February 1, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Norwegian member of Parliament Petter Eide has nominated Black Lives Matter (BLM), the pro-abortion “social justice” movement responsible for a torrent of riots and violence following the death of George Floyd in the summer of 2020, for the Nobel Peace Prize, The Guardian reported.
Eide, a member of the Socialist Left Party in the Norwegian Parliament, made the nomination on the grounds that BLM is “advancing a global push toward racial justice.” In a supporting statement for the nomination, the politician praised BLM’s ability to “mobilise people from all groups of society, not just African-Americans, not just oppressed people, it has been a broad movement, in a way which has been different from their predecessors.”
According to Eide, “one of the key challenges we have seen in America, but also in Europe and Asia, is the kind of increasing conflict based on inequality. Black Lives Matter has become a very important worldwide movement to fight racial injustice.”
“BLM’s call for systemic change have spread around the world, forcing other countries to grapple with racism within their own societies,” he added.
On Friday, the organizers of BLM tweeted this response to the news of their Nobel
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