Posted on 09/01/2010 4:21:36 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
A political ad rejected as hate speech by a Swedish TV station has sparked tension between Sweden and neighboring Denmark. Some Danish leaders have cried censorship, and even want to see election observers at Sweden's upcoming national poll.
The ad by the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats (SD) party shows a retiree hobbling forward while Muslim women in burqas charge past to win money from the national budget. "On Sept. 19," their ad declares, referring to the date of upcoming national elections, "you can choose to cut money from immigration budgets, or from pensions."
The Swedish commercial television network TV4 decided not to air the spot because of concerns it would break the country's hate-speech laws. A private radio station banned an audio version of the same ad on Monday.
Now leading politicians in Denmark -- where immigration controversies over the last 10 years have sharpened the tone of political debate -- are crying censorship. Some prominent Danes even want the Council of Europe to send election observers to Sweden.
"It would be appropriate to send observers to the Swedish elections," said Michael Aastrup Jensen, foreign affairs spokesman for the center-right Liberal Party, according to the Jyllands-Posten newspaper. The Liberal Party rules in a coalition government with the Conservatives in Copenhagen.
Danish People's Party leader Pia Kjaersgaard has made political waves before by complaining about Sweden's relative tolerance of Muslim immigration. "If they want to turn Stockholm, Gothenburg or Malmö into a Scandinavian Beirut, with clan wars, honor killings and gang rapes, let them do it," she said in 2005, according to the BBC. "We can always put a barrier on the Oresund Bridge," she said, referring to the bridge which connects Denmark with Sweden.
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Keep it up. One day we’ll be kicking liberal arse all over the west.
Welcome to America, 10, 20 years from now. Instead barricading the Oresund bridge connecting Denmark and Sweden it’ll be the barricading of the Lincoln and Holland tunnels.
Finished. I give Europe 3-4 years.
How embarrassing.
This is what Socialism has brought us too. :(
Political correctness will be the downfall of the West.
Islam is a race?
Brilliant ad, and in 30 seconds, makes the problem perfectly clear.
Obama plans on things going much faster than that. Muslims raping Christian school girls will be coming to a neighborhood near you in 5 years if Obama is allowed to continue.
There are few Democracies in Europe. The New Class decides who can actually run. The SD is not even allowed in debates.
ping
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