Posts Tagged ‘Schweden’

To go on pretending that Britain’s enemies want to destroy “what we hold dear” encourages racism; what we are confronting here is a specific, direct, centralized attack on London as a result of a “war on terror” that Blair has locked us into. Just before the U.S. presidential elections, bin Laden asked: “Why do we not attack Sweden?” Lucky Sweden. No Osama bin Laden there. And no Tony Blair.

So Robert Wir-sind-an-allem-schuld Fisk nach den Londoner Terroranschlägen vom 7. Juli 2005.

Nick Cohen kommentiert diesen Irrsinn aus aktuellem Anlass folgendermaßen:

It is worth picking apart the assumptions behind that paragraph. The most laughable and condescending is that the proponents of psychotic and ultra-reactionary religious violence do not mean what they say. They may condemn “what we hold dear,” democracy, the emancipation of women and homosexuals, the rule of law, secularism and freedom of speech and of the press, but we should forget about that. They may say that they want to subjugate women and murder Jews, homosexuals and apostates, but we should not take them at their word.

Rather we should see radical Islamism in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere not as an autonomous movement with a totalitarian ideology of its own but as a rational response to our provocations. Western foreign policy is the “root cause” of our enemies’ rage, not our Western liberalism. The security measures western governments take to protect populations from radical Islam are equally culpable because they “encourage racism” by targeting Muslims.

If like “lucky Sweden,” we followed a neutralist foreign policy, then we would not be targets, and thus have no need to institute “racist” policing policies. We would be safe.

Nick Cohen: Lucky Sweden?

Oder: If you’re going to Malmö, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.

Friedlich protestiert die schwedische Friedensbewegung für eine friedliche Lösung des des Nahost-Konflikts:

Nur absolut böse Zungen – Kriegstreiber, Imperialisten, Zionisten! – würden angesichts dieser friedlichen Bilder behaupten, dass der Mob seiner Aggression freien Lauf lässt, weil Juden sich anmaßen, einfach nur Tennis spielen zu wollen. Und dass der Mob durch die schwedische Elite (“In dieser Situation sollte überhaupt kein Match gegen Israel gespielt werden”, da eine Davis-Cup-Partie gegen israelische Tennisspieler eine “Provokation für die in Malmö lebenden Araber” ist – so Malmös sozialdemokratischer Bürgermeister Ilmar Reepalu) in seinem Hass nur weiter angestachelt wurde.

Oder: Warum nicht gleich der Hamas zum Fraß vorwerfen?

Wenn das Einstehen für Freiheit und Demokratie vom Staat geahndet wird:

A Swedish Migration Board employee with 20 years’ experience sued his employers alleging that he was demoted due to his pro-Israel political views [...]

Eriksson alleged that he was moved to a lower ranking position when his supervisor, Eugene Palmer, learned of his pro-Israel views expressed on his blog, Sapere aude!

“I want to defend freedom and democracy. I try to be humble and just. Therefore I must—as every good democrat must—defend Israel,” read a passage on Eriksson’s blog.

Palmer said at the time that after learning of the blog’s controversial contents he was not alone in questioning whether it was appropriate for someone with Eriksson’s position at the Board to publicly express opinions about such a sensitive topic.

Wie man sich politisch korrekt – d.h. karrierefördernd – in Schweden über den Nahost-Konflikt auslassen sollte verdeutlicht der Vertreter der Einwanderungsbehörde vor dem Gericht:

Staffan Opitz, representing the Migration Board at the hearing held at the district court in Mölndal, said during court proceedings on Friday, October 10th that Palestinian group Hamas should be considered a ‘liberation movement’. He added that its founder Yassin was a ‘Palestinian freedom-fighter’, according to a report in Dagen, a Christian website.

Mehr über die Groteske in dem hierzulande gerne als Vorbild verklärten Sozialstaat unter: Migration Board: ‘Hamas is a liberation movement’