Nima Gholam Ali Pour Explained

Nima Gholam Ali Pour
Birth Date:29 November 1981
Birth Place:Iran
Nationality:Iranian
Office1:Member of the Riksdag
Constituency1:Malmö Municipality
Occupation:Politician, author, activist
Party:Sweden Democrats (2013-present)
Swedish Social Democrats (before 2013).
Termstart1:26 September 2022

Nima Gholam Ali Pour (born 29 November 1981) is an Iranian-born Swedish politician, author, activist, political commentator and journalist. Since the 2022 Swedish general election, he has been a member of the Riksdag representing the Sweden Democrats party for the Malmö Municipality constituency.

Early life

Ali Pour was born in Iran in 1981. His family fled the country after his mother was charged with sheltering left-wing activists opposing the Iranian regime. They were admitted into Sweden as refugees in 1987. His parents ran a library in Iran and then worked at a pre-school in Sweden.[1] [2] As an adult, Pour trained as a teacher and attended Malmö Högskola where he graduated with a master's degree in International Migration and Ethnic Relations.[3] [4] [5]

Career

Pour is a co-founder and spokesman for Perspective On Israel, a Swedish organization founded in 2013 that claims to seek to counteract negative or biased perceptions against Israel in Swedish politics and the media.[6] [7] Ali Pour has written articles for The Local, The Jerusalem Post, Ynet, Gatestone Institute, Expressen and Frontpage Magazine.[8] [9] [10] [11] [12] In 2015, Pour published the book Why Multiculturalism is Oppression taken from a collection of his blogs and articles. The book argues multiculturalism defines the individual's complex identity through simple external attributes, and has been a cause of antisemitism and Islamic extremism in Europe.[13] In 2018, Pour accused Malmö city council of using taxpayer's money to help fund antisemitic groups.[11]

Pour was a member of the Swedish Social Democrats but resigned from the party in 2013 after it appointed former Sveriges Unga Muslimer and Islamic Association of Sweden leader Omar Mustafa to the party's executive board.[9] Pour subsequently joined the Sweden Democrats, arguing that Sweden needed tougher policies on immigration and integration. He serves as on the SD's executive board in Malmö and is a group leader in Malmö primary school board.[1] [14] [15] [12]

During the 2022 general election in Sweden, he stood for the Sweden Democrats in the Malmö Municipality and was elected.[16]

In 2023, Pour gained media attention for referring to Swedish mosques as "nests of evil".[17]

Works

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Foreign-born Swedes join anti-immigration party . www.thelocal.se . 13 December 2013 . 2021-02-27.
  2. Web site: Sweden election: migrant gives Swedish populists a boost. Oliver Moody. Malmo. www.thetimes.co.uk.
  3. Web site: Interview with Nima Gholam Ali Pour. March 23, 2015.
  4. Web site: Tobias Petersson And Nima Gholam Ali Pour | The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com.
  5. Web site: Nima Gholam Ali Pour (SD) - Valkompass EU-valet | SVT Nyheter. valkompassen.svt.se.
  6. Web site: Sweden's third-largest city is not a welcoming place for Jews. Haaretz.com.
  7. Web site: OM/ABOUT. perspektivpaisrael.se.
  8. Web site: Därför är mångkultur förtryck : politiska texter från Fosie om Sveriges framtida utmaningar PDF - otalflatesemkel6. sites.google.com.
  9. Web site: No one can represent all of 'Sweden's Muslims' . www.thelocal.se . 18 April 2013 . 2021-02-27.
  10. Web site: Confronting anti-Israel views in Sweden. The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com.
  11. Web site: Report: Swedish cities use public money to fund anti-Semitism. August 28, 2018. Ynetnews.
  12. Web site: DEBATT. Liberalerna vilseleder om elevers betyg i Malmö. www.expressen.se.
  13. Web site: Därför är mångkultur förtryck : politiska texter från Fosie om Sveriges framtida utmaningar - Nima Gholam Ali Pour - häftad (9789163794452) | Adlibris Bokhandel. www.adlibris.com.
  14. Web site: SD Malmös nya styrelse - Sverigedemokraterna Malmö. malmo.sd.se.
  15. Web site: DEBATT. Signalerna mot antisemitism måste vara tydliga i Malmö. www.expressen.se.
  16. Web site: Nima Gholam Ali Pour (SD): "My wife woke me up and said I had entered the Riksdag". svt.se.
  17. Web site: 2023-12-08 . SD-ledamot: Moskéer är ”ondskans näste” . 2024-02-10 . Dagens ETC . sv.