“The issue is being used by Islamic activists who want to make Muslims feel victimized and thus further radicalize their followers.”
The same tactic is used in slightly different ways against Israel and all over the world.
“The LVU campaign is Sweden’s Muhammad images,” translated from “LVU-kampanjen är Sveriges Muhammedbilder,” by Mathias Bred, Mariestads-Tidningen, February 11, 2022 (thanks to Medforth):
A current Islamist campaign is trying to stir up hatred against Sweden, which has, among others, put the Swedish Emergency Management Agency (MSB) on the spot. On social networks, activists and preachers spread the image of Sweden as a racist state that kidnaps Muslim children to turn them into infidels.
The spread of such rumors is not new. As terrorism expert Magnus Ranstorp commented on SVT, the issue has been simmering for a long time. Basically, there is a misunderstanding and anger about social services in Sweden taking care of children who are doing badly at home. These so-called LVU (Youth Welfare Unit) cases have for several years led to protests outside social services and threats against decision-makers in many municipalities (SVT 9/2).
The difference now is the widespread international coverage. The issue is being used by Islamic activists who want to make Muslims feel victimized and thus further radicalize their followers.
According to the Doku Foundation, which investigated Islamism in Sweden and was the first to detail the hate campaign, there are private Facebook groups with tens of thousands of members in which Sweden is portrayed as a racist and fascist state at war against Islam (Doku 27/1).
Through the Arabic language, stories about the abuse of social welfare offices have spread all over the world. In the autumn, the news channel Al-Jazeera devoted a long report to the forced care of Muslim children in Sweden. Strangely, it does not seem to have provoked any major reactions in Sweden.
The situation is of course serious. In the worst case scenario, anger at the LVU law is on the verge of turning into a kind of Swedish Muhammad cartoon. In 2005, Denmark was the subject of a worldwide campaign of hate messages, boycotts and terrorist attacks after the newspaper Jyllands-Posten published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. Sweden has not had a similar kind of experience. And the death sentence against Lars Vilks was against him as a person, not Sweden as a nation.
Nevertheless, the ongoing hate campaigns are first and foremost a threat to social service workers. They have already been exposed, but the pressure is mounting as the anger grows. Thus, the Islamist campaign also affects Swedish municipalities.
Another group affected are Muslim representatives who try to counter the rumours in order to better develop an understanding of how Swedish society works. This may involve imams and various Arabic-language media in Sweden. It is becoming increasingly difficult and dangerous for these stakeholders, who are so important for integration, to raise their voices today.
In a broader perspective, of course, the safety of all Swedes is affected. Swedish travellers and tourists can become targets. The risk of new terrorist attacks in our country also increases.
The hate campaign against Sweden means that we must take Islamism more seriously. Islamist organizations must be prevented from gaining access to public funding. We must ask ourselves whether it is sustainable in the long term to harbor hate preachers or repatriate people who have been involved in IS. They are simply too dangerous.
Lars Vilks was alone. This time we are all vulnerable.
born saturday says
seems that the civil war is starting in europe… the sultan must have given orders… it is sad to admit that in countries like sweden, the swedish, who have crucified any different view about the muslim invasion, more or less, deserve what will happen to them with the ammount of military they have….
remains to be seen if the sultan leads a whole scale invasion at the same time… so others will be too busy to help the swedish or elsewhere…. i hope God brings them luck….
gravenimage says
Muslims claim Swedish state is taking their children away to make them infidels, jihad threat rises accordingly
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Preventing child abuse is un-Islamic…
abu taleb says
For Islam, it is a legitimate reason to wage a jihad war.
At the extreme, muslims believe that everybody is bornt as a muslim, so parents’ raising the children as non muslims is the same as waging war against Islam.
It may sound stupid, but muslims can make every excuse to legitimate their jihad war. They need wealth, sex slaves and blood
Infidel says
Sweden should plead guilty, and instantly deport everybody making the charge to…. 🥁🥁🥁🥁Afghanistan!!!! 🥁🥁🥁🥁
libertyORdeath says
Are you people ever gonna wake the fuck up???
What does Europe get for allowing MILLIONS of illegal muslim migrants into their thriving countries?
They get called racist islamophobes who are stealing children.
I’m really starting to lose hope in the world. Might be time to get a cabin in the woods and stock up on weapons and ammo.