The Swedish blog Ledarsidorna noted a TV4 News report on the Muslim Brotherhood’s presence in Sweden. The Gothenburg mosque runs a website containing a link, “About Islam”, which is aimed at new Muslims.
This link takes visitors to a well-designed website written in Swedish with the name “New Muslim Guide”, which is a shortened version of the book, “The New Muslim Guide”, written by Fahd Salem Bahammam and published in 26 different languages, including a section on “Men’s rights in marriage”.
This particular section states that a Muslim woman must be responsive to her husband’s sexual needs, and if she refuses his unwanted sexual advances, she is in fact committing a “sin”.
Also, “[o]ne of the genuine rights of a man is that she cannot leave the home without his permission, whether it be for personal or public matters”.
Associate Professor Magnus Ranstorp from the Swedish Defense University condemned this notion in a debate article in GP: “We can never move a millimeter on our basic values on equality, women’s rights and our work against honor repression and other attempts to restrict democratic as well as individual freedoms and rights. That has to be clear. The Gothenburg mosque should also recognize this.”
The Gothenburg mosque is one example among many where the Salafist, violence-affirming environment merges with the Muslim Brotherhood’s covert violence-advocating environment.
Other operations which can be connected directly to the mosque are the Islamic Information Association and the former newspaper Salaam — Islamic Journal, where the former chairwoman, Helena Benaouda (Hummasten), was active as a writer for the study association. The journal is focused on young female converts to Islam.
According to Swedish Wikipedia, Hummasten has often been accused of being an extremist, which she denies. She is linked to a convicted terrorist, Munir Awad, via her daughter, Safia Benaouda, who was Awad’s fiancée at the time of his arrest.
But the problem is not only limited to Gothenburg. Another example is the mosque in Landskrona, where Salafist preachers work side by side in organisations which are dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood in Sweden. On the national level, these movements come together in SUDC, the Swedish United Dawa Center, where representatives from the Muslim Brotherhood cooperate with Salafists, said blogger Johan Westerholm.