Calls to shut Swedish school where ‘ISIS teachers’ taught in classrooms Politicians demand closure of leading state-funded school accused of hiring former militants as teachers

(National-UAE) Calls are mounting for the closure of a leading state-funded Islamic school in Sweden that was accused of hiring ISIS fighters as teachers after their return from Syria.

The chancellor of Vetenskapsskolan school in Gothenburg, Abdel Nasser El Nadi, has been caught up in a scandal involving the transfer of hundreds of thousands of dollars to bank accounts abroad.

El Nadi was arrested in May with four other top clerics in a clampdown linked to extremism.

Last month Swedish authorities accused him of being a threat to national security, which he denies.

There have been calls to deport him to his native Egypt but legal actions based on human rights laws have ensured this did not happen.

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