~Easy
Posted on 04/28/2026 10:53:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Charlie Weimers of the Sweden Democrats said other European Union countries should do the same.
Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard said on Friday that her government will no longer use the term ‘Islamophobia,’ describing the concept as “problematic”—not least because it “brings to mind the irrational fears of individuals.”
The announcement was music to the ears of the right-wing populist Sweden Democrats, whose MEP Charlie Weimers on Monday said “Islamists exploit ‘Islamophobia’ to advance their agenda and secure EU funding.”
Weimers celebrated that the government was “FINALLY scrapping the made-up concept” for good, as well as the fact it is pushing Brussels and United Nations officials to do the same.
Malmer Stenergard last week told parliamentarians that “we are pushing for the term ‘Islamophobia’ to be replaced with what is called ‘anti-Muslim racism’ or ‘anti-Muslim hatred’ in English”—that is, across international institutions. Officials will gather in Brussels in part to discuss this in the third week of May.
Sweden has similarly been leading the way in Europe in combatting the threat of Islamist infiltration posed by the Muslim Brotherhood—thanks especially to pressure exerted by Weimers and his team.
Faw Azzat, who is an ambassador for GAPF, Sweden’s organisation against honour-related violence and oppression, also praised Malmer Stenergard’s scrapping of the term ‘Islamophobia,’ describing this as “a word that Islamists themselves created to equate criticism of a religion with racism against people. A semantic trick disguised as ‘antiracism.’”
Her speech on the scrapping of the term followed a parliamentary question submitted by Sweden Democrats MP Richard Jomshof. He criticised politicians and journalists for having “chosen to swallow the Islamist bait, “adding that “the term is also used to attack liberal Muslims who, for example, fight for women’s rights and seek democratic reforms.”
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Educated dislike is different than a phobia.
~Easy
It’s not a phobia when the threat is real.
When will they address the longstanding controversy over just how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
One motive fallacy down; many yet to address.
“islamophobia” is impossible because a phobia is an irrational fear.
I have a very rational “concern” of not being blown up
Okay, so they change terms. Pretty common Leftist tactic.
If they don't change the way the law treats people expressing their disapproval of Muslim infiltration of their country what is the point.
Let's bring back free speech with a vengeance.
Let's start talking about Muslims being protected from legal repercussions of breaking the laws.
Let's start talking about revocation of naturalization and deportation of those Muslims who break laws.
This talk is not Islamophobia and it is not racism. Islam is not a race.
I don't care what your race is or what your religion, if you come to my country, behave or get out. And don't meddle in our politics until your family has been here for three generations.
Since the threat is real, it should rather be islamomisia ...
Exactly. Marxist PC constantly changes terms as a way to create unease and imbalance. The EU Deep State is just giving up one tool (as effective as it has been in bringing an entire continent to its knees) to disarm rising response, while it attacks in a different direction.
We have the same problem in the US with other groups. Slavery in the United States officially ended with the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution on December 6, 1865, which abolished slavery throughout the nation. But, did it stick? The outright dislike, mistrust, and open verbal and physical war fare is alive today too often. So saying they are going to get rid of problems with islam when it just keeps popping up creating more problems is a real questionable expectation.
wy69
Denying the use of a descriptive term doesn’t make it untrue. That is so woke and NWO BS.
Gimme an S Gimme an S Gimme a Surrender
A phobia is an unreasonable or unfounded fear. Since it is neither unfounded nor unreasonable to fear a socio-political system masquerading as a religion, whose adherents are commanded to dominate, enslave or kill those who reject it, Islamophobia does not exist.
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