May 26, 2012
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A Swedish citizen was killed in a suicide bomb attack he carried out in Iraq.
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And as for the wife's comments that she's "Proud" of him...throw the silly cow in jail for treason!!
Here here well said...we don't need these type of people in Sweden.
very stupid comment, we can also call any swedish soldier who killed in war "One more bad apple gone"?!
and, a Cow?!!..is this how you call women in Sweden? is this how u 'respect' women?
I think u represent the real ugly facade of racist swedes.
In my country Israel we suffered badly from them. As a matter of fact, Israelis are the only victims of these crazy Muslims.
Dont waste your time in Swedish forums, these people are intelligent and will not be sold to your crap. Maybe it is better if you head to thelocal.de
But I think people should start being so stupid when it comes to talk about Muslims. All Muslims I know (and I just get to know Muslims in here) are very nice and respectful people. I really don't like radical Muslims. As much as I don't like radical Christians or Jews. Also I don't like radical nationalists.
as to the Israeli guys here, there is no need to say anything. everyone knows the state-terrorism Israel is practising against palestinians. Israel is occupying Palestine, so palestinians have the right to fight the occupation and colonization of their country...
but let's see who is the crazy: the palestinians muslims or the israelis...
Palestinians were living normally in their land, cultivating their crops and live happily. suddenly the Jews came from europe and many of them came after the holocaust. these Jews are saying two things all the time: God promised them the land of Palestine,so they should have the right to come from Russia and Europe to expell palestinians and steal their land. the second thing the jews say is that: the Nazis killed 6 million jews, so jews should have the right to have a country and protect themselves, so jews have the right to kick palestinians out of palestine and take their lands...
so who is the crazy: the jew who comes from europe and russia because god told him this or because his parents were killed by the Nazis, or the Palestinians who fight against the israeli theft of their land?!!!!!1
Stop scientific research and wind the clock back 400 years - the world will be a much better place....................... NOT
Insanity!!!
@jasmine #3
You look like a fool when you compare that idiot terrorist with a Swedish soldier in Afghanistan. The first is a coward rat blows himself in the face of any non muslim innocent to spread islam. The second is fighting the islamic terror with troops from other countries under UN resolution, They are there to set people free and help them to build up their distroyed country after years under a barbaric islamic reign.
Compared with what Saddam Hussein did, America is a novice! Compared with what Mahmoud Ahmadinejad IS doing to fellow Muslims, Jimmie Åkesson is in kindergarten! Abu Graib? Like Disneyland compared with Iranian prisons! (according to a leadin Iranian Immam, he is ashamed to be a Muslim when seeing/hearing what goes on in Iranian prisons in the name of Islam)
"Ye will not enter Paradise until ye have faith, and ye will not complete your faith until ye love one another". The Sayings of The Prophet (twf.org)
I hope this 36 year old suicider knew this about the Prophet and The Koran.
"In Iraq, there is a barbaric American occupation. We have seen from the US doccuments how the US army killed tens of thousends innocent Iraqis."
Give us a link that shows the u.s. directly killed tens of thousands of "innocent" Iraqis.
BTW, there was no mention of "jews" in this article.
Your racism, once again, comes to the fore.
@swedesmith :-) That is so funny Lol hahahaa...I was so angry at these people but you made me laugh..
read about those cave people who attacked the doctor for saving their women.
Animals shown kindness will not behave in such manner.
Europe seems to be reticent to deal with this type of terrorism masked under the guise of theology. It is time to stop blaming Israel and to start supporting the Western institutions that have created the freedom of thought necessary to deal with this evil scourge of terrorism.
Patrick Henry said "eternal vigilance is the price of freedom" and we must apply this to the Western values we hold dear.
That was a hella funny comment.
"Another immigrant who could not intergrate...but he could disintergrate"
Brilliant!
Now that you got to send to Jeff Dunham so that Ahmed can use it....hehehee! Satire has always been the great leveller, putting irreverent perspective on absurdity.
The kids would be better off socially and integrationwise without her influence.
(All the media is against Jews... Media never cared to show the world how these crazy Muslims and their fellow suicide bombers destroy and kill innocent people...
In my country Israel we suffered badly from them. As a matter of fact, Israelis are the only victims of these crazy Muslims.)
Oh Really??? BooFHoo to you then, you´re sooo much victims! Europe is tired of you guys and your historic paranoia; And you also kill innocent people, "as a matter of fact" you should give valid arguments before getting your arse kick!!!
The least we accept is an opinion of a Israeli vs a Muslim... Is like asking a klan member about Tiger Woods... aint it!
Ha ha
Dis- integrate LOL, good'un swedesmith.
His wife's a terrorist sypmathiser she should be sent a.s.a.p to Guantanamo.
I think it is YOU who look like a complete fool when you ignore the aggressive US occupation in Iraq
Who told you that this man bombed himself against non-muslims to make them convert to Islam!!!..is this ur sick mind? this man made this because this is a legitimate resistance to foreign occupation forces in his land
what do u mean by (non-muslims)?? do u mean the OCCUPATION forces in Iraq?? do u mean the US troops who kill, torture innocent people, men, women, children EVERYDAY in Iraq? and in Afghanistan too??
and who said there was a UN resolution for invading Iraq?? r u dreaming?, U.S invaded Iraq with no UN support whatsoever, US invaded Iraq based on the coalition with the UK, and some European countries (and all are regretting this decision now)
I will not comment on words like (Islamic Terror) because it is very silly and superficial to say that terror is related to any religion, or therefore we can consider the US invasion as "THE Christian Barbaric Crusades" and then I will go and fight all the christians and call them terrorists and suspect any christian who come to my country, may be he is a terrorist because he is a christian!! or when I am in the metro and see a man wearing a cross I will feel uncomfortable?? of course we don't do that, but racist people like you- may do!
However, survival of the fittest rules the day.
You can call it hatred but it's suicide for Western civilization (which should be kicked out of the Muslim lands) to tolerate a foreign and non-tolerant culture in its midst.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/muslimprotest.asp
The Chinese and Indians don't have 2.5 billion people between them and cultures that are THOUSANDS of years old because they were "tolerant".
If you consider yourself intelligent you should understand the other side before writing off their concerns with a sleight of hand. Here's an excellent article to explain the concerns of the other side, the one you would consider "hateful"
http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/2010/10/22/ground-zero-mosque-correcting-the-non-debate/
Quickly trying to research this incident, all I could find was an attack in Mosul on a british construction company (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_bombings_in_Iraq_in_2010#July_to_September)...so, this wasn't a noble attack on occupying american forces as you've suggested.
Secondly, the vast majority of suicide attacks in Iraq are against other Iraqis...not soldiers. Al Qaeda has, from all counts that I can find, killed more Iraqis and muslims than US soldiers, so your logic is faulty. I'm not defending the US occupation of Iraq but you've got to be kidding me that you can defend the actions of Al Qaeda.
As for this woman being proud of her husband for killing innocent people (yes, innocent) in addition to himself, maybe she should consider relocating to Iraq instead of a secular nation like Sweden so that she may follow in her husband's footsteps.
They easily become refugees in other country, like sweden, despite many educated students being deported for no reason!
they grow with the money they get (from the society), without changing their beliefs! ,fail to integrate, improve
I don't think it is hard to see from the refugees in this country, whom integrate, and whom don't integrate! and the fact that which one actually are the threats for the society!,
and after they have grown enough, they go back to somewhere else to explode!
I am always against, generalizations that people do among others. like "muslims" , "jews", ....
-HSII
WAR ! What it is a good for? ISLAM, Christianity, It's all the same. people who believe in fairy tales to get by day to day.
He left his wife and kids without help.
@zooeden, if Muslims did not attack Israel all the time, maybe it would not have to retaliate . Besides, Muslims themselves have killed far more of their own fellow Muslims than Israel ever did. Anyway, you can speak for yourself but not on behalf of all of Europe.
I am not sure what cause they are fighting for or whose, but to compare them to the French, (do you mean Resistance? I assume you mean the F.R. as the FrenchVichy government of the time simply gave in to the Nazis without a struggle) seems odd. The French were not proud of their Vichy Government, which is why they ended up with de Gaulle (founder of the Free French Movement in England during the war). Personally, I think America and GB made a terrible error in the way they went about getting rid of Saddam, which was not a bad thing and welcomed by many in Iraq, but as someone noted they got rid of one big tyrant, who was replaced by a thousand smaller ones. But you start a war, and all sorts of vile things crawl out from the rubble. And this is what has happened in Iraq. I read of a six year old boy being tortured to death by some group or other using an electric drill (which by the way was a weapon of torture used by Iraq in Kuwait). This was done by local people? Iran? who knows, but the cry you hear from Iraq is how can muslims do this to muslims? When America bombed Cambodia during the Vietnam war it was Pol Pot who crawled out of the rubble; the SS when Hitler invaded Poland. And they committed terrible crimes against humanity. The truth is you can't have war and civilisation! So when anyone makes war, or starts one, or joins in it is something to remember. And after - "They make a war and call the desolation peace." (A quote from a historian of the time after the Roman legions invaded and decimated Gaul) although today we call 'desolation' freedom.
Why is it that any time there is a comment about a suicide bombing someone has to turn the whole debate into an Israeli/Arab diatribe. We get it. The situation in Israel/Palestine is appalling. They've both been blowing each other to bits for years and squabbling like a load of schoolchildren to the world saying "well no Miss, they started it first", "no Miss he started it!" Grow up, the lot of you. Nobody gives a fig! I'd quite happily have both the Palestinians and the Israelis blow themselves of the face of the Earth and be done with it. You are d obviously quite unable to sort out your own problems like rational grown-ups -so please just get it over and done with.
As far as the Suicide bomber is concerned. It has nothing to do with what country he lived in, be it Sweden, The UK or Outer Mongolia - he was a religious fanatic who believed that the only way to further the cause that he believed in was to blow himself up and to take out as many people as he could with him. The man was a zealot and an idiot, and his wife's comments prove that she too is a zealot and an idiot.
As far as the invasion of Iraq goes. Yes it was a damn fool thing to invade a sovereign nation. The UK and USA should have left Saddam alone to terrorise his own people, suppress the Shia South, Gas the Kurds, Invade Kuwait, develop their nuclear and biological potential, invite Al -Qaeda into a safe haven and generally stick two fingers up at Iran. The Middle East would have been so much safer that way!
Honestly, you sage and wise commentators to this site. Unless you read the articles, understand the history or context of what you are commentating upon or can keep your own puritanical religious and moralistic compasses in check the best thing would be to just say nothing at all. Keep your crazy religious beliefs to yourselves be you Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhist or Atheist.
BINGO!
(Rest In Pieces).
I'd have her passport revoked and back on the next plane 'home'.