Muslim Brotherhood in Sweden (5)

 Hat tip Ledarsidorna. Translation by Fousesquawk.

Below is another in our series of translations from European reports on the Muslim Brotherhood. This article by Ledarsidorna concerns the MB in Sweden. This is the 5th such translation on Sweden.

https://ledarsidorna.se/2020/10/pressen-okar-pa-islamic-relief-i-europa-sverige-en-fortsatt-frizon/

Pressure increases on Islamic Relief in Europe-Sweden still a free zone

Europe's dominant countries and economies are now increasing pressure and restrictions on the Muslim Brotherhood's support organization, Islamic Relief. Sweden though is going its own way and appears to be giving the MB's front and network organizations a free zone.

The MB's network-and front organizations are currently under strong pressure. In Sweden, the pressure, especially from associate professors Aje Carlbom and Magnus Ranstorp, as well as analyst Peder Hyllengren, has become so strong that the student union, Ibn Rushd, is now making changes in its statutes and has removed one of its paragraphs that formally binds it with the MB's structure. Personal connections with the MB, however,  remain for the time being as far as is known.

Without this external pressure, this would not have come to pass. Nor has the Education Council, which is responsible for giving out government grants to the study association, reacted earlier despite having ten years to identify the connections. The action follows an earlier known pattern from the MB's network organizations-  It is only when they themselves become convinced of the facts that they carry out any adjustments.

Islamic Relief under pressure -Faces court proceedings

In the same way that Ibn Rushd is exposed to pressure and criticism, so is one of the MB's support organizations, Islamic Relief, under pressure. That they are now using the courts is not surprising. When Sweden's Young Muslims, also one of MB's network organizations, lost their right to state contributions, they tried to get them back from MUCF through the legal process. However, the claims were rejected in spring 2020 in Stockholm's Court of Appeal.

The organization, Islamic Relief, was classified as a terror (organization) by the state of Israel in 2014. It was also classified as a terrorist (organization) by the UAE. Islamic Relief is a founding organization of the funding foundation, "Union of Good", which is regarded as a Hamas funding organization. Beside Islamic Relief as founding organization is found the MB's organization for dawa (outreach), or salvation, International Islamic Council for Dawa and Relief, as well as Muslim Aid. Both Muslim Aid and Islamic Relief are represented in Sweden.

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