I haven’t heard of him, either, but he really did do what the video says.
It is a story that was not well known in Norway before, but in recent years it has been highlighted – rightfully so! [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farouk_Al-Kasim](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farouk_Al-Kasim)
The only thing I noticed was wrong was the year given for the discovery of oil. He says 1971, but 1969 is when we actually discovered the oil at ekofisk, 1971 was instead when production started from the ekofisk oil fields.
In the TV series covering the oil adventure called Lykkeland. There is mentioned one “Arab” when the Americans make a scene . Phillips Conoco is the oil company . The Americans say , do you norwegians listen to arabs now . And the mayor or what he was replied, yes if we have to .
It is quite amazing how they did that solidarity thing with the oil money . We could have been venezuela . But a commoner in norway will Never ever see a dime of those money, salted down in international stocks. The lower they squeeze the Krone value, the more the oilfund increase, for its priced in dollar .
And the oil was found in norways Bible belt . The area of higest concentration of christians .
You have never heard of this because it is wrong. This is just idiotic clickbait.
Norway is not “so rich because of one muslim man”.
Farouk al-Kasim is one of hundreds of people that contributed in the early years. In the coming years hundred of thousands of people made Norway rich today.
Because most others were Norwegian born in the early days, people point to Farouk al-Kasim. He did very important work as a bureaucrat, but we do point to him because he was the other one out. He did important work, but he was obviously not the only one.
Both the UK and Denmark tried to “steal” Norways oil fields in the north sea.
They tried to push their own continental shelf further north and east to secure the oil fields that were on the norwegian side. But Norway stood firm and neither Denmark nor the UK were able to coup the norwegian oil.
Just wish Norway pushed even harder when Denmark stole Greenland from us too.
Reading up on this, yes, Farouk did have a key part in the Norwegian oil industry, but the video makes it out like he alone is responsible for Norway having oil wealth, and that’s simply not true. It was a team effort, like most other things, he was one of many that made it happen.
I do agree that his story is a compelling one, and that we don’t learn enough about some of our history, but don’t make it about one person when it was in fact many.
This video is misinformation as mentioned elsewhere. I don’t know why anyone would post a video with this extremely biased representation of history.. Do you have some kind of political agenda OP?
Edit ah yes, you’re from Qatar. No wonder then
Op I see that you’re a 14 year old boy with quite extreme religious world views.
Know that if you’re actually looking to come to Norway, that we are a country of free thinkers and we have freedom from religion and religious freedom.
75% of the population is atheists, and after viewing your post history you’re not going to be able to integrate into our society with your personal beliefs and world views.
But if you come here anyways, then please do take some education to get a non-religious also known as a neutral view of the world’s history.
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I haven’t heard of him, either, but he really did do what the video says.
It is a story that was not well known in Norway before, but in recent years it has been highlighted – rightfully so! [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farouk_Al-Kasim](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farouk_Al-Kasim)
The only thing I noticed was wrong was the year given for the discovery of oil. He says 1971, but 1969 is when we actually discovered the oil at ekofisk, 1971 was instead when production started from the ekofisk oil fields.
In the TV series covering the oil adventure called Lykkeland. There is mentioned one “Arab” when the Americans make a scene . Phillips Conoco is the oil company . The Americans say , do you norwegians listen to arabs now . And the mayor or what he was replied, yes if we have to .
It is quite amazing how they did that solidarity thing with the oil money . We could have been venezuela . But a commoner in norway will Never ever see a dime of those money, salted down in international stocks. The lower they squeeze the Krone value, the more the oilfund increase, for its priced in dollar .
And the oil was found in norways Bible belt . The area of higest concentration of christians .
You have never heard of this because it is wrong. This is just idiotic clickbait.
Norway is not “so rich because of one muslim man”.
Farouk al-Kasim is one of hundreds of people that contributed in the early years. In the coming years hundred of thousands of people made Norway rich today.
Because most others were Norwegian born in the early days, people point to Farouk al-Kasim. He did very important work as a bureaucrat, but we do point to him because he was the other one out. He did important work, but he was obviously not the only one.
Both the UK and Denmark tried to “steal” Norways oil fields in the north sea.
They tried to push their own continental shelf further north and east to secure the oil fields that were on the norwegian side. But Norway stood firm and neither Denmark nor the UK were able to coup the norwegian oil.
Just wish Norway pushed even harder when Denmark stole Greenland from us too.
Reading up on this, yes, Farouk did have a key part in the Norwegian oil industry, but the video makes it out like he alone is responsible for Norway having oil wealth, and that’s simply not true. It was a team effort, like most other things, he was one of many that made it happen.
I do agree that his story is a compelling one, and that we don’t learn enough about some of our history, but don’t make it about one person when it was in fact many.
This video is misinformation as mentioned elsewhere. I don’t know why anyone would post a video with this extremely biased representation of history.. Do you have some kind of political agenda OP?
Edit ah yes, you’re from Qatar. No wonder then
Op I see that you’re a 14 year old boy with quite extreme religious world views.
Know that if you’re actually looking to come to Norway, that we are a country of free thinkers and we have freedom from religion and religious freedom.
75% of the population is atheists, and after viewing your post history you’re not going to be able to integrate into our society with your personal beliefs and world views.
But if you come here anyways, then please do take some education to get a non-religious also known as a neutral view of the world’s history.