Its stated aim is to work against Islam, which it defines as a totalitarian political ideology that violates the Norwegian Constitution as well as democratic and human values.

By 2011, it was reported that the organisation had close to 13,000 members or "likes" on its Facebook group,[4] although it gathered only a modest attendance at its meetings and demonstrations.

[7] In March 2000, the group, led by Anne-Liv Gamlem held a demonstration with 150 protesters in Oslo, which also included Ivar Kristianslund holding a speech, both leaders in the minor Christian Unity Party.

[22] SIAN was joined by the leader of the minor Norwegian Patriots party, Øyvind Heian in May 2009 for an anti-Islam demonstration in Oslo.

[28] The leader of the local Nordstrand chapter of the Socialist Left Party in Oslo, Morten Schau, joined SIAN to some controversy in January 2011.

[34][35] As Lars Thorsen became leader of SIAN in 2019, the group has started to repeatedly burn and desecrate the Quran at their rallies,[36][37][38] and in front of mosques.

[40] In 2020, Thorsen was attacked and beaten bloody and unconscious at a rally in Bergen after having called Muhammad a "depraved false prophet".

[41] Later the same year, he participated in a primetime debate show on state broadcaster NRK, in which he named some of the many Muslims he wanted to have deported from Norway.

[44] Genocide: Massacres, torture, expulsion: Other incidents: In a comment in Aftenposten in 2004, Jahn Otto Johansen called the former FOMI "extremely Muslim-hostile.

"[45] The then secretary general of the Norwegian Humanist Association, Lars Gule, has also stated that the organisation "uses a hateful and vulgar language with a clearly discriminating content.

[48] On the other hand, Iraqi refugee and writer Walid al-Kubaisi has made appearances in the organisation, and in the feature story "Norway for Norwegians" (Norge for nordmenn) in Klassekampen in 2005 stated that "the forum showed a variation of thoughts and opinions within the frame of fear of Islamism.