{"id":3971,"date":"2015-01-03T06:48:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T06:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2015-01-03T06:48:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T06:48:52","slug":"thousands-protest-mosque-attacks-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2015\/01\/03\/3971\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands protest mosque attacks in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/mosque-fire.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/>Thousands of people across Sweden rallied on Friday against a series of arson attacks on mosques in the past week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At least 3,200 people gathered in Sweden&#8217;s three largest cities &#8212; Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo &#8212; on Friday against racism and Islamophobia.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Up to 2,000 people gathered in Stockholm while around 500 people gathered in Gothenburg and between 600-700 people in Malmo, organizers of the protests told The Anadolu Agency.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Around 40 different groups organized the protests, including Sweden&#8217;s Muslim Council and the Swedish United Nations Association.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They said in a statement on their Facebook page: \u201cSwedish Muslims testify about how racism in general and Islamophobia in particular is growing stronger in Sweden. Hate crimes against individuals and assembly premises are occurring more often and we [believe] that religious freedom is under threat in Sweden.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The demonstrations come days after three mosques were attacked by arsonists in Eskilstuna, Eslov and Uppsala.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sweden&#8217;s Culture Minister Alice Bah Kuhnke, who attended the protest in Stockholm, said during a speech that she will meet representatives of various Muslim communities in February as part of a national strategy against Islamophobia in Sweden.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8221;Then the government will go from saying beautiful words to actually taking action,&#8221; Kuhnke said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Pumped-up security<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Swedish police have increased security around mosques in Sweden after a mosque in the eastern city of Uppsala was set on fire on New Year\u2019s Eve, making it the third arson attack on a mosque in Sweden since Dec. 25 when a blaze was started at a mosque in the southeast town of Eskilstuna, injuring five people.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter quoted Sweden\u2019s deputy chief of police Mats Lofving as saying: &#8221;We&#8217;re taking these events seriously.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Swedish authorities have decided to increase dialogue with representatives of Muslim communities, to prioritize cooperation with the Security Service and to encourage district police forces to keep a particularly close eye on mosques, according to Dagens Nyheter.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8216;Attack on Freedom&#8217;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Expo, a Swedish foundation raising awareness on racism and xenophobia, said at least 12 attacks had taken place on mosques across the country in 2014.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Swedish officials have condemned the attacks as \u201cfoul\u201d and \u201can attack on religious freedom in the country.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The series of attacks occurred amid tense debate on immigration and the rise of the far-right party, the Sweden Democrats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<strong><em> World Bulletin<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people across Sweden rallied on Friday against a series of arson attacks on mosques in the past week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c102-muslim-minorities"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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