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Sweden Appoints Pakistani Muslim Head of National Heritage Board
Frontpage Magazine ^ | 2-7-18 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 02/07/2018 10:07:51 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin

Qaisar Mahmood, a Muslim born in Pakistan, is the new head of the Swedish National Heritage Board. This is an extremely anomalous appointment, since he readily admits that he has not read anything about Sweden’s cultural heritage. But his new job is not really about preserving and protecting Sweden’s cultural heritage and historical sites at all.

Qaisar Mahmood, who once rode his motorcycle around Sweden in an apparently failed attempt to discover what being Swedish consisted of, is using his position as head of the Swedish National Heritage Board not to highlight and celebrate that heritage, but to downplay Sweden’s cultural heritage and history, and to create a false narrative that will help compel Swedes to accept mass Muslim migration. He says he doesn’t want simply to alert people to Viking artifacts and the like, but to use Sweden’s history to “create the narrative” that will make Muslim migrants “part of something.”

We have already seen how that works. Remember the fake news story about the Viking burial cloth bearing the word “Allah”? Last October, a Swedish researcher gained international headlines by claiming that burial costumes from Viking graves dating back to the ninth and tenth centuries had been found to be inscribed with the name “Allah.” The intent of this was obvious: to convince Swedes that Islam had always been a part of Sweden, all the way back to the days of the Vikings, and so they should not be concerned about the mass Muslim migration that was now bringing Sweden unprecedented rape and other crime rates. Islam has always been a part of Sweden! Stop opposing mass Muslim migration!

The Viking burial cloths didn’t really feature the name “Allah” at all, as Stephennie Mulder, an associate professor of Medieval Islamic art and archaeology at the University of Texas at Austin, proved shortly thereafter, but by then the damage had been done. The idea had entered, however dimly, the popular consciousness: the Vikings were really Muslims. Islam is Swedish. Sweden was Islamic before it was Christian. The Muslim migrants are Swedes.

The “Allah” Viking burial cloth propaganda offensive was one manifestation of what Qaisar Mahmood and others like him are doing. There is no Muslim history in Sweden, but Qaisar Mahmood is working to change the very idea of cultural heritage and fabricate fictions about a historical Muslim presence in Sweden in order to advance his political and sociological agenda.

Qaisar Mahmood, as a Pakistani, of course has no Swedish heritage of his own. His admitted lack of knowledge of Swedish heritage and history ought to have disqualified him from his position, but this is how Sweden is obliterating itself and committing cultural and national suicide. After all, Swedes appointed Qaisar Mahmood to this position. It is Swedish leaders who want to destroy Swedish cultural and national identity.

It also must be remembered in connection with Qaisar Mahmood’s role as head of the Swedish National Heritage Board that the Qur’an suggests that ruins are a sign of Allah’s punishment of those who rejected his truth: “Many were the Ways of Life that have passed away before you: travel through the earth, and see what was the end of those who rejected Truth.” (3:137)

This is one of the foundations of the Islamic idea that pre-Islamic civilizations, and non-Islamic civilizations, are all jahiliyya — the society of unbelievers, which is worthless. Obviously this cuts against the idea of tourism of ancient sites and non-Muslim religious installations such as are found all over Sweden.

V. S. Naipaul encountered this attitude in his travels through Muslim countries. For many Muslims, he observed in Among the Believers, “The time before Islam is a time of blackness: that is part of Muslim theology. History has to serve theology.” Naipaul recounted that some Pakistani Muslims, far from valuing the nation’s renowned archaeological site at Mohenjo Daro, saw its ruins as a teaching opportunity for Islam, recommending that Qur’an 3:137 be posted there as a teaching tool.

It does lead one to ponder what Qaisar Mahmood might allow to be done, or not done, with Sweden’s historical sites and artifacts. But whatever destruction may ensue is, obviously, what Swedish authorities want.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: europe; hijrah; sweden
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Rape away...


21 posted on 02/07/2018 11:02:14 AM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Bye, Sweden. You had a good run.


22 posted on 02/07/2018 11:03:28 AM PST by al_c (LIBERAL - Laughable Iconsiderate Blaming Entitled Ranting Anti-christian Loudmouth)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

speaking of EUTHANASIA!!!!!!!


23 posted on 02/07/2018 11:05:28 AM PST by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

First thing he plans to do is Blowup the nonbelievers historic environments


24 posted on 02/07/2018 11:08:01 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I think they must be accomplishing this through threats. Then the people with holes in their brains go along with it.


25 posted on 02/07/2018 11:24:24 AM PST by firebrand
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To: yoe

Not really. I am equating the stupidity of Sweden naming an immigrant, especially a muslim immigrant, to be in charge its Heritage Board, with the stupidity that would have been demonstrated by Israel hiring an infamous Nazi to rule on affairs internal to Israel, on their Supreme Court.

The character on the old SNL played by Gilda Radner was always confusing what she heard and, when realizing her error, would say, “Never mind.” In this case, I am suggesting that she confused Eichmann’s trial with an appointment to the Supreme Court of Israel. Of course his trial was not before the Supremes (my mistake) but his appeal was.


26 posted on 02/07/2018 11:26:15 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Swedes actively recruiting their successors. They believe the leftist claptrap about white privilege and how evil they are and yearn to kill them selves off in favor of the low IQ brown invaders. This is the endgame when you reject God and His Truth and adopt the lies.


27 posted on 02/07/2018 11:28:31 AM PST by bkopto
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Swedes actively recruiting their successors. They believe the leftist claptrap about white privilege and how evil they are and yearn to kill them selves off in favor of the low IQ brown invaders. This is the endgame when you reject God and His Truth and adopt the lies.


28 posted on 02/07/2018 11:28:46 AM PST by bkopto
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To: Blurb2350
"“Where are the Swedish men?” The best of them, descendents of the Vikings, emigrated to the New World. My paternal grandparents were among them, coming alone to the U.S. when still in their teens, bearing only a cheap cardboard suitcase and big dreams....."

My great-grandparents did the same back in the 1870's, building a farm out on the prairie in Southern Minnesota. Long hard days of farm work while building a home and raising a family in a sometimes cold and hostile land. Conservative, hardworking, God-fearing Lutherans who built a church and a community along the way. Some of their grand children and great-grandchildren are welcoming the Somailis as if they are like minded, forgetting that they bring with them the poison in their hearts and minds. They will never assimilate as my great-grandparents did to the new world.

If the immigrants in Sweden today were expected to endure the same hardships they might not be so anxious to take on a new challenge in a new homeland. But of course it is not their homeland, it is just the land they have decided to plunder in the name of their god allah. After they have finished destroying Sweden they will likely move on to the next Christian or social democrat atheist country of the west with weak minded notions of open borders.

29 posted on 02/07/2018 11:36:45 AM PST by Sa-teef
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

That’s like Obama driving the American Economy Capitalist car....he didn’t know where the dipstick was... other than behind the wheel.


30 posted on 02/07/2018 12:22:33 PM PST by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

and why aren’t there any muslim characters on star trek?

because it happens in the FUTURE...


31 posted on 02/07/2018 1:37:11 PM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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