Swedish police “constantly harassing” Muslims

To further develop anti-Muslim tactics that were primarily created by many Western governments, including the U.S. and Britain, the Swedish Emergency Management Agency (Krisberedskapsmyndigheten) is holding a crisis exercise in Stockholm next week that is said to contribute more to the stigmatization of Muslims.

"The security police constantly engages in harassing Muslims and actively contributes to fuelling Islamophobia," wrote Stockholm's opposition vice mayor Yvonne Ruwaida and member of parliament Mehmet Kaplan on Dagens Nyheter's opinion page.

The crisis management program, with 4,000 participants, has given the terrorists the name of “Bogalanders” who live in one of the predominantly immigrant ' Million Homes ' areas, where their religion is split into two factions and they are protesting against the occupation of holy ground in 'Bogaland'. The scenario revolves around a terrorist attack with weapons of mass destruction.

Kaplan and Ruwaida comments on the previous saying “The parallels with Muslims and Islam are not exactly hard to find”. They also raised questions about the reason behind the fact that the security police “specifically targets Muslims” and proposed a parliamentary inquiry on its future operations.

The rise in Islamophobia following the September 11 attacks affected Muslims’ efforts to integrate in Western societies, and took them two steps backward.

However, Muslims started in recent years to play an active role in western nations’ societies, and in many countries they proved to have successfully integrated into the West, breaking the barrier that has long prevented real participation in those countries’ social life and political system.

-- AJP and Agencies