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Norway’s controversial justice minister on Wednesday withdrew a Facebook post that triggered outrage among survivors of the 2011 Utoya massacre and calls for a motion of no confidence against her in parliament.
In the post last Friday, Sylvi Listhaug, a member of the populist and anti-immigration Progress Party (FrP), had accused the opposition Labour Party of considering “the rights of terrorists (to be) more important than the security of the nation”.
Listhaug, whose party is a member of a centre-right coalition, was angry at Labour’s rejection of a proposal to strip jihadists of their Norwegian citizenship without a court decision.
The post, which contained a photo showing threatening Al-Shabab militants, sparked outrage because Labour members had been targetted in 2011 in the worst attack on Norwegian soil since the end of WWII.