Khalid Mahmood (Norwegian politician)

Khalid Chaudry Mahmood (born 12 April 1959) is a Pakistani Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.

Born in Pakistan, he migrated to Norway as a teenager and studied economics at the University of Oslo.

He left the Conservative Party in protest against a proposal to introduce financial reports regarding the immigrant population.

In 2011, he was placed on the last spot on the Labour electoral list, but was elected due to getting most personal votes of all candidates.

In the article, he was quoted: "Muslims are the Jews of our times, stigmatised, generalised and presented as a threat to society.