Sweden stirs debate with women-only swimming, in nod to Muslims

[Jesus Malverde]

89. The Wikipedia article on Islam in Sweden is interesting.

Early Muslim immigrants were fleeing Islamic societies like Iran, for more freedom. These recent immigrants are fleeing poverty and war not religious extremism.

Sad to see Swedish state funds some mosques and their misoginist messages.

In 2012, the SVT program Uppdrag granskning (Mission: Investigation) visited 10 mosques once with a hidden camera and once with a visible camera. When the representatives were aware of being filmed, they stated that they supported values such as gender equality. However, when two undercover journalists posed as Muslim women with difficulties in their marriage, the answers from the majority of the visited imams were different. The imams told the women that they were expected to sleep with their husbands even if they did not want to, that they were to accept being beaten and strongly discouraged them to go to the police. Since about half of the visited mosques receive state or local funding, they are expected to promote basic values of Swedish society, such as equal rights between genders and to counteract discrimination and violence.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Sweden