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   Qatari Government Opens Mega-Mosque in Malmö, Sweden   
      
   Qatar’s Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs has opened Scandinavia’s   
   largest mosque in Malmö, Sweden.    
   The 1,791 square metre Umm Al-Mu’minin Khadijah Mosque will be able to   
   accommodate around 2,000 devotees and cost the Qatari government around three   
   million euros, according to the Qatar News Agency.   
      
   An absolute monarchy where the legal system is based largely on Sharia law,   
   the Gulf state has been repeatedly accused of funding radical Islamic   
   terrorism, not least by former U.S. Secretary of State and Democratic party   
   presidential candidate Hillary    
   Clinton.   
      
   “We need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to   
   bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are   
   providing clandestine financial and logistic support to [Islamic State] and   
   other radical Sunni groups in    
   the region,” read a 2014 document released by Wikileaks in 2016.   
       
   An investigation by The Telegraph newspaper, also in 2014, further accused the   
   Qataris of funding Islamists in Libya, Iraq, and Somalia via middlemen in   
   Turkey.   
      
   Carl Schiøtz Wibye, Norway’s former ambassador to neighbouring Saudi   
   Arabia, has suggested that European governments must “weed out local   
   influence wherever it comes from, be it through financial support, literature   
   or videos by preachers who say    
   terrible things online”, in part by banning the foreign funding of religious   
   institutions, such as the Malmö mega-mosque.   
      
   “In addition, we [should] require that all imams should speak Norwegian, so   
   we can better understand what is happening in the Muslim community,” Wibye   
   added.   
      
   Malmö, which is Sweden’s third-largest city, has become a hotbed of drug   
   crime, gun crime and extremism following large-scale Muslim immigration.   
   Regular grenade attacks are a particularly worrying feature of life in the   
   city, given the potential for    
   terror attacks on the wider population.   
      
   “Malmö is infamous for explosions,” retired police chief superintendent   
   Torsten Elofsson told Breitbart London in late 2015.   
      
   “I live in Malmo and I love this city. But of course it has changed – now   
   we have the bridge from Copenhagen, this is a border town. Most of the drugs   
   going to the rest of Scandinavia comes through here – this is a key route   
   for smuggling drugs,    
   weapons, people, and so on.”   
      
   “The bridge brought good to the city, but from a police perspective it has   
   brought more crime. Now since we are in the [European Union] Schengen area   
   we’re not allowed to have border controls, which makes it difficult to   
   supervise what is happening”   
   .   
      
   Elofsson believes it is accurate to describe parts of Malmö and other areas   
   of Sweden as having become “no-go zones”, and claimed that the number of   
   these is “expanding”.   
      
   “Police can go to these places,” he said, “but you have to take   
   precautions.”   
      
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