Sex and Sweden

Type the word ’Swedish’ into Google and do an images search.

What pictures will you get? Meatballs maybe? Ikea, of course - and also a lot of naked women.

For a long time now there’s been a popular image of Sweden as a land of free love, filled with followers of the shocking and sinful idea of sex without guilt. But how much truth is there behind the myth?

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Human rights abuser

For Indonesia, Martti Ahtisaari’s Nobel Peace Prize is also a reminder of a shameful past, says an editorial in the Jakarta Post.

“THE 71 year old former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo today for his tireless efforts to end conflicts in many parts of the world, including in our once restive province of Aceh. While the world commemorates the International Human Rights Day on 10 December, it is tempting to raise a question about the background of Ahtisaari’s prize-winning story.”

“We do appreciate the former Finnish president for his success in mediating peace talks between the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) to end the war which had claimed hundreds of thousands of lives during the nearly three decades of war. … However, without the tsunami disaster that hit the province on 26 December 2004, which severely weakened the two warring parties, perhaps the road to peace in Aceh would have been much more difficult to travel.

Ahtisaari’s Nobel win is actually an embarrassment for Indonesia, because the peace accord in Aceh is indeed his greatest peace achievement. If the military had not committed gross human rights violations and the central government had not robbed the Acehnese of their rights – including their rich natural resources – perhaps Ahtisaari’s chances of winning would have been smaller.”

“We wish to congratulate the former Finnish president for winning the prestigious prize. However, we do hope that there will be no more future Nobel Peace Prize winners because of his/her achievements in ending human rights abuses in this country.”

JAKARTA POST 10 December

http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/htimes/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4657:human-rights-abuser&catid=15:finland-in-the-world-press&Itemid=161

Finland shows Sweden benefit of joining club

Finland’s example is giving Swedes cause to mull over joining the eurozone, writes David Ibison in the Financial Times.

“Sweden, like Finland, is an EU member and both economies have moved in virtual lockstep in the past few years as intra-EU trade has increased. Erkki Liikanen, governor of the Bank of Finland, says: ‘The question remains of why Sweden and Finland have performed basically the same despite having different monetary regimes. The answer is that they are both open economies that encourage competition, both have prudent.’”

“Now the global economic crisis is exposing the difference between Sweden and Finland stemming from their positions on the euro.

Johnny Munkhammar, research director at the European Enterprise Institute, a Brussels-based non-profit group, says: ‘The euro provides more stability in times of crises. The krona fluctuates in an exaggerated way, simply because it is too small. The fluctuations make foreign trade risky and difficult, especially for smaller businesses.’”

“On the Finnish side, currency stability remains the main benefit of membership, protecting the economy against unforeseen economic shocks from elsewhere in the world.”

“There is also a political element. Liikanen makes it perfectly clear that Finland, as a small country, saw the eurozone in geo-strategic as well as economic terms. ‘Finland wants to be around all the tables where decisions are being made, so it was both economics and politics,’ he says.”

FINANCIAL TIMES 19 December.
DAVID IBISON
Lehtikuva - Timo Jaakonaho

Sweden donates more than the US

The Swedish donation to the survivors of the devastating disaster in South East Asia is more than twice the amount donated by the United States, the world’s richest nation.

Sweden is donating SEK 500 million (USD 75.6 million) in relief aid, reported the Swedish paper Aftonbladet. The US is donating USD 35 million. Norway has decided to increase its donations by doubling the original amount and has now allocated NOK 100 million (USD 16.5 million) to the survivors of the disaster.

The amount the US decided to donate has created reactions. The Norwegian UN Undersecretary Jan Egeland, who is in charge of UN’s emergency relief coordination, stated Monday that rich countries are too stingy when it comes to emergency aid.

«I don’t understand why they are so stingy. If a country donates 0.1 or 0.2 percent of GDP in foreign aid, I don’t think that is particularly generous,» Egeland said at the press conference Monday.

Egeland was forced to modify his statement when President George Bush became furious. Bush claimed Egeland was «very misguided and ill informed» and claimed that the amount allocated was only the beginning. However the American institution, the New York Times, completely agrees with Egeland’s statements. In an editorial under the headline «Are We Stingy? Yes» printed Thursday, the New York Times states that «Mr. Egeland was right on target.»

The paper continues by pointing out that USD 15 million first allocated was less than half of what the Republicans plan to spend on the Bush inaugural festivities.

The US has now increased the amount to USD 35 million, but the paper states that it «remains a miserly drop in the bucket.» The editorial concludes by stating that it hopes Bush will keep his promise of USD 35 million only being the beginning. Only time will tell.

http://www.nettavisen.no/english/article321700.ece

Finland to upgrade its rail link with Russia

Finnish Railways (VR) announced last week that it will be upgrading its existing rail link between the capital Helsinki and Russia’s St Petersburg. The new high-speed service, which is named Allegro, will begin operations in 2010.

According to the Helsinki Times, VR has joined forces with Russian Railways to create a new company called Karelian Trains that will purchase and operate the new rail link between the two countries. The Allegro trains, which are being built by the French company Alstrom, will have a top speed of 220 kilometres per hour. This will reduce the travel time between Helsinki and St Petersburg to just three hours from the current journey time of five and a half hours.

The new train carriages will have a white background with red, blue and silver stripes inspired by a fusion of the colours of the Russian and Finnish flags. A joint statement released by VR and Russian Railways said: “Ease of pronunciation and usability in the Finnish and Russian languages as well as internationally were subject to special attention in the name selection. Inspiration for the new trains’ livery came from the colours of the Finnish and Russian flags.”

Iceland: Fewer Frettabladids found in future?

Iceland’s biggest newspaper, Frettabladid is distributed free-of-charge seven days a week to people’s homes. It is entirely reliant on advertising revenue and has been suffering along with all other media in the current downturn in the advertising market.

The paper is now looking at ways to return to profit, and according to DV sources, is considering reducing the number of publishing days per week. A reduction in publishing days would likely result in job losses – if only in the advertising sales department. The advertising market has shrunk by up to a third in the last year.

Arvakur, publishers of Iceland’s biggest pay-per-copy paper, Morgunbladid are also working on ways to return to profitability. Wholesale merger of the two companies is no longer on the table, but closer co-operation seems likely.

Printing Frettabladid at the Arvakur print works and merging both papers’ home delivery networks are two options under consideration, but not yet green lighted by the Competition Authority.

Swedes break own world SMS record

It may still be nice to receive a Christmas card through the post – but these days the real king of holiday greetings is the mobile phone text message. Proof of this can be inferred from the fact that more than 50 million text messages were sent from Swedish phones during New Year’s Eve alone. That is more than five for every man, woman and child in the country.

The Local newspaper relayed the numbers from Sweden’s state-owned telecoms operator Telia, which reported more than 24 million text messages had been sent through its network. Its rival, Tele2 reported nearly 28.4 million text messages were sent through its system.

These figures shatter last year’s numbers when Tele2 customers sent 17 million text messages before the deadline of 6am on New Year’s Day. Some 2.3 million of them were sent within a single hour before the stroke of midnight. This figure set the world record back in 2007, but the bar has been seriously raised with this year’s effort.

Erik Hallberg from Telia commented that, “New Year’s Eve can just as well be renamed to SMS-Eve. On no other day in the year are so many text messages sent as during New Year’s Eve celebrations when everyone wants to wish each other Happy New Year.”

Tele2’s Thomas Ekman said: “The trend is clear and the mobile phone has taken over Christmas and New Year greetings from the traditional Christmas card.”

http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2009/01/08/swedes-break-own-world-sms-record/

What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart?

Finland's teens score extraordinarily high on an international test. American educators are trying to figure out why.

By ELLEN GAMERMAN

Helsinki, Finland

High-school students here rarely get more than a half-hour of homework a night. They have no school uniforms, no honor societies, no valedictorians, no tardy bells and no classes for the gifted. There is little standardized testing, few parents agonize over college and kids don't start school until age 7.

Yet by one international measure, Finnish teenagers are among the smartest in the world. They earned some of the top scores by 15-year-old students who were tested in 57 countries. American teens finished among the world's C students even as U.S. educators piled on more homework, standards and rules. Finnish youth, like their U.S. counterparts, also waste hours online. They dye their hair, love sarcasm and listen to rap and heavy metal. But by ninth grade they're way ahead in math, science and reading -- on track to keeping Finns among the world's most productive workers.

Finland's students are the brightest in the world, according to an international test. Teachers say extra playtime is one reason for the students' success. WSJ's Ellen Gamerman reports.

The Finns won attention with their performances in triennial tests sponsored by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group funded by 30 countries that monitors social and economic trends. In the most recent test, which focused on science, Finland's students placed first in science and near the top in math and reading, according to results released late last year. An unofficial tally of Finland's combined scores puts it in first place overall, says Andreas Schleicher, who directs the OECD's test, known as the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA. The U.S. placed in the middle of the pack in math and science; its reading scores were tossed because of a glitch. About 400,000 students around the world answered multiple-choice questions and essays on the test that measured critical thinking and the application of knowledge. A typical subject: Discuss the artistic value of graffiti.

The academic prowess of Finland's students has lured educators from more than 50 countries in recent years to learn the country's secret, including an official from the U.S. Department of Education. What they find is simple but not easy: well-trained teachers and responsible children. Early on, kids do a lot without adults hovering. And teachers create lessons to fit their students. "We don't have oil or other riches. Knowledge is the thing Finnish people have," says Hannele Frantsi, a school principal.

Visitors and teacher trainees can peek at how it's done from a viewing balcony perched over a classroom at the Norssi School in Jyväskylä, a city in central Finland. What they see is a relaxed, back-to-basics approach. The school, which is a model campus, has no sports teams, marching bands or prom.

Fanny Salo in class

Trailing 15-year-old Fanny Salo at Norssi gives a glimpse of the no-frills curriculum. Fanny is a bubbly ninth-grader who loves "Gossip Girl" books, the TV show "Desperate Housewives" and digging through the clothing racks at H&M stores with her friends.

Fanny earns straight A's, and with no gifted classes she sometimes doodles in her journal while waiting for others to catch up. She often helps lagging classmates. "It's fun to have time to relax a little in the middle of class," Fanny says. Finnish educators believe they get better overall results by concentrating on weaker students rather than by pushing gifted students ahead of everyone else. The idea is that bright students can help average ones without harming their own progress.

At lunch, Fanny and her friends leave campus to buy salmiakki, a salty licorice. They return for physics, where class starts when everyone quiets down. Teachers and students address each other by first names. About the only classroom rules are no cellphones, no iPods and no hats.

Testing Around the Globe

Every three years, 15-year-olds in 57 countries around the world take a test called the Pisa exam, which measures proficiency in math, science and reading.

• The test: Two sections from the Pisa science test
• Chart: Recent scores for participating countries

Discuss

Do you think any of these Finnish methods would work in U.S. schools? What would you change -- if anything -- about the U.S. school system, and the responsibilities that teachers, parents and students are given? Share your thoughts.

Fanny's more rebellious classmates dye their blond hair black or sport pink dreadlocks. Others wear tank tops and stilettos to look tough in the chilly climate. Tanning lotions are popular in one clique. Teens sift by style, including "fruittari," or preppies; "hoppari," or hip-hop, or the confounding "fruittari-hoppari," which fuses both. Ask an obvious question and you may hear "KVG," short for "Check it on Google, you idiot." Heavy-metal fans listen to Nightwish, a Finnish band, and teens socialize online at irc-galleria.net.

The Norssi School is run like a teaching hospital, with about 800 teacher trainees each year. Graduate students work with kids while instructors evaluate from the sidelines. Teachers must hold master's degrees, and the profession is highly competitive: More than 40 people may apply for a single job. Their salaries are similar to those of U.S. teachers, but they generally have more freedom.

Finnish teachers pick books and customize lessons as they shape students to national standards. "In most countries, education feels like a car factory. In Finland, the teachers are the entrepreneurs," says Mr. Schleicher, of the Paris-based OECD, which began the international student test in 2000.

One explanation for the Finns' success is their love of reading. Parents of newborns receive a government-paid gift pack that includes a picture book. Some libraries are attached to shopping malls, and a book bus travels to more remote neighborhoods like a Good Humor truck.

Ymmersta school principal Hannele Frantsi

Finland shares its language with no other country, and even the most popular English-language books are translated here long after they are first published. Many children struggled to read the last Harry Potter book in English because they feared they would hear about the ending before it arrived in Finnish. Movies and TV shows have Finnish subtitles instead of dubbing. One college student says she became a fast reader as a child because she was hooked on the 1990s show "Beverly Hills, 90210."

In November, a U.S. delegation visited, hoping to learn how Scandinavian educators used technology. Officials from the Education Department, the National Education Association and the American Association of School Librarians saw Finnish teachers with chalkboards instead of whiteboards, and lessons shown on overhead projectors instead of PowerPoint. Keith Krueger was less impressed by the technology than by the good teaching he saw. "You kind of wonder how could our country get to that?" says Mr. Krueger, CEO of the Consortium for School Networking, an association of school technology officers that organized the trip.

Finnish high-school senior Elina Lamponen saw the differences firsthand. She spent a year at Colon High School in Colon, Mich., where strict rules didn't translate into tougher lessons or dedicated students, Ms. Lamponen says. She would ask students whether they did their homework. They would reply: " 'Nah. So what'd you do last night?'" she recalls. History tests were often multiple choice. The rare essay question, she says, allowed very little space in which to write. In-class projects were largely "glue this to the poster for an hour," she says. Her Finnish high school forced Ms. Lamponen, a spiky-haired 19-year-old, to repeat the year when she returned.

At the Norssi School in Jyväskylä, school principal Helena Muilu

Lloyd Kirby, superintendent of Colon Community Schools in southern Michigan, says foreign students are told to ask for extra work if they find classes too easy. He says he is trying to make his schools more rigorous by asking parents to demand more from their children.

Despite the apparent simplicity of Finnish education, it would be tough to replicate in the U.S. With a largely homogeneous population, teachers have few students who don't speak Finnish. In the U.S., about 8% of students are learning English, according to the Education Department. There are fewer disparities in education and income levels among Finns. Finland separates students for the last three years of high school based on grades; 53% go to high school and the rest enter vocational school. (All 15-year-old students took the PISA test.) Finland has a high-school dropout rate of about 4% -- or 10% at vocational schools -- compared with roughly 25% in the U.S., according to their respective education departments.

Another difference is financial. Each school year, the U.S. spends an average of $8,700 per student, while the Finns spend $7,500. Finland's high-tax government provides roughly equal per-pupil funding, unlike the disparities between Beverly Hills public schools, for example, and schools in poorer districts. The gap between Finland's best- and worst-performing schools was the smallest of any country in the PISA testing. The U.S. ranks about average.

Finnish students have little angstata -- or teen angst -- about getting into the best university, and no worries about paying for it. College is free. There is competition for college based on academic specialties -- medical school, for instance. But even the best universities don't have the elite status of a Harvard.

Students at the Ymmersta School near Helsinki

Taking away the competition of getting into the "right schools" allows Finnish children to enjoy a less-pressured childhood. While many U.S. parents worry about enrolling their toddlers in academically oriented preschools, the Finns don't begin school until age 7, a year later than most U.S. first-graders.

Once school starts, the Finns are more self-reliant. While some U.S. parents fuss over accompanying their children to and from school, and arrange every play date and outing, young Finns do much more on their own. At the Ymmersta School in a nearby Helsinki suburb, some first-grade students trudge to school through a stand of evergreens in near darkness. At lunch, they pick out their own meals, which all schools give free, and carry the trays to lunch tables. There is no Internet filter in the school library. They can walk in their socks during class, but at home even the very young are expected to lace up their own skates or put on their own skis.

The Finns enjoy one of the highest standards of living in the world, but they, too, worry about falling behind in the shifting global economy. They rely on electronics and telecommunications companies, such as Finnish cellphone giant Nokia, along with forest-products and mining industries for jobs. Some educators say Finland needs to fast-track its brightest students the way the U.S. does, with gifted programs aimed at producing more go-getters. Parents also are getting pushier about special attention for their children, says Tapio Erma, principal of the suburban Olari School. "We are more and more aware of American-style parents," he says.

Mr. Erma's school is a showcase campus. Last summer, at a conference in Peru, he spoke about adopting Finnish teaching methods. During a recent afternoon in one of his school's advanced math courses, a high-school boy fell asleep at his desk. The teacher didn't disturb him, instead calling on others. While napping in class isn't condoned, Mr. Erma says, "We just have to accept the fact that they're kids and they're learning how to live."

Write to Ellen Gamerman at ellen.gamerman@wsj.com

Safer cigarettes on Swedish shelves in 2010

From 2010 it will become illegal to sell cigarettes in Sweden and across the EU that are not self-extinguishing. The new rules are forecast to save many of the 2,000 lives lost across the continent to fires ignited by cigarettes.

he tobacco industry has in vain been fighting the new EU directive, set to come into force in Sweden and across the EU in 2010, writes news agency TT.

The new cigarettes will be made from paper that extinguishes the cigarette if it is left unattended.

"A third of fire fatalities are caused by smoking. We hope to cut them in half," Björn Albinsson, a fire engineer at the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB).

Finland will be the first EU country to introduce the new regulations, in April 2010.

The self-extinguishing cigarettes have existed for several decades but have been resisted by the tobacco industry who argue that smokers should instead stop smoking in bed and install a fire alarm. The industry has also argued that the cigarettes taste differently.

Albinsson told TT that the main reason for the industry's opposition is that the new cigarettes are more expensive to manufacture.

According to EU statistics over 14 EU countries 2,000 people die in the union per year in fires caused by smoking.

Peter Vinthagen Simpson (news@thelocal.se/+46 8 656 6518)

http://www.thelocal.se/16714/20090104/

Swedish city mulls total car ban

The southern Swedish city of Lund is considering a total ban on cars and buses in its historic city centre, local newspaper Sydsvenska Dagbladet reports.

The proposal is one of three alternatives to come out of an inquiry to consider alternatives for the city whose residents have become tired of congestion in the city centre.

The inquiry was set up soon after the election in 2006 and since its inception protests have grown and a number of petitions have been submitted to local officials.

City councillor Tomas Avenborg received a 4,000 signature petition in November 2008 organized by residents of Klostergatan, one of the main shopping streets crossing the city. Avenborg promised at the time that Lund residents would soon be presented with three proposals to consider and on Saturday the alternatives emerged.

The most radical of the three proposals presented by the inquiry is to ban buses and cars completely from the city centre.

A second proposal under consideration is to close off the main square, Botulfplatsen, and Klostergatan from traffic.

The third proposal suggests only minor changes to current traffic access.

All three proposals accept that little can be done to keep delivery vehicles and some other necessary vehicles from the city centre but the first two at least would dramatically change the look of the historic centre of the university city.

Local officials have spoken about the potential to turn Botulfplatsen into a city square along the lines of Lilla torg in Malmö (Lilla torg is a small square completely free of traffic that offers year-round al fresco dining, shopping and activities).

The issue has engaged Lund residents, officials and bus drivers alike who argue that the throng of pedestrians, cyclists, cars and buses on central Lund's narrow streets make accidents inevitable.

Lund city centre is defined as the old city ramparts which are marked out by Allhelgonakyrkan (All Saints Church) in the north, the Mejeriet house of culture in the south, Spyken upper-secondary school in the east and the western toll gate in the west.

The proposals will now be the subject of discussion and debate by officials and residents alike during the spring. A meeting of the city council will be convened on September 24th and a decision will be taken as to how to progress.

"My guess is that it will end with a compromise between the different alternatives," Avenborg said to the newspaper.

Peter Vinthagen Simpson (news@thelocal.se/+46 8 656 6518)

Women only gym zones 'not discriminatory'

Sweden's Equal Opportunities Ombudsman (Jämställdhetsombudsmannen - JämO) has ruled against a man from Malmö who disputed the right of a local gym to reserve a section for women only.

Mats Mellerup said he reported the Fitness24Seven gym in Malmö because, in his view, women were receiving a much better service for their money than the gym's male members.

Mellerup said he became irritated on a number of occasions when the area set aside for women was empty while he had to stand around waiting for machines to become free in the main section of the gym, where both women and men were free to train.

In its response to the report, Fitness24Seven told the ombudsman it had reserved an area solely for women in order to provide a refuge from the preconceived notions of beauty and sexual overtones to which women were commonly exposed in the media and advertising sectors.

The gym argued that its initiative to create special zones for women, which mitigated "the negative effects of the gender power structure and the sexualization of the public arena", ought to be viewed as a positive move.

In its ruling, the ombudsman's office agreed that the gym's policy constituted a justifiable exception to prevailing discrimination laws.

"JämO is of the opinion that enabling woman to have a protected zone when training is a legitimate goal, and Fitness24Seven has done so in a way that is necessary in the current case."

Hijab-officer who became a role model

The police constable, Rukshana Begum (24) is the woman who has the credit for the hijab now being part of the police uniform in parts of England. But in the whole of the nation, there are only 10 police officers who wear the hijab at work.

Rukshana Begum completed her police training in 2003, but it was not before the end of 2006 that she seriously started to think about wearing the hijab. She aired the idea with her boss. In the little police district of Cambridgeshire, with 2900 employees, a specially-made hijab for police officers was made, authorized and launched.

«That the policeforce went as far as incorporating the hijab in the standard uniform was quiet touching,» says Rukshana Begum, two years later. The 24-year old is born and raised in Cambridge, with parents from Bangladesh. She has been a follower of Islam all her life.

Norwegian case

In Norway, the Ministry of Police is in the process of deciding their stance on whether the muslim head-wear whould be allowed together with the police uniform. The matter is being considered after Aftenbladet on 25th September wrote about the muslim woman, Keltoum Hasnaoui Missoum from Sandnes, who wanted to apply to the Police Academy. Missoum wanted to wear the hijab, but was denied. The reason: The police uniform should be one of value-neutrality. Rukshana Begum does not agree with the argument.

No to neutrality

«Neutrality is a good thing, but I don't think anyone should have to limit themselves when it comes to practising their faith. For many, faith is more important than everything else. So I disagree with that statement. Here in Cambridgeshire, several police officers where a turban, and that has never been a problem.

The police there says that Cambridgeshire is a country area of England, with many nationalities and few religious conflicts. The proportion of muslims in the police district is on a par with the national average of 3.3 per cent of the population.

Role model

When Begum started to wear the uniform-hijab, she received press coverage. People soon started recognizing her. She received words of support, especially from the muslim community.

«I was not prepared for that. The only thing I wanted was to be able to wear the hijab at work, but I was suddenly a role model for others. That was a nice bi-product.

Only ten wear the hijab

Even so, few have chosen to follow in Begum's footsteps. Cambridgeshire launched the specially adapted hijab in June 2007. Metropolitan Police in London authorized the use of the hijab ten years ago, but has not incorporated a special uniform hijab. At present, there are only ten women police officers who use the hijab at work in the whole of England, according to the Association of Muslim Police (AMP) of the London police. There are no reliable statistics on the number of women police officers in England.

No negative experiences

Keltoum Hasnaoui Missoum from Sandnes experienced harassment after she went to the press with her uniform question. Begum has never met anything like that – even as a patroling police officer. «In general it's always been a positive experience: The hijab means that you show who you are sooner. No, I haven't experienced anything verbal, or any kind of expressions that make me feel uncomfortable.»

Breaks barriers

« Have you experienced positive things as a result of showing who you are?»

«It has happened when patroling that people talk to me, rather than my colleague. That's not because I'm better at what I do, but because they feel there is a connection between us.»

«People who come to live here may have bad experiences with the police in their homeland. Seeing a muslim woman as a police officer may help to break barriers. If they are the victims of crime , it might be easier for them to report it, I think,» says Begum.

Oppression

One argument used in the debate is that the use of the hijab is thought by many to be a demand on women in islam, and this means that it should be viewed differently than the wearing of a cross around the neck.

«The hijab is not like a necklace I can take off. When you first start to wear it, it's for life,» says Begum.

«Should the police refrain from using a garment that many associate with the oppression of women?»

«No, I don't see that as a problem. I don't understand how people can say that women are oppressed. With the hijab, I feel respected and dignified, but not in a snobby way. With the hijab, you are protected from evil, and I feel safe and free. If you let people oppress you, you will probably be oppressed.»

Adapted work-day

Cambridgeshire police district has implemented several measures for muslim officers. The police station has a quiet room for those who want to pray, offers shift changes during Ramadan so that fasting officers do not need to work evenings, and half an hour extra for lunch on Fridays, for those who want to go to the mosque. Officers of other faiths can also use the quiet room and have longer lunch breaks.