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Thursday, May 24, 2007

A Swedish Hirsi Ali?


From Hip Hop Republican:



In a tall, blond government, a small, Burundi-born black woman like
Nyamko Sabuni - who is Minister For Integration and Equality and seeks to become
Sweden's first black prime minister - will stand out. It is also the former
refugee and center-right politician’s outspoken views that have demanded
attention in Sweden.


She wants a ban on the veil for under-15s
and compulsory gynecological checks for all schoolgirls to protect against
genital mutilation masquerading as “female circumcision”. Her views have led to
death threats and round-the-clock protection in Europe’s most tolerant
country.


Being appointed minister provoked a petition signed by 50
Muslim organizations declaring that she “breathed populism and Islamophobia”.
Minister Sabuni, age 38, whose mother was a Muslim but who describes herself as
“not religious”, is unrepentant. “Arranged marriage is not something recommended
by Islam,” she said. “Nor is genital mutilation. Many people say this is our
tradition, our religion. But it is unacceptable, whatever the reason. I will not
be scared into silence. I will never accept that women and girls are oppressed
in the name of religion.”


Sweden has been good to Minister Sabuni. It welcomed her father and his
seven children as political refugees from Congo when she was 12. She studied at
Uppsala University, became a member of the Swedish Parliament at age 32, and
married a native Swedish travel agent with whom she has twin boys. Her views
were formed by the way that her Christian father found work quickly and helped
her family to integrate into Swedish life.


Minister Sabuni has never made any secret of her ambition to be
Sweden’s first black Prime Minister. Some see parallels between her and
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
, the Somali-born refugee who renounced Islam, became a
Dutch parliamentarian and spoke out against the religion, only to relocate in
the United States after a row about her asylum application. “We are
compared because we are both young, we are both black, we are both politicians,”
Minister Sabuni said. “The mission of Ayaan is to reform Islam. My mission is
not to reform Islam, my mission is to say that certain traditions are
unacceptable.”


Minister Sabuni believes that Sweden must move away from its generous
welfare benefits culture to improve social cohesion and ethnic integration as
well as boost the economy. Some also argue that this country of nine million has
already taken its fair share of immigrants, leading to the social tensions
behind Muslim rioting last month in Malmo.


Minister Sabuni believes that the solution is not fewer migrants but
more jobs. The Government pays as much as three-quarters of the starting salary
for an immigrant in his or her first job. In another very Swedish solution, she
is also pushing for a “Guarantee of Activities” program that will match the
jobless with useful social tasks, such as reading to pupils or helping the
elderly.


She wants the rest of Europe to adopt the same generous approach to
asylum-seekers as Sweden, which has taken more Iraqis than any other European
Union country – an acceptance rate of 90% compared with Britain’s 12%. “They
come to Sweden because they know there is a positive policy. We would rather see
the EU start acting the way we do than we have to act like they do”, said
Minister Sabuni. Minister Sabuni added that her demand to ban the veil for
schoolgirls was a contribution to a debate that she believes that Sweden needs
before it reaches the same level of anxiety about ethnic integration as Britain.
“The mentality in Britain has been very tolerant and accepting but now you have
a problem that suddenly you realised, gosh, there are some values we have to
defend,” she said.



I'm not too sure about her ideas. Obviously, I like her economic ideas. I like the idea of pushing back against the veil, and against genital mutilation. However, I don't agree with her open door policy on immigration from Muslim nations. She says the answer is more jobs. But, there are more jobs in Britain. The Muslims who have been causing the trouble in Britain have generally been middle class to upper middle class.

But, she is definitely an improvement over other Swedish politicians.

1 comment:

  1. ALLAH – A PERFECT GOD – A GOD OF REASON
    THE CREATION OF A NEW MODERN ISLAM

    There needs to be a Reformation of Islam. All peace loving Muslims who believe in the teachings of an ALLAH of PEACE AND LOVE must stand up and demand the reform of Islam. If Islam is not reformed then it is no longer a religion but a totalitarian system on a par with Nazism, Communism and Fascism. To take man's natural Concept of ALLAH, a conception of Peace and Love and Goodness, an all Wise, all Loving ALLAH for all mankind, and turn ALLAH - by bastardizing his teachings into a murderous ALLAH of hate, death and destruction, for the creation of a totalitarian system is one of the greatest sins that can be committed against ALLAH. The greatest danger mankind faces is the smuggling of a nuclear weapon by an Islamic Fundamentalist into a major western city killing millions in the name of and to the greater glory of ALLAH. If the hateful teachings are not removed from Islam this is the disaster that will destroy civilization as we know it. It will dramatically change human history forever.

    In order to reform Islam we must start with the following declaration:

    ALLAH AS THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE - THE CREATOR OF ALL LIVING THINGS IS PERFECT.

    ALLAH AS A PERFECT GOD - IS A GOD OF REASON

    AS A PERFECT GOD - A GOD OF REASON - ALLAH IS ALL PEACE AND LOVE

    ALL MANKIND ARE THE CHILDREN OF ALLAH

    ALL CHILDREN OF ALLAH ARE CREATED EQUAL AND THEIR LIVES ARE SACRED TO ALLAH

    ALLAH IS NOT AN IRRATIONAL BEING. IF ALLAH IS IRRATIONAL THEN ALLAH IS NOT PERFECT AND THEREFORE SINCE ALLAH CANNOT BE IMPERFECT AN IRRATIONAL ALLAH IS NOT GOD

    The above lays the intellectual framework for an Islamic Reformation.

    All teachings in the Koran and all Islamic texts (written or verbal ) that are not PERFECT are not the teachings of ALLAH - A PERFECT GOD - A GOD OF REASON but the teachings of man. This means that all teachings recorded in the Koran and all other Islamic texts, revelations, writings, sayings, fatwas of murder, killing, death and destruction, violence, hate, suicide bombers, violent jihad, terrorism, torture, maiming, wife beating, inferiority of woman, women as instruments of sexual pleasure in paradise, honor killings, stoning, cutting off limbs, child sex, bigotry, intolerance, slavery, inequality of infidels, inequality of any human being, that infidels can be murdered as a holy duty, that Muslims who renounce Islam can be killed, that Muslims (or anyone) who challenge the teachings of Islam can be murdered, etc are irrational AND NOT THE PERFECT TEACHINGS OF ALLAH – A PERFECT GOD - A GOD OF REASON – A GOD OF ALL LOVE AND PEACE.

    All Imams/ Fundamentalists who quote these phrases from the Koran are blaspheming against Allah.

    Osma bin laden and all other terrorists who issue Fatwas calling for death and destruction are blaspheming Allah - A PERFECT GOD - A GOD OF REASON.

    By teaching young Muslims that ALLAH IS A PERFECT GOD - A GOD OF REASON - that all the teachings of ALLAH - A PERFECT GOD MUST BE PERFECT we will occupy the moral and intellectual unassailable high ground. All the above mentioned teachings of Jihad, killing of infidels, terrorism etc are sins against ALLAH - A PERFECT GOD - A GOD OF LOVE AND PEACE. No ALLAH who is ALLAH would ever preach that killing and murdering of any human being in his name will be rewarded by accession to paradise. You cannot climb to heaven on the corpses of the murdered. All such teachings are the commands of evil men and false prophets. If ALLAH commanded that infidels (or any other human being) be killed then he would be irrational and evil and no longer perfect - no longer GOD.

    This is the only way to rescue Islam from these brutal killers

    Any Muslim who refuses to accept that Allah is A PERFECT GOD – A GOD OF REASON – and refuses to follow the teachings of Allah – A GOD OF REASON are no longer Muslims. This means that those who support suicide bombers - if they continue to support this evil - are not Muslims - they are blaspheming against the very essence of ALLAH – A GOD OF PEACE AND LOVE – A GOD OF REASON. Any Muslim who commits acts of violence, acts of terrorism, acts of violent jihad in the name of Allah are not Muslims - they're just MURDERERS. All teachings in the Koran that are not of ALLAH - A GOD OF REASON - blaspheme ALLAH and are evil. They must be renounced and denounced totally and completely WITHOUT EQUIVOCATION. These teachings must be removed from the Koran and a NEW MODERN KORAN published. The publication of a MODERN KORAN will be an instant worldwide best seller.

    In this way you can start to drive a stake through the heart of the evil irrational Islamic teachings.

    Sincerely,

    Larry Houle
    www.godofreason.com
    E-mail: intermedusa@yahoo.com

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