"افتحوا قلوبكم".. كيف أصبح الإسلام ثاني أكبر ديانة في السويد

In what is often called the world's most modern country, more and more people look nostalgically at the gone Swedish welfare state, but analyzes of what was lost vary. Is it racial homogeneity, or a strong welfare state? Through interviews with refugees and members of the Sweden Democrats, and with secular and fundamentalist Muslims, religious scholar Simon Sorgenfri describes the past fifty years in Sweden. The book extends from 1975, when Swedish immigration policy took a new turn, to the Tedo Agreement in 2022. The book aims to describe Islam in contemporary Sweden, and to continue telling the story of Swedish integration policy that he began in his book They Will Be Different Swedes (2022). Simon Sorgenfri travels the country, from Bøv to Kiruna, exploring a charged political landscape, both as a scholar and an ordinary Swede. Through the people and situations the author encounters on his journey, we glimpse contemporary Swedish history from unexpected angles. The book covers the oil crisis and the end of the Swedish boom years, Palme's internationalism and changing immigration patterns, the Rushdie affair, the origins and development of the Sweden Democrats, the Bosnian war, the skinhead movement, free school elections and privatization, 9/11 and the war on terror, the refugee crisis and the TEDO agreement. But it also deals with the lives of ordinary Swedes who, despite their differences, often share dreams and hopes for themselves, for those they love, and for the places they live.