(Local) A controversial imam seized by Swedish authorities risks death if deported to Iraq, his family have claimed.
Abu Raad, who works at the al-Rashideen mosque in the city of Gävle, was seized on Wednesday and … placed in a migration detention centre along with his adult son.
“We want to know the reason for this. We don’t know anything,” Mohammad al-Najjar, the mosque’s leader, told Sweden’s TT news wire. He said he was hoping to be able to make contact with Raad over the weekend through his lawyer.
According to Doku, which investigates Islamic extremists in Sweden, Raad has inspired many Islamic State sympathisers, has hailed an IS victory in Iraq, and has called for homosexual men to be executed.
