Summary

Salwan Momika, the Iraqi man who staged several Quran burnings in Sweden in 2023, was shot and killed in Sodertalje, near Stockholm.

His actions had sparked international outrage, riots, and diplomatic tensions. Swedish police confirmed a murder investigation is underway, and several arrests have been made.

Momika, who sought asylum in Sweden in 2018, faced charges of incitement to hatred, with a verdict scheduled for the day after his death.

His protests were permitted under free speech laws but led to legal action against him.

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    momika did it specifically to spark outrage among immigrants. don’t do that.

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      Congrats, you just let the terrorists win.

      Now people aren’t allowed to do things that upset them 🤷

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        8 hours ago

        he wasn’t allowed to before either. we have laws against that.

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      Nah fuck that, If muslims cant handle it they should look the other way like they do when women are stoned to death for showing their hair.

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        Good one. Throw in another joke in about Jews owning all the banks, newspapers and an elite pedo sex ring cabal. Haha. Aren’t these racist jokes funny?

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          Idk man, you’d have a point if Iran didn’t systematically execute teenage girls for not wearing a headdress…

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          9 hours ago

          Oh, so not a small minority. Good to have that cleared up. Show me a liberal, free muslim country, then i can show you all of them that are not.

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            Iran… Oh wait destroyed and overthrown by Liberals in 1953

            Show me a Muslim country which has not been invaded, colonized and destroyed by Liberals first.

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              Arabia went from being under Ottoman rule to being under the house of Al Saud, it’s never been colonized by a western “liberal” country.

              Their rules are still insane.

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                Where do they get all those weapons from to surpress their population?

                Let me pull up the map of American military bases in the middle ea… Wow that is a lot of American military bases in Saudi. Must be a coincidence.

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              Below is the working list of nations that still criminalize consensual same-sex sexual acts between adults

              • Algeria
              • Afghanistan
              • Bangladesh
              • Brunei
              • Egypt
              • Eritrea
              • Marocco
              • Libya
              • Lebanon
              • Palestine
              • Iran
              • Iraq
              • Tunisia
              • Oman
              • Saudi arabia
              • Pakistan
              • Mauretania
              • Mali

              And on and on we go.

              The only countries that comes close to being reasonably secular are Malaysia and Turkey.

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                The question was

                Show me a Muslim country which has not been invaded, colonized and destroyed by Liberals first.

                And literally the first two countries already have been invaded, colonized and destroyed by liberals. And let’s move on, Bangladesh, Egypt, Eritrea, Marocco, Libya, Libanon, Palestine, Iraq, Tunisia, Pakistan, Mauretania, Mali, all former colonies, brutally ransacked, exploited, people enslaved, the very core of each of their societies absolutely destroyed. Make the list longer and the list of ex-colonies gets longer. Ah and then except of course the already mentioned Palestine, which is still an apartheid colony where the liberal west is committing genocide.

                You talk about queer rights but you don’t give a single fuck about the fates of the hundreds of millions, if not billions that have been brutalized in the most horrifying ways by the “civilized west“.

                Please do us a favor and GTFO with your phony concern for human rights. You just want to shit on brown people. I honestly feel sorry for you, you must be really unhappy carrying around so much hatred with you.

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                  First. Not a question unless you use a questionmark.

                  Second. The countries have been sovereign states for long enough to know what is morally wrong or not. And you make it sounds like I would have been complicit in some historical injustices. I think you know that this is wrong.

                  Third. This has nothing to do with skin color, but only the legislation to harm dissidents. Other religions have similar problems, Christianity is no different, just look at some of the other countries that have this legislation.

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                Cool list. That is a lot of countries colonized and destroyed by liberals indeed.

                Below is a list of countries currently committing or complicit in genocide:

                • America

                • Germany

                • UK

                • Israel

                • Netherlands

                • France

                • Canada

                • The entire rest of the liberal world

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                Care to elaborate? You’re just kind of asking a loaded question, but you don’t make any actual argument.

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                  The worlds largest religion can take some justified critique without hiding behind the excuse of being a “minority”.

                  They flee their countries because of islamic theocracy and bring that religious sensitivity to us. Hilariously enough they burn pride flags and the origin of species in some weird attempt to offend the free countries. It would be laughable, if not for the fact that they kill dissidents.

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                    Christianity is the world‘s largest religion. Not that it makes any difference how big or small any religion is for inciting hatred against it to be wrong or hatred against anyone for that matter. Furthermore, this happened in Sweden and in Sweden Muslims are definitely a minority.

                    Who is ”they“ in that context? You talk a lot about “them“ doing these things as if that would mean everyone. OTOH I’m Muslim too and I have a large mostly Muslim family and a large friend circle and I mostly consume Arabic media. I can tell you that I’m mostly busy working, doing laundry, thinking about what to cook, wondering which show to watch next, trying to have a social life and being angry about the Gaza genocide and the rise of Nazism in the west. That’s the reality for pretty much everyone I know, except for those lucky bastards who are retired or still in school. But they have their own shit to worry about.

                    We don’t care about pride flags and crazy people, we have enough of crazy to deal with at home. This guy in particular pissed me off because he was just trying to spread hatred, how does that make the world a better place? Even the Swedish government wanted to get rid of him but couldn’t, because he would be facing torture in Iraq, which btw is the same Iraq that received democracy from our friends in the US and their illegal invasion. Not that Saddam was any better.

                    Anyway. I hope you get my point, we have other things to worry about than this, the guy was a giant asshole and he should have been tried as was intended instead of being assassinated, but don’t involve me or Muslims in general in that. I’m against capital punishment and I couldn’t think of anyone I know who would be in favor of that, no matter why.

                    I also don’t start political discussions with my Hindu Indian friends when I see that there’s some lynch mob attacking Muslims somewhere in India and I leave my White American friends alone when there’s the next shooting conducted by a far right guy. So please just give me a break from your generalizations.