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The Muslim community in Sweden hails from numerous countries, making it a complex and heterogeneous population. [5] According to a 2019 report from the Swedish Agency for Support to Faith Communities, there were 200,445 Muslims in Sweden who practiced their religion regularly; this count came from those registered with Islamic congregations. [6]
Opinion towards Islam and Muslims deteriorated once again in the early 20th century with the rise of nationalism and Orientalism in Sweden. Archbishop Nathan Söderblom, teacher and mentor of several of the leading Swedish Orientalist scholars, was highly critical of the faith. Söderblom's attitudes were very impactful to academic discourse ...
The Baltic Tatars were the first Muslim group in modern Sweden. In 2021, Sweden's official statistics counted 224,459 formally affiliated Muslims. [ 1 ] According to a 2016 Pew Research Center estimate, they are 8.1% of the Swedish population.
Muslim leaders in Sweden have called on the government to find ways to stop the Quran burnings. Sweden dropped its last blasphemy laws in the 1970s and the government has said it has no intention ...
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 ...
Sweden's prime minister Ulf Kristersson has attributed the disinformation campaign to "brutal culture shocks", stating that Muslim immigrant parents in Sweden cannot be expected to raise their children the same way they might have been raised in their countries of origin; referring to the fact that corporal punishment in the home is not ...
The Pakistan-based Sunni extremist organisation Lashkar-e-Jhangvi called for a genocide against Pakistani Christians to avenge Sweden's quran burning in a statement on 1 July. [20] On 29 June, protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad after the Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called Sweden "hostile to Islam". [21]
Arabs in Sweden are citizens and residents of Sweden who emigrated from nations in the Arab world. They represent 5.3% of the total population of the country. [2] About a quarter of Arabs in Sweden are Christians. [3] Uppsala Mosque in Uppland, Uppsala. It was founded in 1995.