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Hamas minister granted Sweden visa
Ali Waked
Published: 04.05.06, 19:04
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1. Now Hamas can get Volvos like some Israeli Officials
Alan ,   SA   (05.04.06)
2. Write and call the Consulate of Sweden
Gabrielle Goldwater ,   Geneva Switzerland   (05.04.06)
Consulate General of Sweden 58, Nablus Road Sheikh Jarrah Postal address: Consulate General of Sweden P.O. Box 297 Jerusalem 91002 Phone Consular Matters: +972-2-581 56 08 Fax: +972-2-532 51 70 Tel: +972-2-582 82 12 [switchboard] Fax: +972-2-582 88 01 generalkonsulat.jerusalem@foreign.ministry.se
3. Allahu akbar with a Swedish accent? Soon!
Ram ,   London   (05.04.06)
4. Ok, that settles it. The lip service is over.
Alexander ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (05.04.06)
I could almost tell that something wasn´t right and I was right - as usual. The Swedes are incorrigible. Therefore, I believe the best solution would be for the US to invade Sweden and perform the same mitzvah in Sweden as in Iraq and the Americans should offer the Swedes a good upbringing. Mr Bush, warm up your engines. You have a job to do. Smoke ´em out! Best regards Alexander - a New Conservative realist and political hawk.
5. sweden is pro nazi and pro hamas
debra ,   usa   (05.04.06)
sweden was neutral towards hitler and the nazis in wwll, and now they are letting hamas visit. the thread running through this is that----they seem to like those who are out to kill jews. f..k sweden.
6. Well Done Sweden
richard Hitchings ,   methil   (05.04.06)
Pragmatic as ever ... other countries will of course follow the Swedish example
7. number 2 to 5 & 1
Johnny Star ,   Lebanon, Missouri   (05.04.06)
i feel sorry for you as you all have rotten unreasonable mentalities you are sick especially you number 2 ggg. number 1 had some ironic humour in his response not too bad
8. It was bound to happen
Jacob ,   DC   (05.04.06)
The Arabs run around and complain how the Jews run the world, meanwhile, they are moving to all of Eurabia and will soon be too much to handle. Imams going to Mayors and saying, do this, or I'll get my followers to burn your town down. Thank goodness I'll be dead before all of Europe prays five times a day.
9. Disgusting
Intedi Nensak ,   Stockholm, Sweden   (05.04.06)
As a Swede I'm horrified that even though it looked like it was going to sort it self out, hamas eventually got a visa anyway. We're sorry world. We failed. The only positive thing in this is that it has triggered a huge debate in Sweden too and the current terroristloving goverment isn't in a very good position to win the elections in September.
10. #2 Gabrielle, thanks for the info!
Mike   (05.05.06)
Now I can call and show my appreciation to the government of Sweden for not acting like racists and accepting the choice of the Palestinian people! I've been looking for this phone number all day!
11. Sweden is host to group who perpetrated 60 plus suicide bomb
Alan ,   SA   (05.05.06)
and who are now using terror subcontractors
12. Visa to Hamas
Johannes ,   Brussels   (05.05.06)
Soon the Swedes will have sharia law forced upon them by the muslims in that country....so they want to make nice with the people that are going to rule them within a generation. Good night to you, Sweden
13. to #9-Admitting you were wrong
Arie   (05.05.06)
The swedes have not changed. From their nazified activity during the Shoah to today, they continue to exercise their 'right' to associate with and back terrorists determined to eliminate all Jews. A boycott will work! Wait and watch the Volvo and Saab numbers for the next quarter!
14. to 6...
stephane ,   france   (05.05.06)
you're a huge ass hole,it's easy to speak when you don't have terror in your country.i would like to see how much "pragmatic" you'll be if sweden was welcoming people who kill innocents in your country everyday.i would like to see if you'll congratulate the swedish for that...ptit con!
15. 14.... Resistance to State Terror
richard Hitchings ,   methil   (05.05.06)
stephane Britain suffered much from bombing by the IRA .....and Ken Livingston had the foresight to talk to the IRA about 20 years or more before Tony Blair eventuallly did.... The Zionists seek to impose their will on the Palestinian people...it deserves resistance by whatever means.... State Terror is a crime far worse than Resistance to State Terror.
16. #13 Arie
Intedi Nensak ,   Stockholm, Sweden   (05.05.06)
I wasn't wrong, this was a huge surprise for everyone, they were first denied a visa and this is a huge surprise to everyone. We had less nazi activities in our country than the rest of Europe, we weren't even in the war, stop trying to put that crap on us. A boycott wouldn't work and it would only affect people who do not deserve it. Even though you're an insane racist against Europeans, even you must have enough braincells to understand that most of us do not want them to come here. www.dn.se www.svd.se these are among the biggest newspapers here, even though you don't understand swedish it shouldn't be too difficult to find the polls, the side who says it's wrong to invite hamas is leading by far. This move is nothing else than a cheap trick by our goverment to win over the votes of the huge amounts of immigrants in the country. Btw, neither Volvo or SAAB are full swedish companies anymore, Volvo is owned by Ford and Saab is owned by GM. A boycott of israeli goods has been suggested by immigrants here for a loooong time, if you want to thank the swedish goverments and peoples position to deny such a boycott by boycotting Sweden, then at least pick a state owned one instead of a private company who doesn't have anything to do with the goverment.
17. To # 7
Ivri ,   USA   (05.05.06)
I am surprised you can even type,since inbreeding causes bad eye vision...is your keyboard all wet from your spitting chewing tobacco? I strongly recommend a little excercise in geneology on your part before you start spewing this crapp to the world and causing shame to your backwards neighbors,,,,( Dont be surprised if your family tree is actually a bush)
18. Sweden: Three jihadists "planned terror attack on church"
Gabrielle Goldwater ,   Geneva Switzerland   (05.05.06)
Sweden pays for it's Hamas support http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=3709 They have invited terrorists - now they pay
19. 15 Hitchings: RedKen's and Galloway's supporter
Gabrielle Goldwater ,   Geneva Switzerland   (05.05.06)
The same Hitchings: the Scottish Storm Trooper Who also said he wants to teach us Jews all about Judaism ... (which he couldn't spell) who also thinks we holocaust survivors should be thanking the Red Army for our Liberation Who is a typical Scottish Storm Trooper Jew Hater If you want anyone to take you really serious - you need to stop proclaiming Marxist ideas that equal ISM movement.
20. Sweden the Hamas and Nazi story
Gabrielle Goldwater ,   Geneva Switzerland   (05.05.06)
SWEDEN AND ITS MUSLIMS HARBORING HAMAS Sweden Fights Image of 'Safe Haven' for Terror... Does it really ??? http://goldwater.mideastreality.com/2004/jun/11_04.html The Region: Taking stock in Stockholm http://goldwater.mideastreality.com/2004/jun/15_14.html Hamas' Sweden-based Web site shut down http://goldwater.mideastreality.com/2004/mar/hamasswedensite.html Hamas should run in Palestinian election: Swedish FM http://goldwater.mideastreality.com/2004/nov/21_02.html Sweden went out of its way to assist the nazis http://www.utb.boras.se/uk/se/projekt/HISTORY/articles/ww2/ww21.htm The Swedes were one of the top suppliers to the nazi war machine http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/nazis/etc/map4.html Sweden used nazi-style race laws during the Shoah to emulate its hitlerian idols http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3236513,00.html neo-nazis throughout the world - even in Germany - now use the Swedish neo-nazi movement as its 'guiding light' http://www.socialismtoday.org/45/swedish_nazis.html Applied nazi mariage laws which to this day remain on the legal books http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=3464&date=20060404 Sweden - only second to France in its quest for Judenrein the nazi way! Please sign the petition to appeal the Swedish Chancellor of Justice's decision to discontinue pre-trial hearings against the Stockholm mosque. http://www.upprop.net/upprop_eng.php
21. Hehehe...
David ,   Stockholm,Sweden   (05.05.06)
Yepp! The swedish government sits in the muslem minority´s lap. Since the Socialdemocrats (who have ruled the country singlehanded for the last 50 years) have made a pact with the more radical elements in the muslem society ,generous funding for guaranteed votes, they are now so depending on the darkmen that they don´t have that much of a choice concerning letting Hamas-representatives into the country or not. The good thing is though that just recently there have started something of a public debate on the question of islam in western societies and how far the democracies should go to meet their demands. Just the other week the head-Imam threathened the PM with a stop of muslem votes if the socialdemocrats didn´t accept Sharialaw for the muslem minority in the country. So thank you socialdemocrats for turning this place into a crime-ridden, economically declining, jew-threatening nightmare.
22. Dick, take your racist comments somewhere else
Marc   (05.05.06)
23. EUROPE - HUMILIATED and SUBSERVIENT TO ISLAM
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (05.05.06)
In response to the European occupation of Europe by Europeans, is the EU planning to initiate a peace process and offer Muslims half of Europe? Will the EU, following the Palestinian Authority model; finance, arm and train Muslim terrorist organizations, declaring it is a necessary requirement for the internal security of European Muslim territories? Eurabian Nightmares By Andrew G. Bostom FrontPageMagazine.com | March 13, 2006 While Europe Slept chronicles Bawer's personal encounter with Europe's ongoing Islamization since late 1998... France is already 12% Muslim and Switzerland 20%... Already, in most of Western Europe, 16 to 20 percent of children are Muslims...within a couple of generations many [Western European] countries will have Muslim majorities. ...a Danish Muslim leader, typical of many European imams, declared triumphally in 2000, “Muslims have a dream of living in an Islamic society…This dream will surely be fulfilled in Denmark…We will eventually be a majority”. And such demography is already destiny in Islamic satellite colonies interspersed throughout Western Europe where demands for sovereignty began well before the recent Muslim intifada in France this past fall, 2005. In France, a public official met with an imam at the edge of Roubaix's Muslim district out of respect for his declaration of the neighborhood as Islamic territory to which she had no right of access. In Britain, imams have pressed the government to officially designate certain areas of Bradford as being under Muslim, not British, law. In Denmark, Muslim leaders have sought the same kind of control over parts of Copenhagen. And in Belgium, Muslims living in the Brussels neighborhood of Sint-Jans-Molenbeek already view it not as part of Belgium but as an area under Islamic jurisdiction in which Belgians are not welcome. These burgeoning Muslim communities are also consuming disproportionate amounts of state sponsored welfare benefits. For example, Danish Muslims comprise 5% of the population, yet they receive 40% of the governmental outlays... ...the social workers themselves are often tyrannized by their Muslim clients. Bawer describes the chilling situation in Denmark: Some clients lay waste to social security offices and hit social workers... Bawer further documents how Norwegian (Oslo) imams preach brazenly that Muslims should expect such welfare benefits-and feel justified in supplementing them by stealing from stores-as a form of jizya* extracted from their infidel "host" societies-societies that have not yet accepted their requisite subservience to Islamic Law! http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21609
24. Let him STAY in Sweden
B.A. ,   Sweden   (05.05.06)
We in the Jewish Community in Sweden have over the past five years felt a radical change to the worst in the cultural and political climate. Security arrangement at our institutions sours, people have been attacked or verbally abused for wearing kippa in public. True, this is not everyday occurrences, but I know of no Jewish colleague among teachers in Public schools that voluntarily show of their Jewishness in any way. Or Jewish pupils... On the contrary! Sweden has become a haven for almost 400000 Muslim migrants, the majority Arabs. Within a population of originally 8 mil., that´s makes up a good electorate. The Swedish Left -- always the Communists ("Vänstern"), the Greens, but also the Social democrats since the days of Olof Palme -- have always been hostile to Jewish independence in Eretz-Israel. The "logic" of Hamas, as well as of the Iranians, have always been promoted by the left here in Sweden. There is plenty of Swedish "Peace activists" among the Palestinians, and their natural centres are The Swedish Christian Study Center (Just inside the Yafo-gate in J-m), and the Swedish Theological Institute at Rechov ha-Neviim, also in J-m. Visa for Swedish citizen ought to have e been introduced years ago, in my humble opinion. A Socialist Stockholm has proven to always be an asset to the Arab course.
25. How well can muslim women ski in burkas, that'd be a sight.
Bunnie Meyer ,   Santa Monica, CA   (05.05.06)
26. Adding some info
Stefan ,   Sweden   (05.05.06)
Accourding to SR . (swedish radio) Jan Eliasson granted the Visa to Atef Adwan after an request from other countrys in shengen to see if anyone objected to grant him a visa. There were no objection from any other country in the Shengen. The swedish government will not have any contacts with Atef Adwan. Some notes. To boycot Volvos and Saab will only hurt . Ford and GM. At the end as a swede I disagree with letting them in. Also I object anytime that neo nazis get another approval to demostrate with heavy police protection. But were shall one draw the line ? If we ban nazis to exist they will still exist but go underground. Its better to let them demonstrate so people can see how few they are and what sick ideas they are standing for. In ways let him in let him say things and it will be journalist there to record it and then one can analyse it. if they can ask questions maybe the journalists can ask questions like why Hamas have a goal to remove Israel from the map. Just to see how he will avoid to answer that question clearly. Well lets see what will come out of that.
27. The scandal is growing
Intedi Nensak ,   Stockholm, Sweden   (05.05.06)
SR Ekot is reporting that France is pissed now at us too and is accusing Sweden of going behind their back in granting the visa. Stockholm says it forwarded necessary information to France in case they wanted to object according to schengen rules, Paris says they never recieved any info about it and if they would have gotten it they would have blocked the issuing of the visa. bleh. this is getting worse every day. Good job Göran Persson! :(
28. to 15...6...richard...
stephane ,   france   (05.05.06)
poor richard...you don't change and you remained stupid.how can you compare the IRA to hamas? i wish i had ennemies like IRA instead of this f......g hamas. the irish don't blow up themselves to kill woman and kids.they have killed some innocents,but it happened a few time.they're not triyng day and night like hamas to kill innocents civilians.irish are real men,don't compare them to the animals that we fight and that you lick the ass.
29. Scandinavia-Norway and Sweden
jessie ,   norway   (05.05.06)
norway wants to talk with hamas.they say it is an invitation from an organization,not the government.they will not meet with anyone from the government.i do NOT belive this.why did our minister of foreign affairs say it was the best way to send a message-to meet them ? then sweden boycotts Israel.the peacekeeping exercise in italy.the reasone is - israel have never participated before.i do NOT belive this.they should be happy for every nation that is willing.then the pm of sweden say:NO hamas in sweden.then he say:someone is invited from an organization,not the government. i think norway and sweden are together in this approval of the terrorists.the rest is only empty words of liars. i think they want to make Israel feel weak and alone.they want to "help"the terrorists in hamas to build a strong palestinian state. the people in scandinavia are not too happy.there is a lot of silence,and worry.the government of norway are in trouble now,but it also depend on the political opposition.there is no one here with the same strength as your leaders.
30. It’s time for USA to act!!
Thomas ,   Sweden   (05.05.06)
This is Sweden – No war criminals have been prosecuted even after Simon Wizenthal told the Swedes in the 60´s that several SS officer was living and still living in Sweden. Kosher slather is against the law in Sweden so all kosher meet is imported from Israel or EU. Sweden is trying to forbid Brit Milah also but not get. Last thing is that they want to close our only Jewish school because the children have to eat kosher food and have kippah when they eat – that makes the school religious and that is dangers. The Jews in Sweden has it worst then the Jews in Russia. Sweden has a history to help terrorists so to let Hamas in to Sweden was just a matter of time. The fact that the organisation that invited them is classified as a terrorist organisation by the USA and they were kicked out from Denmark explains a lot. But since that Swedish policy is that it is the organization that is the terrorist and not the members mean that Osam Bin Ladin is welcome to have vacation in Sweden since he never has been convicted for terrorism and he is only a member. Please, all American Jews and Israelis that are living in the States get Mr. Bush to act against Sweden NOW!! If we do not get help now there will not be any Jews left here in 10 -15 years. (We are 17.000 and the Muslims 400.000 of the total population of 9 million.)
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