Arne Tumyr

Who is Arne Tumyr?

Arne Tumyr is a Norwegian former journalist, newspaper editor and politician, and current leader of the organization Stop Islamisation of Norway.

Tumyr grew up in Ask in Askøy, from where he moved in 1950. He took a baker's education in 1952, and started as a journalist apprentice in the newspaper Nordlands Framtid in Bodø in 1956. In 1960 he was hired as subeditor in Sunnmøre Arbeideravis, and from 1961 to 1970 he was a journalist in Bergens Arbeiderblad. In 1970 he was hired as editor-in-chief of the Larvik-based newspaper Nybrott. From 1984 to 1986 he edited the newspaper Sørlandet. He published a newspaper called Ukeavisen Aktuelt from 1986 to 1988, a weekly and free newspaper, unusual in Norway at the time.

Tumyr founded the Bergen chapter of the Norwegian Humanist Association in 1967, and is a self-declared Atheist. He later became leader of the Vest-Agder chapter of the same organization. He was in 1999, however, forced to withdraw from his position after his immigration-critical comment, titled "Stopp islamiseringen av Norge", in the newspaper Fædrelandsvennen.