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Burning the Swedish flag - or so they thought. 2007-11-01 18:08:59 Sweden (along with all other civilized countries) subscribes to the principle of free speech and free press. This means that you're allowed to speak your mind without risking persecution for doing so. A concept far beyond the grasp of the bunch of wankers above.
Education can't be a big issue among devout muslims, either. Limiting schooling to learning to recite from the holy book, rather than studying science, is not actually working, as can be judged from the number of muslim Nobel Prize winners. Or by the "Swedish
" flag in the picture above.
When a bunch of muslim bigots such as these in Lahore, Pakistan, show their contempt for the cornerstones of democracy, I couldn't care less. It's when another bunch of muslim bigots just like them do the same thing in Örebro that I start to worry. Sweden is a democracy with free speech and a free press. Even for muslims, who have the right to protest if they feel insulted. That much they have managed to understand. But freedom of speech m Read more:Burning
, thought
African Swedish group seeks ban on Tintin comic. 2007-11-01 18:08:50 The group, Afrosvenskanas Riksförbund, (approx. Afro-Swedish
National Federation) represented by coordinator Kitimbwa Sabuni, who happens to be a relative of the current Swedish Minister for Integration, Nyamko Sabuni, (who in turn happens to have been employed by the Federation before she became minister) claims the comic book Tintin i Kongo (Tintin in the Congo) is racist and degrading to blacks and wants it ripped from the shelves of bookstores and libraries.
The book was first published in 1931, and is written by Belgian Hergé (Georges Remi) who had never visited the Congo or Africa. It naturally reflects the 1920s and 1930s look on blacks and Africa. To demand its banishment and removal from bookstores and libraries is not only offensive to our idea of freedom of speech, it also projects a less than flattering light on Kitimbwa Sabuni. He should know that freedom of speech is fundamental in any civilized society, and it protects anyone's right to express opinions that anyone el Read more:African
Swedish art exhibition censored for fear of muslims. 2007-11-01 18:08:41 A curator for an art exhibition in the Swedish
province of Värmland, Märta Wennerström, has decided to remove three drawings by well-known Swedish artist Lars Vilks. The reason? Well, to put it short and blunt, Ms. Wennerström was afraid the works would enrage muslims in Sweden and abroad. After the fuss about the Danish Muhammed cartoons a while back, Swedish authorities and officials at every level have become very anxious not to displease the muslim community for fear of demonstrations, death-threats or worse. The fear of the predictable muslim over-reactions is clear and present at all levels.
It makes me think of Germany in the twenties and thirties, where Hitler's nazis, although quite a small minority, through the ruthlessness of their SA-troops intimidated the German majority into submission and silence as they destroyed Jewish property and beat up and killed German Jews and socialists in the streets. The German government at the time was weak and the democratic authoritie
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