The Swedish government again tried on Friday to debunk claims that Swedish social service agencies abduct Muslim children, saying Sweden was again seeing a “systematized” and “extensive” disinformation campaign.
“This campaign has now gained momentum again,” Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said.
“This is false. This is not true. Sweden does not abduct children. Social services do not abduct children,” Kristersson told a news conference. “Neither Muslims nor other children.”
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He said social workers and other employees are being “exposed on social media and are being threatened.”
He said the government will post guards inside social services offices and allocate more funds to the Swedish Psychological Defense Agency, which was set up to counter disinformation, to help it tackle the “systematized” campaign against Sweden.” He did not say how much. money would be given to the agency.
Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has said his social service agencies do not abduct Muslim children and that claims to the contrary are false.
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The declaration came at a time of tensions with Turkey, a Muslim majority, over applications by Sweden and Finland to become NATO members.
Turkey is angry that Sweden has allowed protests against the Turks to take place, and in particular that it has not stopped an anti-Muslim activist from repeatedly burning the Koran, the Muslim holy book. She also thinks that Sweden is not doing enough to counter the Kurdish activists it considers to be terrorists. Unless her demands are met, she says she will not approve Sweden’s NATO application, which must be accepted by all 30 members of the military alliance.
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Kristersson said the disinformation campaign on child abductions began in 2021. The Psychological Defense Agency said last year that the allegations could be traced to an Arabic-language site whose creator expressed support for the Islamic State group.
In February 2022, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that “all children in Sweden are equally protected and cared for under Swedish law” and that social workers need a court order to separate children from their parents without consent. .
