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by Nima Gholam Ali Pour
• July 17, 2016 at 5:00 am
- Jihadists who
come to Sweden know that there are many liberal politicians looking
for invisible "right-wing extremists", and feminists who
think what is really important is using "gender
perspective" in the fight against extremism and terrorism.
- Perhaps the
Swedish government has a secret plan to convince jihadists to become
feminists? As usual, Swedish politicians have chosen to politicize
the fight against extremism and terrorism, and address the issue as
if it were about parental leave instead of Sweden's security.
- "As soon
as these people... say 'Asylum', the gates of heaven open." —
Inspector Leif Fransson, Swedish border police.
- Experts in
Sweden's security apparatus have clearly expressed that violent
Islamism is a clear and present danger to the security of Sweden,
but the politicized debate about Islamic terrorism and extremism
does not seem capable of absorbing this warning.
Mona Sahlin, who was Sweden's "National
Coordinator Against Violent Extremism," until she resigned in May
amid corruption allegations, is shown posing with Swedish soldiers in
Afghanistan in July 2010. The Swedish government's directives to her
agency stressed that it is "important that there is a gender
perspective in efforts to prevent violent extremism." (Image source:
Social Democratic Party)
Like all other European countries, Sweden is trying to fight against
jihadists and terrorists, but it often seems as if the key players in
Sweden have no understanding of what the threats are or how to deal with
them.
In 2014, for instance, the Swedish government decided to set up a
post called the "National Coordinator Against Violent
Extremism." But instead of appointing an expert as the national
coordinator, the government appointed the former party leader of the Social
Democrats, Mona Sahlin. Apart from Sahlin having a high school degree,
she is mostly known for a corruption scandal. As a party leader of the
Social Democrats, she lost the 2010 election, and as a minister in
several Socialist governments, she has not managed to distinguish herself
in any significant way. Göran Persson, who was Prime Minister of Sweden
from 1996 to 2006, described Mona Sahlin this way:
by Raymond Ibrahim
• July 17, 2016 at 4:30 am
- "Dr.
Berhane Asmelash, a former prisoner and victim of torture, described
prisoners being tied up and hung from trees. One form of hanging is
known as the 'Jesus Christ,' he said, because the victim looks as
though they are on a crucifix." — Eritrea.
- Five Christian
girls were kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam, and forced to
marry their captors. — Pakistan.
- "We expect
the Swedish Government and the concerned authorities to immediately
make sure that these people are safe. A distinct asylum
accommodation for Christians and other asylum seekers is essential.
We appeal to you to set off such a place and give the word asylum
back its true meaning of protection and safety." — Ignatius
Aphrem II, Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church.
- In his
response, the Director General of the Swedish Migration Board said
that separate housing for Christians and other vulnerable groups
"would go against principles and values that are central to
Swedish society and our democracy."
Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II (left) of the Syriac
Orthodox Church requested that Sweden's government ensure the safety of
Christian refugees in Sweden, by moving them out of asylum seekers'
housing where Muslim residents are persecuting them. Anders Danielsson (right),
Director General of the Swedish Migration Board, replied that separate
housing for Christians and other vulnerable groups "would go against
principles and values that are central to Swedish society and our
democracy."
United States: A pro-ISIS group called the United Cyber
Caliphate defaced the website of the Christian Reformed Church in Lamont,
Michigan. A 15-year-old girl discovered the vandalism, which consisted of
an ISIS propaganda video and Arabic text. The recruiter featured in the
video says, "We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses and
enslave your women by the permission of Allah, the Exalted. This is His
promise to us, He is glorified and He does not fail in His promise."
by Shoshana Bryen
• July 17, 2016 at 4:00 am
- Such was the
desire of the European parliamentarians to protect Mahmoud Abbas
that his blood libel was erased from all official documents.
- Unable to
countenance even the mildest criticism, and unwilling or unable to
engage in serious conversation, even with European interlocutors
much less with Israel, Abbas may finally have made the Palestinian
cause too difficult for the Europeans.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas receives
a standing ovation at the European Parliament in Brussels, after falsely
claiming in his speech that Israeli rabbis were calling to poison
Palestinian water. Abbas later recanted and admitted that his claim had
been false. (Image source: European Parliament)
The naming of Boris Johnson as Britain's Foreign Minister set off in
his home country a storm of name-calling and hand-wringing that
approximates the Democrat reaction to Donald Trump. Without wading into
British politics, there is one specific incident that the Daily Mail
called an impolitic "gaffe" that should be assessed at greater
length -- and from a different angle:
Last November local [Palestinian] officials called off a visit to
Palestine on safety grounds after the then-London mayor told an audience
in Tel Aviv that a trade boycott of Israeli goods was "completely
crazy" and supported by "corduroy- jacketed, snaggletoothed,
lefty academics in the UK."
Palestinian officials accused him of adopting a "misinformed
and disrespectful" pro-Israel stance and said he risked creating
protests if he visited the West Bank.
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