A far-right politician in southwest Stockholm has been slapped with 40 days in prison over insult on Islam and Muslims on social media, local media reported on Wednesday. The politician in Sodertalje city from the far-right Swedish Democrats Party, which is known for its anti-migrant stance, had shared a Facebook post that read “All Muslims …
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An unknown person shot at a Malmö mosque at midnight on New Year’s Eve, while around five people were inside the building. No-one was hurt by the shooting, which was not discovered until the following day when a bullet hole was spotted in one of the prayer room’s windows. “[The people in the room] didn’t …
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The Swedish Athletics Federation dismissed the chairman of the country’s Swimming Federation after she made Islamophobic and xenophobic remarks against wearing a headscarf, Sweden’s national broadcaster announced on Feb. 14. The Athletics Federation made the decision to remove Ulla Gustavsson from the office due to her discriminatory remarks during a meeting held Thursday, SVT said. …
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A Swedish teen has been exposed to numerous heavy threats and insults over the past seven months after her conversion to Islam. Ronja Andersson, the goalkeeper of Sweden U19 Women National Team, appeared on a TV show called Troll Hunter on Monday night. During the show was identified a person who sent Andersson’s house a …
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The Swedish student who livestreamed her onboard protest against the deportation of an Afghan asylum seeker will go on trial. Elin Ersson will appear at Gothenburg District Court, charged with violating Sweden’s Aviation Act. Ersson protested in July last year against the Swedish government’s policy of deporting some rejected asylum seekers to Afghanistan by boarding …
During World War II, about 200 Swedes joined Hitler’s troops and fought for Nazi Germany. Those alive still receive war pensions from the German state. In total, there are 15 recipients of the so-called “Hitler pension” in Sweden, the newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported. The recipients are aged between 82 and 101 years. Six of those are Swedish citizens and three of them …
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A racist message urging followers to like the post for a “dead Muslim” was posted from Sweden’s ruling Social Democratic Party’s Twitter account, which got hacked on Monday, a statement by the party said. A shocking message reading “One like = one dead Muslim” was posted from the ruling party’s account, which was hacked at …
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The populist measure is part of a new ‘integration plan’ for the town of Staffanstorp, roughly 20km outside Malmö, which has been drawn up for by the centre-right Moderate Party and the populist Sweden Democrats. “The headscarf is a symbol that women are not available. It’s a sexualisation of women and it’s unreasonable to do …
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The ad features an apparently Muslim immigrant couple complaining about the weather in the Scandinavian country and using a derogatory racial epithet for “Swedes”. The Swedish Transport Administration has launched an information campaign in Arabic about the process of getting a driver’s license in Sweden. The campaign is called “Yalla Driver’s License” using the Arabic expression Yalla usually translated …
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Turkish restaurant in the Swedish city of Gothenburg was targeted in an attack, reports said Saturday. The attack, carried out with an improvised explosive device (IED) took place at 2 a.m. on Saturday, restaurant owner Ismail Yücel told the Anadolu Agency. Yücel said he learned about the attack after a restaurant worker who lives near …
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