And that marks the end of Sweden’s national heritage. My latest in FrontPage:
Qaisar Mahmood, a Muslim born in Pakistan, is the new head of the Swedish National Heritage Board. This is an extremely anomalous appointment, since he readily admits that he has not read anything about Sweden’s cultural heritage. But his new job is not really about preserving and protecting Sweden’s cultural heritage and historical sites at all.
Qaisar Mahmood, who once rode his motorcycle around Sweden in an apparently failed attempt to discover what being Swedish consisted of, is using his position as head of the Swedish National Heritage Board not to highlight and celebrate that heritage, but to downplay Sweden’s cultural heritage and history, and to create a false narrative that will help compel Swedes to accept mass Muslim migration. He says he doesn’t want simply to alert people to Viking artifacts and the like, but to use Sweden’s history to “create the narrative” that will make Muslim migrants “part of something.”
We have already seen how that works. Remember the fake news story about the Viking burial cloth bearing the word “Allah”? Last October, a Swedish researcher gained international headlines by claiming that burial costumes from Viking graves dating back to the ninth and tenth centuries had been found to be inscribed with the name “Allah.” The intent of this was obvious: to convince Swedes that Islam had always been a part of Sweden, all the way back to the days of the Vikings, and so they should not be concerned about the mass Muslim migration that was now bringing Sweden unprecedented rape and other crime rates. Islam has always been a part of Sweden! Stop opposing mass Muslim migration!
The Viking burial cloths didn’t really feature the name “Allah” at all, as Stephennie Mulder is an associate professor of Medieval Islamic art and archaeology at the University of Texas at Austin, proved shortly thereafter, but by then the damage had been done. The idea had entered, however dimly, the popular consciousness: the Vikings were really Muslims. Islam is Swedish. Sweden was Islamic before it was Christian. The Muslim migrants are Swedes.
The “Allah” Viking burial cloth propaganda offensive was one manifestation of what Qaisar Mahmood and others like him are doing. There is no Muslim history in Sweden, but Qaisar Mahmood is working to change the very idea of cultural heritage and fabricate fictions about a historical Muslim presence in Sweden in order to advance his political and sociological agenda.
Qaisar Mahmood, as a Pakistani, of course has no Swedish heritage of his own. His admitted lack of knowledge of Swedish heritage and history ought to have disqualified him from his position, but this is how Sweden is obliterating itself and committing cultural and national suicide. After all, Swedes appointed Qaisar Mahmood to this position. It is Swedish leaders who want to destroy Swedish cultural and national identity.
It also must be remembered in connection with Qaisar Mahmood’s role as head of the Swedish National Heritage Board that the Qur’an suggests that ruins are a sign of Allah’s punishment of those who rejected his truth: “Many were the Ways of Life that have passed away before you: travel through the earth, and see what was the end of those who rejected Truth.” (3:137)
This is one of the foundations of the Islamic idea that pre-Islamic civilizations, and non-Islamic civilizations, are all jahiliyya — the society of unbelievers, which is worthless. Obviously this cuts against the idea of tourism of ancient sites and non-Muslim religious installations such as are found all over Sweden.
V. S. Naipaul encountered this attitude in his travels through Muslim countries. For many Muslims, he observed in Among the Believers, “The time before Islam is a time of blackness: that is part of Muslim theology. History has to serve theology.” Naipaul recounted that some Pakistani Muslims, far from valuing the nation’s renowned archeological site at Mohenjo Daro, saw its ruins as a teaching opportunity for Islam, recommending that Qur’an 3:137 be posted there as a teaching tool.
It does lead one to ponder what Qaisar Mahmood might allow to be done, or not done, with Sweden’s historical sites and artifacts. But whatever destruction may ensue is, obviously, what Swedish authorities want.
steve says
A ‘swede’ in English indicates a rather dense vegetable….seems more appropriate every day…
p bay says
smart like a dodo
Jaladhi says
This raises the question once again- are Swedes dumb and getting dumber?
J D S says
Just one more idiotic move by the sewers….Their stupidity just keeps building. What happened Sweeden?
Gjallarhornet says
To feminized and soft good old Sweden has turned. Finland is better.
Finnish synonym for a gay man: a Swede.
mortimer says
Here is the organisation chart: https://www.raa.se/in-english/swedish-national-heritage-board/organisation-chart/
It seems Mr Qaisar is a VP of communications, rather than commander in chief.
mortimer says
The chart was dated Oct. 2017, so he’s head quite the promotion. And how does he communicate? Just read the following WORD SALAD that says anything you want but which has a strong aroma redolent of taqiyya and BIg Brother:
“We must change the image of cultural heritage, and enable a more long-term approach to it. Decisions maker need to become much more familiar with and interested in the issue and understand its importance.”
– (Qaisar writing in 2017 before his promotion)
Karen says
It does sound like the plan of a person who wants to bring about fundamental change, to quote our Leftist former president, Mr. Obama. Of course, Qaisar doesn’t publically say what that change “must” be. But, if we take our cue from all the other Leftists, it must be something about ‘inclusiveness’. If the Swedish cultural heritage must be changed to foster ‘inclusiveness’, so be it. And if Swedish culture needs to be chopped down, or eliminated to build up the egos and prestige of Muslim immigrants, all the better. Because the number one, over-riding principle of Leftists is identity politics; rewarding the favored identify group of the moment by destroying some other group of people, in this case, native Swedes.
Benedict says
The cultural heritage of Sweden past, present and future:
https://youtu.be/oHkXhhXcvUk
Probably the worst and fastest collapse of a nation the world has ever seen – and that’s what happen when women rule a nation. (Sweden has the first feminist government in the world. http://www.government.se/government-policy/a-feminist-government/)
Westman says
This is as nutty as appointing Theresa May to be head of, “The Daughters Of The American Revolution”
It seems the Russians are being outdone in the boastful claim to all human progress. Muslims invented this, and that. Moses was a Muslim, Abraham was a Muslim; next thing will be a claim that the dinosaurs were Muslims. For some, one might believe a reverse of the latter.
Indiana Tom says
The dinosaurs were way too smart to adapt Islam.
CRUSADER says
Oh indeed….leaving aside the concept of ijtihad, of course…which got shelved.
Muslims indeed are more like dinosaurs….particularly Linda Dyno-Sarsour.
Indiana Tom says
I have some Norwegian ancestry, Can i be the new head of the Swedish National Heritage Board?
Okay, I am really much more Swiss than Swede, but hey they both start with an S and people get the countries confused.
CRUSADER says
No! You cannot!
Both the Swiss and Swedish flags have crosses on them.
And we know that the crosses are to be broken….
gravenimage says
Better almost any random non-Muslim person in the West, Swedish or not. They are far more likely to have compatible values than this Mohammedan does.
Indiana Tom says
Among the Believers, “The time of Islam is a time of blackness: that is part of Muslim theology. History has to serve theology.”
He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.
gravenimage says
Fine post.
Jack Holan says
Let’s not forget Obama’s first Nobel. Even he he lost track of his dialog describing what it was earned for
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Sweden Appoints Pakistani Muslim Head of National Heritage Board
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More suicidal insanity from Sweden. Many idiots there are jettisoning their true heritage as fast as they can–and Mohammedans like the nasty Qaisar Mahmood are glad to help.
The resistance to savage Islam is not just about what we oppose, but about embracing and defending our own civilized cultures.
MFritz says
Makes perfect sense! It’s like using a wrecking ball to “renovate” your church…
Phil Copson says
This is a “Heads I win – tails you lose.” argument of course.
“You’ve always had Islam.” “No, we haven’t.” “Well, it’s about time you did then.”
billybob says
Maybe he’ll come up with some story about Muhammad having visited Sweden one night on his winged donkey.