{"id":3287,"date":"2015-01-04T11:59:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T11:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=3287"},"modified":"2015-01-04T12:00:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T12:00:22","slug":"thousands-protest-mosque-attacks-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/thousands-protest-mosque-attacks-in-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands protest mosque attacks in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Protest\"<\/a>Thousands of people across Sweden rallied on Friday against a series of arson attacks on mosques in the past week.
\nAt least 3,200 people gathered in Sweden’s three largest cities — Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo — on Friday against racism and Islamophobia.
\nUp to 2,000 people gathered in Stockholm while around 500 people gathered in Gothenburg and between 600-700 people in Malmo, organizers of the protests told The Anadolu Agency.
\nAround 40 different groups organized the protests, including Sweden’s Muslim Council and the Swedish United Nations Association.
\nThey said in a statement on their Facebook page: \u201cSwedish Muslims testify about how racism in general and Islamophobia in particular is growing stronger in Sweden. Hate crimes against individuals and assembly premises are occurring more often and we [believe] that religious freedom is under threat in Sweden.\u201d
\nThe demonstrations come days after three mosques were attacked by arsonists in Eskilstuna, Eslov and Uppsala.
\nSweden’s Culture Minister Alice Bah Kuhnke, who attended the protest in Stockholm, said during a speech that she will meet representatives of various Muslim communities in February as part of a national strategy against Islamophobia in Sweden.
\n”Then the government will go from saying beautiful words to actually taking action,” Kuhnke said.<\/p>\n

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