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As of the year 2000, an estimated 300,000 to 350,000 people of Muslim background lived in Sweden, or 3.5% of total population; [16] thereby included is anyone who fits the broad definition of someone who "belongs to a Muslim people by birth, has Muslim origin, has a name that belongs in the Muslim tradition, etc." regardless of personal ...
In the mid 1980s Mahmoud Aldebe, the chairman of SMF, in conjunction with Statens invandrarverk (the former name of the Swedish Migration Agency) he authored the leaflet "Islam in Sweden" (Swedish: Islam i Sverige) wherein he expresses the view that Islam is an all-encompassing belief system which gives firm instructions which are to be ...
Islamic organizations in the FIOE-IFiS network in Sweden. The Islamic Association in Sweden (Arabic: الرابطة الأسلامية في السويد; Swedish: Islamiska förbundet i Sverige, IFiS) was formed according to the records of the Swedish Tax Agency, the protocol of the constituent meeting of The Islamic Association in Sweden (IFiS) on January 27–28, 1995 in the presence of ...
The Muslim Council of Sweden (Swedish: Sveriges muslimska råd, SMR) is an umbrella organisation of Islamic organisations in Sweden.It was founded in 1990 by representatives of the United Islamic Parishes in Sweden (Swedish: Förenade islamiska församlingar i Sverige, FIFS) and the Muslim Association of Sweden (Swedish: Sveriges Muslimska Förbund, SMuF).
SUM is a supporting organisation to Ship to Gaza Sweden. [4] The organisation has an annual conference in the Kista district of Stockholm, with about 800-1500 participants aged 15–25. [5] In 1995, the organisation helped organise the Euro-Islam conference in Lidingö organised on a directive from the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Thousands of people took to the streets in a handful of Muslim-majority countries Friday to express their outrage at the desecration of a copy of the Quran in Sweden, a day after protesters ...
In recent times, Muslim theologians have advocated inter-faith dialogue on a large scale, something which is new in a political sense. [citation needed] The declaration A Common Word of 2007 was a public first [citation needed] in Christian-Islam relations, trying to work out a moral common ground on many social issues. This common ground was ...
Swedish police detained a woman Friday who sprayed an anti-Islam activist with a fire extinguisher as he staged a Quran-burning protest outside the Iranian Embassy in Stockholm. Video of the scene ...