Nader will not give his real name but he does not hide why he chose Sweden as a refuge after Islamic gunmen threatened to murder him unless he fled Mosul in northern Iraq.

“Sweden is the only country that accepts immigrants and gives them permission to bring their families,” says the 39-year-old Christian doctor, whose wife paid a ransom of $50,000 to release him from the kidnappers. “This is the reason most Iraqis come here.”