Lucky Sweden?

Mark Gobell

Mr Cohen - whilst you're implicitly quite happy with your chosen cabal of religious extremists dictating US "foreign policy" as you call it, perhaps you'd care to comment about Sweden's reluctance to publish the Holocaust cartoons ?

Cow Poke

Is there such an animal as a pseudo left-liberal or is the condition Nick describes endemic to progressive politics as a whole?

A hole no amount of myopia can plug.

organic cheeseboard

No Swedish gallery dared show them

posibly because they are shit?

Jez

The guys is reportedly from Luton, Sweden has a contingent (a small one) in Afghanistan and to be honest it is lucky that this lunatic travelled to Sweden to kill himself in this way.

The UK is entering some very uncertain times with zero representation (because it's forbidden by the state, media etc) for vast swathes of the non Muslim population that are adjacent to rapidly expanding Islamic areas.

Street sub-cultures have suddenly appeared to counter this, that unfortunately are often followed closely behind by violence from all sectors.

That's not right wing rhetoric. It's the truth unfortunately.

Europe's in trouble.

Andy Gill

The magnificent Pat Condell has his take on Swedish dhimmitude here:

http://www.patcondell.net/

It offers a devastating account of the descent of Sweden into Islamofascism.

steve

I don't accept the either/or tone of this piece and, yes, of course anger over foreign policy plays a role in causing terrorism. That doesn't mean we should change our foreign policy but we do need to recognize that our actions have consequences. Michael Scheuer, who created and headed the CIA's bin Laden team, said this in 2004:

"There are very few people in the world who are going to kill themselves so we can't vote in the Iowa caucuses. But there's a lot of them who are willing to die because we're helping the Israelis, or because we're helping Putin against the Chechens, or because we keep oil prices low so Muslims lose money."

Tim

If a terrorist were to blow them up, I suspect that their dying words would be “I don’t blame you, I blame the government”.

Literally true, in the case of Ken Bigley

David Ossitt

organic cheeseboard

"posibly [sic[ because they are shit?"

Your comment is almost as bad as your spelling.

Might that indicate that you are an English teacher?

David Ossitt

“The Swedish police are still investigating Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly's motives, and it is too early to explain them in full.”

Why are the police still investigating his motives?

You go on to explain them, where you write:-

“Emails he sent to the Swedish security service however, called for the "mujahideen" to rise up in Sweden and Europe and "die like our brothers and sisters"

This is tells us enough of his motive; he was a religious nutter, hell bent on killing and dying himself in the process.

Well I for one would be very happy, if what he calls for in his emails should come to pass, not so much the rising up but the dying bit.

Stephen law

I agree with nick - lets take islamic terrorists at their word. As chief architect of 9/11 said when asked why they attacked the twin towers, the reason was us policy towards israel/palestine. glad nick is taking this on board. I say this as a staunch lefty opponent of religious bigotry and facism.

David Lindsay

But since then, and despite sensibly staying out of NATO, Sweden has embroiled herself in the war in Afghanistan. Look what has happened as a result.

The 9/11 bombers made it perfectly clear that their grievance was the presence of American troops in Saudi Arabia, which were duly removed, in consequence of which there has been no further attack on American soil. The Bali bombers made it perfectly clear that their grievance was Australian policy in Afghanistan. The 7/7 bombers made it perfectly clear that their grievance was British policy in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Our dear friends, the Islamists terrorists against Russia and China, make it perfectly clear that their respective grievances are the Caucasus (especially Chechnya) and Xinjiang, with the latter cheerfully unconcerned at genocidal attacks against Hui Muslims by our other favourites, the would-be ethnic cleansers on to restore theocratic feudalism, accompanied by halved life expectancy, in Tibet.

And now, this.

Still, isn't this the same Sweden where they are laughably trying to fit up Julian Assange?

Ron Todd

Two women have made copmlaints against Julian Assange. Should he not be treated the same as Sweden would treat any other man accused of rape. The timing is oportune

Daniel Lionsden

Fisk Fisked.

Fly Agaric

Dhimmitude or Inglistan, which is it to be? You[The Establishment] decide! A few disparing voices in the Mail/Express, a couple of bravish souls from the Spectator speak out, but offer no solutions. I expect many of the current establishment on both sides of this argument were on demo's in the 70's against the threat of the National Front[What we they warning us would happen, all those years ago?]. Now the multicultural genie is out of the bottle and every western European nation is facing the same chilling prospect - dhimmitude, sharia, oblivion. Be careful what you wish for.

Stuart Seacole Smith

Organic Cheeseboard 13/12 10.00am: you'd be astonished at the kind of unmitigated shite you can get shown in art galleries. Especially if you've got some half-arsed pseudo-intellectual socialist bollox to spout along side it.

Oedipus Rex

Stuart Seacole Smith

Agree, re shite in galleries - particularly in the wake of Charles Saatchi that well known, er...socialist? Who supported the, um...Tories, wasn't it?

canonalberic

On a similar theme I listened with growing horror this morning to a report on the Today programme by Rupert Wingfield-Hays purporting to present a balanced account of the circumstances in which it was said "palestinian children" (typically returning from a mosque on a donkey - no seriously) hurl first rocks and then themselves at cars driven by those enemies of peace "Israeli settlers".

It was one of the most nakedly anti-semitic pieces of black propaganda I have heard and it was on the BBCs "flagship" news programme broadcast as if it were the unvarnished truth whilst it seemed to be presenting the exact opposite.

No attempt was made to explain what forces had pursuaded these children to behave in such a potentially suicidal manner; and of course nothing at all was heard from the evil faceless "settlers" themsleves. Instead a spokesman for the Israeli police was in so many words dismissed as a liar (jew - policeman? say no more), and an Israeli "human rights activist" was allowed to offer unchallenged the most tendentious opinions predicated on her clear belief in the obvious evil of the zionist entity.

It was absolutely shocking and wrong in every imaginable way. There could be no possible explanation for filing and broadcasting this filth other than to feed into prejudices about and incite hatred of jews. Its quite terrifying and this, as I had to keep reminding myself, is the BBC not John Pilger or Ken Loach.

It is like re-living some of the experiences described in Viktor Klemperers Diaries as the educated Dresden middle classes affect not to notice (out of conformity and a sense of volksgemeinshaft or community cohesion) as unspeakable things are increasingly obviously done in their names.

BlairSupporter

Great post, Nick. I've used it at the blog.

It has always escaped rational analysis how these so-called liberal thinkers would rather that people die for generations in other countries than that WE help them live.

What happened to liberal internationalism?

It has also always evaded analysis as to how they can (de facto) support a woman-hating religion no matter what is done in its name, when they are supposedly ALL for female rights.

What happened to Women's Rights?

It has not escaped my attention, nor yours I'm sure, that Assange is hailed as a hero by the anti-Iraq war Left who today tried to hand the court bail money (if only some idiot and his liberal-minded brother wasn't messing around with Visa/Mastercard sites, and stopping them!)

Some might call this justice. I call it chickens coming home to roost.

michael

Q "What ever happened to women's rights ?"

A -We're paying to have them educated (bred) out at our IQRAs

AY

..well it looks like, many harms of Islamism are already common knowledge.

It is therefore a time to write EHS-style instructions, how to handle it. Risk assessments, precautions, periodicity of inspections, first responders training, notifying repsonders, and so on.. and last not least - where and how to dump it, in the end.

Hamid

Comparing racist holocaust cartoons that attack Jews to Mohammad cartoons that attack a religion (i.e. an idea or doctrine) is so disingenious and intellectually cowardly.

Only the clueless post-progressive left can make up such equivalencies.