Sweden: City of Stockholm donates $1,225,000 of taxpayer money for construction of giant mosque
JUN 2, 2023 4:00 PM
BY ROBERT SPENCER
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What could possibly go wrong? In Israel in 2021, 29 mosques were exposed as weapons storage sites. In Tunisia in 2015, police found weapons in 40 mosques. Bombs and rocket-propelled grenades were found in mosques in a “Palestinian” “refugee” camp. In mosques in Austria, children are taught not to take non-Muslims as friends (in accord with Qur’an 3:28 and 5:51). In Germany, mosquegoers tried to stop police from arresting a knifeman who had fled into the mosque. In Pakistan, jihadis openly fundraise in mosques. Also in mosques in Pakistan, girls were taught how to behead people. A mosque in Sweden has been dubbed an “espionage nest” for the Islamic Republic of Iran, and a former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps says that mosques in the U.S. are used to plot jihad attacks. In the UK, a mosque trustee was convicted of encouraging terrorism. In France, a mosque was accused of incitement against Jews, women, and homosexuals.
“The city of Stockholm donates 13.3 million for mosque construction: ‘Contributes to a diverse urban environment,'” translated from “Stockholms stad skänker 13,3 miljoner till moskébygge: ‘Bidrar till mångsidig stadsmiljö,'” Samnytt, June 1, 2023:
Taxpayers contribute SEK 13.3 million to Islamize Skärholmen in southern Stockholm. It was only the Sweden Democrats who opposed and tried to stop the giant construction. The city’s administrator writes that the mosque project is viewed “positively” as “contributing to a diverse urban environment.”
The new giant mosque is currently under construction at Äspholmsvägen in Skärholmen and will be ready in 2025. The mosque will consist of three floors, an indoor area of 2,500 square meters and two 63-meter high minarets. This is reported by the newspaper Kvartal.
The plans to build the mosque have existed for over fifteen years and over the years the project has been stuck in various municipal bodies. Eight years ago, the project took a positive turn for the Islamists when the city of Stockholm donated the land to the Islamic Foundation in Skärholmen.
But despite the fact that the foundation has close links to the Turkish Islamist movement Milli Görüs, which is strongly established in Germany, several board members are members of the movement, no municipal body has ever asked questions about their activities – for example, the view on democracy and equality or how the construction should be financed.
However, the taxpayers in Stockholm have had to pay for earthworks. On May 12, 2022, Stockholm’s development committee decided to approve expenditures of SEK 13.3 million for the earthworks on the site.
Today, the politicians who made the decision do not want to answer questions about the mosque building or the movement behind it, but instead blame each other and refer to the ground work affecting other parts of the area.
When Kvartal is looking for Emilia Bjuggren (S), who at the time of the decision was vice-chairman of the board, she refers to the Moderates who held the chairmanship.
The committee chairman at the time, Johan Nilsson (M), downplays the approval by saying that it involved the relocation of power lines, footpaths and cycle paths.
“I assume that the development office before the decision in 2013 carried out an examination of the actors who applied for a land right. If the examination would have shown that the actor did not have financial opportunities or was engaged in some type of illegal activity or was convicted of, for example, economic crime, then such an application would reasonably be rejected,” says Johan Nilsson (M) to Kvartal.
Only the Sweden Democrats opposed the project. Anders Edin (SD) stated that he wanted to see the city tear up the land assignment agreement. According to Edin, the mosque project contributes to serious segregation and the consequences risk becoming unmanageable.
“Positive – contributes to a diverse urban environment”
In connection with the development committee in the city hammering through the taxpayers’ 13.3 million kroner for the ground work for the mosque – administrator Britta Eliasson wrote that the city views “positively on the project which contributes to a diverse urban environment”.
Furthermore, she writes that the project is not judged to have “any negative impact on children”. When Eliasson was recently asked how she views the assessment today, she replied that the administration sees the movement as a positive force. This is because the mosque mobilized people to minimize the Muslims’ anger when the Danish-Swedish politician Rasmus Paludan held an Islam-critical meeting in Skärholmen.
Want to see Sharia Law
The newspaper writes that it says to read on the mosque’s website that a majority of all Muslims want Sharia law.
“The only principle that is clear and distinct to all Muslims is that sovereignty ultimately belongs to Allah (may His Majesty be exalted), as expressed in the divine law. […] The vast majority of all Muslims, even in the most westernized and modernized countries, would like to live according to the Sharia and have their own freedom and democracy based on their own understanding of these concepts and ideals rather than on how they have been understood in modern times and the postmodern West.”
The Islamist movement behind the mosque building has also received a grant corresponding to SEK 1,659,000 from the Norwegian Agency for Support to Religious Communities (SST) and SEK 1,188,000 from the National Agency for Education. |
