{"id":185048,"date":"2019-03-12T08:51:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T08:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=185048"},"modified":"2019-03-14T06:58:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T06:58:47","slug":"swedish-islamophobia-expert-turned-isis-fighter-arrested-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=185048","title":{"rendered":"Swedish \u2018Islamophobia Expert\u2019 Turned ISIS Fighter Arrested in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Chris Tomlinson \u2013 Breibart March 10, 2019<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Swedish-Norwegian \u201cIslamophobia\u201d expert turned Islamic State jihadist Michael Skr\u00e5mos has been arrested by Kurdish forces in Syria, with sources claiming Norway wants to prosecute the extremist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The 33-year-old, born in Sweden to Norwegian parents, was captured this week in the village of\u00a0Baghouz in one of the very few remaining areas under any form of Islamic State control, Swedish newspaper <em>Expressen<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.expressen.se\/gt\/kalla-svenska-is-mannen-michael-skramo-gripen\/\">reports<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Skr\u00e5mo had been one of the hundreds of Islamic State terrorists\u00a0still fighting Kurdish forces and attempting to defend the village. He was also not the only foreign\u00a0fighter, with most of the last surviving holdouts being foreigners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Though the Swedish citizen had told relatives that he would rather die than surrender, he was allegedly captured by the Kurds after surrendering to them following the previous capture of his seven children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Swedish YPG soldier Jesper S\u00f6der described the capture of the infamous jihadist, saying, \u201cHe was arrested with a cluster of people.\u00a0I think he was found in a cluster of people in a tunnel where he had dug himself in.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">S\u00f6der added that around\u00a050 Islamic State members were arrested at once, including women and children.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sweden Pays Thousands in Welfare to Islamic State Terrorist Living in Syria <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CsimEXuG7I\">https:\/\/t.co\/CsimEXuG7I<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Bzg1YvNDqc\">pic.twitter.com\/Bzg1YvNDqc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/800341546986078208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Magnus Ranstorp, terrorist researcher at the Swedish National Defense College, commented on the arrest and his potential prosecution by the Norwegian government, explaining: \u201cIn Norway, the average penalty for participation and co-operation with IS is approximately seven years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He also added that there was a possibility of\u00a0Skr\u00e5mo being handed over to the United States, where he could face a much more substantial sentence of up to 30 years for fighting for the disintegrating caliphate<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Ranstorp suggested that while\u00a0Skr\u00e5mo had been well-known in Sweden, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2017\/06\/16\/swedish-islamophobia-expert-joined-isis-now-calling-attacks-sweden\/\">calling<\/a><\/strong><\/span> for Islamic State supporters to commit\u00a0attacks on Swedish soil in propaganda videos, he was likely not involved in planning terror attacks personally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cHe has not been an international propagandist; that is, someone who appears to speak in English or other languages in his videos. So he is big in Swedish context but he is small potatoes in the Islamic State,\u201d Ranstorp said<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2019\/03\/10\/swedish-islamophobia-expert-turned-isis-fighter-arrested-syria\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish born of Norwegian parents, Michael Skr\u00e5mo had previously called for ISIS members to carry out attacks in Sweden <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beheadings-by-muslim-militants"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185051,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185048\/revisions\/185051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}