February 14, 2012
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Sweden's foreign ministry confirmed on Monday that four Swedish citizens - three adults and a child - are being held in Islamabad, where Pakistani authorities are investigating whether the group has ties to terrorist network Al-Qaeda.
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Fin means anyhting from sweet to proper. When someone says, Du är så fin it's quite a compliment.
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There is some thing written about Islam above!
Usually there are many losers who start directly to scream as a mad hungry homeless street dogs!
I wonder if they will start soon!!
Come on and ask Sweden to stop Muslims in streets and shoot them between eyes!
I'm trying to understand what you are trying to say, so I can reply/comment, but unfortunately your English/grammar is quite bad, so your phrases are not making any sense. Do you have any friend with better English skills, so you could ask him/her to check your message before post it? That would be nice.
@Eurostan
There you are again trying to cross the line. For us, your culture is not better than Islam, mate. Don't forget the line...
First note recent guilty or defensive response to Aftonbladet article and 9/11 by Israeli Ambassador to Sweden.Then story on Israelis who knew events of 9/11 ahead of time.Also 'here for summer' ignores it appears to be a European mafia who highjacked that boat off the Swedish coast that Israeli PM and the Russians have been so interested in NOT Islamic terrorists !And I'm not defending Islam. In truth I wish I never heard anymore about Judeo-christian-Ilamo religious bs in this lifetime.
http://www.doomdaily.com/2009/israel-and-us-jointly-target-sweden-in-propaganda-blitzkrieg/
Israel's ambassador in Stockholm, Benny Dagan, when asked by a Swedish
reporter why Israel did not investigate the Aftonbladet report on
organ harvesting, replied with an unusual answer: "Why don't we
investigate why the Mossad and the Jews were behind the bombing of the
twin towers?"....
A Mossad surveillance team made quite a public spectacle of themselves on 9-11.
The New York Times reported Thursday that a group of five men had set
up video cameras aimed at the Twin Towers prior to the attack on
Tuesday, and were seen congratulating one another afterwards.
Police received several calls..claiming "middle-eastern" men with a
white van were videotaping the disaster with shouts of joy and
mockery.
"They were like happy, you know … They didn't look shocked to me" ..
[T]hey were seen by New Jersey residents on Sept. 11 making fun of the
World Trade Center ruins..
Dispatcher: Jersey City police.
Caller: Yes, we have a white van, 2 or 3 guys in there, they look like Palestinians and going around a building.
Caller: There's a minivan heading toward the Holland tunnel, I see the guy by Newark Airport mixing some junk and he has those sheikh
uniform.
He has what?
He's dressed like an Arab.
....the suspicious "middle-easterners" were apprehended. Imagine the surprise of the police officers when these
terror suspects turned out to be Israelis!
According to ABC's 20/20..the driver of the van, Sivan Kurzberg, told the officers:
"We are Israelis...The Palestinians are your problem."
Why did he feel Palestinians were a problem for the NYPD?...
..the New York Post, and the New Jersey Bergen Record all clearly and
unambiguously reported that a white van with Israelis was intercepted
on a ramp near Route 3, which leads directly to the Lincoln Tunnel...
A few days after the attacks, Urban Moving System's Israeli owner,
Dominick Suter, dropped his business and fled the country for
Israel....
Several of the detainees discussed their experience in America on an
Israeli talk show after their return home. Said one of the men,..,
'Our purpose was to document the event."
This is typical you trying always to move the discussion from general to personal useless points.
I used English ( my fifth spoken language) all over the world and no one complained from misunderstanding!
May be all the people I met have higher IQ than you.
Language is a way of communication and not a grammar skills competition as I believe!
It has just became a FASHION for news and Media to call a Child terrorist LOL.
Until it is proven by court nobody has right to publish their names and call them terrorist . it doesnt mean you if you travel to India or pakistan then you are terrorist.
most of us travel to thailand to have some nice massage :) they should call us sex pervert :=)
@Eurostan
it seems to me that you were raped by a Sheikh that you hate them so much right?
"radical islam is quite strong in swedish universities.
go and see in any swedish universities and observe closely. you can see many people with beards, veils, and doing prayers in the classrooms"
Education has done no good to you...living in sweden and among swedes has
once again not changed your pathetic thoughts and ideas (shame on you).
And if you are in so much pain and agony from muslims around you i would be
very disappointed if you are still living in sweden...
If we dont have any problems from them....whats your matter ? SHAME ON YOU
first change your name. guys got very angry.
go and see in any swedish universities and observe closely. you can see many people with beards, veils, and doing prayers in the classrooms"
is there any swedish university which is not applicable the above statement. instead of clarifying that you people are attacking me.
but it is 100% true. it is time to ban doing prayers in the university or in the middle of the exam or in the middle of the class .
@All: Please stop to passing comments on religion just focus on topic.
i never be hurt in the discussion. it is good to have a debate. i dont know which country you came from. but in some countries there is a school uniform. all the children having same colour dress. the purpose of that is to prevent social break up of class on rich and poor , religion,region etc.
i am quite sure that there is break up of class on religiou lines if there are people with veils and beards and often they are doing prayer together.
again you people complain that muslims are discriminated and oppressed.
first dont discriminate yourself from other people, then other people dont discriminate you .
dont expose what you are actually to all people, that is not good for any kind of people.(not only muslims)
First thing, your comment is quite out of context here, its a different thing if you want to drag everything to suit your agenda
Second thing, if someone goes out, takes a break and says prayers, its his/her personal choice, ..., Why should it bother any person if someone wants to leave in the middle of class.
By saying prayers nobody is forcing anything on any person. Did you hear complains from Swedish fellas that they were repeatedly asked to embrace Islam?
Do you think by saying prayer, one is transforming into some extermist type. Your arguments are totally without substance,
On a different note, I find it quite quite ironic, that nobody can see the suffering that Muslims at large went through, when they were tortured, devasted, bombarded on the premise that terror plots were carried out on their lands. And, even so, Muslims are terrorists. Each forum is nothing but a hatred chapter against Muslims.
In the end Eurostan, I would say that you like discussion, but each of your argument is mere re-arrangement of your prejudices.
Peace
"The other Swedes arrested were identified as Munir Awad and Safia Benaouda and a young boy who was apparently their son, according to a police report obtained by the AP through the Interior Ministry.
Benaouda and Awad are the same names of two people who also have been in the news before.
A Swede named Safia Benaouda, then 17 years old, was held by Ethiopian authorities after being taken into custody along the Somali-Kenyan border in 2007. She told a Swedish newspaper that she was interrogated for weeks by white foreigners and asked about extremism in Sweden. A man named Munir Awad was identified as her fiance.
The Benaouda who was held in Ethiopia is the daughter of Helena Benaouda, chairwoman of the Swedish Muslim Council."
http://www.examiner.com/a-2216168~Police__Pakistan_suspect_is_Swede_once_at_Gitmo.html