The following articles have been tagged with "Mosque":
National: 26 Apr 13
Worshippers at the Fittja mosque in southern Stockholm on Friday heard Sweden's first-ever call to prayer, which brought some congregation members to tears of joy.
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Society: 24 Apr 13
Gävle district court convicted a 41-year-old man of unlawful threats on Wednesday after he told a Swedish journalist he deserved a "terrible death" for writing an article about a mosque in Stockholm.
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Society: 11 Apr 13
A mosque in the south of Stockholm was given the all-clear by Swedish police on Thursday to make prayer calls from its minaret, the first time such permission has ever been granted in the country.
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Society: 26 Feb 13
Religious heads in southern Sweden have advised their followers to ignore an upcoming exhibition of work by controversial Swedish artist Lars Vilks, warning that people should not be provoked by his artwork.
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Analysis & Opinion: 9 Jan 13
Ignorant politicians have let a vocal minority of Swedish Muslims who don’t want to adapt to life in a secular and democratic state to dominate the debate about calls to prayer at Sweden's mosques, argues contributor Nima Gholam Ali Pour.
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Politics: 21 Oct 12
Some 300 people joined a demonstration in solidarity with the Jewish population in Malmö on Saturday after a spate of recent attacks.
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Society: 20 Oct 12
Malmö police have launched a dedicated hate crimes hotline after criticism over how victims have been treated when reporting a suspected crime.
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Society: 27 Sep 12
A mosque in the south Stockholm suburb of Botkyrka has received approval to make prayer calls from its minaret, the first time such permission has ever been granted in Sweden.
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Society: 25 Jul 12
Some 40 percent of Muslim congregations in Sweden have been exposed to some form of criminal attack, according to a recently published study.
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Politics: 4 Jun 12
The far-right Sweden Democrats are Sweden's third largest political party, according to a new poll, while another survey shows the three centre-left parties have enough support to command a majority in parliament.
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National: 26 May 12
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a man in connection with the shooting of an Uzbek imam in northern Sweden in February.
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National: 16 May 12
Two men have been arrested in connection with the attempted murder of an imam who remains in a coma nearly three months after being shot in the head in northern Sweden.
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Society: 16 May 12
Six out of ten mosques in Sweden gave women advice about how to deal with spousal abuse and polygamy that contradicted Swedish law, a new investigation has revealed.
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National: 14 May 12
The Swedish man accused in a deadly shooting spree against immigrants in Malmö had no motive for shooting the victims, according to his lawyer, who did his best to cast doubt on the case against his client on the opening day of the highly-anticipated murder trial.
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Business & Money: 26 Apr 12
The former head of the Swedish Fortifications Agency wanted to stop the cooperation with the Saudi regime as early as 2000, but says she was told no by the Swedish foreign ministry.
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National: 19 Apr 12
A US citizen who claims he was imprisoned and tortured at the behest the American FBI is seeking political asylum in Sweden.
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Analysis & Opinion: 2 Mar 12
While Malmö's Rosengård neighbourhood is often the subject of negative headlines, the multi-ethnic district is slowly becoming a model for positive change in Sweden's third largest city, contributor Patrick Reilly discovers.
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National: 23 Feb 12
A 54-year-old imam was found shot in the head in Strömsund in northwestern Sweden on Wednesday in what police have classified as attempted murder.
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National: 24 Jan 12
The Swedish National Rail Service, SJ, was not wrong to kick a Muslim man off the train for not showing his pass while deep in prayer, ruled a Swedish watchdog after finding it impossible to prove he had been discriminated against.
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Society: 16 Dec 11
There are not enough places in Sweden for young Muslims to find a partner, according to the Gothenburg Mosque, which has started a net dating site for ”halal” dating.
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National: 3 Nov 11
A devout Muslim was kicked off a train bound for Flen, south of Stockholm, in May, after failing to show his ticket to the conductor as he was deep in prayer.
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Society: 19 Oct 11
The highly popular church built near the Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi in Northern Sweden might soon be joined by an ice mosque, if all goes according to plan.
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National: 18 Sep 11
The National Security Service (Säpo) has confirmed it searched a mosque in Gothenburg as part of an investigation into a suspected terrorist plot against a local art gallery, a charge later changed to attempted murder.
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National: 6 Jun 11
An editorial article attacking the far-right and calling on Swedes to celebrate "diversity not stupidity" on national day, has provoked a heated debate in the Swedish media on Monday.
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National: 21 May 11
Gothenburg police are facing their biggest challenge since the EU protests in 2001 as thousands of protestors gather Saturday for and against a nearly completed mosque on Hisingen.
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National: 10 May 11
A Muslim group plans to turn a church into a mosque after Swedish pentecostalists decided to sell a superfluous property in a display of "Christian love".
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National: 14 Apr 11
Sweden's foreign ministry on Thursday issued a warning against travel to Syria as pro-reform demonstrations in the autocratic Middle Eastern country gained strength.
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National: 23 Mar 11
Sweden has frozen assets hidden by Muammar Qaddafi's and his associates worth over 10 billion kronor ($1.6 billion), according to a media report on Wednesday.
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Analysis & Opinion: 14 Mar 11
The newly-formed Swedish Fatwa Council sets out to help Muslims in Sweden seeking advice about how to live in accordance with Islam, but not everyone is convinced the group is necessary, The Local's Karen Holst discovers.
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National: 9 Mar 11
Swedish police have confirmed their view that the suicide bomber who blew himself up in central Stockholm in December was alone at the time, while Scottish police continued to search for further UK-based suspects.
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Analysis & Opinion: 2 Mar 11
As religious tensions continue to cause friction in Sweden and elsewhere, Lutherans, Catholics, and Muslims near Stockholm have come together to present a new model for religious tolerance, The Local's Geoff Mortimore discovers.
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National: 28 Feb 11
The Islamic Center in Malmö, which houses one of the city's main mosques, is owned by a Libyan organisation founded by Muammar Qaddafi.
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Analysis & Opinion: 16 Feb 11
A year after claims about an exodus of Jews from Malmö made global headlines, many Jewish residents still don't feel safe in southern Sweden, The Local's Karen Holst discovers.
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National: 31 Jan 11
A 22-year-old man from southern Sweden claims he was arrested and tortured by Egyptian police before escaping from jail when it caught fire. Two Swedish journalists were also detained in Cairo on Sunday.
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National: 3 Jan 11
The wife of the man who blew himself up in a busy shopping district in Stockholm said in an interview on Sunday she had no idea her husband was plotting a terror attack.
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National: 30 Dec 10
The 37-year-old Swede arrested in connection with a terror plot against a Danish newspaper was remanded in custody by a Stockholm court on Thursday on suspicion of preparing terror crimes.
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National: 30 Dec 10
Two of the Swedish citizens arrested following a foiled terror plot against a Danish newspaper have previously been arrested in Pakistan.
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Analysis & Opinion: 21 Dec 10
While Sweden is left asking why after experiencing its first suicide bombing, Fulbright scholar and US Muslim Dr. Abdul-Majeed Azad calls on the country to deploy its history of neutrality to build bridges across Europe to defeat the radicalisation of Muslim youth.
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Society: 17 Dec 10
Last weekend’s suicide bomb attack in Stockholm will be a central theme of Friday prayers at a local mosque in the Swedish capital, which has urged mosques around the country to address the issue as well.
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National: 16 Dec 10
The man who carried out Sweden's first suicide bombing in central Stockholm on Saturday is thought to have had ties to radical Muslim preacher Abu Hamza, according to media reports.
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Politics: 15 Dec 10
UK Prime Minister David Cameron admitted on Wednesday that his country needed to do more to fight domestic Islamic extremism following reports that a Swedish suicide bomber lived and studied northwest of London.
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National: 15 Dec 10
Swedish investigators are continuing their hunt for possible accomplices of a suicide bomber who narrowly missed causing serious damage in Stockholm on Saturday afternoon as police boosted their presence in the city.
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Politics: 14 Dec 10
The suicide bomber who blew himself up in downtown Stockholm on Saturday was within minutes of unleashing untold carnage among holiday shoppers, foreign minister Carl Bildt said on Monday.
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National: 13 Dec 10
The man suspected of being the suicide bomber behind two Stockholm bombings on Saturday was described on Monday as an ordinary friendly young immigrant to Sweden who drastically changed after moving to the UK to study.
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Society: 12 Dec 10
A Stockholm-based imam on Sunday condemned the two explosions which targeted holiday shoppers in the Swedish capital, killing one person in a what has been called a terrorist crime.
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National: 11 Nov 10
The Gothenburg police are facing more criticism following revelations that they locked eight men in a mosque when responding to a terror threat on October 30th.
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National: 17 Sep 10
An Islamic revolution akin to the one that swept through Iran in 1979 could easily take place in Sweden, claims the second highest ranking member of the far-right Sweden Democrats.
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Politics: 11 Sep 10
A local politician from the far-right Sweden Democrats argued during an election debate on Thursday that Muslims shouldn't be allowed to practice their faith in Strömsund in northwestern Sweden.
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Society: 11 Aug 10
Sweden’s long summer days are presenting a challenge to Muslims fasting for Ramadan, which starts on Wednesday. Things are set to get even more challenging in 2015, when the fast will fall in June.
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National: 8 Jun 10
Swedish artist Lars Vilks has joined a Facebook group entitled "Kill Lars Vilks" in order to engage in discussion with his antagonists as part of his ongoing art project to explore the bounds of free speech.
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Politics: 4 Jun 10
The far-right Sweden Democrats have proposed forcing schools to offer a church service sing-song at the end of term, expressing concern over the secular trend among Swedish schools.
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National: 29 May 10
A cleric based in Sweden has been accused by Uzbek state television of instigating a suicide attack on the US embassy in 2004, as well as directing a series of high-profile killings last year.
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National: 5 May 10
An al-Qaeda-linked extremist group in Somalia has recruited more than 20 young people from Sweden to fight in the war-torn African country, the Swedish Security Service (Säpo) fears.
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National: 11 Apr 10
Police in Gothenburg sought to ward off clashes on Sunday as neo-Nazi demonstrators opposed to the construction of a new mosque met with resistance from counter-demonstrators.
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National: 27 Feb 10
Local politicians are in agreement that a mosque should be built in Rinkeby, a suburb in western Stockholm. Representatives of six Swedish political parties have expressed support for the new house of worship.
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Society: 27 Jan 10
Threats and harassment are becoming increasingly commonplace for Jewish residents in Malmö in southern Sweden, leading many Jews to leave the city out of fear for their safety.
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National: 12 Jan 10
Young Swedes were encouraged to join the militant Islamist group al-Shabaab by the Danish-Somali man who attacked Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard with an axe, according to Danish media reports.
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National: 2 Jan 10
As of New Year's Eve evening, police had no suspects for an attack against a mosque in Malmö earlier in the day when shots had been fired through the window.
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National: 3 Dec 09
One in four Swedes is in favour of prohibiting the building of more minarets in the country, a new poll shows.
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Politics: 30 Nov 09
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt on Monday slammed Switzerland's referendum to ban the construction of minarets on mosques in the Alpine country.
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Lifestyle: 23 Nov 09
The Year in Sweden - November: Journalist Kim Loughran sketches a month by month account of the country he has called home ever since his accidental migration in 1966.
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National: 11 Nov 09
Swedish taxpayers helped fund a youth recreation centre in the north Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby which served as a recruiting station for the Somalia-based Islamist group al-Shabaab.
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National: 15 Sep 09
Swedish citizen Ousama Kassir was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday by a New York court after being found guilty earlier this year of planning to set up an Al-Qaeda training camp in the United States.
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National: 13 May 09
A Swedish man of Lebanese origin charged with planning to set up an Al Qaeda training camp in the United States was convicted by a New York court on Tuesday, according to prosecutors.
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National: 22 Apr 09
As the trial of a Swedish citizen facing terror charges began in New York on Tuesday, prosecutors argued that the man planned to set up an Al-Qaeda terrorist training camp in the United States.
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Analysis & Opinion: 27 Mar 09
Malmö suburb Rosengård has come to symbolise Sweden's struggles with integration. AFP's Marc Preel examines a community grappling with its identity after a winter marred by rioting and clashes with the police.
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Analysis & Opinion: 7 Mar 09
The City of Malmö's decision to hold the Sweden-Israel Davis Cup tennis match behind closed doors is ill-conceived, short-sighted and potentially dangerous, argues freelance Israeli journalist David Stavrou.
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Analysis & Opinion: 13 Feb 09
Swedes who demonstrate over Israeli attacks are not anti-Semites. Calling them names is an attempt to silence criticism of Israeli policies, argues Stockholm-based Palestinian Alaa Kullab.
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Analysis & Opinion: 9 Feb 09
An ugly wave of anti-Semitism is on the rise in Sweden, and politicians who compare Israel with Nazi Germany or apartheid-era South Africa cannot claim to be free of responsibility, writes David Stavrou, a freelance Israeli journalist based in Sweden.
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National: 30 Jan 09
Three academics who demanded to see the source material behind a controversial new report on religious and political extremism in the Malmö suburb of Rosengård have been told that the material no longer exists.
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Society: 28 Jan 09
A majority of Rosengård's inhabitants believe the troubled Malmö suburb has undergone a serious political and religious radicalization over the past five years, a new study shows.
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National: 20 Dec 08
The streets of Malmö’s Rosengård district were relatively calm on Friday evening, as the hundreds of youth who rioted earlier in the week refrained from engaging in renewed clashes with police.
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National: 19 Dec 08
Scores of young people rioted on Thursday night in Rosengård, the Malmö suburb in which tensions have been running high since the recent closure of an Islamic cultural centre.
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National: 18 Dec 08
Fresh disturbances erupted on Wednesday evening near the basement location which had previously served as a mosque in Malmö's Rosengård district.
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National: 15 Dec 08
Tempers flared in Malmö on Monday morning as riot police used dogs to clear three protesters out of a basement office which has served as a mosque for more than a 15 years, but had been ordered closed back on November 24th.
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National: 16 Oct 08
Abu Qaswara, the Swedish citizen killed by US forces in Iraq in early October and thought to be a high-ranking member of Al-Qaeda’s Iraq operations, has been connected to a Stockholm-area mosque.
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National: 22 Aug 08
A man in his twenties has been arrested on suspicion of setting fire to a mosque in Strömsund, northern Sweden.
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National: 15 Aug 08
A fire that broke out in a mosque in northern Sweden on Thursday night could have been started deliberately, police say.
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Politics: 8 Jul 08
The Swedish government has condemned the killing of the top United Nations official in Somalia.
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Politics: 7 Jul 08
The Sweden Democrats have landed in hot water after one of their representatives published an article on the party's website using phrases borrowed from a neo-Nazi group.
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National: 13 Jun 08
A far-right Sweden Democrat politician surprised his colleagues in the southern Swedish town of Karlskrona by voting in favour of allowing Muslims to convert a former recreation hall into a mosque.
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Education: 22 May 08
The government announced plans on Thursday to examine whether Sweden should implement a special training program for imams.
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Lifestyle: 19 Mar 08
Rami Abdelrahman travels to Jordan and tracks down the first link in the chain of an underground operation involved in the smuggling of Iraqi refugees to Sweden.
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National: 5 Feb 08
The Swedish government has begun exploring the possibility of providing religious training for Muslim leaders.
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Society: 11 Jan 08
Officials in Eskilstuna have been slammed for a report claiming that some immigrant children are a thousand years behind their Swedish peers.
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National: 6 Nov 07
Designs for a controversial Saudi-funded landmark mosque in Gothenburg have received the go-ahead from Muslim leaders in the city, meaning building can start next spring.
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National: 25 Oct 07
Church of Sweden delegates have voted to retain the right to carry out legally binding weddings. But not everybody is happy with the prospect of a new gender-neutral marriage law.
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Lifestyle: 12 Oct 07
Swedish women who convert to Islam: Of the 400,000 people in Sweden estimated to be celebrating the end of Ramadan this weekend, around 5,000 are ethnic Swedes who have converted to Islam. Two women converts tell Rami Abdelrahman about how they square their faith with society's expectations.
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National: 29 Sep 07
Suspected bombs are reported in Sweden almost every day - but despite an apparent flurry of bomb scares recently, police say there is not enough evidence to suggest an upward trend.
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Politics: 4 Sep 07
Sweden's prime minister said on Tuesday he was sorry if Muslims were offended by a cartoon depicting Prophet Muhammad as a dog but he also stressed that freedom of expression was an "inalienable" right in Sweden.
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Society: 28 Aug 07
Leading figures in Sweden's media industry have backed newspaper Nerikes Allehanda, which has been criticised by Iran for publishing a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a dog. The paper itself has meanwhile defended its decision to publish.
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National: 14 Aug 07
A man who previously lived in Sweden as an asylum seeker, and is now imprisoned in Guantánamo Bay, has been officially classed by US authorities as an 'enemy combatant'.
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National: 16 Jan 07
A Swedish citizen arrested in Morocco on Christmas Day has faced thorough questioning about activities at a mosque in the Stockholm suburb of Brandbergen, according to reports.
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National: 10 Jan 07
A Swede has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for by a court in Sarajevo after being convicted of planning terror attacks on European countries.
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Politics: 23 Nov 06
The Sweden Democrats in Malmö want to pay immigrants to leave the country. But the Social Democrats, who control the city, say that the proposal would create a 'them and us' situation.
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National: 8 Apr 06
Two Swedes were among 80 people killed in an attack on a Shiite mosque in Baghdad on Friday. The pair are reported to be a man and his six-year old son, from the Stockholm area.
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Society: 27 Mar 06
The Islamic Centre in Malmö is to receive three million kronor in government funding for rebuilding and repairing damage caused in the latest attack on the mosque.
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Society: 10 Mar 06
Police and social services have released a picture of a newborn baby abandoned in a Stockholm mosque on Wednesday. They are hoping someone will recognize the girl from the picture.
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Smörgåsbord: 26 Nov 05
One of four Swedish soldiers wounded in a bomb attack in northern Afghanistan has died of his injuries. Another Swedish peacekeeper is in a serious condition in hospital after the explosion in Mazar-i-Sharif.
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National: 25 Nov 05
The UN war crimes court in The Hague said on Friday that the Bosnian Serb politician convicted of crimes against humanity has been transferred to Sweden to serve his 10-year sentence.
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