[oilfieldtrash]

He has a croatian mother and a bosnian muslim father. His name is Zlatan, which is not a muslim name. I wonder if he has ever been to a mosque. I doubt it.

[WesternCulture]

To me "Ibrahimovic" sounds very Muslim, as "Ibrahim" is what Muslims call the biblical patriarch Abraham.

I don't think Zlatan or his father are deep believers in the Muslim faith. But I don't think it's wrong to say Zlatan is of Muslim origin.

The most important thing however, is that, especially young, people of Rosengård identify with Zlatan and experience he's successful and admired by lots of native Swedes.

Whatever one thinks of Muslim/Non European Immigration to Europe, the last thing Europeans desires are Muslim ghettos consisting of people who are outspoken antagonists of Western values like democracy, education and economical progress.

In Sweden, many people are concerned about Rosengård, Malmö, as Muslims actually move to this area from other parts of Sweden because they don't wish to mix with infidels.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic is interesting in this context as his career points to existing opportunities OUTSIDE the Muslim ghetto of isolation and alienation that is Rosengård, a strange oddity in the midst of Scandinavian prosperity (In general, the Malmö-Copenhagen-Helsingborg conurbation, also known as The Oresund Region, is in fact one of the richest and most well educated regions of Europe).