.... Ketil Solvik-Olsen, the party's deputy leader, yesterday told a meeting with foreign journalists that Jensen's claim that Norway faced the threat of "sneak-islamization" had been unfortunate.
But Jensen on Tuesday evening stood by her provocative past statements.
"I'm not going to apologize for that and I and the Progress Party will continue to fight the emergence of such radical forces and the ideas they advocate," she wrote in an email to VG newspaper.
In February 2009, Jensen said: "The truth is that we are beginning to allow a form of sneak-Islamization to take place in this country." [The Local Europe] Read more
