A veteran Swedish police officer has warned that Islamisation will soon overtake migrant gang violence as the greatest threat facing the country.
Maria Rosander, who has served in the police for 17 years and leads the national-conservative Sweden Democrats in Uppsala County, said tougher criminal laws were beginning to reduce the shootings and bombings that have plagued Sweden for the past decade.
However, she argued that such measures cannot address religious segregation, Islamic radicalisation and the refusal of some migrant communities to assimilate.
In a recent interview, Rosander recounted the dramatic conditions that Swedish police officers have to face while in the line of duty since migrant crime skyrocketed in the past decade. Just last year, there were 189 bombings (as well as nearly three hundred foiled plans) in the country, along with 158 shootings, a number relatively low compared to the 2022 peak of 391.
Rosander said it’s clear that the recent criminal reforms—including tougher sentencing, expanded surveillance, greater use of covert operations, and better cross-country cooperation—do work, but there’s still a long way to go.
Especially when it comes to religious segregation and the refusal to assimilate, and the threat of growing Islamization as a result, which updated criminal laws will not and can not solve on their own.
“We are letting Islamization creep in to the point where we will not be able to say no,” Rosander said. “Society is being eaten from within.”
She brought up the new Uppsala mosque as an example—the Stenhagen Mosque Islamic Center, currently under construction with a planned capacity of 1,200 worshippers—which Rosander described as a symbol of segregation, honor-based oppression, and unequal treatment of women. She said female officers are often ignored by Muslim immigrants, and girls in segregated areas are being kept away from public life.
Therefore, the SD politician calls for a halt to the new mosque’s construction as well as restrictions on niqab and burqa wear in public, along with a full ban on putting children in Islamic veils.
Segregation also gives space to a whole host of financial crimes, including coordinated welfare abuse, false address registration, and illegal financial transfers through religious networks and institutions. A common scheme is that couples register at separate addresses while remaining married under Islamic law, which allows them to claim additional housing benefits that would be unattainable by native Swedes.
“The woman receives housing allowance, extra allowance and an apartment for her children,” she said. “The man also receives an apartment that he rents out illegally.”
Gangs are also heavily structured around extended families, which adds a complicated honor system to the basic problem of organized crime, with clan loyalty sometimes even interfering with the work of the police or judiciary. “It’s classic mafia,” Rosander said. “I see clan and mafia as basically the same thing.”
Rosander said that unless Sweden is willing to change and forcefully require some degree of assimilation, these parallel societies will only grow and soon reach a point of no return. Sweden, she argued, should stop continually adapting to newcomers who maintain separate cultural and social identities.
“As a Swede, I should not have to change my life and start deviating from things that we in Sweden have always done just to suit someone else,” she said.
She added that the recent success in reducing crime shows that things can change for the better if politicians are willing to act, but the country’s still a long way from addressing the core problem of long-term Islamization, which she believes can only be truly solved with mass deportations.
“For me, remigration is necessary,” Rosander said.
