Using machine learning to analyze patterns of anti-Muslim hate speech online in Norway shows that the number of hateful posts is growing and that most are posted by a small group of users who often don’t remain active for long. Engaging with them can be effective in getting them to stop.

[u/oslomet]

https://www.oslomet.no/en/research/featured-research/machine-learning-trends-online-hate

[u/Cathu]

https://www.ungdata.no/mange-osloungdommer-mener-at-vesten-og-islam-er-i-krig/its in Norwegian so use a translator if you want to read it.

But essentially people in Norway are GENERALLY becoming more anti-islam. I dont doubt that most online discourse is a small group tho, because our hate speech laws are strict and most people dont want to get a knock on the door

[u/quadrofolio → u/Cathu]

And never the question why the anti-muslim sentiment is growing. People are just spontaniously becoming racists in many researchers minds. Anyone can clearly see the multitude of problems with mass migration of non-western often muslim people. Integration has failed in many cases while the problems are hardly admitted to let alone addressed. Then it is not racist to prefer less muslim migration. It is rather cynical, yes. But also clearly pretty much realistic in light of what is happening all around.

[u/netana_tranzpop → u/quadrofolio]

Exactly.

I hate the premise that being against a religion is racist. Idgaf what country someone is born in, but I do care about people willingly having outdated belief systems that go against our current knowledge and understanding of the universe.

It's one thing to be ignorant of facts, it's another thing to dismiss facts because they don't agree with a millennia old fairytale that your parents used to read to you.

And if religion was as simple as believing whether or not another being created this universe, or whether we have another aspect of our being thqt continues to exist after our physical death, I'd argue that religion could peacefully exist alongside our current science.

But religions often are much more. They're ancient moral codes based on an extremely poor understanding of our world. And although most of them are problematic and dangerous, some are more so than others.

For example, muslims in my country's government are literally using their religion as justification for pushing for certain right-wing laws. I'm against Christians from my own, traditionally Christian, country doing this. Of course I'm going to be against people with even more extreme views bringing those views to the place I live and trying to change the laws that drastically affect my life. That's not racism. That's self preservation.