(Breitbart) Swedish terrorism expert Magnus Ranstorp has claimed that Islamic extremists continue to recruit and spread their ideology in Sweden despite the defeat of the Islamic State. Ranstorp says he blames inaction from the Swedish government, which allowed as many as 300 […]
(Local) A 22-year-old man who is accused of stabbing seven people in the southern Swedish town of Vetlanda is set to face trial. The man was arrested shortly after the attacks, which took place on five different locations close to Vetlanda’s railway […]
(Breitbart) The Swedish government has been accused of allowing exceptions in a new bill aimed at banning the recognition of polygamous marriages carried out overseas. Swedish Liberal Party MP Robert Hannah criticised the government bill this week, claiming that while the proposal […]
(Breitbart) The Swedish security police Säpo arrested two Afghans, a man and a woman, during the Easter holiday on suspicion of plotting a terror attack in Stockholm county. Säpo announced the arrests earlier this week, saying that they took place on the […]
(Breitbart) Six female Islamic State members who have returned to Sweden in the past year after being held in prison camps in Syria are suspected of participating in war crimes. The six women, all members of Islamic State who came back to […]
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(Breitbart) Swedish public broadcaster SVT has been criticised after inviting an imam from a controversial school onto a programme to explain the Christian holiday of Easter. Television programme Helgstudion invited Imam Nasir Ahmad Arif and the Church of Sweden Archbishop Antje Jackelén to discuss Easter […]
(Anadolu) Turkey has deported a total of 2,764 foreign [terrorist] fighters (FTFs) of 67 different nationalities since 2019, the country’s Interior Ministry announced on Sunday. In a statement, the ministry said the FTFs had left their home countries to join ranks of […]
(Breitbart) The Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir is actively recruiting in the heavily migrant-populated no-go Stockholm suburbs of Rinkeby and Tensta. The radical group, which operates in several European countries, including the UK and Denmark, has been recruiting new members in the no-go suburbs […]
(AP) A southern Swedish court on Monday sentenced a woman to three years in prison for taking her 2-year-old son to Syria in 2014, to an area that was then controlled by the Islamic State group. The woman, who lived in the […]
(AFP) The suspect in the stabbing that left seven injured in Sweden is a 22-year-old Afghan, who arrived in the Nordic country in 2018, media reported Thursday. Swedish police are investigating a possible terror incident after a man stabbed and injured at […]
(AFP) A man stabbed eight people Wednesday in the Swedish city of Vetlanda, seriously injuring five of them in what police called a potential terror incident. The assailant was taken to hospital after being shot in the leg by police as he […]
(Breitbart) The chief prosecutor of Sweden’s National Security Case Unit has criticised the country’s terror laws, saying they could create a situation where terrorists flee to the country to escape prosecution in other nations. Prosecutor Per Lindqvist stated that Sweden could become a […]
(Breitbart) Despite being in force since March 2020, no one has been charged under Sweden’s anti-terrorism law that enables the [prosecution] for membership of terrorist groups. The lack of prosecutions comes despite many Islamic State fighters returning to Sweden over several years. Per […]
(Breitbart) A report on antisemitism in schools in the Swedish multicultural city of Malmo has made the claim that much of the hatred toward Jewish students comes from students of Arab and Middle Eastern backgrounds. The February report, “Schoolyard racism, conspiracy theories […]
(Vice) Negative views of Muslims and immigrants are widely held across Europe, according to a major survey across eight European countries. The survey of 12,000 people from Sweden, France, Germany, UK, Hungary, Poland, the Netherlands and Italy found a widespread mistrust of […]
(Breitbart) An attacker threw three Molotov cocktails at a church in the no-go Stockholm suburb of Spånga-Tensta. The arson attack took place on Wednesday at around 4 a.m., with the suspect throwing one of the bottle bombs at the church’s door and the […]
(Breitbart) In the first eleven months of 2020, Sweden took nearly three times as many asylum seekers as its Scandinavian neighbours Norway, Finland and Denmark combined. Asylum claims have generally decreased compared to previous years due to the restrictions imposed by many […]
(Breitbart) Nearly half of those in intensive care units (ICU) due to complications from the Wuhan coronavirus across Sweden are from migrant backgrounds. A total of 46 per cent of those in ICUs in Sweden are from migrant backgrounds according to a […]
(Breitbart) Interpreters in Sweden for asylum seekers and other migrants have been accused of major misconduct with one interpreter telling an asylum seeker not to “smear Islam.” Interpreters in Sweden fall into two categories, those with official government authorization and those without, […]
(Breitbart) A 31-year-old man and six teens were given light sentences for participating in a riot in the multicultural Swedish city of Malmö earlier this year after anti-Islam activists burned a copy of the Qur’an. The 31-year-old was merely sentenced to probation […]
(Breitbart) Swedish terrorism expert Magnus Ranstorp has said it is incredibly difficult for the state to prosecute Islamic State members who have returned from the Middle East, due to a lack of evidence. Ranstorp’s comments come after the security police (Säpo) arrested […]
(Breitbart) Despite recognition of divorce from the Swedish state, some women are having difficulties getting imams in the country to recognise their divorces under Islamic law and remarry. One woman, a migrant from Iraq who wanted to divorce her husband ten years […]
(Breitbart) The Islamic Nyans Party are looking to cause an upset in upcoming municipal elections in the notorious Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby after recruiting a popular member of the local Somali community. Nyans party leader Mikail Yüksel announced that [Mohamed] Hagi Farah, […]
(Breitbart) The Swedish city of Gothenburg is looking to spend over a billion U.S. dollars in an effort to remove the city’s six no-go zones from a police list of vulnerable neighbourhoods. The local government has pledged to spend 11 billion Swedish […]
(Breitbart) A prosecutor in the southern multicultural Swedish city of Malmo has dropped an investigation against an anti-Islam activist after determining that burning a copy of the Islamic Qu’ran is not a crime in itself. Prosecutors launched an investigation into the actions […]
(National-UAE) Swedish female ISIS recruits could now be tried in Syria for terrorism offences after Kurdish authorities told Sweden’s Foreign Ministry that they wish to prosecute ISIS members in prison camps locally. Sweden has been calling on the European Union to introduce […]
(National-UAE) Swedish police have been drafted in to question the daughter-in-law of a woman known as the Black Widow as European authorities ramp up efforts to track down and detain her and her ISIS accomplices. The 25-year-old woman, who has not been […]
(National-UAE) Politicians in Sweden are calling for tougher measures on school permits after a controversial school with links to the Muslim Brotherhood exploited a loophole. The Romosseskolan school, which runs Muslim independent schools, sparked controversy when it announced it was expanding into […]
(Anadolu) The Christian Council of Sweden on Sunday condemned the burning of the holy Quran in Sweden in recent weeks. Ten prominent Christian reverends of the Scandinavian country, including the Archbishop of the Swedish Protestant Church Antje Jackele, released a statement against […]
(Al-Jazeera) Members of a Danish far-right group burned a copy of the Quran in Sweden, only days after a similar incident in the southern city of Malmo. A video posted by the leader of the Stram Kurs (Hard Line) group showed a […]
(JTA) Demonstrations by Muslims in the Swedish city of Malmo against a far-right lawmaker turned violent and included chants in Arabic about killing Jews. Some protesters attending at least one of the rallies staged against a plan by Rasmus Paludan, the leader […]
(AFP) At least 10 people were arrested, and several police officers injured, in violence which broke out in southern Sweden after an anti-Muslim Danish politician was blocked from attending a Koran-burning rally, police said Saturday. Protesters threw stones at police and burned […]
(Reuters) A riot broke out on Friday in the southern Swedish town of Malmo, where at least 300 people had gathered to protest against anti-Islam activities, police said. Protesters were throwing objects at police officers and car tyres had been set on […]
(Breitbart) Swedish police and civilian workers at a police station in the no-go Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby will receive police escorts to and from the building to maintain their safety. The workers at the newly built police station in Rinkeby have previously […]
(Local) A 23-year-old man has been sentenced to life in jail over the brutal murder of his 17-year-old girlfriend, who sparked a huge search when she went missing in western Sweden last year. Tishko Ahmed denied the charges throughout the trial, but […]
(National-UAE) A Muslim school in Sweden that sparked controversy earlier this year is set to expand into an education building that was shut down after allegedly employing former ISIS fighters as teachers. The Romosseskolan school, which runs Muslim independent schools, has gained […]
(Local) A majority told a new survey it did not matter to them where their neighbour came from, but more than one in five Swedes said they felt negatively about the idea of living next to someone with a Muslim or Middle […]
(Breitbart) An Afghan migrant has died after being stabbed in a brawl in central Stockholm. Another two Afghans were knifed as well. The first stabbing took place at the Kungsträdgården park in the centre of the city on Wednesday night. Two more Afghans […]
(Breitbart) Sweden’s supreme administrative court has upheld an order for a Muslim youth group to repay government grants after it was ruled to not “respect the ideas of democracy.” The group Sveriges Unga Muslimer (SUM/Sweden’s Young Muslims) had initially been rejected for state […]
(National-UAE) Sweden’s leading terrorism expert has confirmed the death of one of the country’s central figures in radicalisation circles and a key “recruiter” with links to the perpetrators of terrorist plots around the world. Over 15 years, Swedish intelligence had gathered evidence […]
(Breitbart) A 20-year-old Afghan migrant is facing prosecution for allegedly raping a Swedish girl under the age of 15 whose family he had lodgings with. The incident is said to have taken place during the night of April 13th earlier this year […]
(Breitbart) A teacher in Sweden has expressed strongly-worded opposition to a mooted ban on religious headscarves in schools, saying that those opposed to the garment have no place in the country at all. Naouel Aissaoui, who is employed as a teacher in the […]
(Breitbart) An imam in Gothenburg’s largest mosque has been criticised after comparing female genital mutilation (FGM) practices to those who undergo gender reassignment surgeries. The imam’s comments were set out as part of an email that was framed about being against FGM […]
(Breitbart) A Swedish court has sentenced an Iraqi asylum seeker to eight years in prison for honour crimes after he beat his daughter with a kebab spit, locked up his wife, and forced his daughters to wear Islamic veils. The father, who […]
(JTA) Sweden’s largest church is supporting a parent’s right to have nonmedical circumcision performed on boys for religious reasons. The Swedish Church in a document titled “view on male circumcision” asserted that the practice, which is performed by Jews, Muslims and some […]
(Local) Sweden plans to expedite the rejection of “unfounded” asylum requests by implementing a list of countries deemed to be completely safe. The plans would allow the Migration Agency to handle asylum cases from countries on the list as a “fast-track.” These […]
(Breitbart) A radical Islamic extremist who plotted to massacre the staff of Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2010 has been released by Swedish authorities, despite plotting more attacks while in prison. The man, who has not been identified by name, is said to […]
(Local) Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven’s visit to Israel included attending a major event to commemorate victims of the Holocaust, but also discussing concerns about anti-Semitism in Sweden today. “Swedish Jews worry about anti-Semitism and do not feel completely comfortable showing publicly […]
(Breitbart) A newly formed Swedish political party has proposed making all Muslims in Sweden a “special minority,” claiming that Muslims suffer daily from violence and verbal attacks. The Nyans Party say they want Muslims in Sweden to be recognised in the same […]
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