This is a piece of additional information of my blog post on Sharia laws in Sweden. I have been surprised that no media, i.e. no newspaper and no TV channel, have reacted or at least reported on this thesis, since it involves a fundamental change of the basis of the Swedish cornerstone: everyone is equal before the law.
Today a Swedish debater and journalist, Dilsa Demibag-Sten, has a long article in the Svenska Dagbladet called “Legal Contempt in the Name of Multiculture“. One of her standpoints is that we must stop treating people as a part of a group, and instead begin seeing them as individuals, something that I pointed out in my Swedish blog post on the book “Ayatollan“.
It will be very interesting to see if Dilsa, with her non-Swedish ethnical background, (in fact the only persons in Sweden that are allowed to criticize these kind of issues without being condemned) can be the person that removes the stopper in the debate in Sweden on mass immigration and our multicultural society.
A change of the debate climate is absolutely necessary. First of all the debate must be accepted, and then carried out in a way so that people won’t be insulted as soon as they dare to present something that resembles some kind of evaluation or assessment of the multicultural policy that is pursued in Sweden.
Let’s hope that Dilsa is the person that causes the die to be cast!
Ths silence in Sweden is deafening. I usually do not touch on immigration issues on my blog, but when I do I always see a sharp spike in vitriolic verbal garbage in the comments inbox. Denmark is entirely different than Sweden, and even in Norway they can have at least a modicum of civilized conversation about big immigration and its problems. Not to mention the French – and speaking of which: can anyone tell me what significant changes to French society have taken place since Sarkozy put an end to the housing project riots? The entire left unanimously stood up and said that the heavens would fall, that plagues and locust swarms would consume mankind, that the polar ice caps would melt… Today, a couple of years after Sarkozy’s crackdown and restoration of law and order – are they frying Muslims in ovens in France? Is Hitler spewing his hate lingo from the Eiffel Tower? No, of course not. All that has happened is that law and order has returned and French businesses, who were beginning to contemplate migration to other EU countries because of the escalating social instability, are staying where they are.
What Sarkozy has shown is that you can indeed restore law and order without bringing about the end of the world. Denmark, in turn, has shown that you can indeed have a civilized conversation about the problems with mass immigration without restoring the Third Reich. On the contrary, the Danish democracy stands stronger than ever because they take serious issues seriously. Sweden, by contrast, is sliding into social disintegration and chaos because Swedish politicians and their elite cronies prefer to sweep serious issues under the carpet.
It will require courage to change the debate climate. To rely on members of an officially recognized minority group as the only ones who can speak with credibility (without being condemned) is absolutely wrong. Such an attitude suggests that you have already forfeited the game before it has started. I can feel my blood starting to boil as I consider the idea of such wrongheaded self-censorship, so I will not dwell upon it.
It is obvious that the Geert Wilders trial is not about justice. Most of us can see that the purpose of the kangaroo court that Mr. Wilders stands before is to intimidate individuals into silence. Mr. Wilders is meant to be an example.
What is happening in the Netherlands is not ‘somebody else’s problem’. The real question here is ‘What kind of world do you want your children living in?’. Will they curse you for what you’ve left them?
People need to accept the fact that they will be called names for speaking out. That is the way the game is played. There is nothing new about it :
“The first reaction to truth is hatred” — Tertullian
To expect others to come to your rescue is a recipe for failure. If one lacks the courage to speak out themselves, they should at least muster up the courage to support those who do.
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.” — Thomas Mann.
I offer the quotations as evidence that these things have been considered before. There is nothing new in the world. We are not sailing in uncharted waters.
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