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“We have been running a mosque in Iceland for
ten years now, and nobody is complaining about
it. We have not bred any terrorism or made any
problems for anybody, so I don’t think that will
change. The only thing that will change is the
building.”
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Agnarson of The Association of Muslims in Ice-
land has faith in the facts.
“Each visitor to Iceland is not just a self-sustain-
ing entity walking down the street. It's another
human to feed, to clothe, to transport, and nota-
bly, to shelter.”
Read how local supply stacks up to foreign de-
mand in the battle over Reykjavík’s downtown
development.
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“With a CD, maybe a few people buy it but they
have it for a long time. With sausages, more
people buy it but they... recycle it a lot quicker.”
Rebecca Louder goes on a date with musician
turned Sausage artisan, Svavar Pétur Eyste-
insson.
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“‘Seeing the ‘Viking age’ as a particularly heroic
age, and promoting certain ideas of it that are
not necessarily true, is a later product of the
Age of Enlightenment, around 1800,’ Viðar says.
‘The source material is shaped and reshaped to
the extent that you can be very sceptical about
there being anything ancient about it.’”
History scholar Viðar Pálsson informs the
latest Icelandic identity crisis. But we’re still
tough right?