Arne Tumyr

Arne Tumyr (6 March 1933 – 17 February 2023) was a Norwegian journalist, newspaper editor, politician and leader of Stop Islamisation of Norway.

He was in 1999, however, forced to withdraw from his position after his immigration-critical comment, titled "Stopp islamiseringen av Norge" ("Stop the Islamisation of Norway"), in the newspaper Fædrelandsvennen.

The Norwegian Humanist Association was in 2005 convicted by Oslo District Court of defamatory comments against Tumyr, written in a letter to the editor of Fædrelandsvennen by a board member of the Vest-Agder chapter.

[8] Among others, Stop the Islamisation of Norway and Tumyr were involved in demonstrations that needed police protection as they were attacked by counter-protestors.

[9][10] Tumyr was the author of the books Knut Hamsun og hans kors (1996, Norgesforlaget)[11] and Vardene brenner!