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Sweden appoints first Muslim minister

 A 27-year-old Bosnian Muslim immigrant has been named the new Swedish minister of education, setting a role model for young, active Muslims.

 

According to reports, the minister, Aida Hadzialic, was named earlier in October in Stefan Löfven new cabinet as the new Upper Secondary School and Adult Education Initiative in Sweden.

A law graduate from the University of Lund, Hadzialic became the deputy mayor of the Swedish city Halmstad at the age of 23.

Born in 1987 in Bosnia, the 27-year-old Swedish politician is now the youngest person ever to serve as a minister in Sweden.

Muslims are estimated to make up around 500,000 of Sweden’s nine million population.

 

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