Sweden Cracking Down on Islamic Schools That Don’t Support Gender Equality

But is it really an attack on Christian Schools?

In their own far-left way, Swedes are attempting to discourage more Muslims migrants from flocking to the country. The obvious clash between Muslim culture and Sweden's excessive liberalism has been overlooked until now. Finally, Stefan emerges on the side of Swedish culture, at least in this one area, or does he?

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Sweden is cracking down on schools that do not support gender equality, according to the country’s education minister. The initiative is part of the government’s overall plan to remove religious influence from schools in general.

Gustav Fridolin said Sunday that he has launched an inquiry into tightening the regulation of independent religious schools, by stopping those who do not support Sweden’s “fundamental values.”

“The regulatory framework will be tightened,” wrote Fridolin for the newspaper, Aftonbladet. “Those who do not support fundamental values around equality and human rights should be stopped from running free schools in Sweden.”

The new regulations will ensure that schools will “actively promote equality” and “allow students to develop their skills and interests independently of gender identity,” wrote Fridolin. The restrictions are expected to impact Muslim schools the most.

No doubt this will affect Christian Schools as well. Although Christianity in Sweden is luke-warm at best, so it may not be a significant effect.

The minister went on to stress that “no child should be exposed to direct or indirect compulsion to take part in religious activities in any school in Sweden,” even if that school was founded by a religious organization. “And all education should be completely free of religious influence,” Fridolin wrote.

Is this really aimed at Muslim schools?

However, the religious restrictions won’t apply to Jewish schools, said Fridolin in a follow-up interview, as “there’s no point in attacking Jewish schools which have existed in Sweden since the 1950s.”

Sweden has over 60 religious schools, the majority of which are Christian, about 11 of which are Islamic, and a handful of which are Jewish, according to The Local.

So, nearly 4 dozen Christian schools may very well be the real target with Islam as the pre-text. This is liberal-extremism's finest hour! Christianity is weak and pathetic in Sweden, but it's not dead. That could very well be the point!

Meanwhile, what has Stefan done to protect young Swedish girls and women from sexual assaults and gang-rapes? That's not a rhetorical question - can anyone tell me anything he has done?

Left-wing extremists can never steer a country far enough to the left, they always want it to list further and further to port. But steering to port invariably results in a ship listing to starboard - a country reverting to much more conservative values as is happening across Europe, and sometimes they can go too far the other way.