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Mosques and Muslim organizations do not distance themselves from Hamas terror
Published 2023-10-15

Thousands of immigrant Muslims have taken to the streets in Sweden - not to distance themselves from Hamas' mass murder of 1,200 Jews this weekend, but to defend it. The Muslim organizations and mosques give their silent approval to the terror tributes according to the motto "he who is silent consents". Some openly support the carnage.

It is Doku that has made an inventory of what reactions - if any - have come from the major Muslim national confederations and to these connected mosques in Sweden after the weekend's anti-Semitic massacre of civilian Jews in Israel. And the result is disappointing.

The silence is almost total - no expressions of sympathy for the victims and their relatives, no distancing from the terrorist act, nor from the mass celebrations of the anti-Semitic murders of more than 1,200 Jews that were staged in several Swedish cities such as Stockholm and Malmö, where instead Israel and the Jews are accused and "shall be crushed" according to chants chanted.

According to Doku's investigation, no Muslim organizations or mosques have made direct contact with Sweden's Jewish congregations and organizations to offer condolences, regret what happened and offer their support. This is in stark contrast to how Jews and Jewish organizations regularly come to the rescue when Muslims suffer atrocities.

Hatred by Muslim voters against party leaders' condemnations
After the terrorist act, the leaders of all parliamentary parties came out with condemnations. It did not go down well with many of the Muslim voters, especially the left-wing parties, who sent out vicious and hateful comments on social media to their party leaders because they did not stand behind Hamas's "self-defense" as they call the mass murders. A number of party activists at the local level have also announced that they are leaving their positions due to the "betrayal" of their respective party leadership.

The Left Party's Nooshi Dadgostar and the Social Democrats' Magdalena Andersson have received the most criticism - the parties that have been the best at capturing the Muslim immigrant voters. As a result of this, V and MP chose not to participate in the solidarity demonstration with the victims of terror that was organized the other day in central Stockholm, a decision that received critical attention.