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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Police reports of hate crimes have declined by six percent since 2008, according a new report from the Crime Prevention Council (Brottsförebyggande rådet, Brå).
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.
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.
