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Sweden: Muslim MP likens jihadists to WWII freedom fighters

Jul 2, 2014 12:21 pm By Robert Spencer

Mehmet KaplanKaplan “said the jihadists were nothing to worry about and were similar to Swedish freedom fighters who joined the Finns in World War Two to fight the Soviets.” This is after security agencies in nearly every country in the West have expressed concern about trained, battle-hardened jihadis returning from Syria and Iraq to wage jihad in their “home” countries. This is after one such jihadi already committed jihad murder at the Brussels Jewish Museum. If there were any actual journalists left in Sweden, they would be asking Kaplan where his loyalties actually lie. But that would be “Islamophobic.”

“Green MP likens jihadists to WWII freedom fighters,” The Local, July 2, 2014 (thanks to Mats):

A Green Party MP has caused a stir after likening Swedish jihadists in Syria to Swedish freedom fighters in Finland during World War Two.

The comments came on Tuesday during a seminar in Almedalen about Islamophobia. On hand were Integration Minister Erik Ullenhag and Green Party MP Mehmet Kaplan, who is the former spokesman for the Muslim Council of Sweden.

While the talk was mostly about Islamophobia, matters took a turn when the integration minister said that there was a problem with young Muslims heading to Syria to be jihadists, according to political scientist Stefan Olsson, who was on the scene.

Ullenhag’s comment prompted a reaction from Kaplan, who said the jihadists were nothing to worry about and were similar to Swedish freedom fighters who joined the Finns in World War Two to fight the Soviets.

The blog entry made a splash on Swedish social media, eventually prompting Kaplan to take to Twitter to say he’d been “misunderstood”.

Of course he was! No doubt his words were “taken out of context”!

“That’s typical political speak,” David Linden, editorial columnist for the Borås Tidning newspaper, told The Local on Thursday.

“He tried to put a spin on it, but he didn’t deny it.”

Linden, who also wrote on the affair, was outraged by the comments.

“This isn’t only preposterous, it’s also a very, very strange and twisted view of history. Those who went to Finland weren’t there for religious or political reasons, they were counts, they were Social Democrat workers. Many of them were there because the governing Social Democrats had encouraged people to help.”

“Sweden is too forgiving to extremists,” he added. “Think how strange it would be if Sweden’s Catholics were so forgiving to the IRA – I mean, there’s a case to also say they were freedom fighters.”

The Local’s efforts to reach Kaplan have so far been unanswered.

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  1. John C. Barile says

    Jul 2, 2014 at 12:33 pm

    I wish that the historical context of this faulty analogy was clearly stated. I presume these Swedish volunteers fought against the Soviet invasion of Finland in the 1939-1940 Winter War[following the Soviet-Nazi Pact], rather than participate in the Finns re-engagement of hostilities in 1941-1944, as allies of Nazi Germany.

    • SuperSwede says

      Jul 2, 2014 at 1:02 pm

      You are correct. The Swedish government encouraged Swedish civilians to go to Finland to help defend what was our eastern province for 600 years.

      • John C. Barile says

        Jul 2, 2014 at 1:17 pm

        I’m glad you confirm this. I cringe at any unintended inference–in my mind, I see “Loonwatch: Spencer calls Nazi volunteers ‘freedom fighters’.”

        • Robert Spencer says

          Jul 2, 2014 at 1:22 pm

          John,

          Loonwatch has never been honest or interested in accuracy, but in this case The Local, not I, used the term “freedom fighters.”

          RS

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Jul 3, 2014 at 2:40 am

        SuperSwede

        offtopic, but I’ll take this opportunity to say – Welcome to Jihadwatch!

        I’m not sure if I’ve seen your moniker before. But along with “General Pershing” you are the second self-identified Swede who has joined the forum in the past year.

        Just out of curiosity – 1/ how did you find Jihadwatch? 2/ How long have you been lurking and what prompted you to start posting and 3/ When did you “wake up” to the Meaning and Menace of Islam, Islam, Islam?

        Many people here say deeply pessimistic things about Sweden, but *I* prefer to say – never say die. And seeing *two* Swedes posting here is a small glimmer of hope.

        For where there are two *posting*, there may be *more* who are lurking and reading…and learning. And then educating others.

        God bless you, and good luck.

        Do not despair. Just keep on keeping on, one foot in front of the other. Support the Swedish Democrats, and do what you can – gently, persistently, patiently – to “wake up” the people around you.

        I would add that if you identify as a Christian rather than as an atheist…go to church, and also get a cross, and wear it. Dhimmis are not allowed to publicly display crosses; so…wear a cross. If your local church has a bell or bells, then do encourage the priest or pastor to ring that bell or bells loud and clear at every opportunity…because it’s fun, it’s part of your historic culture, and *also* because it tells any Muslims within earshot “no Dhimmis here!!” (And if you’re not a Christian, and you hear your local church ringing its bells…drop a note and let the pastor or priest know you *appreciate* the cheerful sound and want to keep on hearing it; your voice will need to be heard, because it may be that mohammedans will be complaining and trying to *silence* those bells).

        • SuperSwede says

          Jul 3, 2014 at 4:18 am

          Thank you for your welcome, dumbledoresarmy! Sorry for going off topic Robert, feel free to delete this comment if you find it inappropriate.

          1/ how did you find Jihadwatch?
          One of the investigating tv-programs in Sweden, UG, (similar to Panorama on BBC), made a program about when Lars Wilks was invited to speak on a SION meeting in New York. Pamela Geller was the host and when I googled her blog, I found Jihadwatch and have been following it daily ever since. About two years, I think. It has been an eye opener. Thank you Robert!

          2/ How long have you been lurking and what prompted you to start posting?
          Two years. I started posting because I thought I had more relevant information to share about Mr Kaplan.

          3/ When did you “wake up” to the Meaning and Menace of Islam, Islam, Islam?
          Slowly after Lars Wilks started to get death threats after making his Mohamed drawings. I have always been a hardcore supporter of freedom of speech and couldn’t believe it when politicians, media and intellectuals more or less said that Mr Wilks had himself to blame for trying to “provoce” and “offend” muslims. I almost died. This is not the country that my ancestors have fought and died for and this is now the country where I was brought up. What happened? When and why did the intellectuals start to defend religious radicalism, as long as it comes from the muslims?
          They have been more than willing to bash and mock Christianity, so what happened?
          The hypocrisy was just stunning.
          And also, I was very close when the suicide bomber in central Stockholm blow himself up in 2010. Just a few blocks away with my family. If we had walked a few more blocks while christmas shopping and if the bomber hadn’t failed with his explosives (only he died), we could have been killed.

          I started to read more alternative sources, such as Jihad Watch, about what is happening in the world and in my country and it was like opening Pandora’s box. I couldn’t believe what I found and I couldn’t believe that the media wouldn’t write anything about it.

          I am Swedish and we’re not particularly religious even though most of us still belong to the Church of Sweden. But you make some excellent points about how important it is to embrace our christian heritage and I am doing my best to do so and educate my family about the traditions, values and history of our church.

          A small, but hopeful, light in the darkness are actually the churches in Sweden. Not the state church, because they are doing everything they can to “reach out to” muslims. They are even funding a mosque outside of Stockholm, an imam has been hired in one of the churches in central Stockholm and the personal motto for our new female archbishop Antje Jackelen is “God is greater”. (Can you believe it?)

          But in the smaller and independent churches, there is a great awarness of the muslim threat and the persecution of christians all across the world. Most of hhe people who are outright critical of islam and have good knowledge about the hate speech in the quran are christians. They seem to be very educated on the subject and very outspoken. It’s very refreshing to talk to them.

          And for an old right-wing atheist, it feels very strange to place my hope for the future salvation of our culture on Christians and Russians. 🙂

          Again, thank you for your welcome! I will continue to read here. Keep up the good work everybody. Thank you Robert for your incredible work and courage!

        • gravenimage says

          Jul 3, 2014 at 6:21 pm

          Welcome, SuperSwede!

          And thanks for your reference to the brave Lars Vilks. Here’s one of his “MoDoggies” for those who may not be familiar:

          http://tundratabloids.com/2010/12/lars-vilks-and-his-new-mo-doggie.html

    • Marit says

      Jul 3, 2014 at 9:02 am

      For your information : Mehmet Kaplan is an immigrant kurd from Turkey to Sweden.

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 3, 2014 at 7:01 pm

        Thanks for that, Marit. His full name is right in the article, but with a surname like Kaplan, I just assumed he was native Swedish.

        So this is Muslim apologia straight from a Muslim, rather than a dhimmi, this time…

        Here’s some more predictable ugliness from Mehmet Kaplan:

        “European and U.S. Muslim Brotherhood Meet At Swedish Parliament”

        http://www.globalmbwatch.com/2008/04/30/european-muslim-brotherhood-meet-swedish-parliament/

        And here’s Kaplan urging Sweden to stop defending against Jihad terror there:

        “Sweden: Why should Muslims be a terror threat?”

        http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2007/04/sweden-why-should-muslims-be-terror.html

        “Member of the Swedish Government Mehmet Kaplan Ignores Turkish Genocide But Incites Against Israel”

        http://swedenisrael.blogspot.com/2010/05/member-of-swedish-government-mehmet.html

        Incidentally, the Kurds were *also* frequently violently targeted by Turkish authorities during the Armenian Genocide—at the very same time that those same authorities often used the Kurds as attack dogs against the Armenians.

        As we can see, nothing much has changed…

  2. el-cid says

    Jul 2, 2014 at 12:33 pm

    Imagine you’re the sons of immigrants from Syria, for example. Imagine the anguish. There is absolutely nowhere to turn for help for family caught in that civil war.

    So, you “pic k a side” and go and fight.

    It is easy to be young and to be influenced by the wrong ideology and to lose your way. This situation makes it easy to lose your way.

    The failure is in our leaders, notably Obama, who cannot articulate the problem to help these youths avoid going the route of Radical Islam, and who is seen too often giving support to exactly the wrong people.

    • SuperSwede says

      Jul 2, 2014 at 1:05 pm

      It appears that the majority of the jihadists who have left Sweden to fight in Syria don’t have Syrian background but comes from other countries in the Middle East, North Africa, Balkans and Somalia.

      • Crom Bann says

        Jul 2, 2014 at 3:34 pm

        They(jihadis) will be returning to Sweden, do Europeans prostrate themselves, allow insurgencies to form in their homes populated by what are effectively foreign entities? Or do they export the imports? How is this seen playing out commonly by Scandinavians? Don’t care, don’t want to know, denial, fear, rational response, support for the destroyers of Western Civilization’s Member states in proportions, I imagine.

        • SuperSwede says

          Jul 2, 2014 at 5:35 pm

          People in general really don’t know because media doesn’t cover the jihadist threat or do it in very vague terms.
          The ISIS terrorists are called “rebels” or “freedom fighters” in the media and it isn’t until just this month, when ISIS invaded Iraq, that they are starting to write about the war crimes they commit.

          When media have reported about the jihadists that have been killed they always focus on the families and friends who say that they were such wonderful persons, nobody understands how they could have done anything bad, they have no idea how and where they were radicalised.

          In Sweden it is not illegal to go to another country to wage civil war so the jihadists can return to Sweden and nothing happens.
          In fact in Örebro, a city in the middle of the country, 12 young jihad warriors have returned and the council is trying to find jobs for them to “encourage” them not to return to Syria or Iraq.
          The media mentioned this in one paragraph, casually.
          It’s insane. Just insane.

    • Mirren10 says

      Jul 2, 2014 at 2:00 pm

      ”The failure is in our leaders, notably Obama, who cannot articulate the problem to help these youths avoid going the route of Radical Islam … ”

      Do you **really** think this ?

      So these ‘youths’ have no responsibility ? Their families have no responsibility ? Their mosque has no responsibility ?

      The **Koran** has no responsibility ?

      And there *is* no ‘radical’ islam. It’s all just islam.

      These ‘youths’ that you feel so sorry for, have been born into a Western country. They have been given a free education, housing, and access to the best that the West has to offer. And instead of using that to shake off the foul miasma of islam, they have spat on what they were freely given, gone off to murder and destroy, and if they aren’t killed, will come back to the lands of the West where they were nurtured, in order to murder and destroy there.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 3, 2014 at 7:18 pm

      el-cid wrote:

      Imagine you’re the sons of immigrants from Syria, for example. Imagine the anguish. There is absolutely nowhere to turn for help for family caught in that civil war.

      So, you “pic k a side” and go and fight.

      It is easy to be young and to be influenced by the wrong ideology and to lose your way…
      ………………………….

      I’m sorry, el-cid—the idea that the vicious Jihadists raping Christians, burning churches, and *lining the streets of Mosul with severed heads* are really just a bunch of naïve, misguided ‘youth’ rather stains credulity.

      There may be a handful of those pious Muslims who go off to wage Jihad who are appalled by what they find there—but if so, they are being *very, very quiet*.

      Far more common are the Jihadists who continue to recruit—and who are further urging those “veterans” to then return home and wage violent Jihad against the innocent Infidels there.

      Most Muslims are taught the waging of violent Jihad from their earliest days—I believe most of them *just* what they are doing when they go off to join the Jihad.

  3. mariam rove says

    Jul 2, 2014 at 12:34 pm

    Of course he was! No doubt his words were “taken out of context”!….

    Isn’t always the case? It is like this: Out of context and the action of a few….m

  4. mariam rove says

    Jul 2, 2014 at 12:34 pm

    Of course he was! No doubt his words were “taken out of context”!….

    Isn’t always the case? It is like this: Out of context and the action of a few….m

  5. mariam rove says

    Jul 2, 2014 at 12:34 pm

    Of course he was! No doubt his words were “taken out of context”!….

    Isn’t always the case? It is like this: Out of context and the action of a few….m

  6. Angemon says

    Jul 2, 2014 at 12:35 pm

    “Ullenhag’s comment prompted a reaction from Kaplan, who said the jihadists were nothing to worry about and were similar to Swedish freedom fighters who joined the Finns in World War Two to fight the Soviets.”

    If we consider that “freedom” means sharia and “Soviets” means all non-muslims in the world who won’t abide by islamic law Kaplan is right. Make no mistake: if a muslim is indoctrinated enough to go and risk his life fighting in Syria then when/if he returns the next ones he’ll fight against are the natives of his host country. It’s not like they’re going to play paintball with their friends to vent a little of steam and after return they start being law-abiding citizens. They go there because they are devout enough to take the “kill them wherever you find them” verses to the letter, as it is interpreted in islamic orthodoxy, and once they return as battle-hardened warriors who do you think will be the next in line in their “freedom fight”?

  7. mariam rove says

    Jul 2, 2014 at 12:36 pm

    sorry about the multiple posts. not sure how it happened. M

  8. Beagle says

    Jul 2, 2014 at 12:51 pm

    Unfortunately for us, “freedom” or “hurriyah” is most famously explained as “perfect slavery to Allah.”

    Similarly, to them, “justice” means sharia theocracy.

    Muslims play games with our terminology while our institutions systematically delude us about Islam. Their strategy is effective while our societies are willfully blind.

  9. shrugger says

    Jul 2, 2014 at 1:05 pm

    I might actually agree with him…if the Swedish Freedom fighters had then begun rolling through Russia. Murdering everyone that didn’t know the Swedish word for Peace.

    • John C. Barile says

      Jul 2, 2014 at 3:32 pm

      I don’t know about those Swedes, but the Finns never pushed beyond the Svir River, east of Lake Ladoga. Their interest was limited to retaking Karelia and Petsamo. Even so, I still get your humor.

    • John C. Barile says

      Jul 2, 2014 at 3:41 pm

      Oh, now I understand–you must mean those Swedes under King Charles XII, on their way down to Poltava, during the Great Northern War. Yes, now that was an invasion deep into Russia. That was a century before Napoleon’s misadventure; over two centuries before Adolf Hitler went for broke.

      • John C. Barile says

        Jul 2, 2014 at 3:52 pm

        My history may be a bit off, if ever I knew to begin with.

    • John C. Barile says

      Jul 2, 2014 at 3:45 pm

      Charles XII tried to get the Turks to fight Russia, BTW.

  10. General Pershing says

    Jul 2, 2014 at 1:22 pm

    This stupid f**k is just one of the islamists in the Swedish political parties. Almost no one dare to question their motives. And every party has one “houseislamist” except for the Sweden Democrats so not to loose the muslim votes.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jul 3, 2014 at 2:26 am

      You wrote – “And every party has one “houseislamist” except for the Sweden Democrats so not to loose [sic: it’s “lose” – dda] the muslim votes.”

      Good on the Sweden Democrats!

      What’s *their* position re jihad-minded mohammedans in possession of Swedish passports who waltz off to wallow in the jihad bloodbath in Syria (or in any other part of the dar al Islam. e.g. as it might be Libya, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, etc etc etc)?

      And how are they *doing*, votewise?

      If I were in Sweden I’d be a signed-up paying member. You’re actually luckier than us in Australia – luckier in that you have at least *one* party, however small, that is clearsightedly resistant to Islamisation – because *both* of our major parties are rapidly being corrupted by the mohammedan bloc vote. Labor took the bait first but now the mohammedans are dangling it in front of the LNP (Liberal-National Party) and they are gobbling it up with unseemly haste.

      • SuperSwede says

        Jul 3, 2014 at 3:40 am

        The Swedish Democrats have been warning about the jihadist threat for years and of course are called rasist bigots for it everywhere.

        They are trying to raise awarness and stop immigration from *certain* countries but they only have 5% of the parliament all the other parties will do anything they can not to cooperate with them so they are more or less powerless.
        I think we will need to have another terror attack on Swedish soil with a lot of casualties before people will start to listen. We probably will have in the future with all the jihadists who are returning here.

        Just for your information, 2500 asylum seekers are arriving in Sweden every week now. The prognosis for 2014 was 70 000, but now the authorities are mentioning 100 000.
        According to the Swedish Migration Board, more than 90% of them show no documents of identification. No passports, no valid id-cards, nothing. We have no idea who we let in, what they have done in the past or why they are here. All Syrians get permanent residence, no questions asked.
        As a comparison, other Nordic countries accept about 2000-10 000 refugees a year. Sweden: possibly 100 000. We are a small country with 9M people.

      • SuperSwede says

        Jul 3, 2014 at 3:49 am

        The Swedish Democrats have been warning about the jihadist threat for years and of course are called rasist bigots for it everywhere.

        They are trying to raise awarness and stop immigration from *certain* countries but they only have 5% of the places in teh parliament. All the other parties will do anything they can not to cooperate with them so they are more or less powerless.
        I think we will need to have another terror attack on Swedish soil with a lot of casualties before people will start to listen. We probably will have in the near future with all the jihadists who are returning here.

        Just for your information, 2500 asylum seekers are arriving in Sweden every week now. The prognosis for 2014 was 70 000, but now the authorities are mentioning 100 000.
        According to the Swedish Migration Board, more than 90% of them show no documents of identification. No passports, no valid id-cards, nothing. We have no idea who we let in, what they have done in the past or why they are here. All Syrians get permanent residence, no questions asked.

        As a comparison, other Nordic countries accept about 2000-10 000 refugees a year.
        Sweden: possibly 100 000. We are a small country with 9M people.

  11. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jul 2, 2014 at 1:58 pm

    Let’s call it that MP Mehmet Kaplan is half right. The Swedes made a lot of concessions to the Nazis in order to save themselves, and gave a wink and a nod to fighters headed to help then Nazi ally Finland against the Red Army.

    It’s a crazy mixed up world in which we live, you got to make concessions to survive. Isn’t Islam above all crazy, mixed up, and infused with concessions?

    True, the Swedes back then were fighting for freedom, so were the Finns, while those going to Syria are fighting for religious supremacy, Sharia, and a new Caliphate. But what’s the diff? After all, Sweden ain’t exactly a free country now, with its freedom having deflated with the advances of globo-socialism and more recently the Swedish taxpayer-funded absorption of hordes of Moslems from several Dar al-Hell Hole countries.

  12. Rob says

    Jul 2, 2014 at 5:49 pm

    I think there is a huge difference between Swedes fighting the Russians in Finland where there are longstanding ties and Muslims going to the ME.
    These Muslims have been granted the incomparable gift of asylum and citizenship in Sweden as a chance to start a new life.
    They were not granted this status to turn Sweden into a rear base to continue the 1400 year-old Muslim conflict.
    Why don’t the host communities of the West insist that asylum is conditional.
    Asylum and citizenship in the West isn’t a smorgasbord where you sup from some dishes – education, democracy, orderly civil society etc but say no to the responsibilities.
    PS This comment would sound better if it wasn’t Sweden, which seems hellbent on prostrating itself to Islam.

  13. SuperSwede says

    Jul 2, 2014 at 6:09 pm

    Mehmet Kaplan is a board member of Charta 2008, an organization that was founded to support a Swedish prisoner of Guantanamo Bay, Mehdi Ghezali and also fight against “the war on terror” and work for softer terrorist laws.

    Mehdi Ghezali was arrested in Pakistan in 2001, near the Tora Bora mountains and sent to Guantanamo Bay. He was released in 2004, after a lot of lobbying from the Swedish autorities.
    In 2009, Ghezali was arrested again in Pakistan, suspect of having contact with Al Qaeda, toghether with eleven other people, but was later released.
    One of the arrested toghether with Ghezali was Munir Awad who in 2012 was sentenced to 12 years in prison in Denmark for planning a terror attack against Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper who published the Mohamed caricatures.

    Charta 2008 have some other interesting board members. One is Anna Sundberg (Um Anas) who is married to the Algerian Said Arif. Arif was in 2004 sentenced to ten years in prison in France for planning two terror attacks in Europe. He was said to have close ties to Abu Musad Al-Zarkawi.
    http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saïd_Arif

    These are the kind of people that Kaplan defends and works with.
    He was also on the flotilla”Ship to Gaza” in 2010, where 9 people were killed when the Israeli military boarded the ships and were attacked by Turkish “activists”.
    http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&artikel=3740235
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/31/gaza-flotilla-attacked-israel_n_595239.html

    • PJG says

      Jul 2, 2014 at 11:41 pm

      Wow, that’s some CV. No wonder the Swedish Greens love him. I’m sure our Australian Greens would be green with envy if they knew, and they would try to get one of their own; preferably a former refugee…oh whoops, one can’t be a “former” refugee, one is allowed to revel in that privileged status forever.

      • SuperSwede says

        Jul 3, 2014 at 3:47 am

        It’s quite a resume. Kaplan has also been rubbing shoulders with and has welcomed members of the Muslim Brotherhood to Sweden and has participated in their meetings. It’s unclear whether is an actual member of not, but at least he doesn’t dislike them.

        • dumbledoresarmy says

          Jul 3, 2014 at 8:53 am

          SuperSwede

          I can’t reply directly to your long reply made to me above (the posting in which you explained how you found your way to jihadwatch, and realized that Islam was dangerous, etc).

          So I’ll take the opportunity of replying here.

          Thank you for telling your story. It was very interesting and I think many others beside me – people who, like me, live far away from Sweden – will get a better idea of the situation in your country, after reading it.

          And you were only a few blocks away from that evil murder-“martyr” bomber in Stockholm in 2010. Wow, what a narrow – and lucky – escape.

          If I may ask, how old are you? You mention your family – you have children? (I am fifty years old, female, married, with four children – two in their twenties, two in their teens). My regards to your spouse and family and I wish you all the best.

          PS I admire Mr Lars Vilks; he has stood up to the Mohammedans very bravely.

        • SuperSwede says

          Jul 3, 2014 at 11:58 am

          Thank you dumbledoresarmy. I am glad if I can help to spread information about the present day situation in my country.

          I wish you and your family the best!

  14. OLIRC says

    Jul 3, 2014 at 8:28 am

    Mehmet Kaplan have been the chairman of the organization SUM (Swedish Young Muslims) so i see him as a Jihadi who practice Taqyyia when it serves him about his defence answer that he been misunderstood.

    I live in Sweden and have been in the board for Swedish Democrats but now i resigned from that post.

    But back to MK Finnish people in Sweden gonna report him to DO (Discrimination Ombudsman) because they can do it and probably win the case but i as a Swede can report but i as a swede is in majority and our Justice of department say that i can´t be discriminated.

    MK is on Twitter as @MehmetKaplan and the political party where he is in charge for “integration” is also on Twitter as @miljopartiet

    I have asked @miljopartiet about this MK but no answer and they know they can´t produce any respectable one.

    • SuperSwede says

      Jul 3, 2014 at 11:55 am

      It’s worth mentioning that another person who participated in the same debate as Kaplan is the present chairman of SUM (Sveriges Unga Muslimer/Swedish Young Muslims), Rashid Musa.
      According to the reports from the debate Musa agreed with Kaplan and said that jihadists are similar to Swedes who fought in Finland.

      SUM is one of the biggest and most influential muslim organisations in Sweden and recieves funds from tax payers. In 2010 it was about $200 000.

  15. gravenimage says

    Jul 3, 2014 at 6:14 pm

    Sweden: Muslim MP likens jihadists to WWII freedom fighters

    Kaplan “said the jihadists were nothing to worry about and were similar to Swedish freedom fighters who joined the Finns in World War Two to fight the Soviets.”
    ………………………………

    I had assumed, initially, that this tool was claiming that Jihadists were just like those who *fought the Nazis*—but his analogy is lot more iffy than that.

    Now, I actually have a lot of sympathy for the Finns at the time, who *really were* invaded and oppressed by the Soviets. There is no doubt that the Soviets were very ugly—especially under Stalin.

    But there is *also* no doubt that at least some of the Swedes who went to Finland to fight there were more Nazi sympathizers than they were fighting for Finnish freedom—which makes this claim morally equivocal at best.

    But this *is* an apt analogy for Jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq—I’m just not sure that many will read Kaplan’s words that way.

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