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Sweden Crushes Free Speech: Politician Rasmus Paludan Jailed for Daring to Criticize Islam in a Landmark Assault on Political Dissent
Rair Foundation ^ | 11/10/2024 | Amy Mek

Posted on 11/11/2024 6:55:18 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski

Rasmus Paludan’s prosecution lays bare Sweden’s dangerous abandonment of free speech, where courts silence dissent and protect Islam from critique—even as they condemn a politician already hunted, violently attacked, and forced to live in constant fear for his life simply for defending Western values.

In a decision that has ignited fierce debate over the limits of free speech and judicial interpretation, Danish-Swedish politician and lawyer Rasmus Paludan was sentenced to four months in prison by the Malmö District Court. The case, rooted in Paludan’s 2022 Quran-burning protests and speeches on Islam, questions the extent of free expression protections in Sweden, the weaponization of courts to target political opponents, and the lengths the Swedish government will go to appease Islam.

Background on the Conviction

Paludan’s conviction centers on a rally he held on April 16, 2022, near Malmö, which was followed by massive violent attacks and riots by Islamic migrants who were welcomed into Sweden. In a highly symbolic act, he burned the Quran, criticizing Islam and calling for an open debate on immigration and their lack of integration. His speeches targeted religious censorship, which he argued stifles freedom of expression, and demanded an open dialogue in Sweden. Paludan also responded to a man with a criminal history who disrupted his speech by telling him to “go home to Africa.” The court ruled that this, combined with Paludan’s statements on Islam, amounted to “slandering Islam” and incitement against an ethnic group…

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Religion
KEYWORDS: dissent; europe; free; islam; speech; sweden
The elites of Europe have chosen Europe’s new religion. It’s not Christianity. Pulling out of NATO is a good thing…
1 posted on 11/11/2024 6:55:18 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski
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To: Jan_Sobieski

This is what the globalists want. Obedience without question.


2 posted on 11/11/2024 6:59:43 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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Pulling out of NATO is a good thing…

It's imperative.

3 posted on 11/11/2024 7:02:34 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

There are Republicans, still re-living the cold war, who will ignore this and keep pointing to Russia as the main free speech restrictor.


4 posted on 11/11/2024 7:03:48 AM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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In theory, Sweden is currently run by a “moderate” center-right minority coalition, supported by a further-right coalition. The further-right Sweden Democrats need to become much more assertive regarding Muslims.


5 posted on 11/11/2024 7:05:58 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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Sweden invited and welcomed Islam into their country.

However ....The Islamic refuges saw it as “Allah” opening the door for them to spread Islam throughout their country and other EU countries....they did not see it as the EU ‘rescuing’ them.

Young men saw it as a means to avoid direct fighting since spreading Islam in another country is credited and equal to that of a warrior fighter.

The march for the Islamification of Europe continues.....unabated.


6 posted on 11/11/2024 7:06:29 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: SauronOfMordor

Muslims will be in the streets again if they try.......they will be fought against without question.


7 posted on 11/11/2024 7:09:12 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: BlackbirdSST

It is imperative.

Our republic has no allies in Western Europe.

But Deep State has plenty, don’t they...


8 posted on 11/11/2024 7:10:38 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

and islam is not the cult they want to cave to


9 posted on 11/11/2024 7:13:06 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Swedish Political prisoner, no different from the people in Stalin’s full gulags.

Shameful, Swedes!


10 posted on 11/11/2024 7:16:32 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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Pulling out of NATO will avoid the entanglements that led Europe into WWI.


11 posted on 11/11/2024 7:25:33 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Jan_Sobieski

What’s the Arabic word for those that agree to become the slaves of muslims?


12 posted on 11/11/2024 7:26:28 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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BTTT


13 posted on 11/11/2024 7:37:05 AM PST by nopardons
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This is almost worth me getting back on FB to throw it in the face of a stupid HS classmate who thought Sweden a better place than US.


14 posted on 11/11/2024 8:10:08 AM PST by goodnesswins (Don’t be REALITYPHOBIC!)
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Bookmark


15 posted on 11/11/2024 8:26:16 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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It is time for a “Hero of Europe, the likes of Charles Martell or John Sobieski, to lead the return of Muslims to muslim lands.

“Chase them,”is more the need. The Syrian hordes are dangerous because they are attempting to change the culture of the European Countries.


16 posted on 11/11/2024 11:39:05 AM PST by BatGuano (DJ Trump and JD Vance, winners, Praise The Lord.)
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