Swedish Muslims for Peace and Justice

Swedish Muslims for Peace and Justice (Swedish: Svenska Muslimer för Fred och Rättvisa, SMFR) is a Swedish Muslim self-described peace organization. It was founded in 2008 by a group including the Swedish Parliamentarian Mehmet Kaplan and is today one of the largest peace groups in Sweden It is headed by former Green Party politician Yasri Khan.[1] Kaplan has since been forced to resign from the Swedish Cabinet due to his association with advocates of violent attacks on Armenians and connections to Islamist militants in Turkey.[2][3]

In the years 2015-2017 SMPJ received state subsidies from the Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society according to the latter's 2017 annual report.[4]

State aid to SMFR[4]

SMPJ is a supporting organisation to Ship to Gaza Sweden.[5]

The group has been active with educational and leadership programs.[6] It also has some international work[7][8] in Egypt,[9][10] Thailand, Palestine etc. They work from a European Muslim perspective and go by the slogan "By Muslims for society".

According to a 2014 report by the government of the United Arab Emirates, in 2010 Tahir Akran of the Islamic Association in Sweden (Arabic: الرابطة الأسلامية في السويد) (Swedish: Islamiska förbundet i Sverige, IFiS), a group listed by the UAE as a terrorist organization, decided to improve the reputation of the Islamic Association by encouraging its members to participate in the SMPJ.[11]

References
  1. Gotland, Almedalsveckan - Region. "Troende, tro och misstro mot tron - Almedalsveckan". Almedalsveckan (in Swedish). Retrieved 2018-09-01.
  2. Nyheter, S. V. T. (14 April 2016). "SVT Nyheter avslöjar: Kaplan har träffat islamister vid flera tillfällen". SVT Nyheter. Sveriges Television. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  3. Henley, John (18 April 2016). "Sweden's housing minister resigns amid 'extremist links' row". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  4. Årsredovisning 2017 (PDF). Myndigheten för ungdoms- och civilsamhällesfrågor. 2018. p. 98. ISBN 978-91-88455-65-9.
  5. "Stödorganisationer". shiptogaza.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2018-09-01.
  6. "EAEA - Young Muslims for peace". Archived from the original on 2013-07-04. Retrieved 2013-05-07.
  7. "Pluralism Project - Events". www.pluralism.org. Archived from the original on 2003-03-16.
  8. "Hopeful dialogue between East and West". Archived from the original on 2014-05-04. Retrieved 2013-05-07.
  9. "November 2011".
  10. "IYDA Egyptian Swedish Dialogue for active Citizenship – Report | IYDA". Archived from the original on 2013-07-01. Retrieved 2013-05-07.
  11. "List of terror groups published by UAE". Gulf News. 16 November 2014. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
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