[1] The organisation was founded in 1987, and was initially led by Arne Myrdal who was later squeezed out due to his escalating and uncontrollable violent activism.
[2] The FMI sees itself as a nonpartisan interest organisation that works to "stop the foreign cultural mass immigration to Norway."
The organisation wanted to enforce the de jure "immigration stop" that was adopted by the Norwegian Parliament in 1975, but which never went into practical force.
[3] The prelude to the creation to the FMI was a letter signed by 145 Norwegian resistance veterans from the Second World War, which was sent to King Olav V of Norway.
[1] Five people were brought to the emergency room after the clashes, and Arne Myrdal was later convicted to four months' imprisonment for the attack.