Ticket booked
I'm on the first flight over there.
Mine's the one with nothing in the pockets as Airport security have just searched it.
A Green Party politician has declared that part of being Swedish is the opportunity to swing both ways during the course of a single day in the interests of free speech. Sofia Bothorp delivered that could well be the Swedish tourist board's new slogan during a local council debate on Swedishness. According to The Local, …
Over here in good old Blighty, various politicos have blathered on about citizenship tests to ensure that immigrants embrace "Britishness". After this article, I can't help wondering just what's involved for immigrants in embracing "Swedishness". Do you have to actively participate in both, or be interested in watching, or it enough simply not to mind that people do both?
...that the jokes about God and Allah were not simply jokes about God and Allah, but rather about Allah's small penis and Our Lord's impotence.
Those wacky Swedes (my wife hails from the same town as the lady in question, though she has sadly never shown aforementioned tendencies...)
AC because, well, you know...
I think that behind this story is the shocking reaction to some stupid and silly cartoons about Mohamed published in Denmark, in some parts of the world.
Quite frankly, we have the right, and the ability, to make jokes about gods, the king, the queen, politicos, our selves and who not.
It was a remainder, a bad one, that while we think we have the wish to learn and accept people with different backgrounds, religions and gods,. it is a one way reality.
So if you are unable to question your self and your gods never enter Scandinavia or Europe for that matter.
And If you are afraid that your children will change and question things in a different way than you do, you have a double reason for staying away.