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55-571: The area of the parish was 10,27 sq km (3,96 sq mi). In 1929 it had 5,799 inhabitants. Part of the Malmö district of Rosengård is located in the parish, as well as the parish church of Västra Skrävlinge. The parish has medieval origins. At the Swedish municipal reforms of 1862 , the socken's responsibility for ecclesiastical matters was transferred to the Västra Skrävlinge parish, and

110-542: A Muslim people by birth, has Muslim origin, has a name that belongs in the Muslim tradition, etc." regardless of personal religious convictions, of whom about 100,000 were second-generation immigrants (born in Sweden or immigrated as children). In Sweden registration by personal belief is not common and is normally against the law, thus only figures of practising Muslims belonging to an Islamic community can be reported. In 2009,

165-545: A complex and heterogeneous population. 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. Population increases between 2004 and 2012 have been attributed to immigrants from Iraq, Somalia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. The US Department of State's Sweden 2014 International Religious Freedom Report set

220-573: A decade longer, are people from Turkey and Lebanon . Pew Research Center estimate differs from most other sources and lists the number of self-identified Muslims in Sweden at 810,000 (or 8.1% of the total population) for the year 2016. About a third of these are believed to practice their religion. In order to predict the number of Muslims in Sweden in the year 2050, they looked at three scenarios: zero migration, medium migration (with no new refugees, but same levels of other immigration as recently), and high migration (same total level as 2015-2016). In

275-438: A name that belongs in the Muslim tradition, etc." ), roughly estimated close to 100,000 of which are second-generation. Of the first-generation Muslims, 255,000 are thought to be Sunni , 5,000 Shi'ites , no more than 1,000 Ahmadiya , Alevi and other groups and probably no more than 5,000 converts – mainly women married to Muslim men. In 2009 a US report stated that there are 450,000 to 500,000 Muslims in Sweden, around 5% of

330-607: A radical salafist ideology. In 2007, 60% were born outside of Sweden. In 2008, 86% of the population was of foreign background. The ten largest groups of foreign-born persons in 2010 were: Unemployment and education are two major issues in the area. Only 38% of the population in Rosengård are employed and 60% complete elementary school, compared to a citywide average (inclusive Rosengård) of 80%. Islam in Sweden#Salafism Swedish contacts with

385-541: A seminar to a conference it organised together with Ibn Rushd and Sveriges Unga Muslimer . As a result of the discoveries, Mustafa left the Social Democratic Party committee and party. IFiS is an umbrella organization. The Muslim Council of Sweden (Swedish: Sveriges muslimska råd, SMR ) is an umbrella organisation of Islamic organisations in Sweden . It was founded in 1990 by representatives of

440-741: Is Sweden 's largest Muslim organisation, which represents around 70,000 Muslims in Sweden, which receives state aid from Swedish Agency for Support to Faith Communities . The organization claims to be separate from the Muslim Brotherhood, but does claim to be inspired by its values. For example, one of the representatives of the organization, Mahmoud Aldebe, sent a letter in April 2006 to different Swedish political parties asking to exempt Muslims from Swedish divorce law. Muslimska Mänskliga Rättighetskommittén (MMRK) (loosely translated: "Muslim human rights committee") an organization modeled after

495-416: Is a member association of FIFS aiming at providing information about Islam in Sweden; 1986–2000 it published Salaam , whose editorial board has always been dominated by women, mainly Swedish converts. National and target organization have also created umbrella organizations in order to simplify their relationships to the state. FIFS and SMF have created in 1990 SMR ( Sveriges Muslimska Råd ), of which SUM

550-434: Is also member. The IKUS umbrella organization is named IRIS ( Islamiska Rådet i Sverige ) and includes also IKF, IUF and SIR. Above all, IS ( Islamiska samarbetsrådet ) deals with financial issues with the commission for state grants to religious communities (SST); it includes FIFS, SMF, IKUS, ISS and SIF. The Islamic Association in Sweden ( Arabic : الرابطة الأسلامية في السويد; Swedish: Islamiska förbundet i Sverige, IFiS )

605-474: Is expected to decrease, and that many immigrants later migrate to other countries or return to their birth countries. On the other hand, the prediction has not considered current asylum seekers waiting for decision, undocumented immigrants and people in a state of impediment to expulsion . In 2017 Swedish Security Police reported that the number of jihadists in Sweden had risen to thousands from about 200 in 2010. Based on social media analysis, an increase

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660-574: Is more known among Sufis by his Muslim name Abdul-Hadi al-Maghribi. Other well-known Swedish converts to Islam are Tage Lindbom , Kurt Almqvist , Mohammed Knut Bernström and Tord Olsson . Lindbom, Almqvist and Olsson are also initiates into various Sufi orders. Bernström translated the Quran into Swedish in 1998. Several mosques have been built in Sweden since the 1980s, with notable ones in Malmö (1984) and Stockholm (2000). The Bellevue Mosque and

715-796: The Ahmadiyya . It was followed by the Malmö Mosque , 1984, and later, the Uppsala Mosque in 1995. More mosques were built during the 2000s, including the Stockholm Mosque (2000) and the Fittja Mosque (completed 2007), among others. The governments of Saudi Arabia and Libya have financially supported the constructions of some of the largest Mosques in Sweden. The first meeting between Muslim youth organizations across Europe first took place in Sweden in 1995, in which

770-484: The Brandbergen Mosque in the 2000s came to public attention as recruitment and propaganda centers for Islamist terrorism . In recent years, Islamic places of worship have increasingly been subject to vandalism. Swedish historian Mattias Gardell from Uppsala University sent a survey to 173 mosques, with 106 responding. 59% reported being subject to some sort of physical attack. The following are some of

825-725: The Church of Sweden to Islam to be 3,500 people since the 1960s. Roald further states that conversions are also occurring from Islam to the Church of Sweden, most noticeably by Iranians , but also by Arabs and Pakistanis . The first known convert to Islam was the famous painter Ivan Aguéli who was initiated into the Shadhiliyya order in Egypt in 1909. It was Aguéli who introduced the French metaphysician René Guénon to Sufism . Aguéli

880-533: The Förenade islamiska församlingar i Sverige  [ sv ] (FIFS), and the Muslim Association of Sweden ( Swedish : Sveriges Muslimska Förbund , SMuF). The former chairwoman of the organisation is Helena Hummasten , who succeeded Mostafa Kharraki . According to islamologist Sameh Egyptson at Lund University, several people in leadership positions of the council are Islamists and support

935-705: The Muslim Brotherhood . The council organised a demonstration to protest when Mohamed Morsi was removed from office in Egypt. In 1999, Mahmoud Aldebe was chairman of the council. In 1999, the organisation was part of an alliance with the Religious Social Democrats (Swedish: Tro och Solidaritet ) faction of the Social Democratic Party , where the council was to gain influence in Swedish politics via quotas for

990-564: The Muslim Council of Sweden reported 106,327 registered members. In December 2008, riots broke out in Malmö in the Herrgården section of Rosengård , when the landlord did not renew the contract for the premises of a local mosque. Angry youths occupied the premises for three weeks, at the end of which police coming to evict the occupiers were confronted by about 30 occupiers, including radical Muslims and activists affiliated with

1045-772: The administrative court of appeal upheld the decision to deny state aid to the organisation on the grounds that its representatives on occasion had made remarks incompatible with democracy and was ordered to repay 1.4 million SEK. Islamic Relief in Sweden was founded in 1992 and is part of the international Muslim aid charity Islamic Relief which was founded in the UK. IR in Sweden receives and channels tax funding primarily from government agencies Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and ForumCiv  [ sv ] . In 2019 IR Sweden received 167 million SEK and 139 million SEK in tax funding. The Muslim Association of Sweden (Swedish: Sveriges muslimska förbund, SMF )

1100-624: The 1940s. Islam began to have a noticeable presence in Sweden with immigration from the Middle East beginning in the 1970s. Further waves of immigrants came to Sweden from the former Yugoslav republics, and more recently from Somalia. Sweden has a number of mosques providing the Muslim communities in Sweden places of worship. The first mosque in Sweden was the Nasir Mosque  [ sq ; sv ] , built in 1976 in Gothenburg by

1155-431: The 2014 figure of Muslims in Sweden at around 600,000 people, 6% of the total Swedish population. A 2017 Pew Research report documents Sweden's Muslim population at 810,000 people, 8.1% of Sweden's total population of 10 million people. Pre-Islamic Arabic coins originating from the Middle East have been found at Iron Age burial sites. Archaeological findings have also shown Viking contact with Islam dating back to

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1210-529: The 7th–10th centuries, when the Vikings seem to have been trading with the medieval Islamic world , among others. The Swedish census in 1930 listed 15 people as belonging to the group "Muslims and other Asian faiths". Although the number of Muslims themselves are not known, one estimate suggests a maximum of 11 but could have been as low as 2. In modern Sweden, the first registered Muslim groups were Finnish Tatars who emigrated from Finland and Estonia in

1265-537: The Bronze Age. 55°34′41″N 13°3′15″E  /  55.57806°N 13.05417°E  / 55.57806; 13.05417 This article about a location in Skåne County , Sweden is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Roseng%C3%A5rd Rosengård (literally "Rose Manor") was a city district ( Swedish : stadsdel ) in the center of Malmö Municipality, Sweden. On 1 July 2013, it

1320-615: The Foreign Ministry of Sweden worked with Sveriges Unga Muslimer to hold an international conference titled "Islam in Europe." This led to the creation of the Forum of European Muslim Youth and Student Organizations (FEMYSO). As of the year 2000, an estimated 300,000 to 350,000 people of Muslim background lived in Sweden, or 3.5% of total population; thereby included is anyone who fits the broad definition of someone who "belongs to

1375-665: The Iraqis being by far the largest group in 2015. Most Iranians and Iraqis fled as refugees to Sweden during the Iran–Iraq War from 1980 to 1988. The second-largest Muslim group consists of immigrants or refugees from Eastern Europe , particularly from former Yugoslavian countries , most of them being Bosniaks , who number 12,000. There is also a sizeable community of Somalis , who numbered 40,165 in 2011. They are followed by Muslim refugees from Syria and Somalia , two very rapidly growing groups. Two other groups, residing in Sweden for

1430-494: The Islamic hijab if the parents requested it. The newspaper found a willingness by preschools to force at 27 of the 40 investigated institutions in Malmö, Gothenburg and Stockholm. Although there are no official statistics of Muslims in Sweden, estimates count 300,000—350,000 people of Muslim background in 2000 (i.e. anyone who fits the broad definition of someone who "belongs to a Muslim people by birth, has Muslim origin, has

1485-507: The Muslim world dates back to the 7th–10th centuries, when the Vikings traded with Muslims during the Islamic Golden Age . Since the late 1960s and more recently, Muslim immigration from the Middle East , Balkans and parts of Africa has impacted the demographics of religion in Sweden, and has been the main driver of the spread of Islam in the country. The Muslim community in Sweden hails from numerous countries, making it

1540-498: The Religious Social Democrats were still in contact with SMR. The organisation Muslim Youth of Sweden (Swedish: Sveriges Unga Muslimer , SUM) with its headquarters at Stockholm Mosque received state aid from the Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society (Swedish acronym: MUCF) in the years 2011–2015. SUM had to pay back the government funds for 2016 and 2017 due to the organisation failing to respect

1595-840: The Swedish Muslim community were detained by the Swedish Migration Agency by orders of the Säpo security police. In December 2019, the municipality of Skurup banned Islamic veils in educational institutions. Earlier, the municipality of Staffanstorp approved a similar ban. In 2018, preschools in Biskopsgården district were reprimanded by the Municipality of Gothenburg after Göteborgs-Posten newspaper had found out that 4 out of 5 kindergartens stated they were willing to force girls in their care to wear

1650-604: The Turkish Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet). Along with their religious duties, the imams are also tasked with reporting on critics of theTurkish government. According to Dagens Nyheter, propaganda for president Erdogan is openly presented in the mosques. The Diyanet director of the Swedish branch is Fatih Mehmet Karaca. In November 2016 Karaca forced the finance officer (Swedish: kassör) of Muslimska församlingen i Malmö mosque (listed above) to resign as

1705-510: The UK-based organisation Cageprisoner . MMRK consider the criminalisation of travelling to commit terror abroad to be a form of racial laws directed towards Muslims. MMRK also claim that returning Foreign Terrorist Fighters do not constitute a security threat. Spokesperson Maimuna Abdullahi also criticized suggestions that travelling to conflict zones should be criminalized in a letter published by Swedish Television . In May 2010, Munir Awad

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1760-550: The Västra Skrävlinge rural municipality was formed for civil matters. In 1911 the rural municipality merged into the city of Malmö, which in turn in 1971 was transformed into the Malmö municipality. In 1949 the Möllevången parish was formed and then broken out of the Västra Skrävlinge parish. As was Sofielunds parish in 1969. In 2002 those two parishes were joined as the Möllevången-Sofielund parish. In 2014 of

1815-783: The Västra Skrävlinge parish merged partly into the Fosie parish, and partly into the Husie parish. The parish has belonged to counties , bailiwicks , tithings and judicial districts according to what is described in the article Oxie county . The croft soldiers belonged to the South Scanian Infantry Regiment and the Scanian Hussar Regiment . Settlements from the Stone , Bronze and Iron Ages have been found. There are three burial mounds from

1870-738: The finance officer had expressed views critical of the AKP party which is intolerable according to Diyanet ideology. The Swedish Muslims for Peace and Justice is a self-described peace organization. It was founded in 2008 by a group including the Swedish Parliamentarian Mehmet Kaplan . Kaplan was forced to resign from the Swedish Cabinet due to his association with advocates of violent attacks on Armenians and connections to Islamist militants in Turkey. In 2018 it

1925-471: The former ambassador Mohammed Knut Bernström , with the task of establishing in the future an Islamic university in Sweden, charged with imam education. SIA also publishes since February 2001 the periodical Minaret in Swedish. There exist also the women association IKF ( Islamiska Kvinnoförbund i Sverige ), the youth association IUF ( Islamiska Ungdomförbundet i Sverige ) and the imam association SIR ( Sveriges Imamråd ). IIF ( Islamiska Informationföreningen )

1980-443: The ideals of democracy . A report outlined how sympathisers and activists for extremist movements had leading positions of local chapters of SUM. A number of Swedish academics member of Antirasistiska Akademin (ArA), among them Edda Manga and Maimuna Abdullahi (also of MMRK ) criticized the decision of MUCF to withhold further state aid to the organization. SUM has a branch in Malmö, named Malmö Unga Muslimer . In 2019,

2035-444: The mansion in Herrgården, and Östra kyrkogården, are older. Rosengård was to a high degree populated by minorities. In 1972, the percentage of immigrants was around 18%, with the majority of inhabitants being working-class people from rural Sweden. From 1974, there was a white flight out of the area as more immigrants were assigned there. By 2012, the figure for those of immigrant background was given as 86%. On 1 July 2013, Rosengård

2090-553: The number of Muslim politicians on election lists for council, region and Riksdag elections. Tro och Solidaritet was to further Islamic interests such as legislation and contracts concerning Muslim holidays, instituting a tax-financed training for imams via the National Agency for Higher Education and rules in working places for the Jumu'ah (Friday prayer). According to Religious Social Democrats chairman Peter Weiderud in 2014,

2145-573: The percentage they consider to be religious Muslims in a more qualified sense exceeds fifteen percent, or perhaps even less". Sander re-stated in 2004 that "we do not think it unreasonable to put the figure of religious Muslims in Sweden at the time of writing at close to 150,000". Professor Mohammad Fazlhashemi at Umeå University estimates "a good 100,000". About 25,000 are regarded as devout Muslims, visiting Friday prayers and practising daily prayers. Muslims in Sweden most often originate from Iraq , Iran , Bosnia-Herzegovina , Sandžak and Kosovo ,

2200-704: The places of Islamic worship that can be found today in Sweden. The beginning of nationwide Islamic (Sunni) institutions in Sweden dates back to the creation of FIFS ( Förenade Islamiska Församlingar i Sverige ) in 1973–1974. In 1982 and 1984 two splits, due to internal rivalries, cultural differences, personal conflicts and funding, brought to the creation of SMF ( Svenska Muslimska Förbundet ) and ICUS, today IKUS ( Islamska Kulturcenterunionen i Sverige ). Others national institutions are BHIRF ( Bosnien-Hercegovinas Islamiska riksförbund ), founded in 1995 by Bosnian refugees, IRFS ( Islamiska Riksförbundet ), also since 1995, and SIA (Svenska Islamiska Akademin), founded in 2000 by

2255-519: The radical leftist Antifaschistische Aktion . The occupiers attacked police with pipe bombs and rocks and the incident rapidly escalated, with protestors arriving from other cities and officials calling in riot police. Rioters set fire to cars, wagons, kiosks, building sheds, recycling stations, and bicycle sheds. After two nights of rioting, 200 adult Malmö residents organized by the Islamiska kulturföreningen (“Islamic Cultural Forum”) moved into

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2310-534: The series as the main focus of the story line. Journalist Sara Ringmar criticizes the series as biased, repeating myths, most of the scenes were filmed in Lithuania. The neighbourhoods of Rosengård were: Malmö Mosque is located nearby. It is situated a few hundred metres from the church in Västra Skrävlinge. According to Swedish Defence University reports in 2009 and 2018, there are a number of Islamic prayer rooms (Swedish: källarmoskéer ) in Rosengård spreading

2365-580: The streets to mediate, causing the youthful rioters to desist. In September 2018, the mosque in Alby, Botkyrka via its Green Party member Ali Khali delivered an offer to the Moderate Party where the 3000 votes of the worshippers would be given to the Moderate Party in exchange for planning permission to build a new mosque. The Green Party forced Khalil to leave the party after the finding

2420-666: The total population, and that the Muslim Council of Sweden reported 106,327 officially registered members. Swedish estimates are rather 350,000, including nominal Muslims and people from a Muslim background. Such numbers do not imply religious beliefs or participation; Åke Sander  [ sv ] claimed in 1992 that at most 40–50% of the people of Muslim background in Sweden "could reasonably be considered to be religious", and in 2004, based on discussions and interviews with Muslim leaders, concerning second-generation Muslims born and raised in Sweden that "it does not seem that

2475-477: The year 2050 the number of Muslims in Sweden would be 1,130,000 (or 11.1% of the population) under the zero migration scenario, 2,470,000 (or 20.5% of the population) under the medium migration scenario, and 4,450,000 (or 30.6% of the population) under the high migration scenario. Michael Lipka , editor at Pew, considers the zero and high migration scenarios unlikely. The prediction has been criticized by researchers for not considering that birth rates among immigrants

2530-565: Was elected to the party committee of the Swedish Social Democratic Party , which was noted by anti-racist magazine Expo as Mustafa, as chairman of IFiS, had invited Salah Sultan and Ragheb Al-Serjany both of whom had spread antisemitic views in al Jazeera interviews and that he also "likes" Egyptian imam Yousef Al-Qaradawi on Facebook. During the Easter of 2013, IFiS invited Yvonne Ridley and Azzam Tamimi to

2585-531: Was formed according to the records of the Swedish Tax Agency, the protocol of the constituent meeting of The Islamic Association in Sweden (IFiS) on January 27–28, 1995 in the presence of Ahmed Ghanem, Mostafa Kharraki, Mahmoud Aldebe, Zoheir Berrahmoune, Mahmoud Kalim and Sami al-Sarif. The initiator is the Stockholm organisation Islamiska Förbundet i Stockholm , which runs Stockholm mosque and

2640-465: Was found 1987. IFiS headquarters are located at Stockholm Mosque. According to the IFiS charter, it is a founding member in the Muslim Brotherhood -associated umbrella organisation Federation of Islamic Organisations in Europe whose guidelines it follows. It has started the following organisations, either alone or together with others: Omar Mustafa is chairman of IFiS since 2011. On 7 April 2013 he

2695-537: Was headed by former Green Party politician Yasri Khan . Khan was forced to leave the Green Party after he was nominated to the party committee while refusing to shake hands with women on religious grounds. In 2012, investigating magazine Expo wrote that the anti-democratic and antisemitic Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir had started to establish itself in Sweden. In October 2012 Hizb ut-Tahrir situated its annual "calpiphate conference" in Stockholm. The group at

2750-533: Was invited to speak at a seminar criticizing the anti-terrorism laws of Sweden organized by MMRK. Awad was arrested in December 2010 for the 2010 Copenhagen terror plot for which he was later convicted and sentenced to jail. MMRK invited the Cageprisoners founders Moazzam Begg and Asim Qureshi to a seminar. According to Dagens Nyheter in 2017, nine mosques in Sweden have imams sent and paid for by

2805-559: Was made public by Swedish Television. In September 2018, the Social Democratic Party in Karlshamn revoked the membership of a Muslim politician after translations from Arabic showed that the politician had campaigned for the supremacy of Islam over Swedish customs, against vulnerable children being taken care of by social services and that women with Arabic heritage should wear the Islamic veil. The statements were verified with interpreters. In April and May 2019, five senior members of

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2860-409: Was merged with Husie, forming Öster . Rosengård has been the place for several violent clashes between gangs and between the resident youths and authorities. In December 2008, riots occurred as youngsters confronted the police in which cars, wagons, kiosks, building sheds, recycling stations, and bicycle sheds were set ablaze. The background to the riots was the eviction of a local mosque. The riot

2915-516: Was merged with Husie, forming Öster . In 2012, Rosengård had a population of 23,563 of the municipality's 307,758. Its area was 332 hectares. Rosengård was located centrally in Malmö, neighbouring the former city district Centrum . Long a destination for immigrants, 86% of the population had some foreign ancestry in 2008. Most of Rosengård was built between 1967 and 1972 as a part of the Million Programme although some parts, such as

2970-451: Was noted in 2013. BBC reported in 2016 that more than 300 people in Sweden have gone to fight in Iraq and Syria, which makes Sweden a high exporter of jihadists per capita. There are no official statistics on the exact number of Swedish converts to Islam, but Anne Sofie Roald  [ it ] , a historian of religions at Malmö University College , estimates the number of converts from

3025-421: Was the most violent yet seen in an urban area in Sweden. The riot finally ended when police forces from Gothenburg and Stockholm were sent in. In June 2011, shots were fired at the lower floor of the police station in Rosengård. Nobody was arrested. The Netflix drama series based on the writings of Henning Mankell about fictional Inspector Kurt Wallander , Young Wallander , features Rosengård heavily in

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