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Swedish TV features “traditional” midsummer celebration: woman in hijab cooking kebab

Jun 29, 2018 10:30 am By Robert Spencer

This is of a piece with the Swedish government’s earlier claim that Swedish meatballs were actually Turkish.

Qaisar Mahmood, the Pakistani Muslim on the Swedish National Heritage Board, has explained that he wants to use Sweden’s history to “create the narrative” that will make Muslim migrants “part of something.”

“Swedish TV ‘Traditional’ Midsummer Celebration – Woman in Hijab Cooking a Kebab,” Save My Sweden, June 25, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

While the traditional Nordic way of celebrating Midsummer, a holiday dating back to the pre-Christian era, typically involves herring, potatoes and shots of herb-laden liquor, a morning TV-program tempting the viewers with “traditional kebab” prepared by a headscarf-wearing cook has triggered polarized reactions among Swedes.

The Swedish channel  TV4 has stirred some strong reactions by inviting Muslim food blogger Zeina Mourtada to star in its Midsummer holiday morning show.

The program remarkably eschewed the staples of the traditional Swedish Midsummer celebration, informing the audience on how to cook shish kebab and traditional kebab in the oven.

When asked by the host whether Midsummer is celebrated in her culture, Mourtada, who wore a hijab for the occaston, answered the following: “No, we don’t typically celebrate it, but I do it for the children’s sake. We watch the Midsummer pole and dance.”

The TV-program evoked a plethora of reactions in the social media, both positive and negative. While some perceived the kebab sequence to be a multiculturalist attack on the traditional way of life, others hailed the veiled cook.

“Herring and potatoes for Midsummer? No, TV4 instead offers “traditional” kebab today, cooked by a food blogger in headscarf,” user MickeK tweeted.

“TV4 celebrates midsummer with kebab! Wondering when this s**tty channel will start broadcasting in Arabic and at best, text in Swedish!” Thomas Möller tweeted.

”Obviously, TV4 will proceed with showing how to roast an entire pig during any major Muslim weekend… Oh, wait, it will never happen,” user Socialförvaltare concurred….

​While some users perceived the kebab recipe on the traditional Nordic holiday as a token of “Islamization going on at pace previously unseen,” others hailed the program as progressive.

“Yes, it’s important to erase everything old. Like Swedish traditions,” user Anna countered….

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  1. b.a. freeman says

    Jun 29, 2018 at 10:45 am

    how better to conquer the swedes than by destroying as many swedish traditions as possible, and relegating the rest to second-class status? this sorry attempt to dismiss swedish culture might have a better excuse to exist were it to celebrate some muslim holiday, but it is an obvious attempt to promote islam over swedish traditions.

    and so freedom dies in eurabia …

    • RonaldB says

      Jun 29, 2018 at 12:13 pm

      The root of cultural Marxism is to destroy Western culture. Cultural Marxists use many fronts: feminism, gay pride, black lives matter, anti-racism, globalism, etc. But, it always boils down to destroying Western culture and heritage.

      I’m going to make a wild guess: people who are drawn to cultural Marxism are people who can’t quite make it in their own culture, so they feel more comfortable destroying it. Most Marxist writers are mediocre writers who construct thick, opaque phrases. Nobody would look at them if they tried, say, a traditional novel, essay etc, but pretending to present null culture as a valid modern concept, they justify their totally undeserved salaries and prestige.

      • Save Europe says

        Jun 29, 2018 at 1:56 pm

        A lot of truth there ?

  2. Peter Buckley says

    Jun 29, 2018 at 10:50 am

    “The ‘rebellion’ has also spread to the grassroots in Sweden, where one poll shows the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats with a clear lead heading toward September elections, with some asking if Sweden is about to have its “Trump moment.”
    Sweden’s refugee policy has imported crime, terrorism, and a lot of refugees that experts say are uneducated and unemployable. And on top of it, now Swedish citizens have to pay for it.
    Swedish security expert Magnuss Norell with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy says, “If you live in Stockholm you never see this. You can choose not to see it. But in smaller communities, smaller cities, you can’t avoid it. And that is where the change will come.”
    And change is coming…to a number of nations in Europe.”

    http://www.savemysweden.com/islamic-immigration-is-fueling-a-political-earthquake-in-europe/

    • Spiro says

      Jun 29, 2018 at 10:55 am

      I hope so
      Otherwise Sweden is finished

    • Warmac9999 says

      Jun 29, 2018 at 5:00 pm

      Swedes can vote against more immigration but the Muslims will eventually out breed them unless a massive and violent deport and destroy mission is launched. Frankly, with their feminized socialist government and embedded bureaucracy, I don’t see that happening. Also the second, third and fourt generation Muslims are as vicious as the incoming terrorists. There is no relief from Islam.

      • Susan B is getting really mad@# says

        Jun 29, 2018 at 6:08 pm

        Wow. women are the victims of islam not the supporters. Are the globalist such as Soros women, is islamic oil money women. You hate women and that is your problem do not blame women for the evil of bought and paid paid for politicians, remember that the PM is a male and 52% of Swedish parliament are men. Do not blame women for the MSM they are controlled by men. I am sorry that you think that women are to blame for their own rape and murder. Are you sure you are not a muslim your hate of women is right in line with islamic doctrine.

  3. Spiro says

    Jun 29, 2018 at 10:56 am

    I hope so otherwise sweden is finished

  4. Rarely says

    Jun 29, 2018 at 11:34 am

    Well, lets see. Meat balls have pork in them while kebobs have lamb. They are probably using meat from very ugly sheep. There is another use for the “cute” ones.

    • Rarely says

      Jun 29, 2018 at 11:34 am

      I’m sorry. That was a cruel post.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 29, 2018 at 6:12 pm

        But all too accurate, Rarely. Bestiality is rife in the Muslim world.

    • SuperSwede says

      Jun 30, 2018 at 7:57 am

      Speaking of Sweden and sheep: there was a column in Svenska Dagbladet, the national conservative morning newpaper, in May. It was written by Cecilia Blomberg who used to work as a military interpreter for the Swedish forces in Afghanistan. The title was “The Swedish view on sex is an exception”.

      A part from the column, translated by me:
      “I will never forget one story. On one occasion Swedish miltaries had trained Afghan policemen and were given an official thank you gift. The gift was a lamb. The givers thought that the gift was extra valuable since the lamb was a perfect age and hadn’t yet grown any teeth, I was told.”
      Take your worst fantasy about how to use a lamb without teeth and yes, that is how they are used in Afghanistan.

      She then goes on to write that immigrants from outside of Europe are highly overrepresented when it comes to gang rapes in Sweden. And the victims are not sheep, but Swedish women.

      Original source here:
      https://www.svd.se/svensk-sexualsyn-ar-ett-undantag

  5. Susan B is getting really mad@# says

    Jun 29, 2018 at 11:41 am

    Wow, this is really sickening, enough to make me want to throw up. I will never eat a kebab or any other islamic food ever, out of principal.
    Where is the tipping point with islamization and has Sweden hit it?

    • Save Europe says

      Jun 29, 2018 at 2:02 pm

      If you’re in America, be careful as to how Muslims appropriate all food types and start selling it to non Muslims. Here in the UK, about a decade ago, they started selling Dominos generic pizzas which were all clandestinely Halal, to those unaware, and the KFC derivative chicken shops. They are everywhere in virtually every town and City. They’ve even started selling the very British, Fish and Chips, which has annoyed many British fried fish sellers. Even the Bangladeshi Muslims have appropriated and stolen Indian food from the non Muslim Indians here. 95 percent of supposed Indian restaurants are owned by Bangladeshis!

      • Cicero says

        Jun 29, 2018 at 2:35 pm

        Yes . Non Muslims should be careful if they dines in these Muslim. “Indian “ restaurants. Who knows what the staff ( cooks and waiters ) have done to the food before serving to the infidels !

        • Save Europe says

          Jun 29, 2018 at 3:12 pm

          Indeed. The hygiene standards are never good.

  6. Kevin a says

    Jun 29, 2018 at 11:58 am

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5899713/Widow-crashed-NSW-school-killing-two-boys-driving-charges-upgraded-manslaughter.html
    DM has no pictures of the victims, wonder why?

    https://en.mogaznews.com/World-News/717261/Sydney-primary-school-car-crash-victims-pictured.html

  7. Kepha says

    Jun 29, 2018 at 12:32 pm

    If hejab-clad women cooking kebabs were all there was to Islamic identity, I’d have not problem, except that Islam is a religion that I don’t believe.

    The big problem is that Islamic theology, in its core texts, demands conqest and submission (there are just too many of us who wouldn’t buy the Islamic narrative of Muhammad as the final prophet of God–especially if we believe that Jesus Christ is the Word of God who became flesh and dwelt among us).

  8. infidel says

    Jun 29, 2018 at 1:01 pm

    Another Islamic TRUISM from the annals of the Infidel:

    In India, 500, 000 Muslim pilgrims need just 300 security personnel to escort them thru Hindu areas on their way to visiting Muslim holy places. But 200. 000 Hindus need close to 100, 000 security personnel and also high security equipment to escort them thru Muslim ghetto areas of India, lest riots and attacks on Hindus break out!!! VOW!!! The same thing will soon be repeated in the Greater West…

  9. Steve Brown says

    Jun 29, 2018 at 1:10 pm

    If Swedish meatballs are actually Turkish, can we go to a Turkish restaurant and be served them exactly as IKEA does?

  10. Save Europe says

    Jun 29, 2018 at 1:52 pm

    As we say in the UK – ‘they’re Muslim when they win The Great British Bake-Off (Nadia Hussein), or win Olympic Golds in the 5,000 and 10,000 metres at the Olympics (Mo Farah), and yet, miraculously ‘Asian’ when they commit multiple acts of grooming and rapes in so many UK towns and cities.’

    • Cicero says

      Jun 29, 2018 at 2:37 pm

      Mo Farah is a Somali Muslim

      • Save Europe says

        Jun 29, 2018 at 3:15 pm

        I know. Re-read my original Sir. What I mean is the MSM laud Muslims as Muslims when they’ve supposedly achieved something and as Asians when they commit crime.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 29, 2018 at 6:14 pm

      Good point, Save Europe.

  11. Save Europe says

    Jun 29, 2018 at 1:55 pm

    Tbh any Muslim man who sports ‘those types of beards’ are the Orthodox, Sharia loving anti Western types, in my experience. Sounds like a generalisation, but it’s true.

  12. Benedict says

    Jun 29, 2018 at 3:10 pm

    Swedish TV4 is just, preemptively, making a virtue out of necessity, a principle used in many other connexions in Sweden, especially where Islam is involved.

  13. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Jun 29, 2018 at 4:07 pm

    “‘Vandals’ Smash 70 Bus Stops in Swedish City in a Single Night”
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/06/29/vandals-smash-70-bus-stops-two-swedish-city-single-night/

    • Susan B is getting really mad@# says

      Jun 29, 2018 at 4:33 pm

      The link has already been taken down.

      • Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

        Jun 29, 2018 at 5:22 pm

        I just tried it. It’s fine. You might be blocked.

        • Susan B is getting really mad@# says

          Jun 29, 2018 at 6:13 pm

          It finally worked for me. Thanks for the link.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 29, 2018 at 6:40 pm

      Disgusting. And yes–the link worked for me, as well.

      If the direct link doesn’t work for someone, they can Google it.

  14. ItsReallyQuiteClear says

    Jun 29, 2018 at 5:17 pm

    Coming soon: “Swedish Muslims” will fight for the right of return…to Sweden.

    Perhaps more likely that “Swedish Swedes” will have to fight for the right of return…of Sweden.

  15. Benedict says

    Jun 29, 2018 at 6:03 pm

    Shish-kebab can be delicious when the quality and preparation of the food is first-class. But to prepare it in this demonstrative way on TV on this date as if it belongs in a celebration of Swedish Midsummer is culturally self effacing and self hating. –

    Another sign that Sweden has become a kingdom divided against itself.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 29, 2018 at 6:42 pm

      Yes–I’ve made shish-kebabs myself in the past. It is describing them as traditional Swedish Midsummer fare that is dishonest.

  16. FYI says

    Jun 29, 2018 at 6:51 pm

    islamic cooking? Matzo Balls will be out of the question..as allah doesn’t like anything Jewish.

    ..and of course any animals will have been butchered by that wickedly cruel halal method…

    • FYI says

      Jun 29, 2018 at 6:55 pm

      Can we please ask Zeina for her Matzah balls recipie…I mean in the name of multicultural enrichment..

      allah may curse the Jews but I’m suer God loves matzah balls;that’s why He invented matzah meal.

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 1, 2018 at 10:57 pm

        🙂

  17. Bacherbazistan says

    Jun 29, 2018 at 7:57 pm

    Another country hot on the heels of Sweden for absurdity is Ireland. Ireland’s Varadkar claims that there is no migrant crisis:

    https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/politics/taoioseach-leo-varadkar-says-theres-12815916

    Varadkar should do a dance duet with Canada’s Troodle, they can call themselves the Beta Boys.

  18. WESTPAC Spy says

    Jun 30, 2018 at 4:00 am

    ““Yes, it’s important to erase everything old. Like Swedish traditions,” user Anna countered….”

    There you have it, folks. Sweden’s immigration policy is being designed by people like Anna, who hates Sweden and Swedes. Consequently Swedish tradition.

    I’d like to ask Anna, “Are you really stupid enough not to know that there’s nothing new about Arab food? It is after all just new to you. But Arabs have been eating Arab food since before they were forcibly converted to Islam at the point of the sword.”

    • Alice111 says

      Jul 1, 2018 at 9:03 am

      UN Agenda 21…. BUT no one other than the Muslims in the UN realize that Sharia is the true global goal. Those elites won’t know what hit them when the OIC turns on them. Bleak future, if all goes according to their plan.

  19. Gjallarhornet says

    Jun 30, 2018 at 4:18 am

    This is a bad omen.

  20. Laura says

    Jun 30, 2018 at 6:44 am

    I look forward to seeing a British chef on Pakistani TV showing Pakistanis how to prepare fish and chips next Ramadan.

    • Alice111 says

      Jul 1, 2018 at 9:01 am

      Excellent idea!

  21. SweetOlBob says

    Jun 30, 2018 at 10:59 pm

    GEE ! I’ll bet she cooked the stuff using only her right hand. Otherwise, who would want to eat after the left hand had been used in the traditional muslim manner.
    FOOGIE ! E. Coli, anyone ?

  22. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Jul 1, 2018 at 3:18 am

    yes, Sweden should promote decent and modest dressing of hijab to depart from half-naked dressing reviving stone age way of life. Congratulations!!

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 1, 2018 at 11:04 pm

      Ibrahim itace muhammed considers the forced wearing of the Hijab “decent and modest”.

      Of course, he also considers child “marriage”, rape, and sex slavery to be ‘chaste’, and says that those who marry for love should be murdered. This is his “morals”. *Ugh*.

  23. Alice111 says

    Jul 1, 2018 at 9:00 am

    Looks traditionally hijrah to me.

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