A district court in Rotterdam is requesting additional information from the US authorities as it requests the extradition of a Somali man arrested at a refugee center in Dronten, Flevoland in November 2009. The man is alleged to have helped extremists travel to Somalia in connection with the Islamic movement Al Shabaab. Mohamud Said Omar’s…
A number of leaders in the Danish and Swedish Somali community are angry that al-Shabab allegedly tries to recruit young Muslims in mosques in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Odense and Göteborg. Muslim parents have temporarily stopped allowing their children to attend Qur’an classes, fearing someone will try to recruit them, a Muslim parent says. The 28-year old…
Sweden’s minister for Integration and Gender Equality, Nyamko Sabuni (Fp – Liberal People’s Party), has ordered an investigation of Islamist extremist activity in Sweden by the secret police (SÄPO). Sabuni also calls for exploring ways to support young people who want to leave Islamist organizations.
Extreme Islamist organizations are becoming more visible in big city suburbs and are presenting a challenge to the Swedish State of Law, Svenska Dagbladet reports. Local resistance against Islamists is growing as well: Swedish Somalis demonstrated against al-Shabab in the suburb of Rinkeby outside of Stockholm in December 2009.
According to the publication Dagens Nyheter, phone threats to artist Lars Vilks – who in 2007 drew a picture of Muhammad as a dog – came from al-Shabab in Somalia. Representatives from al-Shabab have been in Sweden to recruit and collect money in mosques in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmoe. Swedish secret police (SÄPO) claim about…
