Sweden won’t decry Aftonbladet article
Herb Keinon THE JERUSALEM POST:
The Israeli-Swedish ping-pong over an offensive article in the Swedish Aftonbladet daily continued over the weekend, with Jerusalem calling for a Swedish government condemnation of the article, and Stockholm pointedly refusing to do so.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s National Security Adviser Uzi Arad spoke over the weekend to Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and called for a public condemnation. The phone call was initiated by Bildt, and came following a meeting in Stockholm on Friday between Israel’s envoy, Benny Dagan, and Sweden’s deputy foreign minister.
Despite the meeting and the phone call, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said on Saturday his government would not condemn the report.
“No one can demand that the Swedish government violate its own constitution. Freedom of speech is an indispensable part of Swedish society,” Reinfeldt was quoted as telling the Swedish news agency TT.
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No one is asking Sweden to violate its constitution. Sweden’s government is being asked to condemn the BS lies. Did Sweden publish the Mohammed cartoons? Didn’t think so …
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“Freedom of speech is an indispensable part of Swedish society..” NOT
Freedom is dead in a country that bans homeschooling. Swedes are deluded. (http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/aug/09081104.html)
- note Swedish surname (Westin)
Comment by lwestin | August 22, 2009
Hey, I agree that the article was crap full of lies, but it is not up to the government to comment on it. One minister had to resign from the last government after trying to stop a nationalist paper to publish the Mohammed cartoons.
And now there’s a parliamentary investigation against the foreign ministry due to the statements from the Swedish ambassador to Israel. She condemned the article, but might loose here job ’cause of that – as a representative of the government it is not allowed.
Btw: The Mohammed cartoons where published in Sweden, but only by a couple of local papers.
Yeah, and I realy like Iwestins comment. As if freedom was determined on wether or not there’s homeschooling. LOL!
Comment by Mange | August 23, 2009
Iwestins’s point is that there is no true freedom in a state that outlaws homescooling. Iwestin is absolutely right.
Comment by Tim | August 23, 2009