2011 Norway attacks due to its association with perpetrator Anders Behring Breivik , a former comment section poster on the website. The articles published in Document.no are often critical towards Islam and immigration , and supportive of Israel and the United States ; although increasingly more critical of Barack Obama and supportive of Donald Trump and conspiracy theories such as election fraud in the 2020 election . Faktisk.no found Document.no to be part of a far-right echo chamber that is one of Norway's most popular online newspapers in social media , and a report on extremism on the Internet published in 2013 by the Ministry of Justice and Public Security described Document.no as an "extremist website." Document.no has been met with mixed reception in media commentary. Document originally began as a small publishing company. The website was launched by its owner Hans Rustad in 2003, and is owned by the limited company with the same name. In 2018, Rustad was admitted to the Association of Norwegian Editors . Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamophobia . London Review of Books . 36 (22). Europe: Continent of Conspiracies . Engaged Anthropology: Views from Scandinavia . Terrorism and Political Violence . 26 (1). In Hoffmann, Christhard; Moe, Vibeke (eds.). The Case of Anders Breivik" . "Højreradikal terror har ramt Norge" . 23 July 2011. In Pratt, Douglas; Woodlock, Rachel (eds.). Fear of Muslims?: International Perspectives on Islamophobia . Norge i Dag 21 December 2012, "En ikke-representative elite domminerer nyhetsbildet" Deprecated link archived 22 February 2013 at archive.today "Slåss videre mot flerkulturelt Stiklestad" .

Norwegian far-right anti-immigration website Document.no is a Norwegian right-wing to far-right anti-immigration online newspaper. Academics have identified Document.no as an anti-Muslim website permeated by the Eurabia conspiracy theory , although others have described it as a conservative and more moderate part of the movement. The website received global media attention in connection with the 2011 Norway attacks due to its association with perpetrator Anders Behring Breivik . The articles published in Document.no are often critical towards Islam and immigration , and supportive of Israel and the United States , as well as Donald Trump and conspiracy theories such as election fraud in the 2020 election . Faktisk.no found Document.no to be part of a far-right echo chamber that simultaneously is one of Norway's most popular online newspapers in social media , and a report on extremism on the Internet published in 2013 by the Ministry of Justice and Public Security described Document.no as an "extremist website." Document.no has been met with mixed reception in media commentary. Document originally began as a small publishing company. The website was launched by Hans Rustad, a former journalist for the news agency NTB in 2003, and is owned by the limited company with the same name. Rustad was admitted to the Association of Norwegian Editors in 2018, and Document.no was granted financial press support from the Norwegian state in 2023. Although some may view the non-membership of professional organizations as a sine qua non of alternative news outlets, the reality is more complicated, as evidenced by the fact that the editor of Norwegian right-wing online news site document.no has recently joined the Norwegian Association of Editors. Right-wing alternative media and boundary work in the Norwegian journalistic institution" . Right-wing alternative media, such as Document and Resett, have become known in the Norwegian public for their vocal media criticism and disputed editorial practices. Anders Breivik and the Rise of Islamophobia . London Review of Books . 36 (22). He turned up at a pro-Israel meeting organised by the Friends of Document.no, a far-right website edited by Hans Rustad, a former soixante-huitard who claimed that Muslim men were using sex as a form of warfare, inflicting a 'slow castration' on Western men. Europe: Continent of Conspiracies . Many other examples of violent acts by those who subscribed to the Eurabia and the wider Great Replacement theory exist. I opened the chapter by discussing the terrorist attack of Anders Behring Breivik in Norway. The attack revealed a hidden sub-culture in Norway, simmering underneath on the Internet; a network of racist and Islamophobic groups operating around the country. One of the main forums for these politics was the online platform document.no , where Norwegian racists exchanged their views. Engaged Anthropology: Views from Scandinavia . In Norway, strongly anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant voices increasingly began to make themselves heard, and they would soon enter the mainstream media. The most influential website devoted to anti-Muslim discourse, document.no, later infamous for being the terrorist Anders Behring Breivik's favorite website, was founded in January 2003. Terrorism and Political Violence . 26 (1). The day after the attacks, Hans Rustad—editor of the Norwegian anti-Muslim forum document.no where Breivik had been a frequent participant—revealed that "large parts" of 2083 were plagiarized from the Unabomber Manifesto , published in 1995 by anti-modernist and technology critic Ted Kaczynski, who carried out a series of 16 bomb attacks against universities and airline companies. [...] Is the claim correct? Three of 1516 pages are taken from the Unabomber Manifesto , from a section in which Kaczynski decries the left (substituted for multiculturalists by Breivik). The remaining 1513 pages come from elsewhere. In Hoffmann, Christhard; Moe, Vibeke (eds.). The most active among the more established anti-Muslim organisations are Stop Islamisation of Norway, Human Rights Service and Document.no. The Case of Anders Breivik" . JSTOR 24234145 . Øyvind Strømmen argues in his book, Det Mørke Nettet , that it is essential to understand the dangerous undercurrents of counter-jihad movements that flourish on the Internet. It was these chat forums and specialised sites, like 'Gates of Vienna' and Document.no, which steadily nourished Breivik with a constant stream of anti-immigrant, Islamophobic and xenophobic arguments and which provided a ready-tailored and adapted counter-jihad ideological framework. Document.no: Konservativt nettmagasin med islam- og innvandringskritisk profil. Other parts of the anti-Islamic movement, as pointed out by Berntzen and Sandberg, include 'several minor and politically autonomous organizations'. They distinguish between the populist and radical elements of the movement, with SIAN, which is one of the organizations we study, as an example of one of the more extreme organizations, and the alternative media website document.no as an example of a more moderate part of the movement. : CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of June 2025 ( link ) Anda, Liss Goril. Israel-vennen Hans Rustad [Israel-friend Hans Rustad] Bangstad, Sindre (2016). In Pratt, Douglas; Woodlock, Rachel (eds.). Fear of Muslims?: International Perspectives on Islamophobia . I en årrekke jobbet han selv som journalist for nyhetsbyrået NTB [For several years, he himself worked as a journalist for the news agency NTB] Nordgaard, Tor-Bjørn (21 December 2010). Etter 13 år i NTB måtte Rustad gå nye veier. [After 13 years in NTB, Rustad had to walk new roads.] "Slåss videre mot flerkulturelt Stiklestad" .