Fatima Samlol kept telling Aljazeera that ” I live in a state of total desperation. Future prospects look horribly bleak. I have lost my son as a result of disinformation. As I said my neighbor showed,  from day one, racism and islamophobia towards me and my family. He even went further, to the extent that, he used to spit if we meet in a corridor or the staircase. I am a victim. My son is a victim. My husband is a victim,” she wept for a while then added “my husband lost his will to live. He is clinically depressed. After the Social Services snatched our son he suffered from fear and generalized anxiety. He spent long hours in bed. He lost the will to work. He lost his job … The Swedish law has destroyed our family …  suffocated our lives… This is not figurative …”

In Sweden, the state has passed what is known as the (LVU) law, which is a law intentionally tailored, first and foremost, to protect children and minors. This law gives the Social Services Authority the right to take children and minors under 21 from their mothers and fathers.

With neither a verdict nor a judgment supposed to be obtained from the Swedish Administrative Court, the Social Services Authorities, with the help of the police, have the right to take children from their homes or from schools without their parent’s knowledge and place them in clandestine caring nursing households or foster homes.

“LVU” is the abbreviation of the Swedish Care of Young Persons (Special Provisions) Act (SFS 1990:52. ) According to the LVU there should be no religious reasons as to why a child is taken away from his/her family. However, Siv Westerberg, an internationally recognized lawyer, who won eight cases at the European Court of Human Rights against Swedish social services says: “They are kidnapping Muslim children, that’s what I mean. They don’t accept that they have other ways to live.”

Aljazeera.