(Local) Being discriminated against by public institutions, feeling as if they had to hide their religious identity and harassment were some of the experiences Muslims in Norway told a report they had been through in the past year. A full 43 percent […]
(Local) The riots that rocked Swedish cities over the Easter holidays were nothing to do with religion or ethnicity, but instead come down to class, the joint leader of Sweden’s Green Party has told the Local in an interview. Ahead of a […]
(Local) A local council controlled by the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats has banned praying during work hours in its schools, old people’s homes and council offices. Council politicians in Bromölla, on Skåne’s north-eastern coast, voted through the new guidelines for municipality workplaces last […]
(Local) A Swedish municipality has voted to deny social welfare to citizens who travelled to Syria to fight for the Isis terror group — even though none of its residents appear ever to have done so. The leader of the Social Democrats […]
(Local) A municipality in Sweden has vowed to ban religiously slaughtered meat from school menus after the centre-right Moderate Party formed a coalition government with the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats. The three-year action plan for the town of Staffanstorp outside Malmö, published on […]
(Local) When Jimmie Åkesson, the 39-year-old leader of the populist Sweden Democrats, starts railing against “giant mosque complexes, with huge minarets everywhere” Adam and Mohammed begin to protest. “It’s you who want to build that!” Mohammed, 25, shouts out when Åkesson accuses […]
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