Sweden: Sweden Democrats Want Imam Who Preached on Wife-Beating Expelled

The conservative Swedish party, the Sweden Democrats, want the government to deport an imam in Kristianstad who gave a sermon on when men are allowed to beat their wives (which presumably is never under Swedish law). They also want the mosque that the imam works for shut down. 

Apparently, this may require a change in law, which the government is working on. The SD wants to enlarge the category of offenses under which naturalized people can have their citizenship stripped and be deported.

The below article from Fria Tider is translated by Fousesquawk.

Åkesson: Close mosque and strip imam’s citizenship

Posted 30 September 2025 at 18:09

Domestic: Sweden Democrats’ (SD) Jimmie Åkesson believes that the imam in Kristianstad who preached about beating women should have his citizenship taken away. He also wants to close the mosque itself. The SD is reportedly now pressing the government to tighten legislation in order to make it easier to revoke citizenship.

“Those types of mosques should be closed, and we should also take them down or use them for something else, Jimmie  Åkesson tells Riks.

The SD leader comments on the case of Imam Saleh Abouelenen, who has been forced to leave his position in the Al Rahma Mosque in Kristianstad after a well-known sermon about when men are allowed to beat their wives. Such imams should be deported, according to Åkesson.

“It is absolutely horrible that people with the status of an imam in the Muslim civil society can express themselves like that and still be in the country, which they naturally should not be. And that the mosque also has the possibility to continue carrying out its activity. That can not be allowed.”

Saleh Abouelenen has been given Swedish nationality. But the SD wants to push through a change in the constitution that makes it possible to deport, for example, terrorists or persons who have a connection to terror or extremism. 

“Today, it is not possible, but we think it should be possible,” says Jimmie Åkesson.

According to Expressen, after the incident in Kristianstad, the SD is pressing the government to go beyond the announced legislation and enable the revocation of Swedish citizenship for Islamists, also on grounds of immorality.

The government is preparing a model to be able to take back citizenship for serious criminality or if citizenship was obtained based on false information. But the SD wants to include more grounds.

“If you say, as the government ministers do, that this is terrible, then you must also do something,” says SD leader Aspling to Expressen.

He continues:

“But what we should do now is discuss what we will do in the next term. The Sweden Democrats will make a statement  of their wish that more people will be caught up when it comes to the stripping of citizenship.”

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Source: http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2025/10/sweden-sweden-democrtas-want-imam-who.html