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by Judith Bergman • October 7,
2017 at 5:00 am
- Both books are aimed
at 3-6 year-olds. The first book is about "Asli, who has
never been to Somalia, but now she is going there with her
father to meet her four grandmothers". Swedish children,
evidently, are supposed to learn that the Islamic practice of
polygamy -- illegal in Sweden -- is completely normal.
- Swedish libraries
are evidently not concerned that books normalizing the
misogynist practices of Islamic polygamy and covering women
from top to toe, aimed at Swedish toddlers and children, might
also be considered "offensive", not to mention
criminal.
- How curious, then,
that the Swedish government laments Nazi marches in the
streets of Gothenburg, yet is happy to spend large sums of
Swedish tax payer money on those who agree with the Nazis on
the streets of the Middle East.
Members of
the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) at an earlier march
in Falun, Sweden, on May 1, 2017. (Image source: Edaen/Wikimedia
Commons)
The country that censors "offensive" words
from children's books -- Swedish publishers and libraries have
censored, among others, the classic Astrid Lindgren books about
Pippi Longstocking -- has apparently found politically correct
replacements.
Farfar har fyra fruar ("Grandad Has Four Wives") and Mormor
är inget spöke ("Grandma Is Not a Ghost"), two books
written by the Swedish author Oscar Trimbel, were featured at the
book fair in Gothenburg recently. Both books are aimed at 3-6
year-olds. The first book is about "Asli, who has never been
to Somalia, but now she is going there with her father to meet her
four grandmothers". Swedish children, evidently, are supposed
to learn that the Islamic practice of polygamy -- illegal in Sweden
-- is completely normal.
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