{"id":3268,"date":"2015-01-02T09:06:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T09:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=3268"},"modified":"2015-01-02T09:06:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T09:06:55","slug":"sweden-hit-by-third-mosque-arson-attack-in-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/sweden-hit-by-third-mosque-arson-attack-in-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden hit by third mosque arson attack in a week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sweden\"<\/a>Swedish police were hunting Thursday for at least one suspect following what is believed to be the third arson attack on a mosque in a week.
\n\u201cSomeone threw a firebomb, a Molotov cocktail at the building,\u201d Torsten Hemlin a spokesman for Uppsala police told Swedish news agency, adding that the bomb did not set the mosque in eastern Sweden alight.
\n\u201cThey also wrote some vulgar racist words,\u201d he said, adding that no one was in the building at the time of the attack.
\nPolice in Sweden\u2019s fourth largest city Uppsala were alerted by passers-by who reportedly saw a man throw a burning object at the mosque at around 0430 GMT.
\n\u201cThe crime has been classed as attempted arson, vandalism and incitement to hatred,\u201d the police said in a statement appealing for eyewitnesses to come forward.
\nThursday\u2019s attack came just three days after a late night blaze at a mosque in Esloev in southern Sweden which police suspect was also arson.
\nOn Christmas Day five people were injured when a petrol bomb was thrown through the window of a mosque in Eskilstuna, east of the capital Stockholm.
\nThe country\u2019s leftist Prime Minister Stefan Loefven called the Christmas attack a spurt of \u201chateful violence\u201d and said Sweden would \u201cnever tolerate this kind of crime\u201d.
\nAccording to the anti-racism magazine Expo, there have been more than a dozen attacks on mosques in Sweden in the last year.
\nThe attacks come as debate intensifies in the country over immigration and the integration of asylum seekers in the traditionally tolerant Nordic country.
\nLast month the far right Sweden Democrats — which doubled its support to 13 percent in September elections — came close to bringing down the left-green government over its liberal refugee policies, further boosting its support in opinion polls.<\/p>\n

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