In a post on social media, Valley Ghanem from the Islamic Academy complains that a gastronomic festival is being held in Malmö parallel to the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. It turns out that Ghanem has a habit of labelling everything around her that she doesn’t like as “Islamophobia”.
Islamakademin is a Sunni Islamic association in Malmö, founded in 2013 by Imam Salahuddin Barakat and partly funded by Malmö’s municipal tax. Among others, the council includes Valley Ghanem, who has also worked at Skåne County Council and the Swedish Migration Board.
Less than a week ago, she published an article entitled “Malmö’s culinary feasts and the temptations of eating during the Muslim fast”.
“From time to time I point out that Malmö is leading the way in terms of diversity and inclusion of its Muslim population, but sometimes I get speechless and realise that we still have a long way to go…” writes Ghanem.
“The fact that the city of Malmö is holding the International Food Festival in the middle of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadhan can only be described as obtuse,” she adds.
According to Ghanem, Muslims make up an estimated one-third of Malmö’s population, “but we are still non-existent in the city’s planning and thinking.” She is also convinced that Muslim organisations and Muslims in general are “discouraged from living in the central parts of the city”.
The city’s board of directors also have the wrong names, she believes.
That the lack of diversity and Muslim representation in Malmö’s governing bodies is an even bigger problem can be seen quite easily when we read the names on the Malmö City Board:
Eric, Erik, Nina, Anette, Ann and Thomas.
Embarrassing Malmö!
In March this year, Ghanem appeared in a report in Sydsvenskan . After that, it was the premises of the Islamic Academy that were to blame, or more precisely its location.
We fought to bring Islam to the centre of Malmö. There is no reason why our religion should only exist in the suburbs. The Muslims are here, but they are also in the city. Why do I have to go to Rosengård to pray or meet my congregation? The only reason is Islamophobia,” says Valley Ghanem, who is on the board of the Islamic Academy.
In October 2022, she appeared in a report in Expressen as a researcher and project manager for the anti-racist organisation Ammanah in Malmö. At the time, she thought that unreasonable demands were being made on Muslim women in Sweden – this in reference to the freedom struggle of Iranian women.
In October 2022, she appeared in a report in Expressen as a researcher and project leader of the anti-racist organisation Ammanah in Malmö. At the time, she believed that unreasonable demands were being made on Muslim women in Sweden – this in reference to the freedom struggle of Iranian women.
Veiled women also want to work, go out with friends and not be forced to be militant all the time. They don’t want to have to represent politics and governments and be responsible for what happens on the other side of the world, she says.
This discourse is led by people who simply do not care about Iranian women, but instead try to find reasons to criticise Islam and Muslims. But what happens politically in another country has nothing to do with how we practise our religion in Sweden today.
She then also said that “you cannot support this struggle without supporting its broad Islamophobic agenda, which basically has a Western definition of freedom”. Samnytt.Se
If they don’t like it they can go back to the ? countries they came from
I totally agree with you. Have you noticed that the Muslims are only happy when they have something to whinge
about. They love to tell the Kuffer what to do in their own country. If you don’t like, LEAVE.