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The state should not run a school for imams in Sweden, despite the fact that a majority of the imams in this country would like to have a Swedish education for their profession. The conclusion is reached in a report commissioned by the government, which was published on Monday.
Originally, the Minister of Education commissioned the report because he thought a Swedish education for the imams would lower the risk of attracting fundamentalists to the country. Today, there are a couple of hundred imams in Sweden, who all have been educated abroad. Most of them have been here over ten years. According to a poll made for the report, four out of five imams would like to have further education in Swedish legislation, and three out of four would like to learn better Swedish.