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Swedish deputy PM calls 9/11 ‘accident,’ refuses to apologize
The Times of Israel ^ | 4/19/16 | Raoul Wootliff

Posted on 04/19/2016 9:31:51 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

In defense of colleague who resigned after comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, Asa Romson suggests World Trade Center attacks were a mere mishap

Sweden’s deputy prime minister has come under fire for describing the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon as “accidents.”

Environment Minister and Green Party chair Asa Romson made the comments on Tuesday morning during a live televized interview about party colleague Mehmet Kaplan, who resigned as housing minister earlier this week over statements likening Israel to Nazi Germany.

“He has been chairman of Young Muslims in tough situations like the September 11 accidents and similar,” Romson told public broadcaster SVT in praise of Kaplan, according to Swedish news site The Local.

Kaplan, a member of the junior coalition partner Green Party, had himself been in hot water since the weekend when media published old video footage of him making controversial remarks about Israel’s politics toward Palestinians.

“We must not let extremism cloud our judgement or fall to the low point where immigrants or Muslims are collectively blamed as a result of the acts of extremists,” she told news site The Local.

Falling short of an apology, Romson clarified that despite her reference to the “accidents,” she was aware that the September 11, 2001 attacks were acts of terror.

“Let there be no doubt: the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001 were one of the most vile acts of terror and disastrous violations of the open, free and democratic society in modern history,” she said. “The tragedy for the world and the families of the almost 3,000 human beings who perished as a result of the attack cannot be overstated.”

This is not the first time Romson has caused controversy over comments made during a live television interview. In May 2015, she was forced to apologize for comparing the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean to the horrors of the Holocaust.

Deploring the desperate situation of migrants trying to make the perilous and often deadly crossing to Europe, Romson said of European migration laws, “we are … turning the Mediterranean into the new Auschwitz.”

Critics, including Jewish leaders, called the comparison to the Nazi death camp misguided and offensive. About 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were killed in Auschwitz during World War II.

Romson apologized in a tweet, saying “It was wrong to make the comparison with Auschwitz.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Israel; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 911; asaromson; election2016; greeniacs; greenparty; holocaust; israel; jewishpinglist; mehmetkaplan; muslimbrotherhood; newyork; revisionisthistory; socialdemocrats; sweden; theholocaust; trump; waronterror; yasrikhan
9/11 was an "accident". Revisionist history at work. What are the Swedes going to do for an encore? Have the group ABBA get back together so they can join the rest of the has beens and boycott NC and Miss over their so-called anti-trans legislation?
1 posted on 04/19/2016 9:31:51 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

People like this are too stupid to survive.


2 posted on 04/19/2016 9:36:38 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: Impala64ssa

So the Muslims are running all over the Swedes in their own country, and this guy drops to his knees, kisses their backsides to keep his head? It’s what it looks like to me.


3 posted on 04/19/2016 9:37:43 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Sweden should prove its love and take in ALL the vermin invading Europe - I mean, looking for jobs. It’s the only reasonable thing to do.


4 posted on 04/19/2016 9:40:10 PM PDT by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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To: Impala64ssa

She’s an agent for the muslims.


5 posted on 04/19/2016 10:05:01 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Impala64ssa

Has Sweden legalized methamphetamine? Asa Romson’s hallucinations suggest someone suffering from meth induced schizophrenia.


6 posted on 04/19/2016 10:07:01 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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"Swedish deputy PM calls 9/11 ‘accident,’ refuses to apologize..."

..... Before you are so quick to judge ..... The Swedish Deputy now knows what those new "Colonists" are now capable of .... And at this point he is now attempting protecting what little is left of stability in his country.

.... The European countries are beginning to realize .... much too late ....

..... That those poor refugees that they let flood the nation .... fleeing war torn countries ..... Are not quite what they seem ..... They are in actuality Islamic Caliphaic Colonists populating the earth faster than ever before in the history of our planet. They are practicing Hijrah and migrating for the Cause of Allah.

..... They are now upon our shores and settling here in America for the glory of Allah ....

..... Question: Should America welcome them with open arms?

7 posted on 04/19/2016 10:09:51 PM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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In defense of colleague who resigned after comparing Israel to Nazi Germany... Environment Minister and Green Party chair Asa Romson made the comments on Tuesday morning during a live televized interview about party colleague Mehmet Kaplan, who resigned as housing minister earlier this week over statements likening Israel to Nazi Germany.
Rapes by muzzies? Those are just "dates".


8 posted on 04/19/2016 10:56:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Sorry, Asa Romson, but you’re a mental.


9 posted on 04/19/2016 11:07:29 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: jonrick46

At least she didn’t refer to the attacks as “7/11”. /s


10 posted on 04/19/2016 11:09:59 PM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: headstamp 2

An ethnomasochist..


11 posted on 04/19/2016 11:16:56 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Cvengr
At least she didn’t refer to the attacks as "7/11"

Nothingburger with cheese...

12 posted on 04/19/2016 11:18:10 PM PDT by sargon (No king but Christ!)
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To: Impala64ssa

What I would like to do to this guy I can’t.

Unlike muslims, I follow that law.


13 posted on 04/20/2016 12:04:02 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Cvengr

I think Trump had another thought in mind when he called it 7-11. Probably because he thinks it was known that 9-11 was coming two months before the actual attacks occurred.


14 posted on 04/20/2016 1:15:00 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Hey,we've gotta admit that the guy's right.A portion of this jet aircraft engine accidentally fell onto Murray Street in Lower Manhattan on 9/11.

15 posted on 04/20/2016 3:48:08 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: Impala64ssa

The tart doesn’t deserve the attention you’re providing.


16 posted on 04/20/2016 3:51:03 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Impala64ssa
Green Party chair

That pretty much explains it. All Greens are mental cases.

17 posted on 04/20/2016 4:40:09 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: Moltke

The Zeitgeist of Greeen Europe is total denial of any “Muslim” problem in their societies AT ALL.
Then comes, 9/11.
Of course this is “the accident”.
What is “accidental” about it is the fact that it can neither be ignored nor denied. Hence the ‘Accident’ part of it all.


18 posted on 04/20/2016 6:11:43 AM PDT by Flintlock (The ballot box STOLEN, our soapbox taken away--the BULLET BOX is left us.)
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To: Flintlock
it can neither be ignored nor denied.

O, but do they ever try to deny. Deny, deny, deny. Crime skyrocketing? Deny! Almost every aspect of social life impacted? Deny! And so on.

19 posted on 04/20/2016 8:03:39 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: Impala64ssa

Was the interview in English?


20 posted on 04/20/2016 10:22:29 AM PDT by jdege
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