“The Swedish town of Gävle’s decision to place a hijab-clad Muslim woman on its welcome sign in order to ‘celebrate diversity’ has triggered strong reactions…..The “Welcome to Gävle” digital sign featuring local Muslim woman Suzan Hindi wearing a hijab has been vandalised… many interpreted it as political correctness gone too far and as a dangerous sign of Sweden caving in to Islam and pandering to extremists. Others saw the hijab as a symbol of oppression that has no place in a democratic society.”
Vandalizing the sign is wrong. Those who seek to label truth-tellers as purveyors of “Islamophobia” will also claim in this case that “Islamophobia” was the cause of the vandalizing of the sign. They will try to obscure the fact that the hijab is a symbol of oppression that should not be celebrated in any society where men and women are equal under the law; it is a visible sign of a theological and legal system in which women are inferiors. Other problems with the sign were reported in Jihad Watch‘s earlier coverage:
“A Swedish municipality is facing backlash after selecting a local Muslim woman wearing a headscarf to be the ‘poster girl’ for its roadside ‘welcome’ sign. Her past ties to a controversial local imam were also discovered.”
The intent of featuring the hijabi “poster girl” is to flaunt diversity, no matter what that diversity represents. In this case, “diversity” is represented by Suzan Hindi — who once went by the name Nizam Hindi — wearing a hijab. She has ties to a jihad-preaching mosque. Hindi once “explained how having their own prayer house was good for the Swedish municipality’s Muslim community, how aid from Saudi Arabia and Qatar helped to buy and furnish the building, and how listening to the imam is important during the prayer.”
“Swedish Town’s Hijabi Welcome Sign Vandalised Amid Threats,” Sputnik News, February 28, 2019:
The Swedish town of Gävle’s decision to place a hijab-clad Muslim woman on its welcome sign in order to ‘celebrate diversity’ has triggered strong reactions.
The “Welcome to Gävle” digital sign featuring local Muslim woman Suzan Hindi wearing a hijab has been vandalised, the newspaper Aftonbladet reported.
The sign is located on the E4 motorway on the outskirts of Gävle, which is located north of Stockholm, and shows different people living in the municipality to welcome incoming motorists. Hindi’s hijabbed appearance, however, caused a stir, as many interpreted it as political correctness gone too far and as a dangerous sign of Sweden caving in to Islam and pandering to extremists. Others saw the hijab as a symbol of oppression that has no place in a democratic society.
Gävle MP Roger Hedlund, a member of the right-wing Sweden Democrats, was among those who opposed the sign, saying that headscarves “reduce women to a simple sex object who must cover up in order not to arouse male desire”.
Vandals vented their frustration with the sign for the first time last week. The damage continued over the weekend, and then the sign stopped working altogether, Aftonbladet reported.
Others who took offence contacted the administration of the municipality. In a single day, the Gävle municipality received about 20 telephone calls and some 40 e-mails. Swedes have also been eagerly commenting on Gävle municipality’s accounts in social media.
“It is partly the classic Islamophobic attitude that everything that has to do with Islam is a danger and evil. Then, there have been those who pointed out that the hijab is a symbol of women’s oppression and is problematic,” Gävle municipality communications manager Johan Adolfsson explained.
Adolfsson also described Gävle as a multicultural place where 120 different languages are spoken and called Hindi an “ambassador of diversity”.
“The woman in the picture is one of Gävle’s many Muslim women and she herself has chosen to wear the headdress hijab because she wants to and because she feels like herself in it,” he explained, opining that the accusers were bolstering oppression.
The local newspaper Gefle Dagblad described 32-year-old Suzan Hindi as a brave teacher who didn’t quit her job despite battling cancer. By contrast, the news outlet Samhällsnytt reported that Gävle’s “new poster girl” had connections with the Gävle mosque (also known as al-Rashideen mosque) that was previously reported to be a hotbed of radical Islam. According to Samhällsnytt, Suzan’s spiritual leader imam Abu Raad reportedly praised Daesh* and even tried to raise money for the terrorists….
Despite the widespread negative reaction, Adolfsson pledged to continue to include Muslim women, “both with and without the veil”…..
Trish says
NEWS FLASH: Your government CAVED to Islam extremists long ago. Islamic doctrine is not compatible with American ???? European (aka WESTERN)freedom, which we are fast LOSING!! But that’s the whole plan. This will, of course, only get worse .
mortimer says
This is a CULTURAL STEAMROLLER telling the Swedish people that they have no right to dissent.
Islam is CULTURAL IMPERIALISM, but Sweden’s Leftards are even now in denial about that fact.
Wherever Islam has gone, native cultures have been ANNIHILATED and the people completely Islamized.
Rufolino says
If “120 languages” are apparently spoken in this locality, why was ONE cultural group (Islam) singled out from all the rest, to symbolise the place ?
If “diversity” were the aim, NO one group should have been singled out from the others.
But maybe they feel in their bones that Islam is the future ? In Sweden it probably will be, and many want this to happen.
gravenimage says
+1
Dave says
How about a poll of Swedes to see how many welcome their own demise?
Poll question: Do you welcome your own demise at the hands of Islam? YES or NO?
Older Canadian says
My first reaction when I saw this sign, that it was a welcome to muslims, or at was a muslim city. If they wanted to state diversity then a picture of many, of all stripes should have been the symbol. Or was the reaction to this sign the politicans original intent to create a backlash and the people didn’t fail to disappoint.
Emilie Green says
“Vandalizing the sign is wrong.”
Maybe so, but Swedish pols would be wise to heed the warning signs that their dangerous policies accommodating Islam are producing a seething anger..
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
Frank Anderson says
Ms. Green, what you have written makes sense to me. The problem I see with your analysis is what may be the underlying assumption that decisions are being made by people who don’t know what they are doing. I have quoted many times, and have probably worn out some people with the quote, that “Deliberate ignorance constitutes knowledge of the truth.” Wyle v. R.J.Reynolds, (9th Cir.). These people flooding non-muslim societies with muslims MAY not have known about the polar differences in social values when starting the flood; But there is no excuse for them not knowing now. The people in control, or seeking control, in many countries wish to destroy liberty by any available means so they can impose their dictatorship. Then by keeping an unarmed powerless population totally at their mercy, render the countries destitute, as for example Venezuela, to cement their control.
Acts of terror by resistance are no more effective today than they were before and during WWII against Nazi Germany. All any of them did was annoy the Nazis and give them all the excuse they needed (as if they needed any excuse) to slaughter and oppress. Looking at how Communism fell because of massive dissatisfaction and generally non-violent resistance in Poland and elsewhere, there could be something to learn.
Terry Gain says
IMHO, and what other opinion could I express, Communism fell because it didn’t work and people like the Soviet dissidents and real leaders like Reagan, Thatcher and Pope Paul II gave the people the courage to rebel against their masters.
I think a Muslim welcome sign in a country in which Muslims have established No Go Zones is an extreme provocation. A patriot was provoked and fought back in a very gentle way. The defacing of this Muslim Propaganda was completely justified. The sign might as well have said Welcome Conquerors.
mortimer says
Agree with TG. The Swedish Leftards have taken away freedom of expression, so civil disobedience must now be expected since it is the only way left for people to express dissent.
Frank Anderson says
T.G. I do not think we have any substantial disagreement. Where I would observe that pinprick acts do not move toward the desired defeat, and instead provoke wasteful losses of people, anything that serves to discredit the righteous opposition to the conquest of free people is better avoided. “Convert, Submit, Die”, Fight or Escape, either by hiding in place or getting out. Note how dangerous hiding in place became and remains today in any totalitarian country. Until there is a real chance of victory, simply stirring the pot is self-defeating.
I cannot at the moment cite the book, chapter and verses that deal, I think, with the Babylonian conquest and exile of the Jews for several generations. One group fought and died. The other bided its time, survived and returned to Israel. An example worth considering.
Terry Gain says
FA
Frank, I don’t consider defacing that obscene Welcome Sign to be stirring the pot. It is fighting back. I would never support defacing a Mosque or being rude to a Muslim in personal dealings.
Muslims are a tiny minority whose strength far outweighs their numbers because of our weakness. Pandering to them only encourages them. I believe the intent of the defacing was to send a message to the appeasers.
There is no need to bide our time. We need to stand up to them and prove to them that we will not submit and that they are not rightly guided.
Frank Anderson says
T.G. I agree that standing up and resisting are far better than rolling over and submitting. I suggest the mode of resistance that will be most effective is to identify those who are still in ignorance and denial, who have not chosen to collaborate or who are already looking to resist, and helping them see why they need to get off the fence before it is too late. I suggest such productive action is hard to do while fleeing prosecution or serving jail time. Please consider.
el Cid 2 says
Terry – I agree – what other options are available? Don’t answer – because most other options involve more violence.
Remember Churchill – never surrender, never surrender, never surrender.
Also IMHO – it is better to die a free man than live as a slave.
gravenimage says
Frank, I agree that we have to keep on educating people about the threat of Islam.
Savvy Kafir says
Defacing that sign was not wrong. Putting the sign up was insane — political correctness run right off the rails.
The political elites so eagerly Islamizing Sweden will be getting rebuttals far more emphatic than vandalized signs before this conflict is settled.
Dave says
Savvy, your name sounds strangely muslim! Oh, I get it!
This thing is clearly a SIGN OF THE TIMES.
mortimer says
The cultural suicide promoted by Sweden’s Leftards is rejected by more and more. The Leftards believe in their own infallibility. Why, they think, can’t everyone see that cultural suicide is the ‘right thing’?
By removing their freedom of expression, Leftards have allowed the Swedish people no other way to express themselves, but in civil disobedience and vandalism. If the freedom of speech is not restored in Sweden, there will be a growing revolt.
dan christensen says
The Swedish Leftards are matched by the Danish kind. Today, some Leftards reported the female leader of an anti-islam political party, “The New Right Party”, for the crime of racism.
Her alleged ‘crime’ was that she had called the physical obstructions against jihad attacks with trucks – some kind of concrete blocks – “Quran Blocks”.
Very few people dares to say the words ‘muslim’, ‘islam’ etc. in public. They are so afraid to actually utter any islam related words. Instead they use euphemisms for the apparently controversial muslim, islam etc. for pure fear of being perceived islamophobic racists.Voluntary self-censorship!
Billy Chickens says
She’s described as a “brave teacher who didn’t quit her job despite battling cancer.”
How about the time she braved the icy Swedish winter cold in her bare feet rescuing dozens of poor Christian children abandoned in the forest with no food and nearly eaten by wolves. She raced out in the middle of the night with only a flashlight, scared off the wolves, rounded up the poor Swedish Christian children and returned them safely to their parents.
Or the time she dangerously flew a plane upside down – all by herself – to show the town that Muslim women are more than capable of joining the Swedish Air Force.
Wasn’t she the awesomely brave Muslima who single-handedly stopped an honor killing by offering herself in place of the condemned woman but the woman’s relatives wanted the real thing instead but were so struck by Hindi’s bravery that they kissed and made up with the condemned woman and they all lived happily ever after?
Wasn’t Hindi the woman who rushed into scatter the town’s female genital mutilation gang just about to cut a child’s clitoris off? She grabbed the razors and slashed the perpetrators in the face so they could be recognized in the future, all while dialing 911 on her cell phone. She had all the perps lined up and bound by a rope that she found, ready for the police to pick up while she dashed off to perform another brave Muslima feat.
That Suzan Hindi? No wonder they chose her to be on the town’s welcome sign.
gravenimage says
Ha ha
Carol the 1st says
And all the while she wore her hijab like a crown and smiled serenely.
dumbledoresarmy says
Google “BUGA UP”. People would – creatively – deface signs promoting the smoking of tobacco. A sign promoting Islam is *worse* than a sign encouraging people to smoke; because it’s a sign promoting a cult that has racked up, so far, a death toll numbering a guesstimated 250 million human beings (notable mass-murder episodes along the way including the jihad genocide of Armenian and Assyrian Christians, only a century ago, and longer ago, the ritualised mass murder of scores of millions of Hindus and Buddhists in India). There is a case to be made for *intelligent* and *creative* ‘modification’ of a sign of this sort; or perhaps the placing of a *counter-sign* right next to it… featuring large portrait photos of girls who are known to have been *killed*, or otherwise victimised, because they doffed the hijab. Caption: “Killed for Not Wearing HIjab”. Quote the sermonising Imam: “At age 10 she must wear the hijab. If she doesn’t, we beat her”.
elee says
I applaud this Comment..
gravenimage says
+1
Ole Pederson says
It would have been a nicer idea, instead of vandalizing the sign, using a mask and spray the face with black paint leaving only a slit for her eyes open. Instant burka!
elee says
If I were going to start advocating unlawful destruction of property I couldn’t think of a better time or place to begin.
WPM says
Could a Jihadist attack the sign so the libtards could gather around and scream “racist far right white folks ” did it? How many rapes , robbers ,violent assaults are done by jihadist in North European countries with hardly a word said by the local MSM ? It was a sign that was attack it is not right ,but not as bad as attacking flesh and blood citizens that the jihadist do every day in many places in North Europe..
WPM says
As was pointed out in an early post battling cancer and then going back to work is very nice and good ,but that does not make you are great hero.
gravenimage says
And her being a teacher–indoctrinating children–is actually deeply disturbing.
Dave says
WPM, no, but she would be a hero if she slaughtered her class! Go straight to Paradise . Do not pass GO. Do not collect £200 (Apologies to Monopoly)
Tom says
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable”. John F. Kennedy
Suppress the free speech of the people at your peril.
CRUSADER says
Bleak in Heathrow Airport where half the passengers in que for passport control
are wearing black and in wearing hijab….
These covered women aren’t required it seems to remove their head cover, but
most men are required to do so….
How is that fair and equal and reasonable?
John Allan says
Don’t know about fair, equal or reasonable; it is obviously unacceptable.
somehistory says
“Gävle MP Roger Hedlund, a member of the right-wing Sweden Democrats, was among those who opposed the sign, saying that headscarves “reduce women to a simple sex object who must cover up in order not to arouse male desire”.
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He’s right. But that’s not all. moslims don’t welcome never-moslims. moslims don’t want non moslims to share space, to share land or its resources. Having a sign that is supposed to say “welcome” to the city picturing a moslim is a contradiction. The words say “welcome,” but the woman herself is not welcoming non moslims. So, in effect, she is saying to moslims “welcome,” while her scarf and her muslimness are saying “only come if you want to bow to the beast.”
gravenimage says
“It is partly the classic Islamophobic attitude that everything that has to do with Islam is a danger and evil…”
…………………..
Can it be that Gävle municipality communications manager Johan Adolfsson doesn’t know that Suzan Hindi–really, Nizam Hindi–has ties to a Jihadist Mosque–or does he just not care?
“Sweden: Muslim woman in hijab with ties to jihadist mosque chosen for municipality’s welcome sign”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/02/sweden-muslim-woman-in-hijab-with-ties-to-jihadist-mosque-chosen-for-municipalitys-welcome-sign
Dave says
“It is partly the classic Islamophobic attitude that everything that has to do with Islam is a danger and evil…”
This sentence is purely a statement of fact. What about the Islamic attitude to Infidels?
We should wear the word Islamophobic with Pride.
na says
Stop multiple citizenship
Fritz says
Välkommen Till Helvete! (Welcome to hell!)
gravenimage says
Grimly spot on, Fritz.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Re: “Vandalizing the sign is wrong.” NO, IT ISN’T. Those who erected it are hypocrites, and so are those who admire it. Truth logic facts and reason will never change the minds of self-determined “liberal” hypocrites.
Crusades Were Right says
“the sign stopped working altogether”
Is it on benefits now?
; ¬)
Dave says
Very funny!! How to stop Islam? Stop ALL BENEFITS! The West pays for their breeding programme. We are paying for them to kill us off, one way and another. What insanity is this?
Ade Fegan says
Surely this abomination is an act of vandalism in itself !!!!!!!!
Anne says
It should read: Welcome, except for UPS drivers who will be attacked when entering our Muslim no-go zones!
Garfield says
Everything that has to do.with Islam IS dangerous and evil! (Look at history. For PROOF.)
Seeing a hijab means there’s a supremacist who thinks uncovered women are fair game.to rape. Seeing a hijab is demoralizing. Let’s face facts.
Dave says
Islam is a veiled threat. Embracing Islam is like hugging the Devil.