Afghan-born ‘Swede of the yr’ loses training & integration adviser jobs over newly found anti-Semitic, homophobic posts

An Afghan refugee-turned-famous Swedish skilled on training and integration, Hamid Zafar, has had his good public picture ruined after a neighborhood newspaper found hateful feedback he had been posting on-line underneath a pseudonym.

Zafar arrived in Sweden as a refugee little one and rose to prominence as a logo of profitable integration. Introduced up in what’s being described as a “socially weak” district of Gothenburg, the person took cost of a troubled native college and have become recognized all through Sweden merely as ‘Rector Hamid’.

His profession has been on the rise ever since: between working on the Swedish Faculties Inspectorate and giving lectures at Karlstad College, the person often appeared on Swedish media as a pundit. He was additionally an impartial skilled with the combination fee of the center-right Reasonable Get together.

Finally, he obtained a prestigious ‘Swede of the 12 months’ award by the Swedish Focus journal in 2018, and have become the pinnacle of the Youngsters and Training Division within the southern municipality of Mullsjo.

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This week, nevertheless, journalists from the Dagens Nyheter (DN) immediately uncovered the well-respected training skilled’s ‘darkish facet,’ reporting that between 2011 and 2016 Zafar had anonymously been posting hateful feedback on-line.

Zafar denounced his opponents as “Zionist canine” in social media arguments, and criticized the distribution of a e-book about Holocaust in Swedish colleges, arguing it might create “mass psychosis” and stuff college students’ heads with an concept of “how horrible Holocaust was.”

In different feedback and posts which have since been deleted, Zafar scolded the Swedish Lutheran Church for permitting gay marriages, and mocked Hazaras – an Afghan ethnic minority thought-about some of the oppressed teams in Afghanistan.

The scandal prompted the Mullsjo authorities to instantly fireplace Zafar from his place because the Youngsters and Training Division head. The municipality rushed to “distance itself from Hamid Zafar’s … views and statements” whereas calling the entire state of affairs a “disaster of confidence.”

We now have come to a conclusion that our confidence in Hamid Zafar has been a lot broken that it’s now unimaginable for him to proceed his work.

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Zafar himself didn’t dispute DN’s findings and admitted he certainly wrote all these posts. He referred to as them youthful indiscretions, although he was between 28 and 33 years outdated on the time, and stated the statements had been made throughout a “harmful” interval of his life.

Zafar claimed that he had “distanced himself from such opinions since then and left them behind.” He didn’t apologize, although, saying as an alternative that these, who’re with out sin “are welcome to throw the primary stone.”

In the meantime, numerous organizations he cooperated with proceed to chop ties with disgraced skilled and terminate his contracts. His scheduled TV appearances have been cancelled and he misplaced his place as a columnist within the Swedish Goeteborgs Posten newspaper. The Reasonable Get together additionally suggested him to “resign” from its integration fee.

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