Ramsis "Moosa" Assal, also known as the Medina student, has almost 100,000 followers on social media and has caused several famous rappers to drop out of music and turn to religion.
Accused of undemocratic values
He has been accused of advocating a form of Islam that goes against democratic values.
On 1 October, he was to speak about young people's mental illness at a conference in Gothenburg organized by the social services.
But at short notice the management made the decision to book him.
- We have spoken with his current employer and received good references, but then also with those we usually collaborate with, and then a more contradictory picture emerges, says Ing-Marie Larsson, head of social affairs for the Northeast area in Gothenburg.
In an internal message that SVT has seen, the social administration states that the cancellation is, among other things, due to the fact that Ramsis "Moosa" Assal "is said to have made connections between mental illness and a lack of prayer".
When the municipal employees who booked Ramsis "Moosa" Assal were told that the management canceled him, they responded by canceling the entire event.
- There is nothing to show that he has undemocratic values, says Mohammed Ali, leisure leader in the city of Gothenburg.
Several previous cases
It is not the first time the city of Gothenburg has canceled Muslim speakers.
The most famous example concerns the municipality stopping the showing of the film "Burka songs".
A case that went all the way to the Court of Appeal where the then municipal councilor Ann-Sofie Hermansson was acquitted of gross defamation in the fall of 2021.
SVT Nyheter Väst has been in contact with Ramsis "Moosa" Assal, who does not want to comment on the incident.