Sweden: Muslim Youth group invites hate preacher to annual conference
Swedish journalist Per Gudmundon, reports that Sweden's biggest youth organization invited a hate-preacher, Abdullah Hakim Quick, to headline its annual event.
In related news, controversial British Muslim convert Abdurraheem Green was invited to speak at the Scandinavian peace conference by the Norwegian IslamNet. The conference, which is to be held March 27-29, supposedly intends to promote dialog. . Green had been invited to speak at University College London by Nigerian terrorist wannabe Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Green told Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen that neither he nor the conference organizers support extreme tendencies.
This is not the first time IslamNet, whose declared goal is to clear up misconceptions about Islam, invites controversial speakers. In 2008 imam Zulqarnain Sakandar Madni gave a sermon accusing the US of the 9/11 attacks and saying the Jews knew of it in advance.
Dr. Zakir Naik writes many of the texts on their site. Naik was accused of supporting al-Qaeda, says that 9/11 was an inside job, and supports the death sentence for apostates.
The organization also promotes Malaysian preacher Hussain Yee, who denies Muslims were behind 9/11, hinting that the Jews did it, and says Allah cursed Jews and Christians. Hussein Yee is also invited by IslamNet to the Scandinavian Peace Conference.
Other speakers are Ali Mohammed Salah and Yusuf Chambers, who will lead the conference. IslamNet has yet to announce who the top speaker will be.
Sources: Dagsavisen, Dagbladet (Norwegian)
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Sweden's biggest Muslim youth organization booked a notorious preacher as top attraction for their annual conference. He calls Jews 'dirty' and preaches that the punishment for homosexuality, which he calls an unnatural disease, is death.
When American imam Abdullah Hakim Quick recently lectured at King's College London and other British universities, it set off a storm of criticism. OutRage!, an organization which fights for gay rights, said the imam was 'antisemitic and homophobic', referring to statements he made in sermons, and urged King's College to stop the event.
Now Sweden's Young Muslims (SUM), the country's biggest Islamic youth organization, with about 40 local chapters and more than 3,500 member, booked Abdullah Hakim Quick as their top attraction for their annual conference, which will be held April 2-5 in Stockholm. It's Scandinavia's biggest Muslim youth conference, which SUM thinks offers 'educational lectures' and 'stimulating discussions'.
The topic for his appearance wasn't yet published, so it's difficult to predict whether SUM agrees by this with Quick that gays should be executed.
This is not the first time that SUM has lecturers at the conference whose former statement were offensive in character. Last year American preacher Khalid Yasin gave a lecture that didn't cause any headlines. When the same preacher came to Copenhagen in February, it caused a greater debate. The controversy concerned Yasin's well-documented views that Judaism and Christianity are 'dirty', that gays should be executed, that wife beating is ok, that the US is responsible for the 9/11 attacks, that AIDS is caused by Western regimes, that woman's equality with man is 'an insane delusion', that Church and State shouldn't be separated, that Sharia law should be applied, and so forth.
In November 2005, SUM arranged a forum in Stockholm, with British religious leader Riyadh ul Haq as guest. The Times revealed through thorough documentation that he is an antisemite who preaches Jihad, praises the Taliban as the ones who can enforce Sharia and also opposes Christmas celebrations and the opera!
SUM receives government subsidies - in 2010 the Board for Youth Affairs gave out 1,505,174 kroner in establishment, structure and development subsidies. Among the objectives of the government subsidies, the Board for Youth Affairs says that recipients should 'promote children's and youth's democratic upbringing', as well as 'promote equality between the sexes'. An absolute criteria for government subsidies is that the recipients should carry out 'activities which do not conflict with the ideas of democracy".
Gudmundson points out that it's to be expected that religious extremists would abuse Swedish freedom of speech, but it is strange that SUM choose to invite preachers who despise Jews, gays, women and democratic ideals over and over again, though they are far from radical. When a state-sponsored youth organization which claims to operate by 'balanced and tolerant Islamic view' actively portray hate-preachers as role models - it's only natural to question this moderation or the honest intent of this youth organization.
Source: Gudmundson (Swedish)
Swedish journalist Per Gudmundon, reports that Sweden's biggest youth organization invited a hate-preacher, Abdullah Hakim Quick, to headline its annual event.
In related news, controversial British Muslim convert Abdurraheem Green was invited to speak at the Scandinavian peace conference by the Norwegian IslamNet. The conference, which is to be held March 27-29, supposedly intends to promote dialog. . Green had been invited to speak at University College London by Nigerian terrorist wannabe Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Green told Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen that neither he nor the conference organizers support extreme tendencies.
This is not the first time IslamNet, whose declared goal is to clear up misconceptions about Islam, invites controversial speakers. In 2008 imam Zulqarnain Sakandar Madni gave a sermon accusing the US of the 9/11 attacks and saying the Jews knew of it in advance.
Dr. Zakir Naik writes many of the texts on their site. Naik was accused of supporting al-Qaeda, says that 9/11 was an inside job, and supports the death sentence for apostates.
The organization also promotes Malaysian preacher Hussain Yee, who denies Muslims were behind 9/11, hinting that the Jews did it, and says Allah cursed Jews and Christians. Hussein Yee is also invited by IslamNet to the Scandinavian Peace Conference.
Other speakers are Ali Mohammed Salah and Yusuf Chambers, who will lead the conference. IslamNet has yet to announce who the top speaker will be.
Sources: Dagsavisen, Dagbladet (Norwegian)
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Sweden's biggest Muslim youth organization booked a notorious preacher as top attraction for their annual conference. He calls Jews 'dirty' and preaches that the punishment for homosexuality, which he calls an unnatural disease, is death.
When American imam Abdullah Hakim Quick recently lectured at King's College London and other British universities, it set off a storm of criticism. OutRage!, an organization which fights for gay rights, said the imam was 'antisemitic and homophobic', referring to statements he made in sermons, and urged King's College to stop the event.
Now Sweden's Young Muslims (SUM), the country's biggest Islamic youth organization, with about 40 local chapters and more than 3,500 member, booked Abdullah Hakim Quick as their top attraction for their annual conference, which will be held April 2-5 in Stockholm. It's Scandinavia's biggest Muslim youth conference, which SUM thinks offers 'educational lectures' and 'stimulating discussions'.
The topic for his appearance wasn't yet published, so it's difficult to predict whether SUM agrees by this with Quick that gays should be executed.
This is not the first time that SUM has lecturers at the conference whose former statement were offensive in character. Last year American preacher Khalid Yasin gave a lecture that didn't cause any headlines. When the same preacher came to Copenhagen in February, it caused a greater debate. The controversy concerned Yasin's well-documented views that Judaism and Christianity are 'dirty', that gays should be executed, that wife beating is ok, that the US is responsible for the 9/11 attacks, that AIDS is caused by Western regimes, that woman's equality with man is 'an insane delusion', that Church and State shouldn't be separated, that Sharia law should be applied, and so forth.
In November 2005, SUM arranged a forum in Stockholm, with British religious leader Riyadh ul Haq as guest. The Times revealed through thorough documentation that he is an antisemite who preaches Jihad, praises the Taliban as the ones who can enforce Sharia and also opposes Christmas celebrations and the opera!
SUM receives government subsidies - in 2010 the Board for Youth Affairs gave out 1,505,174 kroner in establishment, structure and development subsidies. Among the objectives of the government subsidies, the Board for Youth Affairs says that recipients should 'promote children's and youth's democratic upbringing', as well as 'promote equality between the sexes'. An absolute criteria for government subsidies is that the recipients should carry out 'activities which do not conflict with the ideas of democracy".
Gudmundson points out that it's to be expected that religious extremists would abuse Swedish freedom of speech, but it is strange that SUM choose to invite preachers who despise Jews, gays, women and democratic ideals over and over again, though they are far from radical. When a state-sponsored youth organization which claims to operate by 'balanced and tolerant Islamic view' actively portray hate-preachers as role models - it's only natural to question this moderation or the honest intent of this youth organization.
Source: Gudmundson (Swedish)
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