At a school in Stockholm, the administration has decided that parents must notify if their children will be fasting during Ramadan and thus not eat the lunch provided. This could amount to discrimination, according to the Equality Ombudsman (DO).
It is 12-year-old Abdelrahman’s parents whom the school wants to notify them should their son fast or not, so that planning can be made accordingly.
– They say that parents need to send an email or you need to bring a note from home stating that parents approve, says Abdelrahman in hesitant Swedish to the state radio’s veiled reporter Cheyma Moufid.
But Husbygård School’s requirement for pre-registration may be “disadvantaging” and discriminatory according to the Equality Ombudsman.
– Then you have to look at the individual situation and make an assessment – if it turns out someone has been disadvantaged in this situation and if it is linked to a ground for discrimination, then it would amount to discrimination, says Clas Lundstedt from the Equality Ombudsman.
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Principal Fredrik Boström explains that they always try to create opportunities and conditions for students to complete the fast in a good way, while also making sure they don’t fall behind in their studies.
In 2019, Samnytt revealed that Cheyma Moufid, then working at SVT, is the daughter of an imam active in a Stockholm mosque – the same mosque where the apprehended terrorist Sahbi Zalouti, who wanted to execute the editorial staff at Jyllands-Posten, was a congregation member. She also spread Islamist propaganda and hatred against the Sweden Democrats and Israel on social media.
