Sweden: Muslim Brotherhood-linked imams embezzle over $100,000,000 from taxpayers

NOV 23, 2025 8:00 AM
BY ROBERT SPENCER

Islamic apologists in the West like to insist that the Qur’anic stipulation that Muslims must collect the jizya from subjugated non-Muslims is outmoded and has no modern applicability. They don’t seem to have gotten the message in Sweden.

Non-Muslims paying for the upkeep of Muslims is a Qur’anic dictate:

“Fight against those do not believe in Allah or the last day, and do not forbid what Allah and his messenger have forbidden, and do not follow the religion of truth, even if they are among the people of the book, until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.” (Qur’an 9:29).

The caliph Umar said the jizya payments from the dhimmis were the source of the Muslims’ livelihood:

“Narrated Juwairiya bin Qudama at-Tamimi: We said to `Umar bin Al-Khattab, ‘O Chief of the believers! Advise us.’ He said, ‘I advise you to fulfill Allah’s Convention (made with the Dhimmis) as it is the convention of your Prophet and the source of the livelihood of your dependents (i.e. the taxes from the Dhimmis.)’” (Bukhari 4.53.388)

“Islamist Muslim Brotherhood-linked Imams embezzle over $100,000,000 from Swedish taxpayers – report,” i24News, November 19, 2025 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

More than a hundred million dollars were stolen from Swedish taxpayers by a network of Islamist Muslim Brotherhood-linked Imams who ran private schools in Sweden and have now fled the country.

An investigation by one of Swedish newspaper Expressen revealed that the groups embezzled over one billion sek through school vouchers and welfare funds. According to the report, one of the members of the network is the former Member of Parliament, Abdirizak Waberi, who illegally transfered twelve million sek to fund sex clubs in Thailand, luxury hotels, and his own Islamist party in Somalia, through fake IT invoices.

“It’s like a double loss. The money in welfare is disappearing, we are not getting the welfare that we have paid for with our tax money. At the same time, someone else is taking the money, who is stealing and making himself rich,” says the chief prosecutor at the Economic Crimes Authority in Gothenburg Henric Fagher, who has run a special project against several free schools and preschools in the environment….


Sweden deports imam accused of being an ISIS recruiter

Ahmed Ahmed had been held for a year on suspicion of Islamist extremism

Jan 20, 2022
The National News

An imam suspected of being a recruiter for ISIS has been deported by Sweden after a year in detention.

Ahmed Ahmed, 52, was detained last year on suspicion of being a key figure in the radicalisation and recruitment of ISIS fighters across Sweden, where he had worked in a number of mosques.

Originally from Iraq, Swedish security services deported him last week after a judge ruled he posed a threat to national security.

It is alleged 14 people connected to him travelled to fight for ISIS.

In a 2015 raid on his home, images of ISIS fighters and Osama bin Laden were allegedly found on his phone along with a picture of the Jordanian pilot who was burnt alive by ISIS.

A preliminary investigation against him was dropped and the imam denied the allegations.

“I can confirm that he has been deported,” his lawyer Alparslan Tügel told newspaper Aftonbladet.

He is one of several imams the Swedish government has detained prior to deportation.

Despite criminal charges not proceeding, investigators alleged that he had contact with most of the people in Örebro who had joined ISIS.

Terrorist researcher Magnus Ranstorp told Swedish newspaper Doku that Mr Ahmed was a key recruiter.

“He has been important when it comes to recruitment in Örebro but he has also worked in other cities such as Gothenburg, Stockholm and Eskilstuna,” he said.

“He is a travelling radicaliser and recruiter. It is important to remove important security threats to Sweden — this will affect the security situation in the future.”

It is understood Iraq refused to accept Mr Ahmed, so he was placed on flight to Turkey and given a small amount of money, a mobile phone and a plane ticket to Iraq, his wife told Aftonbladet.

Five top Muslim clerics, including a school chancellor, were detained following a series of raids linked to suspected extremism in Sweden in 2019.

Swedish security service Sapo arrested three imams, the head of one of the country’s leading state-funded Islamic schools and one of the imam’s sons.

Of those arrested, the School of Science's former principal Abdel Nasser El Nadi has voluntarily left Sweden to avoid deportation.

Swedish authorities have faced domestic and international criticism for failing to arrest and prosecute returning ISIS fighters, and suggestions that the country could be viewed as a sanctuary for terrorists.

The crackdown comes as the Swedish government seeks to bring in tougher laws to target extremists.

Many of those arrested had previously been refused Swedish citizenship over the last decade.

Latest figures from Sapo reveal at least 300 of its citizens travelled to Syria and Iraq between 2012 and 2017 to join extremist groups. It is believed half have returned, 100 are still fighting and 50 have been killed.

Sweden is the largest exporter of ISIS fighters per capita in Europe.

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