Swedish Minister for employment and Integration, Mats Persson, announced the creation of a national expert group to measure the scale of muslim infiltration in the country. The minister's message referred to a French study informing against the spread of society through the influence of muslim organizations.
Sweden was mentioned by name – and rightly so. The problem is not hypothetical. Many Swedish cities are already facing ghettoisation, parallel social structures, spiritual extremism and crime, which the state is no longer able to counter.
"Today I will set up a Swedish expert group to get a full image of the muslim infiltration situation in Sweden. The background of this decision is information disclosed in France. Sweden has been mentioned in the study and faces akin challenges in terms of integration and countering the emergence of parallel social structures that undermine liberal democracy," Persson said.
Violent facts: shootings, assassinations, exclusion
The statistic are alarming. In 2023, there were 363 shootings in Sweden, of which 53 ended in death. Over 100 people were badly injured. In Stockholm alone, 140 explosions of explosives took place in 1 year – most of which were linked to gang clashes recruiting young residents a suburb with a large percent of immigrants.
In Malmö, in 2021, journalists “Kvällsposten” recorded how police did not intervene in Rosengård territory despite a public violation of the law. Rosengård, Rinkeby (Stockholm), Angered (Göteborg) and Seved are places that residents call "Swedish no-go zones" – dominated by parallel social norms where state institutions act as remains or not. In 2020, the Swedish police study listed 61 areas as so-called. utsatta områden – meaning “areas at risk”. In any of them, like Vivalla in Örebro, there are more than 90% of people with a migrant background, and unemployment exceeds 30%.
In respective well-known cases, local kindergartens and schools run by spiritual organizations taught children sex segregation and undermined democratic values. In 2019, the al-Azhar Muslim school in Stockholm was closed, after it was discovered that it was managed by people with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
It is worth noting that political work for this state of affairs besides extends to those who present themselves present as reformers. The organization of Minister Persson – Liberal People's organization (Liberalerna) – has for years co-founded open door policies, supported relaxed immigration control standards and promoted a integration model based on full cultural freedom, without imposing Community values.
The deficiency of assimilation requirement, the resignation of emphasis on civic language and standards, as well as the tolerance of separate educational and spiritual structures have led to the fact that in many districts of "swedishness" present is something abroad – both culturally and linguistically.
The position of Swedish Democrats: They warned for years
The strongest position on this issue is presented by Swedish Democrats (Sverige Democrat), a right-wing organization who has been talking about Islamism for years as a real threat. Their leader, Jimmie Åkesson, repeatedly stressed that Sweden had a suicide policy – both in terms of migration and in the absence of defence of national identity.
In consequence to Minister Persson's announcement, SD representatives stated that the appointment of further expert groups was "substitutive political activity" and "an effort to cover up years of negligence". The organization demands, among others:
- prohibition of public backing of spiritual organisations,
- illegalisation of organisations linked to political Islam,
- compulsory cultural and linguistic assimilation,
- tightening the criteria for citizenship and punishing anti-democratic expulsion from the country.
In the polls of 2024 SD has maintained 20–22% of support, which makes it 1 of the country's main political forces – especially among voters who fear further distribution of social order.
What can a group of experts do?
The group set up by Persson is to produce a study that identifies the sources and mechanisms of muslim infiltration, as well as proposing countermeasures. It includes security, law, integration and social analysts. But the question many citizens are asking themselves present is: isn't it besides small and besides late?
If the diagnosis is not brutally honest and recommendations are not taken seriously, the study can only be a paper to be placed on the shelf. The situation in many cities is already in crisis and the fear of the inhabitants is real. For many Swedish families who want to live in peace and compliance with the law, the state ceases to be a warrant of security.
Sweden faces a turning point. The time erstwhile we could talk about the request to improve integration has passed. Now we request to talk loudly about the request to improvement the system, reconstruct control of public space and defend democratic values from ideological infiltration. Mats Persson can launch corrective action today, but if they are not accompanied by political courage to admit joint work for the current crisis, even the best intentions will not change the direction in which Swedish society has been heading for years.
