Sweden's Security Police, SÄPO, reportedly identified the activities of the president of the so-called Science School in Gothenburg as one of the reasons why Sweden's second-largest city stands out in the number of jihadists that it produces.
Abdel Nasser El Nadi, the president and principal of the Gothenburg-based Science School, is a long-time recruiter for Muslim extremism and is present on SÄPO's list of Islamist extremists, which numbers roughly 2,000 people, Swedish terrorism watchdog Doku revealed.
While no formal charges have been brought against him, El Nadi (53) is considered one of the reasons for the rise of Islamist extremism in Gothenburg, which produced about a third of Sweden's roughly 300 jihadists (or “foreign fighters,” to use the official parlance), Doku reported.
The Science School has previously been reported for having ties with Islamism and employees who have expressed sympathies for Daesh*. Abdel Nasser El Nadi rejected the accusations of Islamism, stressing that he has five children born in Sweden and claimed to be striving to protect its society.
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According to Doku, El Nadi has been running groups for Islamic studies and has appeared in various conferences within the radical Islamic environment in Sweden. Doku also referred to El Nadi's posts from autumn of 2014, when he campaigned for a “strong, Sunni Muslim state”…
