https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Jews and Muslims in Sweden have faced increased discrimination since the terror attacks on Israel last year. Politicians and the wider community must do more to support these vulnerable minorities, says Jonathan Leman, a researcher for the anti-racism foundation Expo. https://www.thelocal.se/20241015/what-can-sweden-do-to-combat-hatred-of-jews-and-muslims Tue, 15 Oct 2024 16:56:50 +0200 what-can-sweden-do-to-combat-hatred-of-jews-and-muslims The Sweden Democrat head of parliament’s justice policy committee, Richard Jomshof, has stepped down pending an investigation into hate crimes. https://www.thelocal.se/20240913/sweden-democrat-justice-committee-chair-steps-down-over-hate-crime-suspicion Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:33:30 +0200 sweden-democrat-justice-committee-chair-steps-down-over-hate-crime-suspicion Sweden's Quran crisis started with the Easter riots in 2022 and is continuing to damage the country's image internationally. These are the five main events. https://www.thelocal.se/20230726/in-dates-a-short-history-of-swedens-quran-burning-crisis Wed, 26 Jul 2023 16:58:22 +0200 in-dates-a-short-history-of-swedens-quran-burning-crisis Sweden's Social Democrat opposition has demanded the government call an emergency parliamentary meeting over the ongoing Quran-burning protests. https://www.thelocal.se/20230725/swedens-opposition-calls-for-emergency-meeting-on-quran-crisis Tue, 25 Jul 2023 16:13:07 +0200 swedens-opposition-calls-for-emergency-meeting-on-quran-crisis Police in Sweden have received yet another application to hold a Quran-burning protest, with the event this time to be held outside the Iranian embassy in Stockholm. https://www.thelocal.se/20230724/police-receive-request-to-burn-quran-outside-iranian-embassy Mon, 24 Jul 2023 19:49:41 +0200 police-receive-request-to-burn-quran-outside-iranian-embassy The Swedish government slammed the controversial burning of a Quran outside Stockholm's main mosque as 'Islamophobic' and said it would be stepping up its border controls as a result. https://www.thelocal.se/20230703/swedish-government-condemns-islamophobic-quran-burning Mon, 03 Jul 2023 11:01:21 +0200 swedish-government-condemns-islamophobic-quran-burning A Swedish appeals court on Monday said police had no legal grounds to block two gatherings where protesters had planned to burn the Quran earlier this year. https://www.thelocal.se/20230612/court-finds-swedish-police-wrong-to-block-quran-burnings Mon, 12 Jun 2023 17:38:49 +0200 court-finds-swedish-police-wrong-to-block-quran-burnings Swedish police were wrong to reject the burning of the Quran outside the embassies of Turkey and Iraq on two occasions earlier this year, an administrative court has ruled. https://www.thelocal.se/20230404/swedish-court-police-wrong-to-refuse-permission-for-quran-burning Tue, 04 Apr 2023 13:05:06 +0200 swedish-court-police-wrong-to-refuse-permission-for-quran-burning A campaign to celebrate a Swedish town's population milestone was misrepresented by international far-right media as a sign of 'Islamization', with a billboard vandalized over the weekend. The Local takes a look at the facts behind the story. https://www.thelocal.se/20190227/how-a-swedish-citys-marketing-campaign-was-hijacked-by-the-far-right Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:47:44 +0100 how-a-swedish-citys-marketing-campaign-was-hijacked-by-the-far-right A fortnight after the Paris attacks, Asim Mehmood, 31, who is a Muslim and an entrepreneur in Umeå, northern Sweden, says he's feeling increasingly afraid about growing Islamophobia in Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20150120/something-is-going-wrong-in-sweden Tue, 20 Jan 2015 08:04:00 +0100 something-is-going-wrong-in-sweden UPDATED: A spokesman for the Sweden Democrats has told The Local that "it is not a serious matter" that a senior party member wrote "the religion of peace shows its face" on his Facebook page directly after the fatal Paris shootings. https://www.thelocal.se/20150109/sweden-democrat-rapped-for-paris-comments Fri, 09 Jan 2015 09:27:00 +0100 sweden-democrat-rapped-for-paris-comments There has been strong criticism of the Paris shootings from Muslim leaders who already fear growing Islamophobia following recent attacks on Swedish mosques. But some Swedish Muslim extremists have backed Wednesday's attack on a French satirical magazine. https://www.thelocal.se/20150108/swedish-jihadists-slammed-for-shooting-praise Thu, 08 Jan 2015 10:29:00 +0100 swedish-jihadists-slammed-for-shooting-praise Mohammed Fazlhashemi, Professor of Islamic theology and philosophy at Sweden's Uppsala University tells The Local that Muslims should fear counter attacks in other European nations. https://www.thelocal.se/20150108/we-may-see-reprisal-attacks-in-sweden Thu, 08 Jan 2015 14:20:00 +0100 we-may-see-reprisal-attacks-in-sweden Swedish police cannot rule out the possibility that an accident rather than arson was the cause of a fire at a mosque on Christmas Day - one of three fires at mosques across the country in the space of a week. https://www.thelocal.se/20150105/accident-could-have-caused-mosque-fire Mon, 05 Jan 2015 18:36:00 +0100 accident-could-have-caused-mosque-fire Omar Mustafa, President of Sweden's Islamic Association, speaks to The Local about the recent spate of mosque attacks and the rise of Islamophobia across Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20150102/swedens-islamophobia-is-getting-stronger Fri, 02 Jan 2015 12:00:00 +0100 swedens-islamophobia-is-getting-stronger Sweden's newly elected archbishop Antje Jackelén has admitted she wasn't prepared for the "spiteful" online abuse she has received from anti-Islamists. https://www.thelocal.se/20131130/archbishop-speaks-out-after-anti-islam-abuse Sat, 30 Nov 2013 14:18:00 +0100 archbishop-speaks-out-after-anti-islam-abuse Police reports of hate crimes have declined by six percent since 2008, according a new report from the Crime Prevention Council (Brottsförebyggande rådet, Brå). https://www.thelocal.se/20130627/48722 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:25:00 +0200 48722 A far-right that vaunts anti-immigration, Islamophobia and the welfare state has taken hold in Nordic countries, playing on the fears of societies that are less and less blond and blue eyed, AFP's Marc Preel writes. https://www.thelocal.se/20110728/35222 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:56:00 +0200 35222 Sweden's government has announced plans to chart the extent of Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in the country, as it attempts to counteract the spread of intolerance towards minorities. https://www.thelocal.se/20110331/32924 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:29:00 +0200 32924