Muslim Association of Sweden

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The Muslim Association of Sweden (Swedish: Sveriges muslimska förbund, SMF) is Sweden's largest Muslim organisation, which represents around 70,000 Muslims in Sweden.

In April 2006 the organization's chairman Mahmoud Aldebe wrote an open letter to Swedish political parties with demands and suggestions regarding schools for Muslim students and arrangements for divorces.^[1] Other Muslim organizations in Sweden, including the umbrella organisation, the Muslim Council of Sweden, distanced themselves from the letter, and Aldebe was forced to withdraw his proposal as members of his own association opposed it.^[2]

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Muslim Council: no support for 'special laws', The Local, 29 April, 2006.
2. ^ Krav på muslimska lagar i Sverige skapar maktkamp - Malmö - Sydsvenskan - Nyheter dygnet runt

[edit] External links

• Swedish Muslim Association homepage (Swedish)

• Ett öppet brev till alla svenska politiska partier som deltar i årets val (An open letter to all Swedish political parties that are participating in this years election) by the Muslim Association of Sweden, published by Dagens Nyheter (Swedish)