Sweden

Press Releases
Fall MEQ Explores Syria’s Future, Iran’s Spycraft in Sweden, the Houthi Threat, and Hizb ut-Tahrir’s Playbook
September 5, 2025
Middle East Quarterly
A Growing Security Threat: Iranian Intelligence Operations in Scandinavia (Part Two: Sweden)
September 2, 2025
Middle East Forum Online
Turkey Secretly Plots to Bypass INTERPOL Rules to Target Exiled Journalist in Sweden
Confidential Document Reveals Turkey’s Plot to Dodge INTERPOL Protocols and Hunt Down Exiled Reporter
July 25, 2025
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Abdullah Bozkurt
Rouzbeh Parsi, left, speaks at the European Parliament about the European Union's strategy toward Iran in 2015.
FWI News
Swedish Think Tank Stonewalls Before Investigating Staffer’s Links to Iran
Investigation into Rouzbeh Parsi to Be Completed in April
March 18, 2025
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Anna Stanley
Salwan Momika, an Iraqi refugee known for his public Quran burnings in Sweden, was fatally shot on January 29, 2025, in his apartment in Södertälje, near Stockholm.
FWI Opinion & Interview
The Islamist Threat to Free Speech in Sweden and the U.K.
Burning Qur’ans is Bad, but Setting up People for Retribution Worse
February 10, 2025
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Potkin Azarmehr
Islamist flags on display at anti-Israel rally held in Stockholm, Sweden on October 15, 2023. The protest was organized by Hizb ut-Tahrir, an international pan-Islamist group that seeks to re-establish the Islamic caliphate and implement sharia throughout the world. At the rally protesters chanted "Israelis are nothing but dogs of the West."
FWI Research
European Islamists Ignore — or Celebrate — Hamas’s October 7 Massacre
November 22, 2023
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Soeren Kern
Ahnaf Kalam
FWI News
Islamists Taking New Approach to Qur’an Burnings
August 15, 2023
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Dexter Van Zile
Protesters in Iran burn the Swedish flag to express their outrage over the desecration of the Quran in July. (YouTube screenshot.)
FWI News
Scandinavia Prepares to Submit to Blasphemy Bullying
August 7, 2023
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Soeren Kern
Sweden and Denmark, are contemplating free speech restrictions that would outlaw burning copies of the Quran.
FWI News
Threat of Islamist Violence Shapes Sweden’s Free Speech Debate
February 24, 2023
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Soeren Kern
Sweden’s Schools Inspectorate (Skolinspektionen) has revoked the operating licenses of two Muslim schools where radicalization and hostility toward Swedish society had become rampant.
FWI News
Sweden Closes Muslim Schools for Spreading Islamism
January 27, 2023
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Soeren Kern
Charlie Weimers, a Swedish representative to the European Parliament. Weimers is working to stop the funding of Islamist organizations by the European Union. (Wikimedia photo.)
FWI Research
Can a Single Politician Cut EU Funding to Islamists?
October 14, 2022
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Soeren Kern
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Erdoğan and Mikail Yüksel, a Swedish politician of Turkish origin, appear to be working together to increase the disruptive influence of the Turkish diaspora on Sweden's domestic politics. Erdoğan has engaged in similar activities in in Germany, the United States, Bulgaria and the Netherlands.
FWI News
Erdoğan Reaches into Domestic Swedish Politics
October 3, 2022
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Soeren Kern
Former British Prime Minister David Cameron has condemned leaders for failing to defend government counter-extremist efforts. (Photo by Tom Evans - https://www.flickr.com/photos/number10gov/27798459571/, OGL 3, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49771715)
FWI Opinion & Interview
Finally, UK Elites Stand Up to Islamist Bullying
April 28, 2022
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Wasiq Wasiq
Mahmood Mosque in Malmo Sweden. (Photo: Nemir Chaudhry, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)
FWI Opinion & Interview
Fellow Muslims: The West Accepts Blasphemy – Get Used to It
April 22, 2022
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Wasiq Wasiq
FWI News
‘It was like a battlefield’: Riots over the Koran in Many Swedish Cities
April 19, 2022
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Kent Ekeroth