Sweden Sent Millions to Extremist-Linked Groups
3rd December 2025
Swedish taxpayers have been funding organisations tied to extremism, a leading political scientist warns, including a mosque that Sweden’s security service says has been used as an intelligence hub for the Iranian regime.
The Imam Ali Islamic Centre in Järfälla received 3.2 million kronor (€292,000) in 2023 from the Swedish Agency for Support for Religious Communities (SST). The money was channelled via the Islamic Shia Associations in Sweden (ISS), which shares the mosque’s address and has taken in 28.5 million kronor (€2.6 million) in subsidies since 2006. In total, SST handed out 80 million kronor (€7.3 million) to religious groups last year.
Political scientist Daniel Schatz stressed in a column for 100% that the state cannot seriously claim to be combatting extremism while it “simultaneously finances forces that undermine democracy.” The question, he added, “is no longer whether SST has failed. The question is why the government refuses to close the authority.”