Talk:Islam in Sweden
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[edit] Bias in the Conversion section
I am saddened to report that the Conversion section of this article is very one-sided. Reasonably there should at least be some mention of Muslims in Sweden who leave their faith for other religions or abandon religion all together, and not only deal with converts to Islam. Sarnalios 22:43, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
- As no one made any move to improve the Conversion section despite my previous attempt to call your attention to it, I have added a source to estimated conversion numbers from the Church of Sweden to Islam and also corresponding claims about the previous nationality of Muslims who convert to the Church of Sweden. Sarnalios (talk) 13:58, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Please help with informations
Dear friends and Sweden-experts, I would like to find out something and also find traces if it is true. A Crimean Tatar once told me about Tatars in Sweden. Usually they are immigrants from Finnland (Finnish Tatars) but also reached Finland not before the 19th century. But the Crimean Tatar insisted that at least a hand full of Tatars could had come to sweden much earlier and settled down. He mentioned
- the wars about Poland in the middle of the 17th century, when Sweden acted together with the Ottoman Turks and picked out the Tatars among the Polish prisoners of war
- the exile of Sweden´s King Charles in Bendery. from where he brought a few Tatars when he returned in the begin of the 18th century
There are any signs for that story or not? Thanks for your help, guys! --Roksanna 22:55, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Radio Islam
Is Radio Islam really relevant, here? I think it's given too much weight in such a short article... 惑乱 分からん 15:51, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
- Radio Islam is known outside Sweden, too, especially in Morocco, of course. That Sweden is a center of Moroccian political exilants and especially because of its controversity it is relevant. --Roksanna 19:33, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
- The information should be given in the correct context, not just thrown out at random for a religion with hundreds of thousands of adherents in Sweden. In addition to it being badly written now, the information is insufficient, and it needs either be rewritten into a separate section, or be removed completely. 惑乱 分からん 22:12, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
- Teh context is that many Morrocians live in Sweden, among them the leader of Moroccian republicans, and his Radio Islam is famous until Morocco. It is not important if we like that guy or not. --Roksanna 15:01, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
- The information should be given in the correct context, not just thrown out at random for a religion with hundreds of thousands of adherents in Sweden. In addition to it being badly written now, the information is insufficient, and it needs either be rewritten into a separate section, or be removed completely. 惑乱 分からん 22:12, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Northernmost mosque in the world
Saint Petersburg lies to the North of Uppsala. The Saint Petersburg Mosque was built in 1913. In any case, since then mosques have been built in Norwegian Tromsø and Russian Norilsk.
In other words, there is no way Uppsala or Umeå for that matter, could have had the northernmost mosque in the world. Or even in Europe. Or Scandinavia.
After finding a claim that ... Fort McMurray, Alberta had the northernmost mosque in the world, I am considering creating a category "Towns claiming to have the northernmost mosque in the world". Six already. --Pan Gerwazy 15:40, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Nasir mosque?
What's the deal with the Nasir mosque? Was it really the first in Sweden? Why is it not considered Muslim? Recently it was deleted, for unclear reasons. 惑乱 分からん * \)/ (\ (< \) (2 /) /)/ * (talk) 18:00, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] reg imporper ref in Popular perceptions
Taylor Nelson Sofres on behalf of the UK-based think tank Open Europe in March 2007, only 22% of the Swedish respondents agreed with the statement that "Islamic fundamentalism is a threat for our country
- Above is a quote from the article. I just checked the reference provided which is a link to this place open europe site. There is a line mentioning this about Islamic fundamentalism: "Across the EU as a whole, 52% said they agreed with the statement. A majority agreed with the statement in 18 member states, while a majority were against in 9 member states." There is no mention of Sweden at all. So, removing this reference and tagging for fact. Prashanthns (talk) 12:17, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
