Category: Islam

A narrow view on Islam

Islamophobia is growing in Sweden and it is not only the Sweden Democrats that cause us to talk about Islam as representative of oppression, patriarchy and honour killings; the other political parties also propagate myths and ignorance. Johan Cato, an Islamic studies scholar, hopes to spread a more diverse view...

Why?

Opinion by Ann Heberlein, doctor of ethics at Lund University 2012 That question has been posed by countless people since the reports of the terrorist attack in Norway. Who is Anders Behring Breivik? Those questions – why and who – always come up when we are confronted with hatred and violence. We...