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by Judith Bergman
• February 22, 2017 at 5:00 am
- In Sweden,
comments that object to sexual violence against women in the Quran
are prosecuted, but calling homosexuality a "virus" is
fine.
- Antisemitism
has become so socially acceptable in Sweden that anti-Semites can
get away with anything, and no one even notices, as Nima Gholam Ali
Pour reports.
- One of Sweden's
main news outlets, in fact, described anti-Semitism as simply a different
opinion. Clearly, in the eyes of Swedish authorities, neither
homosexuals nor Jews count for much.
- Swedish
authorities also give large sums of money to organizations that
advocate violence and invite hate preachers who support terrorist
organizations such as ISIS. One of the speakers SFM hired was
Michael Skråmo, who has publicly called on his fellow Muslims to
join ISIS and has appeared in propaganda videos, posing with assault
rifles alongside his small children.
Michael Skråmo, a Swedish convert and ISIS jihadist,
brought his family to Syria. He has also urged Muslims in Sweden to bomb
their workplaces.
Are some individuals receiving preferential treatment under Sweden's
"hate speech" laws? It seems that way.
Under the Swedish Penal Code, a person can be held responsible for
incitement if a statement or representation made "threatens or
disrespects an ethnic group or other such group of persons with regards
to race, color, national or ethnic origin, religious belief or sexual
orientation".
In 2015, the imam at Halmstad mosque, Abu Muadh, said that
homosexuality was a "virus" from which parents were obliged to
protect their children.
The Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and
Queer Rights (RFSL) filed a legal complaint in October 2015. "[M]any
people are listening [to the imam] and there is a risk that the opinions
and other expressions of homophobia will spread among believers, as they
attach great importance to their representatives' words", said
Ulrika Westerlund, chairman of RFSL.
by Robbie Travers
• February 22, 2017 at 4:00 am
- A German court
actually ruled that firebombing a place where Jews worship is
somehow different from attacking Jews.
- Why was the
Israeli embassy not attacked, rather than a synagogue whose
worshippers were presumably not Israeli? Presumably the worshippers
were German. What happened in the German court was pure
Nazi-think and the most undisguised antisemitism: that Jews are
supposedly not Germans.
- Meanwhile,
another German Court again rejected an action against your friendly
neighborhood "sharia police."
- In Germany, it
seems, firebombing synagogues is merely "anti-Israeli"
even if there are no Israelis there, and "police" who use
Islamic sharia law -- without legal authority and within a
system of law that persecutes women, Christians, Jews and others --
are acceptable and legal.
- The
anti-Semitism facing Jews at UK universities led the Baroness Deech
to declare British University campuses "no-go zones" for
Jews.
- Simply defining
and identifying anti-Semitism is only the start. It is also
necessary to start tackling the anti-Semitic attitudes of Islamic
communities across Europe and the attitudes of immigrants coming to
our nations.
- What needs to
be made clear is that you are welcome here as long as you respect
Jews, Christians and all others, as well.
Anti-Semitic graffiti [Illustrative]. (Image source:
Beny Shlevich/Flickr)
Antonio Tajani, the new President of the European Parliament, has
made a bold opening statement of intent: "No Jew should be forced to
leave Europe." While this is an admirable position to hold, it sadly
could not be farther from the truth. The poison of anti-Semitism festers
in Europe once again.
Europe is seeing yet again another rise in the number of Jews
leaving the continent. Jonathan Boyd, Executive Director of the Institute
of Jewish Policy Research (IJPR), notes that the number of Jews leaving
France is "unprecedented"
The results of the study show that 4% of the French and Belgian
Jewish populations had emigrated those countries to reside in Israel.
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