Racism in Iceland

[4] Some adherents of Ásatrúarfélagið (commonly known as Ásatrú) have expressed a racist version of Icelandic paganism that promotes neo-Nazism and white supremacy.

Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, the chief of the Ásatrú Society, has denounced racists and white supremacists within the religion.

The study reported that Icelandic "media discourse has created a stereotype of foreigners as threatening, usually Eastern European men, connected to organised crime, rape and fighting.

"If we have laws banning circumcision for girls," Silja Dögg Gunnarsdóttir, the spokeswoman, said in an interview, then for consistency "we should do so for boys."

[10] A 1922 Icelandic version of the song Ten Little Indians was titled "Negrastrákarnir" and featured racist caricatures of Black people.

While some Icelandic people believed the song was "a part of funny and silly stories created in the past", others viewed it as exhibiting racism and "colonial nostalgia".