KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Swedish Minister wants to deport migrants who do not hold Swedish citizenship if they show support to terrorist groups.
- The spokesperson for migration policy in Sweden wants the law to be even more stringent - to include anyone who shows such acts of support.
- Tourists, citizens, and residence permit holders can all be affected by such changes.
…and let me guess. Critizing Israel’s actions is tacit support of Hezbollah?
Sweden up until recently had freedom of organization protected in the constitution. This was changed in a recent constitutional amendment at the request of Turkey, as a prerequisite to join NATO. Turkey demanded that Sweden arrest “PKK members” (aka journalists that Erdogan doesn’t like), and to show support, both the Andersson and Kristersson administrations revived a constitutional amendment from 2021 and pushed it through, making it illegal to be a member of a terrorist organization.
https://www.regeringen.se/rattsliga-dokument/statens-offentliga-utredningar/2021/03/sou-202115/
https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2022/6/pdf/220628-trilat-memo.pdf
It’s really an unfortunate development, since the terms “terrorist organization” and “support to terrorism” is so poorly defined, and it’s clearly intended to punish political opposition in dictatorships, like Turkish and Kurdish opposition in Turkey. Very much a chilling effect on political discussion when foreign political oppositions are banned from speaking in Sweden, even when racist hate groups are still allowed to speak.
It does seem that the current law is still quite limited, at least. The Terrorist crime law of 2022 (Terroristbrottslagen) outlaws support, propagandizing, and recruiting for terrorist organizations, but this seems to be limited to only material support, organized propaganda and organization leadership. Simply going around waving a PKK flag still is legal, for now.
So luckily, I don’t think it’s possible to be deported simply for expressing expressing pro-Kurdish or pro-Palestinian independence ideas, or even expressing support for the violent people in PKK or Hamas.
Johan Forssell has also expressed a wish for a new law making it illegal to be in a criminal gang, but this has not passed yet. His view on the ongoing wars with Israel seems to be that Israel “has a right to defend itself”, but that civilians must be protected and receive aid.
Close. It makes you a Hamas headquarters.
Hope nobody here supports Nelson Mandela.
Best deport all Swedish politicians in parliament in 1990: https://archive.nelsonmandela.org/index.php/za-com-mr-s-24 And the party that this minister is in was against supporting the ANC and Mandela. So I would not be surprised if this argument won’t move him.
Mandela died in 2013
Sinwar died in 2024
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Bowie died in 2016
It doesn’t matter where in the world you are, the issue with forcibly deporting people is always the same: what do you do if the country you want to deport them to refuses to take them?
And the only answers I can see are let them go free in your country or keep them locked up indefinitely.
And it’s kind if shitty to try to just throw the problem at another country.
Not really, if you just gather all the people you commit atrocities against, and send them to the middle east, you might get away with it. Hell you might even claim to be a bastion of peace and freedom.
Some more ideas:
Call the people you sent “civilized” against “barbarians”
Call them “the only democracy” in the middle east (you might need to overthrow some government in the nearby regions)
Commit more atrocities so more and more people go to your “solution”.
That is true. The swedish government is pushing quite hard to overfill prisons, probably in a long term plan to force it towards privatization. So I would not be surprised if it is even part of the plan.
But, also, I think one strategy suggested is just paying them. Threaten with prison, see at what price they break.
Find a third country is also possible, but can be difficult for terrorist supporters.
It can be difficult period. Why should any country take immigrants your country doesn’t want for any reason?
And “terrorist supporter” could be a very broad category. Are you a terrorist supporter if you support resistance against Israeli troops in Gaza? Because Israel and some of its allies would say yes.
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This sounds very unconstitutional? It does say “everyone” so the principle of equality under the law should apply. Right???
EDIT, aw fuck:
Non-Swedish citizens and non-Swedish legal persons Art. 3. For those who are not Swedish citizens or Swedish legal persons, special restrictions may be laid down in law in respect of freedom of expression under this Fundamental Law.
Well that sounds horrible. Sweden, do better.
Absolutely not. Countries should not accept people who are incompatible with their culture. That just causes division.
That assumes a country has a single culture.
So we should tolerate say, nazi culture everywhere?
The paradox of tolerance is a thing.
You’re conflating a political ideology with a culture.
You clearly haven’t read about pre-ww2 Germany, they were trying to enforce their vision of what they thought German culture should be.
They had ideals, organizations for children, they pushed music, arts, literature they felt glorified their German ideal and the expectations in service of the state.
Yeah, all of that, that was the party program of the NSDAP, a political party.
No it doesn’t. It assumes that countries have synergistic cultures.
I don’t know what that means. European countries have multiple cultures in them.
That said, your catchphrase is typically used to imply that Islam is incompatible with Europe. But there exist several countries in geographical Europe with Islam as an established religion. Greece has an official Muslim minority. Bosnia, Albania can be classified as plurality-muslim countries. European Turkey, west of the Bosphorus has more people than many European countries. And there are sizeable non-immigrant Muslim communities all over eastern and southeastern Europe. Islam has been part of the European story for a millennium. So I don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about. Islam is as European as apple pie is American.
My “catchphrase” is something I personally said, not someone else’s rhetoric. I would ask that you do not make assumptions about what I am saying based on what other people say. If the people who are Islam have a culture that is compatible with that country, let them in. If they are of a culture that practices or supports sharia law and your country believes in women’s freedoms, they probably should not be accepted.
This law was passed due to Turkey wanting to get rid of pkk supporters in Sweden. They basically said we’re are going to keep blocking you from joining NATO unless you take care of the kurds in your country.
Nationalist rhetoric detected.
I’m not saying one culture is better than another. I’m saying if the cultures are incompatible, you shouldn’t force them together.
In other words, if you are a household that is obsessed with a particular football team, you probably shouldn’t get a roommate that is obsessed with your team’s rivals. Any time football is brought up, you will be at odds. I’m not saying liking one football team over the other is the correct choice, just that incompatible beliefs breeds hostility.
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Ideally different parties should have more in common than what separates them. Otherwise you get what has been happening between Republicans and Democrats in the USA. Willingly introducing that separation is foolishness.
“Your culture is incompatible with our culture and therefore you shouldn’t live here” is exactly the same rhetoric neonazi politicians use where I’m from, so sorry but your comment has a beeping red light on it for me.
If a neo Nazi said “the sky is blue”, would you say everyone who says the sky is blue is repeating neo Nazi rhetoric?
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Where would Swedish government deport native Swedish citizens to? Ohio?
You go too far!
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They also want to deport for “bristande vandel”, “bad behavior/way of living”, which this probably will fall under. In their examples of what constitutes “bristande vandel” one is: being a victim of a crime. Robbed? Deportation. Raped? Deportation.
I mean if I’m at home I can fart anytime I want and put my feet on the table, if I’m a guest I would not do such things, that’s not inequality.
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Well, what if you are homeless, someone offers to take you to live with them, and then they kick you out for farting?
If I’m homeless and someone offers to take me, for fucking sure I’m going to be on my best behaviour.
Still, letting you freeze to death for farting would be wrong, even if it was impolite.
Is the BDS movement classified as a terrorist organisation? What about ANTIFA?
The same minister probably:
That party who are against me, I’d call them terrorists!
And yet Israel supporters will be fine.
It aint a genocide when the lords “chosen” people do on “their” land.
Wtf is going on sweden?
How big of an issue can this be lol
Did all “terrorist” just moved there for some reason?
The Sweden Democrats, once an openly Nazi but now a “not Nazis we promise” party are in the government. Like all “not Nazis” they spend most of their time looking for nebulous reasons to remove foreigners from the country.
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Thats a hellva a list tho…
What is the business here for the gangs? Drugs?
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They are related - gangs in Sweden (consisting largely of non-citizens) have started taking “pay by order” terrorist attacks from the Islamist Ayatollah regime in Iran. There’s currently ongoing deliberations whether to activate terror laws against the criminal organizations that do these things, since those actions, by definition, make them terror organizations.
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Citation, straight from SÄPO (Swedish national security police)
Good, immigrants who support terrorism don’t belong in Sweden or any other Western country.
Send them back and let them live with the organization they support.
Yeah, this suuuurely won’t be used to silence pro-Palestine protestors.
If they are non citizen immigrants and are advocating for terrorist organizations who incite violence then they aren’t a good fit for a Western Democracy and should be deported.
Support for Palestine is not support for a terrorist organization. But a law such as this could be used on a pro-Palestinian organizer on the false claim that support for Palestine is support for hamas.
Also, deported where exactly?
What constitutes a terrorist organization is up to the elected officials and police organizations to define. It is not outlined in the article.
Non-citizen immigrants who support terrorists should be deported back to their country of origin.
What constitutes a terrorist organization is up to the electric officials and police organizations to define.
That’s kind of the point, mate. In the current political climate I half expect them to start describing any organization giving humanitarian aid to Palestinians as terrorists.
But to ask the real questions: is providing material support to terrorists not already a crime in Sweden? Does having a Swedish criminal record not complicate eg visa renewals and make it harder for someone to stay in or return to the country? Assuming that’s the case, why is this something that needs to be specially handled now? Is this actually a problem, or just a way to stoke racism and fear for political benefit?
Because what we’ve found is governments are so good at determining who is right in a particular conflict.
If they are non-citizen immigrants advocating for organizations who use violence to attain their goals then they are not a good fit for Western Democracies and should be deported.
Especially if they immigrated from a western democracy. They need to go back to their hive of evil and treachery. Pesky democracy havers.
Non-Citizens who support terrorist organizations then they should be deported back to their country of origin full stop.
If that is another Western Democracy then so be it.
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If you read the article it states they are targeting non Citizens.
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So we should deport Israelis because Israel backed Hamas’ displacement of the secular moderates with predictable results?
Don’t pretend your hatred is principled.
I was about to say you are braindead, but it seems you are just American, I am really sorry.
Racism and sycophantic nationalism seems to be alive and well elsewhere in the world…
Yes, anyone who supports Israel should be deported to The Hague.
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