A Swedish Administrative Court has closed two independent Muslim schools in Stockholm and Uppsala after security police warned of the spreading of Islamic extremist ideology and potential radicalization.
Breitbart (h/t Nita) Both schools have been under scrutiny after the Swedish Security Police (Sapo) warned that students attending the schools were being influenced by Islamic extremist ideology. Earlier this year, the Swedish School Inspectorate moved to withdraw permits from both of the schools over the Sapo warning, and due to the foundations that ran the schools having links to similar Islamic schools in Gothenburg that also came under scrutiny.
A Somali national working as a principal at one of the Gothenburg schools was prosecuted and convicted of financial crimes after scamming 13 million Swedish kronor (£1.1 million/$1.5 million) from taxpayers and sending the cash to Somalia.
The shutdown of the two schools is not without precedent in Sweden. In 2019, for example, the Swedish school Inspectorate shut down another Islamic school in Gothenburg after its former owner, Abdel-Nasser el Nadi, had been arrested by Sapo. The security police also recommended that he, and several other Islamic radicals, be deported from the country on national security grounds, Nyheter Idag reports.
Sweden: Security Service Arrest Several Islamists Including Leader of Muslim School https://t.co/vHhNDgbHJu
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) May 19, 2019
While a new individual did take the helm of the school, which was formerly called Vetenskapsskolan (the Science School), the inspectorate determined that the new head was still close enough to el Nadi that the school risked “being subjected to Islamic radicalization and recruitment to environments that accept violence or serious crime as a method of political change”.
The closure comes after a number of other controversies surrounding the school and its operations, including a report from Swedish newspaper Expressen that revealed two Islamic State (ISIS) returnees had been employed at the school.
Islamic schools have caused controversy in Sweden on more than one occasion, including an incident earlier this year in February in which a journalist from the newspaper Gefle Dagblad was confronted and threatened by an imam as he was investigating an Islamic school linked to the Gävle mosque.
A poll taken just a year before in 2019 revealed that the vast majority of Swedes, 73 per cent, were in favour of banning Islamic religious schools entirely — while some criticized banning schools of faiths such as Christianity, which teach different values than the schools causing real concerns.
The US is the only country stupid enough to actually fly these ingrates in!
As much as I’m against Islam, this is a violation of Church-State separation and nothing short of State-enforced secularism. Islam is demonic and evil, but giving the government this kind of power is never the answer (since there is already a push to ban private independent Christian schools as well, and essentially make the children property of the State like Nazi Germany would do).
State-enforced secularism is just as bad as State-enforced Islam, and both are a violation of Church-State Separation (which goes both ways, religion doesn’t influence government, and the government is neutral on independent religious matters).
Again, I’m not pro-Islam by any long shot, but I know enough of history to know that State-enforced secularism like this is every bit as bad as State-enforced Islam.
Islam should not be recognized as a religion. Problem solved.
That I agree with, since Islam is not a religion, it operates as a political ideology (because it IS a political ideology).
I believe that one country – Angola – has banned Islam, declaring it is not a religion.
Islam is similar to Nazism in many wats. The best example is how both Islam and Nazism do have religious elements to them (the Nazis were heavily into Nordic-Germanic pagan religion, and there are multiple quotes from high ranking Nazis and even Hitler himself in which they invoke Nordic gods in a religious matter, not just as a political statement, but in a manner similar to how the Vikings invoked Nordic gods to help them gain victory).
Although Nazism did have heavy religious elements to it, it was still a political ideology as well.
Islam is similar, it’s got religious elements to it, the Muslims invoked Allah similar to how the Nazis invoked Thor or Odin (Hitler himself even admired the warrior spirit of the Muslims, since it was similar to the warrior spirit and mentality of “victory or death” mentality of the Vikings that the Nazis were trying to emulate).
But Islam functions as a political ideology as well, so thus, just like Nazism, Islam can be seen as a political ideology with heavy religious elements.
No doubt that’s why Hitler and friends were allies with the jihadists back then.
I do know that Hitler was not to fond of Arabs as a race, since they were not Germanic and thus fell into the subhuman category with Hamites (Africans/blacks) and Jews and Slavs [I would have also fell into the subhuman category since I’m Slavic-Russian].
But Hitler did admire the fighting warfare mentality of Islam (that is an undeniable fact, since it’s in his own personal writings and table talks).
Another similarity (and proof of being a political ideology) is that Islam and Nazism are both conquering philosophies that desire domination of the land they set foot on (Islam did this with it’s early militant expansions in the Middle East, and Nazism did this with it’s militant expansions in Europe during the 1930s and 40s).
Essentially, every European nation Nazis marched was seen as new European land to conquer and Nazify.
Same with how every Middle Eastern nation the Islamic caliphs arrived in was seen as new land to conquer and Islamize.
We knock Europe but have we ever closed down any radical Islamic schools here in the US?
Yes, one in Brooklyn.
SHUT EM ALL DOWN. MASS REPATRIATION OF MOSLEMS IS ALSO NEEDED.
This can be a start only.
The Muslim master haters just loosened the rope a little for the time being. Governments better start openly declaring where their allegiance lies. It’s way past time for making Muslims and their fifth columns 100% unacceptable.
About time, but it should never have happened. I blame the leftists, mostly the feminazi’s running the cuntry. They should all be hanged in public, and shown on TV with everyone required to watch.
LMAO
Here we go again in the Breitbart article that states students are being influenced by “extremist ideology”. As Robert Spencer has said, “The Sharia-compliant jihadists are actually the GOOD Muslims.” All moderates are technically apostates.
In any event, I’m glad the Swedes are waking up but it may be too late. They would also need to eradicate the Marxist enablers in their government to effectively stop the Islamization of their country.
Good for Sweden. It has to stop.
Yeah about time
If they read this,blog, they could have preempted a lot of Muslim terror in Sweden by not letting in any Muslims and deportinghenines that they have.
A good start, but not until you enforcing being Swedish first and then Western – the Islamic thug remains at large.
Are they actually starting to wake up over there?
Yes, they elected a right wing prime minister.
Rightwing by Swedish standards maybe? lol
Hey, it’s a start.