Aideen Strandsson is a woman without a country. She may live in Sweden, but she is a stateless person, with no passport, no citizenship and no way to get a job. She lives every day with the knowledge she could be deported to her native Iran where, as a Christian, she would face grave danger.
Swedish authorities have bent over backwards to accommodate Muslim refugees, including those unfriendly to its laws, society, and mores. The country is on the verge of civil war and no-go zones have expanded to alarming proportions, even to a popular shopping mall, yet Swedish authorities show no sympathy to peaceful Christians.
Rather than receive the slightest sympathy and humanitarian assistance, Strandsson was told that “it’s not our problem if you decided to become a Christian,” even if the refusal of asylum results in rape, torture or death.
“UPDATE: Sweden Tries to ‘Starve’ Out Christian Asylum Seeker”, by Dale Hurd, CBN, March 14, 2018:
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Aideen Strandsson is a woman without a country. She may live in Sweden, but she is a stateless person, with no passport, no citizenship and no way to get a job. She lives every day with the knowledge she could be deported to her native Iran where, as a Christian, she would face grave danger.
The world was outraged when the Swedish government decided to send Strandsson, who is a Christian and former Muslim, back to Iran where she could face prison, rape and even death. But a worldwide outcry over her situation has apparently not changed anything.
After CBN News first brought the former Iranian actress’s story to the world stage, the government of Hungary offered her asylum, and many people from around the world contacted the Swedish government asking it to reconsider.
“It was really like a miracle for me,” Strandsson said, “When so many people in America called the Sweden embassy. Many people sent comments to me and said ‘you are welcome to our country.'”
But Sweden’s migration board told CBN News none of that matters. Aideen’s case has been turned over to border police for deportation.
Now Strandsson waits in a kind of legal limbo.
‘Stuck’ Between Citizenship and Deportation
“Aideen’s situation is not at all uncommon in Sweden,” says Swedish Attorney Gabriel Donner. “There are a fair amount of people who get stuck in between. So you have these curious cases where nothing is really dealt with and you cannot get ahead.”
Swedish attorney Gabriel Donner represented 160 Christian asylum seekers last year alone.
And he says by remaining in Sweden, Strandsson is running the risk of deportation.
Her Dream to Live Freely as a Christian
Aideen Strandsson came to Sweden from Iran in 2014 on a work visa and adopted a Swedish last name. She Left Islam and became a Christian in Iran after seeing a video of Muslims stoning a woman to death and then having a dream about Jesus.
When she arrived in Sweden, she requested a public baptism.
Strandsson said, “I wanted to be baptized in public because I want to say I am free, I am Christian and I wanted everyone to know about that.”
Which means the Islamic government of Iran knows. And because she starred in films and a TV series in Iran, it makes her an even bigger target if she is sent back.
What’s Next: Possible Prison and Deportation to Iran
Donner says it’s not clear if or when that might happen. “When it comes to the border police, Sweden’s backlog is growing and growing and growing. Right now it’s about two years and growing. This is contrary to European union law but no one cares.”
Aideen would first be sent to prison in Sweden while authorities made arrangements to fly her to Iran, according to Donner who said, “This is real prison conditions. They’re not allowed to speak on the telephone. They’re not allowed to be on a computer, not allowed to get in touch with anybody, they wear prison clothes. If they have to be transferred anywhere, they’re transferred in chains.”
Swedish authorities would then contact the Islamic Republic of Iran and tell them Aideen is coming and when to expect her, even though Sweden’s migration board says, on its own webpage, that it will never deport asylum seekers to nations where they face danger, and doing so is a violation of the Geneva convention on refugees.
Sweden’s migration board says it cannot comment on her case.
Unable to Work: Swedish Government Tries to ‘Starve’ Her
Aideen spends her days helping at church or training in Tae Kwon Do. She has earned a black belt, but the migration board took her certificate because she is not a legal resident.
She landed a job with the technology giant Ericsson as a computer programmer, but the Swedish government wouldn’t allow that either. Sweden ignored Ericsson’s plea to let her work for them.
Donner says “the idea is to starve you so you tell them to send you out.”
But she’s staying in Sweden because her family is here and because she says Jesus told her to not be afraid.
Strandsson and other Christian asylum seekers in Sweden have faced deportation at the same time that the Swedish government has given 150 protected identities to former ISIS fighters who have returned to Sweden, so that they can find jobs.
There will be no such help for Aideen.
“There have been fast lanes for Syrians and Somalians, but not for Iranians and definitely not for Christians,” Donner says. “We have one judge here in Stockholm who has never said yes to any Christian.”….
Michael says
Under Swedish law she is judged to be an apostate and therefore lawfully killed.
mortimer says
The godless Swedish communists turned their backs on Sweden’s established church and now on human decency. They are in a delusional and suicidal rage, but against what?
They have adopted everything degenerate, including the sadomasochistic culture of Islam. The godless Swedes seem to be fascinated with degeneracy and vicious evil.
Garfield says
Agreed. It needs to really be looked at….how civilized people become “fascinated” by the exotic and different…. To the point of suicidally promoting evil, violence and gore, things like rape and oppression/domination. There’s something SICK about throwing away ideas of freedom and peace to promote coddle and help perverted criminals.
Welcoming jihadis? How is that anything but some sort of twisted craving to be abused?
Larry Bates says
I wonder how this relates to Sweden’s “neutrality” towards Hitler during WWII. A country unwilling to stand up against evil may be destined to pass on that trait to their offspring.
gravenimage says
Larry, Sweden would have been instantly invaded and crushed by the Nazis if she hadn’t remained neutral. There is no way she could have beaten the Nazis.
Sweden rescued almost the entire Jewish population of Denmark during WWII. I wish the Swedish authorities were so decent now.
brenrod says
this is because the Pope, Vatican, Catholic Charities and Lutheran charities are making billions globally from resettling muslim migrants… meanwhile they do nothing to help christians being slaughtered by muslims. Every day the Pope tells us to welcome muslim migrants.
sally says
This pope needs to go. Now.
David says
Under Swedish law? Don’t you mean under Sharia law?
LeftisruiningCanada says
That gap is closing more each day apparently.
J D S says
Sweden needs go change its name to SwedenistaIt it’s unbelievable that in just a few years Sweden has allowed Satan to rule their country….
Niemoller says
The stateless persons will be the Swedish traitor politicians who will have their citizenship revoked prior to their date in front of an execution squad. The quislings depend on our collective cognitive dissonance to not understand what is happening, so to give them plausible deniability for their existential crimes against community, their collaborating with an obviously poisonous ideological enemy, their unleashing unassimilated hostile rapists and murderers on the unsuspecting native population and their destroying a model nation and turning it into a violent, failing state.
Swedish traitor politicians are violently attacking the Swedish people by Islamic/migrant proxy.
Denny Abrahamsson says
Im swedish and so ashamed of my goverment that hate christians and lick muslim asses. Its hard to believe we were vikings 1000 years ago. Now we have become spineless cowards bending over to an inferiour culture. Luckily enough I live in Thailand most of the year.
christianblood says
Denny Abrahamsson
This trend of hating Christians and demonizing Christians while supporting islamists even islamic jihadists is not just confined to Sweden my friend but is wide spread in the Western world including the USA and Canada and even in the Vatican.
For example, the US government and Western MSM are now backing islamic jihadists that are waging murderous jihadist wars in Syria and these murderous islamic jihadists who are backed by the US, UK, France and Saudi Arabia and the West will surely mass-murder Christians and other minorities in Syria if the succeed toppling Assad.
The US government have just threatened to attack the Syrian government to ease pressure for their encircled jihadist buddies in Eastern Ghouta city in Syria and Russia warned that it if the US bombs the Syrian government soldiers that are encircling these jihadists then Russia will respond and this can easily develop into a full scale nuclear war. Read the Russian General’s stark warning to the US that was issued yesterday and the Western MSM did not even report this and many of you are not even aware of it. What a crazy world are we living in! Read it below:
https://russia-insider.com/en/chief-russian-general-staff-says-will-target-us-aircraft-if-strikes-syrian-army-endanger-his-men
underbed cat says
Truly wish our current administration would reexamine Syria…first knowing that it very well could be terrorists who would set off chemical weapons in Syria, it is a diverse country with Christians,Yazidi’s and competing Sunni and Shite fighting,that may have had access to chemicals and use them to take down Assad, who I thought was trying to save Syria and non muslims populations. President Trump should realize if we have a military that is diverse that may hold views of a caliphate without man-made laws, but see no problems with sharia bent soldiers…then he does not know the doctrine that they follow…the green on blue attacks could become worse. If Assad gave orders to use chemicals then he would be guilty, but if his diverse military or rebels found the weapons a caliphate seeking person would try to use them so Assad would be the target. terrorist have no mercy..in fact, I thought they had some evidence of that situation.Islamic terrorist see no borders but always try to take down leaders of the land who have and want borders, especially if it has Christian history and artifacts of Roman culture. Just an opinion. I fear as Abrahamsson says that this could start a war with Russia. President Trump should understand what happened to our national security in terms of MB influence and the word purge. Also an opinion the more we know about our foe ‘s doctrine the better and patient examination which was removed at the request of the sharia bent should end. It is no wonder the troubles began with his first choice General and they got him out of the way. Remove muslim influence from our national security, it is a diversion and subversive. In my opinion.
underbed cat says
Got off topic, this young blond Iranian woman who turned Christian, is in a country, Sweden, that has left humanity if it is serving jihadist and turning out this woman and starving her of options. I guess that is part of the socialism, Marxist views…which is hard to understand but I guess that was once pristine, admired government morphed into…also has submitted to Islam without really knowing sharia. I hope she gets rescued.
christianblood says
underbed cat posted
(..Truly wish our current administration would reexamine Syria..)
The current administration foreign policy is run by the same neocon, ‘deep state’ pro-islamist liberal globalists. There is NO change at all.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Isn’t it interesting that wherever socialist ideas become influential, Christianity ends up attacked.
christianblood says
LeftisruiningCanada
(..Isn’t it interesting that wherever socialist ideas become influential, Christianity ends up attacked..)
You are right and islamists are emboldened and encouraged to assert themselves and carry out jihadist persecutions. Islam and Western liberalism are of the same spirit of the ANTI-CHRIST.
Western postmodernist liberalism, represented by the U$, and radical islamic salafi jihadism, represented by Saudi Arabia are the two legs of the anti-Christ. They are the two ends of the same EVIL spectrum. These two EVIL and destructive ideologies (Liberalism and Islamism) are connected at the root and their root is SATAN, LUCIFER!
brenrod says
it it the pope who tells us to welcome muslim migrants and who makes billions from resettling them globally by tax dollars…. he is too busy making a fortune to care about christians… same with Lutheran charities…. christians abandoning christians for tax payer dollars.
Larry Bates says
Too many haters on the russia-insider.com to want to visit it ever again. Reads like the walls of the Kremlin bathrooms. Disgusting…
christianblood says
Larry Bates
You must have been exposed to too much US MSM, fake news propaganda and can’t think outside of that box. Russia-insider
is full of facts and truths and the truth seems hate only to the brainwashed.
GPT says
Don’t blame you at all for going to Thailand, as long as it’s not the southern part where Muslims are doing their usual.
sally says
I don’t think there were many Swedish Vikings. I think they were all either Danish or Norwegian.
gravenimage says
Sally, Sweden also had a Viking age.
Baucent says
Can she not take up the Hungarian offer? Surely Hungary, if the offer was serious could fast track her a passport.
Japetto Danatelli says
“it’s not our problem if you decided to become a Christian,”
Which is an odd thing to be told in a nation that has adopted every problem that muslims could bring in to their country, like dangerous enclaves, welfare drainage, rape, civil strife, murder….but a peaceful, hardworking Christian girl hasn’t got a chance. I guess you gotta be connected to the muslim “mob” if you wanna get any respect from Swedish immigration.
Phil Copson says
They’re pushing the Jews, the Middle Eastern Christians etc under the bus as fast as they can, they despise anyone who says that they believe in Christianity, their country, or their culture, and hope to curry favour by betraying them.
Japetto Danatelli says
I can’t disagree with that. Let me ask a rhetorical question, did you every think you’d see this kind of behavior by a western nation like Sweden? where they literally commit national suicide and act like uncouth idiots? I’ve never been to Sweden, but if 20 years ago someone had asked, “what country would you pick as the most sophisticated, most enlightened, most beautiful people,” I would have picked Sweden hands down. But now, like Britain, they have become like a pretty woman with a huge goiter on her neck, and the goiter is islam. They can no longer act beautiful because that goiter robs them of their beauty. I literally ache just thinking about the destruction of Europe for this barbaric cult called islam. 500 years of progress down the drain, and for what? a phantasm god with the morals of demon. It’s so bizarre I can’t believe it’s true.
gravenimage says
No–just a few years ago I never would have expected this.
Benedict says
“it’s not our problem if you decided to become a Christian,” –
By this statement – if it is an official Swedish statement – Sweden validates the right of Muslims to kill or persecute apostates. In that case Muslims in Sweden might take it as a validation of their rights to rape non-Muslims. That’s the irony of it.
LeftisruiningCanada says
It can only embolden the already emboldened followers of mohammad.
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, in other words, “It’s not our problem that Muslims may wish to persecute, rape and kill you because you are a Christian.” However, if she were to say that people want to persecute, rape or kill her because she is a Muslim, then it would be a HUGE problem and no burden would be too heavy to bear in order to help her. Yes, we can do this (but for Muslims only).
I feel another attack of Islamonausea coming on.
gravenimage says
Grimly spot on.
MFritz says
They only want muslims. More muslims.
janwoG says
Islamofaschists and Letist the same anti Western war.
Wakeup says
Time to stump up for Christians Mr Trump
Dave says
These are precisely the type of people to whom refuge should be offered; not her belligerent oppressors. Send her to the USA and she can live in my family’s house, I’m not even kidding. Americans would open their arms to women like this.
I AM THE INFIDEL YOUR IMAM WARNED YOU ABOUT says
I’m surprised that the Canadian government hasn’t stepped up to offer her a passport just to get her into Canada. Oh sorry… our Crime Minister Justin Tru-Dope is an islamic arse-licker who caters to muslim/islamic demands. He’d rather get jihadis and terrorists into this great country and pay them $10.5 million when they complain about how they were abused than get Christians, Christian Converts, Apostates and Unbelievers into this country.
762x51FMJ says
Sweden has agreed to the prisoner exchange. She will be sent to Iran to be executed on live television, will have great ratings ..If Iran agrees to send 10,000 Jihadi’s to Sweden..for her exchange ..
LeftisruiningCanada says
You know, that wouldn’t even surprise me.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
I don’t see the big deal here. It’d be simple for Trump to bring her into the States to live with the 1.32 million Yazidis and Coptic Christians brought in a couple of years ago by ex-Prez Barack Hussein. Make sense?
Davegreybeard says
“Then the few remaining strong , proud and intelligent Swedes can assume control and rebuild.”
I only hear crickets…
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Dave.
GPT says
Why won’t she go to Hungary? If she refuses to go there then she only has herself to blame.
Hari Singh says
The Swedish leftists want her dead for affirming Christianity as a positive liberating force, something they all abandoned a generation ago., These disgusting bureaucrats don’t have the balls to kill her themselves, so let the Iranian Mullahs do it.
Sad descendants of the hard working Lutheran Swedes I knew in my youth.Pity.
Lydia Church says
If they don’t want to be accused of bias, this is what they would also need to say now:
“It’s not our problem that you millions of migrants are muslims or decided to become muslims.
So……….. we are sending you all back! No papers for you. No jobs for you. No food stamps for you. No financial aid for you. Nothing. And, we are sending you back to places that will kill you for being muslim. No whining allowed!”
What do you think? Should I set my timer to see how long it takes them?
These evil doers have her blood on their hands, and one day God will punish them for their treatment of her and their obvious bigotry and bias!
Either way she wins, either by asylum or by martyrdom.
(Some Christians out there understand what I mean, albeit not enough.)
With Jesus, it is win-win. The only way you lose is by denying your Christian faith.
Sarah says
Call me overly cynical, but I’m not supportive of this woman’s situation, not one little bit.
She rocks up to Sweden, as an Iranian Muslim who is an Actress on a work visa. Not as a refugee or migrant, but on a work visa. When time was up – she decided ‘buggar that, the West is a better life’ and I believe; deliberately engineered this whole scenario so as to plump for residency via the UN Refugee Convention Act.
She converts, takes a different surname – and then specifically wants a public baptism? She’s just trying to load the deck in her favour here.
Look, I don’t agree with Sweden’s insane migration policies, one iota, nor do I accept or respect their political agenda as a country, regarding migration.
But I uphold their unassailable right to deport whoever the hell they want to deport. And I truly believe this woman is just yet another self-serving migrant from the Islamic world who wants to have her cake and eat it too. Sweden does not owe her a better life.
She took a calculated risk by doing these things to try and get residency. So far, they’ve utterly failed. Now she’s facing down the consequences and is (understandably) terrified of them. So she goes for the last ditch sympathy bid with the hunger strike.
I am sick to death of self serving economic migrants. She is no different to any other Muslim migrant in Europe today, doing the exact same thing.
LeftisruiningCanada says
I was going to say, do the Swedes know something which makes them doubt this woman’s Christian profession of faith?
There’s little doubt that Sweden is fully capable of deporting Christians back to places where they may well be murdered, since islam is having such a riot in the politics of Sweden, but it would be interesting to know all there is to know about this case, just to be sure.
gravenimage says
If she were really self-serving as you claim she never would have converted to Christianity.
A persecuted Christian says
Unfortunately, some western countries welcome hoards of muslims , accommodate their polygamy and even announce that they will welcome more of them . On the other hand , they send away Christian asylum seekers as they suddenly claim that their countries cannot accommodate them . Christian immigrants who come from islamic countries are very loyal to their adoptive new countries , they integrate and build the society contrary to other types of immigrants who are spiteful and destroy the countries that took them in.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
infidel says
Just imagine the out-pour of sympathy by the MSM if she was a Muslim and claimed persecution by other faiths..VW
ronyvo says
Bring her to the USA.. She is TRUE refugee.
ronyvo says
We are a Christian nation. She is Cristian. We are an immigrant nation. So, bring her here in the USA. She is a true refugee. Simple.
Kasey says
Seems like a case of “we must no offend our Islamic population which is growing ever day!
sally says
Isn’t it too bad she didn’t do some research and go to Hungary or Poland in the first place? One should know better than to ever set foot in a dump like Sweden. Why go someplace that is ashamed of its own culture?
Grrrrrrr....... says
This upsets me a lot. Please help this Christian woman and write an email to Mrs. Karin Olofsdotter of the Swedish Embassy in Washington DC right away to demand that they MUST NOT deport her to Iran but to reconsider this and resolve her situation and give her Swedish citizenship.
Please be polite when writing. Thank you.
Email: ambassaden.washington@gov.se
HEAD OF MISSION Karin Olofsdotter, Ambassador
ADDRESS
Swedish Embassy in Washington
2900 K Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20007
United States
TELEPHONE(+1) 202 467 2600
FAX(+1) 202 467 2699
EMAIL ambassaden.washington@gov.se
WEBSITE http://www.swedenabroad.com/washington
Hogdude says
Someone should “sponsor” her to come to a Christian home.
gravenimage says
Sweden Tries to ‘Starve’ Out Christian Asylum Seeker
………………………..
This is *appalling*. Aideen Strandsson would obviously make a good Swedish citizen, unlike all the rapist Muslims flooding into Sweden.
Write to the Swedish embassy in her support.
Here is contact information for US residents:
2900 K St NW
Washington, District of Columbia 20007
(202) 467-2600
http://www.swedenabroad.com/washington
And you can contect them directly through their Facebook page thought “Send Message” on the right hand side of the page:
https://www.facebook.com/swedeninusa/
6woods says
I am embarrassed that I have family in Sweden which supports this evil in the name of ‘social justice’. My blonde, blue-eyed relatives are willingly committing suicide; apologizing for their skin. They’ve swallowed the cool-aid that white is evil, and islam (stupidly conflated with non-white) is good.
kouldb says
If, in order to tolerate diversity, multiculturalism & Islam, requires me to reject free speech; support the abuse of basic human rights; turn a blind eye to animal cruelty; impeach our men, based on the colour of their skin & heritage, over crimes they never committed; pervert the true meaning of genuine feminism; and accept the inversion of my cultural, ethical & moral standards—then I will reject diversity, multiculturalism & Islam with my last breath. For the toxic consequences of the divisive doctrines of multiracialism are already apparent. The results are weak, disparate populations without national, historical or cultural cohesion—threatening not only our personal freedoms, but also the security of our nations.
This suppressive tolerance has been foisted upon an unsuspecting proletariat by unelected ultra-leftist, ultra-radicals who imagine they’re possessed of the only ideologies of true light in a world otherwise made dark by obtuse ignorance & racism. These radicals would rather dismantle peace & co-operation—even their nations, than support moderation. In the name of diversity & tolerance, they’ve morphed into monsters of absolute hate, discrimination & racism—advocating forced collective genocides across entire continents. Any victims that creates are of no consequence. For if they’re not Muslims & not of ‘colour’—they’re irrelevant—their human rights are invalidated by the their race, heritage, culture & faith.
The desperate need of these self-loathing humanists to show how tolerant & peaceful they are is so pervasive, so self-absorbed & so entitled. They’ll commit extreme acts of violence to prove it. Their hive-minded hatred for the establishment—denying in the same breath they’re woven of the same fabric—leads to them screeching primal, yet meaningless, declarations like “Black Lives Matter”—provoking mass protests & moral outrage, without offering any meaningful solutions. After all, it’s about their own individualism. Their self-interest. Not about their nations.
Dominated by a professional political upper-class, truncated up their own over-privileged arses, and having contracted a chronic case of group myopia, they refuse to see the destruction of their own lives, let alone those of future generations. Only their views, their ideologies & their truths are valid. Thus, these inner-city elites will cast anyone who challenges their self-aggrandising gestures & their empire building agendas as racist bigots, and won’t hesitate to respond to criticism with slander, racist disparagement & outright violence. Anyone who disagrees. Anyone who questions the narrative—has a ‘phobia’ & must be re-educated & counseled. Or failing that—lynched.
And, they get away with it. The persecution of detractors is done with impunity. Their power is underpinned by the quintessential progressive media—sponsored by the elite. Stifling all debate & censoring anyone who dares to dip their toe in the primordial sludge of immigration, multiculturalism, racial politics & especially the consequences of the mass importation of the seventh-century ideology of diabolical, misogynistic & racist Islam—they’ve joined the extremists they once so despised.
This beast of progressiveness & tolerance has become the rabid guard dog of the very underworld it once tried to keep at bay. And instead of crushing the evil spirits of racism, it’s opened the gates of genocidal hell.