Posted on 05/16/2007 7:50:23 AM PDT by WesternCulture
'Muslim-friendly' radio presenter receives death threats
Radio presenter Täppas Fogelberg has begun receiving death threats. Serious threats and letters smeared with excrement have been sent to him via his employer, Sveriges Radio.
Last week, a card filled with racist terms arrived at Sveriges Radio in Sundsvall.
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The author claimed that there were people prepared to murder Täppas Fogelberg. The reason given was that he "pampers bloody Muslims" on his programme Ring P1.
"It's disgusting," Fogelberg told newspaper Sundsvalls Tidning.
The manager of Sveriges Radio in Sundsvall, Lena Tideström-Sagström, has reported the matter to the police.
"It has gone too far, it's just depressing," said Fogelberg.
"It would be repugnant if I was silenced. I will be careful with my body but not with the spoken word. I am not going to become nicer," he added.
TT/The Local
“It would be repugnant if I was silenced. I will be careful with my body but not with the spoken word. I am not going to become nicer,” he added.
Saudi Arabia - Conversion by a Muslim to another religion is punishable by death. Bibles are illegal. Churches are illegal. It is punishable by death for a non-mulsim to enter the “holy” muslim cities of Medina and Mecca.
Yemen - Bans proselytizing by non-Muslims and forbids conversions. The Government does not allow the building of new non-Muslim places of worship.
Kuwait - Registration and licensing of religious groups. Members of religions not sanctioned in the Koran may not build places of worship. Prohibits organized religious education for religions other than Islam.
Egypt - Islam is the official state religion and primary source of legislation. Accordingly, religious practices that conflict with Islamic law are prohibited. Muslims may face legal problems if they convert to another faith. Requires non-Muslims to obtain what is now a presidential decree to build a place of worship.
Algeria - The law prohibits public assembly for purposes of practicing a faith other than Islam. Non-Islamic proselytizing is illegal, and the Government restricts the importation of non-Islamic literature for distribution. The country has passed the “Regulation of Religious Practice” law, which stipulates a punishment of two to five years’ imprisonment and heavy fines for anyone convicted of urging a Muslim to change his religion.
Syria - The constitution requires the president to be a Muslim and specifies that Islamic jurisprudence is a principal source of legislation. Sharing your Christian faith is discouraged as “posing a threat to the relations among religious groups” and carries a penalty of up to life in prison. A Christian is not allowed to proselytize – ever. Churches who want to hold an extra service must get a government permit. Sermons are routinely monitored, as is church fundraising.
Jordan - Has the death penalty for any Muslim selling land to a Jew.
Sudan - Conversion by a Muslim to another religion is punishable by death.
Pakistan - Conversion by a Muslim to another religion is punishable by death. Bans proselytizing by non-Muslims. Christians regularly put in prison for charges of blasphemy. Islam is the state religion, and in a court of law the testimony of a Christian carries less weight than that of a Muslim. Section 295(c) of the Penal Code calls for a death sentence for anyone who defiles the name of the Prophet Muhammad and requires the testimony of four Muslims for a conviction. This fosters an environment in which Muslims can feel free to use intimidation and violence against religious minorities for personal gain.
Qatar - Islamic instruction is compulsory in public schools. The government regulates the publication, importation, and distribution of non-Islamic religious literature. The government continues to prohibit proselytizing of Muslims by non-Muslims.
Malaysia - Under Malaysian law, any convert to Christianity must apply to a shariah (Muslim law) court to legally renounce Islam. Many Christians prefer to remain silent converts rather than take their battle to the shariah courts, where apostasy or conversion out of Islam is punishable by whipping, fines, imprisonment and—in the most extreme application—death.
The Maldives - In the island paradise visited by tens of thousands of tourists each year, Christianity is simply not tolerated. While local Christians – said to number around 300 out of a total population of 300,000 – do get together to worship, they do so at the risk of imprisonment or worse if discovered by the Muslim authorities. Bibles are banned, and tourists can be arrested for trying to bring them into the country.
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I believe in freedom of speech and I don’t hate all Muslims around the world, but Fogelberg is a fool.
For instance, he has made tv shows in which he insults ordinary people from Germany just for being Germans.
The PC journalists and MSM of Sweden are instigating racism, nazism and they fail to see they are a threat to democracy.
There’s a scoop for the Scandinavian MSM!
...As the worm turns....
I'm not quite sure what this has to do with the story.
And he made bad music in the 70s. Oops, wrong Fogelberg.
“Sermons are routinely monitored, as is church fundraising.”
Let’s return the favor and monitor meetings where Jews are called pigs...
Of course, there’s absolutely NO possibility that muslims have been sending these threats, to show how “hated” they and their suckups are by the mean, bloody European swedes. I mean, they wouldn’t go on to bomb or torch their own cesspools (mosques) for those reasons, would they? (sarc)
When Sweden went Neutral during Europe's greatest moral test, WWII, the resulting cognitive dissonance permanently impacted its mental and moral faculties.
A sad end for the Vikings.
- I don’t think the position of the four strongest elements in Swedish society, namely the big corporations, the unions, the largest political parties and the MSM is especially threatened.
Since we elected a Conservative led government in September 2006, the position of the unions have been weakened though (being a member has become more expensive due to different measurements from the government and a lot of people have left their respective union).
A change in the area of politics that a lot of Swedes (and others) think will come about is that of the immigration critical party of The Sweden Democrats reaching the Parliament (they have to receive at least 4% of the vote in the general elections) sooner or later. They will get their next chance in 2010.
“When Sweden went Neutral during Europe’s greatest moral test, WWII, the resulting cognitive dissonance permanently impacted its mental and moral faculties.”
- This is like saying the US still suffers from having arrived too late for WWII, with the result of millions of Jews being murdered and an even larger amount of people being forced to live behind the Iron Curtain for decades.
Quite contrary, both Sweden and the US view their actions in connection with WWII as heroic and successful, although the adequacy of both of these stances sure could be questioned.
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