Cartoon Madness Update: "Säpo reveals Swedish embassy threats," from The Local, with thanks to Fjordman:
Sweden's security police, Säpo, has revealed that serious threats were directed at Swedish embassies abroad after the far right group Sweden Democrats published one of the pictures of the prophet Muhammad on its web site.According to a letter from Säpo, signed by the organisation's boss Klas Bergenstrand, sent to the Chancellor of Justice, a competition run on the Sweden Democrats' site to draw another Muhammad picture was widely reported in the mainstream Middle East media.
The first response to the drawing came in January via the embassy of a Muslim country. On January 31st Sweden's Ministry of Foreign Affairs had a meeting with ambassadors from Muslim countries, and just a few days later the Sweden Democrats published the drawing on its web site, reported Göteborgs-Posten.
The reaction was such that Säpo considered there to be a risk that Swedish embassies, agency representatives and other institutions could be exposed to serious criminal attacks. In its letter to the Chancellor of Justice, the security police also stated that Swedes abroad could be in danger....
"...the far right group Sweden Democrats..."
I hope Fjordman or someone familiar with Swedish politics can answer a question for me. When this newspaper labels this group as "far right," what does that mean? Are they neo-nazis, libertarians, champions of western values, or what? This term "far right" is obviously intended to conjure up a negative image, but I'm very skeptical there is a common understanding of what that term really means in any given context. Thanks for any response.
An excellent question. Just how accurate, or how inaccurate, is the epithet "far right"? What does it mean? During the Lebanese Civil War, Ionesco commented mordantly that "the paper everyone reads [Le Monde] always calls the Lebanese Christians the 'right-wing' Christians, but what makes those Christian villagers in northern Lebanon 'rightist'?"
When a newspaper uses such an epithet, that newspaper;s writers and editors have not permitted you to make up your mind yourself as to how you would characterize this party, or that candidate. They have told you what to think -- what they want you to think. If this were recognized as such, and understood by the reading public, it would be one thing. But most members of that long-suffering reading public are not sufficiently alert to words to notice, and besides, it is so much easier, always and everywhere, to be told what to think. Saves time. And time is money, so saves money too. What could be better?
MUSLIM IDOLATRY
This is more proof these loony bastards idolize and worship Muhammad. Thus are more properly called Muhammadans, not Muslims. Allah is in the back seat and Mo is doing the driving
There seems to be a constellation (or constellations) of issues and policies that fit various points on the spectrum of "left-right". Among those that seem to fit rightward are Pro-Israel, Pro-American, Anti-Islam(ist). This "fitness" of spectrum-positioning also seems to involve a melange of factors of rationality along with vagaries of doxa, as analysts of varying degrees of fitness grapple with the ideological deformation of political science since the seating arrangements of the French National Assembly in 1789 became catalyzed into symbolization.
Off with the head of that silly muppet .. the Swedish Chef.
Do these people ever rest? Wasn't that last months offense? I guess there's no such thing as forgive and forget in Islam because they're too busy nursing their pitiful grudges.
"I hope Fjordman or someone familiar with Swedish politics can answer a question for me. When this newspaper labels this group as "far right," what does that mean? Are they neo-nazis, libertarians, champions of western values, or what?"
You can read their own self description in English at:
http://www.sverigedemokraterna.se/
I would describe them as having socialist fiscal politics (high taxes and a 'mothering' state) combined with a dislike for immigration into Sweden.
I read their program carefully. I am an Italian and a historian and I think I can detect Fascists - the real thing, not people categorized for any reason as "right-wing", and while I see a certain amount of risk that these people might indeed be drawn to a Fascist platform, what they are now is not Fascist so much as nostalgic for Sweden as it was in the fifties and sixties. A lot of their policies - environmentalist, anti-animal experimentation, etc. - mirror green traditions, and the rest seems dedicated to tweaking the Swedish system only enough to take it out of its current tailspin. They are, in fact, a typical protest party, arising from ground-level concerns and trying to placate different and possibly incompatible demands - e.g. encourage small business but limit animal experimentation (which would damage the medical sector), lower taxes but improve the condition of pensioners. I believe what they say, that new members come from all colours of the political rainbow. As such, I do not know whether it can endure. Protest parties - Chesterton's Distributionists in Britain in the thirties, Uomo Qualunque ("Ordinary Citizen") in Italy in 1946, Poujade's movement in fifties France, the Social Democrats in Britain in the eighties, Pym Fortuyn's lot in the Netherlands - tend to fall apart because the members share a common anger but not necessarily common policies. However, its rise shows that even in Sweden the frozen tundra of political consensus is more than ripe for cracking.
After all that dhimmitude in Sweden, including turning over Malmo to Muslims, this is what they face?
Good thing - despite perfecting Taqqiya, Islam doesn't seem to know how to divide and conquer. One would have thought that they would have left Europe along for not going along with the US. They were wrong. As events in France, Germany, Norway all prove, there is no pleasing them.
the threats against Swedes and Sweden highlight another problem of political Islam. That is, the belief in collective punishment. That is, if one Swedish party insulted Islam, then all Swedes are guilty and must be punished and it's right to kill masses of non-believers just because some Swedes or Danes or Frenchmen published the Muhammad cartoons.
Not only to "all infidels belong to one nation" [kulli kufar millatun wahidun], but all infidels may be punished for the sins of a few [sins in Islam's view, of course]. This makes the Islamic mentality dangerous. We've been living with this mentality here for a very long time.