クリスマスにモスクが燃やされて

AFP “Swedish marchers denounce Christmas Day arson attack on mosque” http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/26/swedish-marchers-christmas-arson-mosque-eskilstuna


クリスマスの日、瑞典のEskilstuna市*1にあるモスクに焼夷弾が投げ込まれ、礼拝のため内部にいた7名が負傷した。翌26日には、モスク放火を糾弾する数百人規模のデモが行われた。
瑞典も極右の躍進という悩みを抱えているが、ヨーロッパの他の諸国よりも深刻であるようだ;


In September’s elections, the extreme-right, anti-immigration Sweden Democrats became the third-largest party in parliament with 12.9% of the vote.

The Sweden Democrats joined with conservative parties this month to reject the government’s proposed budget, forcing it to call new elections in March 2015.

According to a recent poll for SR*2, the Sweden Democrats have increased their September showing by a full point to 13.9%, with other surveys showing support of nearly 16%.

“There has been an intensification of hatred against foreigners,” Omar Mustafa, the chief of Sweden’s Islamic Association, told SR on Thursday.

また、

In January, unknown perpetrators painted swastikas on the door of a Stockholm mosque, after neo-Nazis attacked a peaceful anti-racist protest in a Stockholm suburb and seriously injured three people the previous month.
瑞典の極右については、http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20110127/1296149829 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20110727/1311790165 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20130607/1370580866で言及している。