According to the Pew Research Centre, Muslims are the world’s fastest-growing and second-largest religious group.

Sweden has maintained a more permissive approach to religious dress than many European neighbors, but that consensus now ...

STOCKHOLM - On the heels of elections that stunned many in this famously progressive land, Kent Ekeroth and his peers marched through the castle-like parliament doors this month on a mission to combat ...

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said in January, referring to the killing, that "there is obviously a risk that there is a connection to a foreign power." ...

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MALMO, Sweden — A Swedish court sentenced on Tuesday a far-right politician to four months in jail for two counts of “incitement against an ethnic group” after making hateful comments at political ...

A Swedish appeals court acquitted far-right activist Rasmus Paludan of one hate crime charge linked to burning the Koran, while suspending his prison sentence. The court ruled Paludan criticized Islam ...

STOCKHOLM — Sweden’s unemployment agency has been found guilty of discrimination for expelling a Muslim man from a job training program because he refused to shake hands with a woman. A Stockholm ...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Outrage over a Quran-burning protest in Sweden produced a second day of protests in Turkey, reflecting tensions between the two countries. Some 250 people gathered outside the Swedish ...

Bushra Mateen, AMMWEC board member offers Muslim prayers at a synagogue. This is how AMMWEC fights antiSemitism. AMMWEC leads Muslim and Multifaith trips to Israel. Dr. Sabeen Munib, AMMWEC board, at ...

As part of a documentary, Swedish broadcaster TV4 filmed secret footage of the privately-run Al-Azhar Primary School in a Stockholm suburb where boys are seen entering a bus from the front and girls ...

WASHINGTON, DC / ACCESSWIRE / August 7, 2023 / Since Salwan Momika, an Iraqi refugee in Sweden, tore and burned a copy of the Quran in Stockholm's central mosque on June 28, 2023, MEMRI has been ...