Posted on 02/10/2006 7:51:46 AM PST by minus_273
The Swedish government has moved to shut down the website of a far-right political party's newspaper over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
The site's host, Levonline, pulled the plug on the website of the Swedish Democrats' SD-Kuriren newspaper after consulting with the government.
It is believed to be the first time a Western government has intervened to block a publication in the growing row.
Kuriren editor Richard Jomshof said the government was breaking the law.
"We have to do something about it. This is illegal. They can't do this just because we are a small magazine," he told the BBC News website.
The Swedish Democrats are a small anti-immigrant party with no representatives in parliament, but a few local elected officials.
Jomshof said the newspaper had a print run of about 30,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
And the Year 2006 Quisling award goes to: SWEDEN!
Cowards.
Yesterday there was an article posted here about thousands of Muslim hackers attacking Danish sites that showed the cartoons.
Today, it's the Swedish government basically doing the same thing to one of its own citizen's sites. Terrible.
Caving in to intimidation. That is sure to have results, i.e., more intimidation.
It's just those right wing extremists. All they need to do is burn a few Swedish embassies, and they'll get what they want.
This is the dawning of the age of Sharia.
(Apologies to the Fifth Dimension.)
Well it wasn't like the Swedes stood up to the Nazi's either....they were oh so carefully neutral....
I have no idea why people are so afraid of these Muslim cut throats..I believe in my right to express myself without censer,unless I get out of line in what I say..If anyone would like to know Muhammad was a child abuser and hated women..I do not call that a Prophet..
Maybe they use 'fighting words' as prohibited. Don't we have something like that on free speech?
I don't see how Sweden can claim to be more enlightened than the US in matters of human rights when it is very clear the ruling party can silence the opposition so easily. This is the kind of stuff they do in North Korea, China, Egypt, Iran...
Good point.
Fear the state.
Dhimmi's!!!!
censorship! this is totally outrageous!
If people want to find the pics bad enough, they aren't hard to find elsewehere on the net.
I think the Swedish gov isn't fooling too many people with this "show" of "tolerance".
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