On December, 28 the Swedish Security Service together with the Danish Security service unmasked a group of four “Swedish” terrorists that had planned to stage a massacre in the building of the Danish newspaper Jyllandsposten. This newspaper published the caricaturist Westergaard’s drawings of the prophet Mohammed with a bomb in his turban several years ago.
In Swedish media, the terrorists were at first consequently denominated as being “Swedish”. The newspapers tried – as usual – to conceal the fact that they were not immigrants.
Three of them have Swedish passports and all of the live in Sweden. Finally one newspaper, the Svenska Dagbladet, decided to publish their names. The ongoing Swedish “disguising situation” became indefensible. People could find the perpetrators’ identity on the Internet and people are not stupid. One newspaper, the Aftonbladet, started immediately to delete older articles on the perpetrators, articles that had portrayed them in a favourable light as being wrongfully accused for earlier incidents.
One of them, Munir Awad, is the son-in-law of Helena Benaouda, the president of Sweden’s Muslim Council and the Stockholm mosque. Two week ago, after the suicide bombing in Stockholm, she said in a debate programme on TV that she had never met or seen any terrorism in her mosque. Now she has gone underground.
Sweden’s reputation abroad does not seem to be improved. Today Swedish media reported that a “Swedish woman suspected of terror crime was arrested in Uganda for connection with al-Shabaab”. And so these stories go on and will go on, since Sweden allows 96% of all the immigrants (totally about 100 000 per year) to stay and live in the country without identification papers.
Another aggravating circumstance, according to the international expert on terrorism, Lorenzo Vidino, is that it is a taboo in Sweden to talk about radicalization.
UPDATE! Go to this link in order to read the history behind one of the arrested men: http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.8325/pub_detail.asp
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Have the Swedish people shown that they are becoming more aware of the situation and questioning their media and withholding information? Are they questioning their government’s position on immigration beyond the election of Swedish Democrats? Or does this whole incident not phase them and not really change attitudes at all?
This is difficult to say, but judging from the opinion polls, there seems to be a slight awakening since the Sweden Democrats increase its adherents.
Damn Swedish terrorists! 8)
Allahu akhbar to that!
Most of the world still recognizes that the term ‘Swedish Terorrist’ is an oxymoron. Swedes should be infuriated by the media’s efforts to change that.
By actively campaigning to destroy the Swedish identity, one must wonder if the media is the most immediate threat to the Swedish people. It is becoming increasingly clear that they are not reporters. They are willfully blind crusaders and enablers.
Some Swedes are infuriated, but most of them aren’t. Why? Because they only have the Swedish official media to read and watch, and that is why most Swedes are brainwashed because they rely on the media and believe that they convey the “truth”. Some Swedes, like me and about 340 000 others (those who voted for the Sweden Democrats) have realized that Swedish media are false and convey a biased opinion. More and more people start to find news on the internet that is politically incorrect.
I was also, about 15 months ago, brainwashed by the Swedish media, but found, by chance, an alternative news site on the Internet (politisktinkorrekt.info) and my eyes were opened to what is going on in this country. Now I spend a lot of time to inform “the sleeping people” to find “controversial” news on the internet, to make people aware of the fact that our journalists are no longer journalists, but propganda machines for the politicians.
Yes, politisktinkorrekt.info is an indispensable news source. It’s a very positive and important development to see a dedicated Swedish language alternative newsource emerge.
But translating it is a very slow and painful process. Det är synd att min föräldrar misslyckas med att föra vidare språket. Men, jag försöka att lara mig. Nyheterna om sverige på engelska är förfärliga. Det är mycket bra att du berättar på engelska också! Tack.
Some years ago when they did a promo tour for one of the LoTR movies, I think it was either the second or the third, Viggo Mortensen came forward speaking fluent danish in camera, even without american accent! He even told the reporter that he actually preferred speaking danish when he visited Scandinavia or his fathers homeland. If memory serves me right, I think he was born in NJ but it looks like his dad managed to keep to old country’s language alive in his son. Hearing Aragorn speaking fluent danish as way cool. It’s sad your parents didn’t made the same choice as Viggo’s dad but if you wish to learn our noble language, then I wish you good luck!
Robin, that’s pretty impressive. Danish is supposed to be a difficult language to learn.
@svenskamerikan
Your swedish reads Ok to me! I live in Switzerland since many years but my kids speak swedish, so I know something abot the situation that your parents faced. In general, my view is that you can keep speaking swedish at home if both parents are swedish. If not, it is difficult.
Regarding news about Sweden abroad, I agree that there is very little that comes out. However, Bruce Bawer has written a lot that is worth reading.
Sweden very much needs people like you from the US that are willing to take an interest in what is happening here. Sadly, most Swedes have a negative view of the US, but I know that there is nowhere else on the planet so many decent people that are willing to stand up for freedom and western values. Sweden needs your help….
Thanks for your comments. If all I saw of America was what came across the television or in newspapers, I’d have a negative view also. But there is so much more than that. The thing about America is there is so much going on that you can form almost any narrative you want and then cherry pick examples to support your deduction.
It’s the sins of omission that tell more about the accuser than they do about the accused.
@svenskamerikan
If you are interested in perfecting your swedish, my experience strongly indicate that one of the best methods is to watch swedish films with english subtitels. We have done this for the kids both with english and german and it really works. But ofcourse it is a lot easier for kids.
A really great movie that show swedish mentality at it’s best actually comes from Finland but is about a swedish speaking unit during WW2:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377935/
I like your advice on watching movies as a learning tool. I finally acquired a DVD player that plays European format (region 2) DVD’s. Now that I can watch something other than Ingmar Bergman’s gloom and despair, I’m excited about doing so.
Thanks for the movie recommendation. It looks like a very interesting story. I did a quick search and it appears I should have an easy time getting a copy. And I will.
I just recently watched Utvandrarna and Nybyggarna. It had no English subtitles but even so, It was an outstanding But I am very biased because it tells our story (Jag bor i Minnesota). I am currently looking for the full version of Arn – Tempelriddaren. I’ve have the shortened release for export. They shortened it too much. Way too much!
Ok, enough of that. Cavutus is probably getting ready blow a penalty whistle on us for taking the thread off topic.
Since you liked Utvandrarna and Nybyggarna, I think you would also enjoy Raskens:
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raskens_(TV-serie)
Have you seen the original version of Let The Right One In? It’s set in the early 80′s in Blackeberg (suburb to Stockholm), in a time before the cultural enrichment.
Have you ever heard of HasseåTage? The irony is that this comical duo actually got a helping hand from Bergman. He had seen one of their early revues on Gröna Lund in Stockholm, saw their qualitites and wanted to give them a chance to do a full length movie. Their debut Svenska Bilder (Swedish Portraits) is probably the only of their productions I’ve never seen. At least I have no recollection of it.
This couple are icons in swedish entertainment, first on radio in the 50′s, then in revues and movies from the 60′s and onward until Tage Danielssons untimely death in cancer in 1985. Hans Alfredson is still alive but he turns 80 later in the summer. When he was younger he was the king of ad libbing in swedish comedy, doing several different incarnations of the fictive character Lindeman.
From what I’ve learned on Idmb, the comments section, there movies must have been shown in US at some point as there are people mentioned they used to see them in college (probably together with doobies) and describes them as feel good movies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasse%C3%A5tage
Picasso’s Adventures is probably one of the couples most popular movies. It’s a completely ficticious biography about the famous spanish painter. What makes it special is that the dialogue is written in complete gibberish, a mish-mash of several different languages. It’s only the background narration that makes sense. In the english version it is supposed to be Benard Cribbins who also plays Gertrude Stein in the movie. Most of the swedish acting elite plays small parts in it. The just recently passed on actor Per Oscarsson can be seen as Apollinaire, Sune Mangs, related to the Malmö shooter plays Churchill and a young and very beautiful Lena Olin can also be seen in a small part.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078084/fullcredits#cast
In 2005 Storm was released, which probably is Swedens only sci-fi movie to date or at least comes close. Parts of it reminds of The Matrix although more slightly.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446476/
The directors Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein has also made a couple of tv-productions, the two-parted mini-series Snapphanar about the wars between Denmark and Sweden in the 1600′s and the maxi thriller series De Drabbade (The Affected) which kinda is similar to the american series Heroes, only more occult and better and made before Heroes!
Mårlind and Stein seems to have abandoned Sweden for Hollywood though. They were behind last years movie Shelter (haven’t been released here yet) and the upcoming Underworld 4 movie.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0617523/
@Robin
Thanks to merchant websites like amazon.com and ebay which also operate in the UK and Germany, it is much easier easier to find movies that that were previously unavailable in North America. I’m thankful for that, because Hollywood movies have really turned into predictable, political correctness drenched, formulaic garbage over the past several years.
I have seen ‘Let The Right One In ‘ but it seemed to be a fairly recent movie so I doubt it was the original that you speak of. Even in this quirky vampire movie I saw the disease that has infected contemporary Western thought.
What struck me about that movie was that it is another example of how moral relativism has seeped into the popular culture. Vampires were until recently considered to be pure evil. But now they are treated as sympathetic characters. The Ameircan TV Series ‘Twilight’ is another hugely popular show that turns vampires into sympathetic characters.
Now if they can transform vampires into sympathetic characters, imagine what they can do with less obvious evils, and cultures and belief systems.
But it not what they can do. They are already doing it.
Svenskamerikan, as being interested in vampires and a fan of such movies, the vampire as an anti-hero is not entirely new. Barnabas Collins was probably the first of all these so called brooding vampires. The show Dark Shadows was never shown in Sweden but a comic book verion of it ran for a while in the now cancelled Seriemagasinet back in the early 70′s. But not much happened after that, aside from the Anne Rice novels but for a long time it was the traditional vampire that was portraited in Hollywood. Btw, there seems to be a movie in the works with Johnny Depp as Barnbas Collins and with tim Burton as director. Turns out Depp was a fan of the series as a kid.
After the movie adaption of Interview with the Vampire, brooding vampires started to become more common. Mostly on television though. I only saw the pilot of Nick Knight and not the full series of Moonlight which seems to be similar to the previous one. Then came Buffy with brooding Angel and now we’re into Twilight, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries in modern contemporary times.
Personally I love the concept of the brooding vampire. It makes sense some of them wants to remain more human-like since they after all were humans once. I’ve also tested playing a vampire in the White Wolf’s two video games in the Vampire the Masqueradeconcept series with various clans. It was very fun to get an insight into a world normally hidden to us.
You’re right, Robin. It does go back a bit further. I had completely forgotten about that ‘Dark Shadows’ soap opera! It was quite popular.
But I think it still fits with the point I’m making. The 1960′s were a pivotal decade. Moral relativism really began to get traction with the 60′s counterculture.
Even so, ‘Dark Shadows’ was a radical departure from the norm of that era – probably even a little bit ahead of its time (in the US, anyways).
@Robin
In following your link, I noticed that Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein are involved with producing the next movie in the ‘Underworld’ series.
Now there is a vampire theme I like. It’s excellent fantasy escapism. Perhaps it just takes Kate Beckingsdale for me to warm to vampires.
We all have our weaknesses.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1496025/
@Utlandssvensk,
Jag just köpte filmen ‘Framom främsta linjen’ från amazon.com.
Tack för rekommendationen!
Beyond Enemy Lines (Framom främsta linjen) (Etulinjan edessä) [Reg. 2]
Jag köpte också ‘Talvisota’, med det är finska språk och det kommer från Sydkorea(?):
The Winter War (TALVISOTA) : Uncut (70 min. longer than U.S release) 2-DISC, Special Outer BOX Slip-Case Edition, [IMPORTED For ALL-REGIONS, NTSC]
@Utlandssvensk,
Jag just köpte filmen ‘Framom främsta linjen’ från amazon.com. Tack för rekommendationen!
Jag köpte också ‘Talvisota’, med det är finska med engelska undertitlar och det kommer från Sydkorea(!?) och det är 70 minuter langre än den USA filmversionen heter ‘The Winter War’.
Cavutus tends to be very relaxed about things going a bit off topic. Also, in Sweden you don’t get to keep your penalty whistle if you make fun of the religion of peace:
http://politisktinkorrekt.info/2011/01/02/hockeydomare-avstangd-efter-muhammedteckning/
Regarding Arn, I agree that it is a enjoyable movie. Just keep in mind that the person that wrote the story, Jan Guillou, is an ultra left wing multiculture extemist. The same goes for Steig Larsson.
Yes, I like discussions here and if they deviate it means that they have developed in one way or another. I have a link in another computer link list in where there is a Swedish course for university students in Sweden.
By the way, from 1 January, Swedish taxpayers aren’t any longer forced to pay for allt the students from abroad that come here in order to study. Earlier they did not have to pay a cent to get a full university education, exactly like the innate Swedish students. Now this has changed, and the discussion from the leftists and “dogooders” implies that this is very negative for our exchange of students from all over the world. Oops, now I deviated very much when associating to the Swedish internet course …..
Yes, I detected that in Guillou’s story. He’s especially harsh on the church. But if you think Guillou is bad, stay far, far away from Ridley Scott’s ‘Kingdom of Heaven’.
And I watched ‘Girl with the Dragon Tatoo’. Is Steig Larsson some sort of demented pervert or what? That’s some sick and twisted stuff coming out of his mind.
I already have it, bought it as soon as it came out on dvd here. Yes, he’s hugging the arselifters, no doubt. Speaking about Guillou, here in Sweden he is a well-known pislam hugger too. He also has invented a fictional Knights Templar, namned Arn. These books has also been adapted for the big screen and they are even worse pislam huggers than Scott’s movie. Just mentioning it in case you want to stay away from it. LOL!
I’ll reconsider my pursuit of the Guillou films.
For anybody that don’t read swedish, the link in my former post is about a swedish ice-hockey referee that has been suspended due to the fact that he put up a muhammed cartoon on his personal facebook page.
Can he sue them?
Hello Cavatus
Happy new year to you and all the readers .
Have you heard of “Assises sur l’Islamisation de l’Europe ” which took place in Paris on 18th december in spite of opposition of French leftists and Muslims associations ?
If not , you have the texts of all the speakers , translated in several languages on Riposte Laïque , which you will easily find if you google .
I saw a blog post on this on another Swedish blog and this is very good news! I will write a blog post on this on my Swedish blog as well in order to spread this piece of news further among Swedish readers.
I look forward to reading that!
Den nyblivne amerikanske kongressledamoten, den karismatiske Allen West, begriper hotet från den växande radikala islamismen och formulerar det som ingen annan:
Allen West was strongly supported by the ‘Tea Party’ movement (It is not a formal political party, but rather an reference to the sentiments of the Boston Tea Party incident of 1773).
I mention this here because the Tea party has been subjected to a media smear campaign here in the USA in the same manner that the Swedish media attacks SD. At every opportunity the Tea Party is loudly denounced as racists and yet there stands Allen West (and others). How can that be? Somebody clearly is not not telling the truth.
I do not know the full story behind Sverigedemokraterna, but I do recognize an orchestrated media smear campaign when I see one. The Swedish media is obviously trying to deny SD a fair hearing by declaring them illegitimate despite the voice of the people.
Was it Lenin that said ‘if you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth? ‘ Well, it doesn’t matter who gets credit for the quote, that’s precisely the game that’s being played by the media.
The Tea Party movement is always mentioned in Swedish media in negative words as being racists and suchlike. Just as the Sweden Democrats. This is the agenda of Swedish media, which, themselves, think that they are impartial.
Yes, that is another thing to take note of in the media They are constantly portraying themselves as centrist, moderate, objective, and the most reasonable when they are in fact activists. In doing so they attempt to shift the entire political spectrum to the left. Similarly, they never reference to the ‘right’ never being found without the adjectives ‘extreme’ and ‘far’ attached.
By striking a disingenuous pose and through repetition, they wage their propaganda war.
Sweden could use something like the US website newsbusters.org that is dedicated to shining a spotlight on biased reporting and naming the names of those responsible for it.
Yes, this is exactly how Swedish media works, and has been working for the last two or three decades. That is why it is impossible to discuss immigration among Swedes since they think that they are impartial when they state all the media phrases. Swedes are kept in the dark constantly and they don’t know it! I was one of them for 15 months ago until I found interesting blogs on the Internet that gave another picture of our society when revealing “embarrasing” facts that are always concealed in conventional media.
And now you can better understand why governments and the UN have taken such a profound interest in regulating the internet.
Your story is the one they despise the most. Free Speech is their worst nightmare.
We have just been informed (on an unconventional blog, the politisktinkorrekt.info) that the “Swedish” man arrested in Kenya for connections with al-Shabaab is one of the Swedish so popularly admitted “lonely asylumseeking children”. He had two passports: one Swedish in which he is 17 years old, and another passport in which he is 27 years old. I will soon publish a blog post on this embarrassing fact.
Well, I read swedish, US and UK press and my very firm impression is that sweden is buy far the most biased.
There is no question that you can find the same type of reporting in all three countries. If we take DN, the main “serious” daily, it sort of corresponds to NYT in the US and The Guardian in the UK. But the problem is that in Sweden, there is nothing opposing this view.
In the US, I find many mainstrem media outlets that give an opposing view to the “do-gooder, multicultural, liberal” establishment. WSJ has some very good articles. The Atlantic, Pajamas Media etc. has very serious, hard hitting, established writers that take on the liberals. FOX News has become a big hit and nothing even close to this exists in Sweden (FOX is almost illegal in Sweden, no cabel operater dares to distribute it)
In the UK, you have a lot of non-PC writers that get to publish articles in big, serious papers like The Observer and Telegraph. I also read the Economist since many years and there is no question that this, the worlds most respected weekly publication, could face multiple charges of “hate speech” if it was printed in swedish.
A lot of really good comments here:
“[...]the Tea party has been subjected to a media smear campaign here in the USA in the same manner that the Swedish media attacks SD. At every opportunity the Tea Party is loudly denounced as racists and yet there stands Allen West (and others). How can that be? Somebody clearly is not not telling the truth.”
Yes, I’m well aware of the smear campaign against the Tea Party, and as you correctly point out, it’s identical to the smear campaign that the Sweden Democrats are beign subjected to. However, I have long since seen through this demonizing rhetoric being employed by the left.
“Was it Lenin that said ‘if you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth? ‘”
No, it was Joseph Goebbels.
“They [the media] are constantly portraying themselves as centrist, moderate, objective, and the most reasonable when they are in fact activists. In doing so they attempt to shift the entire political spectrum to the left. Similarly, they never reference to the ‘right’ never being found without the adjectives ‘extreme’ and ‘far’ attached.”
Yeah, but at least in the States you have FOX News, The Wall Street Journal, Hot Air, Pajamas Media, Newsbusters, The Rush Limbaugh Show, Savage Nation, and a slew of other sources dedicated to giving an opposing or more balanced perspective of the world and the news flow. In Sweden we don’t have that, we only have a few internet sources to give us an alternative, more objective view of the news. And it’s the same thing here in Sweden; right-wing views are always being called “far-right” or “extreme”, and they are unjustly attached with epithets like “racist” with the sole intent of demonizing and silencing legitmate criticism.
“That is why it is impossible to discuss immigration among Swedes since they think that they [the media] are impartial when they state all the media phrases.”
Exactly right! The common Swede thinks that the mainstream media in Sweden is unbaised, and that they are reporting from a centrist position, when in fact they are reporting from a left of far left position. Another problem in Sweden is that we don’t have any mainstream news agency like FOX News to somewhat balance the news flow and to get another perspective from. What we have is mainly the website “Poltically Incorrect” (“Politiskt Inkorrekt”) and other such internet/underground outlets.
There is no question that you can find the same type of reporting in all three countries. [...] But the problem is that in Sweden, there is nothing opposing this view.”
Exactly! And that is why the common Swede is fooled into thinking that Swedish news agencies are reporting from a centrist position, and that everything that opposes their view must be some type of extremist or far-right view, when in fact what our few internet news sources are doing, is to report the news in a way that corresponds to the objective truth.
“In the US, I find many mainstrem media outlets that give an opposing view to the “do-gooder, multicultural, liberal” establishment. [...] FOX News has become a big hit and nothing even close to this exists in Sweden. [...]“
Yeah, you guys are fortunate to have mainstream news agencies reporting an opposing view. I love FOX News and I’m not surprised by their success. It feels very good and refreshing to watch FOX News, and to hear opinions being expressed that usually are close to my own, compared to CNN, MSNBC, CBS News, or any of the Swedish news agencies, which practically never express any opinons that I agree with. But what I think is absolutely ridiculous and dumb, is how the leftists in America are trying to discredit FOX News as biased, and basically calling them a bunch of liars, while at the same time failing to admit or recognize the biases and lies of MSNBC, CBS, CNN, and their likes. That’s just preposterous and egregious!
@Utlandssvensk
The is more debate in the US but you still see a strong effort in the US to marginalize news outlets that do not march in step with the official PC narrative.
Of these, FOX news is most certainly a target of relentless ad hominem smear campaigns. I’m not a big fan of the tabloid style presentation , but they do definitely report the stories that do not make it past the media’s political correctness gatekeepers.
PajamasMedia.com is an interesting alternative media website. If you read it , you are probably familiar with Victor Davis Hanson. He seems to be one of the few grown-ups left in America. He’s on the top of my must-read short list. He’s another of Swedish-American and occasionally this comes out in his writing as he comments on the the ravaging effects of multiculturalism and progressive policies are having on Califorinia. California could give Sweden a good run for the money regarding which society has the greater suicide wish.
I have noticed that the Swedish think tank Timbro.se is providing some alternative news commentary here:
http://www.timbro.se/arkiv/?vad=nyheter
One topic they present there that I’ve been wanting to discuss more with Swedes regards Mark Steyn’s thesis on Europe’s future:
http://www.timbro.se/innehall/?art=mark-steyn-the-end-of-the-world
Perhaps, Cavatus would consider starting a thread dedicated to a discussion on this matter. From my perspective, this video should be mandatory viewing for every Swede concerned about Sweden’s future.
Yes, I am a big fan of Victor Davis Hanson and have been reading his articles for many years.
I really recommend PajamasMedia.com and if you go to that site, don’t forget to also take a look at their TV section.
“Lilla Saltsjöbadavtalet” (The little salt sea spa agreement) is the apparent “rule book” among Swedish journalists that prevents them from writing the real truth about immigration, immigrants, etc.
Also, there are definitive plans to dilute not only Sweden’s population, but all of Europe with Non-white people for the explicit purpose of achieving their goal to “divide and conquer”.
In you’ve not already seen this video, listen carefully to the words of this woman:
I have seen that video.
Sweden in general is drifting rapidly towards suicide, but you have to say that parts of the population are more eager than others. The fact that many prominet swedish jews are actively working for continued large scale muslim immigration despite the fact that jews are beeing driven out of Sweden by these same immigrants is nothing short of insane. The same can be said about many prominent gay persons.
Hello.
I just want to tell all the terrorist in Swedenn that if you want to make a differens, make sure you bomb all the polic people and the one with mony, couse they are the one in war with you , not the people.
Bombing ordinary people want do anything they dont care anyway.
Roffe
The traitor Carl Bildt is again lobbying for Turkey getting EU membership, this time in turkish Hurriyet.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=turkey-will-be-in-the-eu-says-swedens-foreign-minister-2011-01-04
Well, I agree with the title that you give Bildt but see no reason to be worried about Turkey getting in to the EU. Resistance is massive in several member states and the leaders of both France and Germany have made clear that they do not want to include Turkey.
On the other hand, there is always the risk that Sweden forms a union with Turkey and the rest of the middle east…….
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