
The Muslim Association of Sweden – Sveriges Muslimska Forbund (SMuF)
The Muslim Association of Sweden claims to represent at least 70,000 Swedish Muslims, i.e. the majority of Muslims in Sweden. It further claims that it does not belong to the Muslim Brotherhood, but is only inspired by its values.
Mahmoud Aldebe has been for a long time one of the Association representatives.
In April 2006, he sent a letter to various Swedish political parties requesting that specific rights apply to Muslim students and that the Swedish Law of divorce do not apply to Muslims.
On 30 January 2009, Youssef Al Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the Brotherhood, declared on Al Jazeera that Jews extermination by the Nazis is a “divine punishment” and that if “Allah wants it, the same thing will be done again by the hand of believers” (Al-Jazeera TV, 30 January 2009)
These statements caused a good deal of commotion in Scandinavia, and most religious leaders distanced themselves from these statements.
Except Mahmoud Aldebe who declared that “Muslims can see the difference between Muslims and Jews and Israel as a State.” (Dagens Nyheter, 16 February 2009).
An answer that has nothing to do with the polemic, but points to the absolute loyalty of Mahmoud Aldebe toward the spiritual leader of the Brotherhood
Since 2010, the new representative of the Association is Tahir Akan.
In November 2014, the United Arab Emirates included the Muslim Association of Sweden / Sveriges Muslimska Forbund (SMuF) on the list of terrorist organizations.
