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Sweden: Police to focus on combating “hate speech”

Mar 23, 2018 2:39 pm By Robert Spencer

We have recently seen how this works in Sweden: a 65-year-old woman is on trial for “hate crime,” and has been intensively harassed by police. This announcement means that more Swedes who oppose Islamization and mass Muslim migration will be harassed and persecuted by Swedish authorities, while the jihad grows ever more aggressive.

“The police to focus on combating hate speech,” translated from “Polisen storsatsar mot åsiktsbrott,” Fria Tider, March 22, 2018 (thanks to Denny):

Domestic. The Police in the South Region will now focus more on combating and investigating so-called hate crime as “harassment of an ethnic group.” A special regional group will be formed responsible for investigating and prosecuting such cases throughout the region, the police have announced on their website. According to the police, investigations must be conducted with urgency and special skills.

It is ahead of the forthcoming elections this autumn that the police in southern Sweden now have to make extra efforts to fight so-called hatred and crime against democracy.

The police mention crimes as “harassment of an ethnic group,” but point out that the hate crime designation may apply to any crime if the intention was to attack someone because of their national origin, ethnicity, color, belief or sexual orientation. If there is a so-called hate crime motive, the perpetrator could receive a more severe penalty for the crime.

Crime against democracy is described as a crime that threatens someone’s constitutional right to exercise, for example, the freedom of expression and religion.

The police in the South region already have a hate crime group, and it is going to be expanded in the spring to work throughout the region. It will have a “holistic mission” combating crime against democracy and hatred.

“As for the determining that motives of hatred exist, this will be the work of investigators whose investigations are outside of the purview of police. Some crimes should be investigated in this way because special skills are needed,” said Petra Stenkula, Head of the Investigation Unit, in a video.

“Crimes against democracy and hate crime are something that we will look at in particular. We will make sure that we investigate these crimes with special expertise, and preferably with a little urgency to ensure human rights, “she says.

The police will also work to create trust among groups that are said to be exposed to “hate crimes,” so that even more people will dare to report these crimes to police.

According to Stenkula, much is not known about the prevalence of such crimes, among other things because the victims hesitate to report them.

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  1. Halal Bacon says

    Mar 23, 2018 at 2:41 pm

    Exactly how many muslims have been arrested in Sweden for hate speech?

    • CT says

      Mar 23, 2018 at 2:45 pm

      Bingo. The hadith “threaten someone’s constitutional right to exercise, for example, the freedom of expression and religion.” No Muslim preaching should be allowed that doesn’t reject or allow superceding of the violent verses of the hadith. The freedom to choose own’s one religion or lack thereof must be protected.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 23, 2018 at 3:20 pm

      Probably none, Halal Bacon…

      • mortimer says

        Mar 23, 2018 at 5:55 pm

        THE SWEDISH PEOPLE ARE BEING GAGGED BEFORE THEIR SNUFF MURDERS.

        • mortimer says

          Mar 23, 2018 at 5:59 pm

          HERE’S WHAT HAPPENS to retired women in Sweden when they speak out against the government’s policy

        • LeftisruiningCanada says

          Mar 24, 2018 at 4:06 pm

          Oh yes, that lady sure comes across like a hateful violent bigot doesn’t she!

          (no, she sounds like a nice grandmotherly type who cares)

      • Andy says

        Mar 24, 2018 at 12:52 am

        A Breath Of Free Speech

        • Andy says

          Mar 24, 2018 at 6:40 pm

          Why the Left Loves Mass Immigration

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu1trFe9BsI

          Sweden (Big trouble, little Europe)

    • MSW says

      Mar 23, 2018 at 8:20 pm

      None.

    • Ezra says

      Mar 24, 2018 at 1:13 pm

      I would say not one single moslem has been called up on hate speech charges. The qur’an has at least 185 suras (verses) that call for the killing of the kafir, or unbelievers. (now do take into account the islamic propagandists who try to explain away the meanings of that word, but recall that muhammed commands moslems to lie in order to advance the cause). My personal observation after 40 years of study of that system is that every moslem lies about almost everything. In fact, I have concluded that they are an inferior culture BECAUSE OF the innate need to lie. Sounds harsh, but all evidence points to it. Furthermore, when compared side-by-side with Christianity and Judaism both of which prize truth one can easily see why moslems employ hate speech to pull the wool over weak minds in the West like the Swedes, the French and the increasingly the Brits.

      People need to keep telling the unvarnished truth about this false religion.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Mar 24, 2018 at 4:03 pm

      That’s the question.

      But of course, only those with ‘power’ can be racist or hateful, so i’m guessing that it’s only a certain group of Swedes who can possibly be charged under these laws.

    • J D S says

      Mar 24, 2018 at 10:15 pm

      Europe is welcoming its latest Muslim country
      SWEDENISTAN!

    • Joseph Garrick says

      Mar 28, 2018 at 12:03 pm

      Ezra: My goodness Muslims effusing hate speech, whatever next ! Joking apart though we must review historical issues that explain an awful lot: The Bedouin Abraham invented the intolerant monotheistic Asian desert God that both the Jewish Sect of Christianity and Islam worship. Both have caused countless deaths over the centuries. A few examples: In 782 AD Charlemagne murdered 4,500 Saxons because they refused baptism and the worship of the Asian Jewish God. Between the mid 1500s and 1727 the Christians murdered 60,000 mainly women as “Witches” ! Even in the American colony of America 19 innocent women were hanged at Salem as witches. During the 30 years war in Europe Christian slaughtered Christian and between 1 & 8million died including the King of Sweden Gustav who was the Protestant Champion.
      The last “Witch” the Christians burnt in Scotland was Anne Horne burnt in 1727, Aberdeenshire. In 1600 the Christians burnt Bruno a polymath who merely speculated that other worlds besides earth might exist. It was in tolerant Pagan Europe we saw Aristarchos who postulated a heliocentric Hypothesis earth 1,800 years before Copernicus, Erastothenes born 276 BC calculated the circumference of the earth. Democracy = Ancient Greek Demos – Kratos literally, people power. The Saxons had their Moot Council and the Norse had the Thing. We should return to our European roots, Heil Odin, Heil all our ancient Northern European Gods and goddesses.
      Sig Wunjo

  2. elee says

    Mar 23, 2018 at 2:54 pm

    If they’re attacking hate speech, does that include the Kor’an? Reliance of the Traveler? Sunnah collections? I didn’t think so. They call their hatred “religion.” More Muslim lies.

  3. Sentinel says

    Mar 23, 2018 at 2:58 pm

    Is the massive purchase of bulletproof glass also to protect people from hate speech, or are the police fed up with dodging bullets and hand grenades and prefer to pick on the unarmed and helpless ?

    • Angus66 says

      Mar 23, 2018 at 3:08 pm

      The latter…

  4. gravenimage says

    Mar 23, 2018 at 3:19 pm

    Sweden: Police to focus on combating “hate speech”
    ………………..

    Ignore the tsumani of rape and violence from Muslims on Swedes, and focus on any Swede daring to point this out. Suicidal insanity.

  5. Westman says

    Mar 23, 2018 at 3:24 pm

    “Crimes against democracy..” – that’s a fair assesment of Islam’s Sharia.

    I’m reminded of song lyrics, something like: “Beautiful, beautiful, Brown Eyes, I’ll never see Blue Eyes again”. Maybe that could become the new national anthem of Sweden…

    Q. How many Muslims does it take to destroy democracy in Sweden?

    A. Just a minority – the government will do the rest with OPM. (The government opium, Other People’s Money.)

  6. King Sobieski says

    Mar 23, 2018 at 4:03 pm

    Islam mandates the subjugation of non-Muslims and the imposition of Sharia Law . If opposing these political aspects of Islam is considered a threat to democracy , Sweden is doomed , and any other western countries that adopt this “progressive” stance .

  7. BrilliantIdiot says

    Mar 23, 2018 at 4:37 pm

    “harassment of an ethnic group.”…I wonder if the majority of the victims of migrant rapes could be of a common ethnic group, ie native Swedes? This must not be as much of a priority for the police compared to nasty (but true) words.

    • james collins says

      Mar 24, 2018 at 3:49 am

      dang…I would be happy to help this lady out with like $100. bucks if someone would start a “gofundme” page and post the link … she seems to know her way around the internet….i”m willing to help

  8. Gjallarhornet says

    Mar 23, 2018 at 4:38 pm

    Living close to Sweden, I can tell that the situation is even WORSE than most people here believe. A policeman recently warned that next step (just around the bend) is criminal gangs luring police into an ambush and firing at them there with kalshnikovs.Yes, the country is pretty screwed. The problem for the government and their hush it up-policy is that the violence are spilling over into middle class neighbourhoods, every day more and more. Thus, it is no longer possible to conceal reality and thus the censorship is tightened.

    • Gjallarhornet says

      Mar 23, 2018 at 4:56 pm

      I’ll prove Swedish absurdity right now. Any Swede stating, orally or in writing, that they pledge allegiance to Sweden and that their first and foremost loyalty would be to their country and the Swedish state would IMMEDIATELY be labeled a suspect individual. Thus, anyone wanting to defend Sweden is, in some form or another, a criminal.

      Now … how can a country that brands the persons loyal to it as criminals ever find people ever defend itself?

      • Gjallarhornet says

        Mar 23, 2018 at 4:58 pm

        Typos. Should read: “Now … how can a country that brands the persons loyal to it as criminals ever find the people to defend it?”

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 24, 2018 at 10:25 pm

          Insanity.

    • Mockingjay says

      Mar 23, 2018 at 5:11 pm

      – I hear there’s a new political party in Sweden, “Alternative for Sweden”.
      I also heard that no-less-than 2, yes, a whole 2 % of Swedish voters support this new “anti-immigration” party.

      – Guess any problems Sweden has will soon be solved then.

      • Gjallarhornet says

        Mar 23, 2018 at 5:31 pm

        Well, it has been predicted 25% in the next elections for SD. It probably will be something like 20%. The problem is, ALL the other parties boycott ANY cooperation with SD. This includes the conservative mainstream party, Moderaterna. (M) This despite the fact that SD is *not* an extremist party in any form. They just want to reform the immigration policy. What they have proposed so far seem more similar to the policy of the Norwegian Social Democratic Party than anything remotely extremist. That is, however, enough to get shunned in modern Swedish politics.

        What I do not understand however, is that the Moderates do not see the power that lies in hooking up with SD. They would get a surge in votes, the road to power would be open. In other countries politicians would see the gain in making just a swift adjustment. The opportunity is there, right in front of their very noses. And they do not see it. I think only in Sweden is this possible. So far has the indoctrination gone: they shun a party close to their own ideology is order to carry out the triumph of the hegemony of parties of the left – over a failed idea. All in fear of being branded ‘racists’. In no other country could this happen,

        • Gjallarhornet says

          Mar 23, 2018 at 5:33 pm

          PS. SD had 13 % in the last elections. Nobody talks to them in parliament. That’s 13% of the voters being told to fuck of.

        • Save Europe says

          Mar 24, 2018 at 11:17 am

          Whilst I’m English, I lived in the Netherlands for many years. The same happens to Geert Wilders and the PVV. Supposed Centrists and Leftard parties collude together to work against them.

  9. isabel says

    Mar 23, 2018 at 4:49 pm

    Complee idiots.Cannot they see what thry do when they enter a country?

  10. Voytek Gagalka says

    Mar 23, 2018 at 5:12 pm

    Sweden is finished with those Nazi-feminists in power. Poland (which borders them across the Baltic Sea) would be well advised to create a sort of defensive “wall” in order to prevent future “new deluge” from the North, not unlike the one they once suffered in the middle of 17th century.

    • Save Europe says

      Mar 24, 2018 at 12:54 am

      Let them attempt to swim across. The Baltic Sea isn’t very warm.

  11. Michael Poulin says

    Mar 23, 2018 at 6:50 pm

    This is exactly why the citizens of United States need the 2nd amendment….the government does not protect you..it only feeds on you.

  12. kouldb says

    Mar 23, 2018 at 8:41 pm

    Human rights for terrorists & rapists in democracy? In any other generation, this would have been treason. Meanwhile, if Islam were a European or western invention, it would have long ago been classed an dangerous cult & declared illegal.

  13. David M says

    Mar 23, 2018 at 11:36 pm

    “Crime against democracy is described as a crime that threatens someone’s constitutional right to exercise, for example, the freedom of expression and religion.”

    This is doing my head in. So if I am a Swede & try to practise freedom of expression & start criticising Islam as per freedom of expression expressed above will I be safe, or will I be prosecuted for “hate speech” which is directly opposed to freedom of expression? Since it’s Sweden I would say the latter, which directly contradicts the right of freedom of expression.

    Sounds like the old “you have freedom of speech until you offend someone” argument, which is no freedom of speech at all.

    • james collins says

      Mar 24, 2018 at 3:57 am

      which came first…the chicken or the egg?

  14. Lydia Church says

    Mar 24, 2018 at 12:16 am

    “crime against democracy.” That is classic of them!
    They are the crime by letting the muslim crime loose on society!
    Typical hypocritical doublespeak!

    Not to mention the inquisition nazi style approach they will take to combat ‘hate speech’!

    See example below.

    Scene: A mob of muslim men raid a market and shoot up most people inside and shout their hateful koranic verses that justify evil against innocent civilians. They grab one young lady and drag her off as a hostage. She sees a cop coming into the market and she screams for help; “Help me! These terrorists have killed everyone and are holding me hostage and will probably kill me or rape me! Help!” But the cop just says, “sorry ma’m. But you are guilty of islamophobic hate speech. If you make it out alive, we’ll have to take you down to the police headquarters for questioning.”

    And that is how that will work.

    Freedom of speech’s days are numbered…
    more restrictions.
    ITYS.

  15. Save Europe says

    Mar 24, 2018 at 12:51 am

    Yep. Focusing on hate speech but not by Muslims against non Muslims. Pathetic !!!!!

  16. henrik jensen says

    Mar 24, 2018 at 5:31 am

    one of the last peeps of feminist fantacies.when reallity kicks in soon,we can all exhale, call a spade a spade

  17. IanB says

    Mar 24, 2018 at 5:40 am

    George Orwell

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell

    would be saying “I did warn you”.

  18. Anne Smith says

    Mar 24, 2018 at 7:14 am

    Sweden is merely carrying on with its stupid cowardly way of life. They were “neutral ” in the last war and left the British, the Americans and many other countries to suffer the killings and aggression to defeat Germany its Nazi chums.

    Obviously the mindset of those days, where they left others to clean up Europe at great cost in lives and economies, is still their policy.

    I just hope we don’t go down the same path – we are nearing it but I think – at last – people are waking up in UK.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 25, 2018 at 1:00 am

      The Swedes never could have stood alone against a Nazi invasion. They also would not have been able to slave the Jews of Denmark if they had also been under Nazi conquest.

      Their actually inviting in Muslim invaders now–and covering for them–is a very different matter.

  19. FYI says

    Mar 24, 2018 at 8:58 am

    If the Swedish police have nothing better to do they could look at the hate speech in the koran..

  20. 762x51FMJ says

    Mar 24, 2018 at 11:34 am

    Islam has trained Sweden to pay for their own assassins.

  21. Jayell says

    Mar 24, 2018 at 11:54 am

    They’re bothered about the threat of so-called ‘hate speech’ AND the threat to democracy? But ‘hate speech’ is just the expression of ideas certain people don’t like, so threatening that IS threatening democracy. Or maybe ‘democracy’ is inconvenient if it doesn’t suit certain peoples’ purposes.

  22. Lucretius says

    Mar 24, 2018 at 12:01 pm

    “Crime against democracy is described as a crime that threatens someone’s constitutional right to exercise, for example, the freedom of expression“…. except when the Swedish authorities determine your expression is tainted by “hate.” Then it’s no crime at all for them not only to threaten, but to punish your freedom of expression.

  23. Richard Courtemanche says

    Mar 24, 2018 at 12:03 pm

    Sweden could attract Trudeau (permanently), he could do no worse than what Sweden is doing to itself.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Mar 24, 2018 at 4:10 pm

      He’s just a little late to the party. Our JT is a hard working if not very bright boy though, so we will no doubt be catching up as best we can.

  24. Ezra says

    Mar 24, 2018 at 1:19 pm

    Funny how I thought violent crime, robberies and the like were the proper aegis for law enforcement, not speech.

  25. Joseph Garrick says

    Mar 28, 2018 at 12:07 pm

    Apologies I just forwarded a comment but omitted to tick the follow up box box

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