Turkey Uses NATO Membership To Stifle Criticism of Islamification Of Sweden
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Koran burning in Sweden sparks a new diplomatic row between Turkey and Sweden, as well as protests against the burning of a copy of the Koran in front of the Turkish embassy in Stockholm. What does this have to do with NATO?
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All right, so we've recorded quite a bit on the situation with NATO, Sweden and Finland joining NATO,
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and then the most recent kind of controversy around this is how Turkey has now come into the middle of this
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to basically try to tell Sweden what they should do and shouldn't do politically and even ideologically
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and now religiously in order to steer Sweden away from supporting Kurdish groups such as the YPG and the PKK
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and stuff like that. Of course, Turkey have designated these as terrorist groups.
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But there's other things now happening too, which has to do with the Koran burnings, right?
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So Paladin, which is a Danish guy, but he has Swedish citizenship as well,
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he has been to Malmö and other places many times and burning Korans,
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and now he's back doing that outside of the Turkish embassy in Sweden,
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which is basically causing a delay to Sweden's entry into NATO,
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which frankly, if they get the desired outcome, I think this would be a brilliant move.
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I think that Sweden should basically, you know, put up the middle finger to not only Turkey,
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but to NATO and say, F you, we're going our own way. We're not going to do what you tell us.
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I fear, though, that they're going to bow down and basically submit to the demands from Turkey.
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But let's check out a story here from an Israeli outlet, and they have a clip on this too,
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showing some of the burnings and stuff like that.
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Koran burning ignites new spat between Turkey and Sweden.
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And I expect, as I said, Swedish politicians to fold 100% on this, but we'll see.
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Sweden's NATO membership hangs in the balance after extremist provocations precipitates diplomatic downward spiral.
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Rasmus Paladin, a leader of a far-right Danish political party who also holds Swedish citizenship,
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burnt a copy of the Koran outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm on Saturday.
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His action took place despite a call by the Turkish foreign minister to withdraw the permit for the protest.
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Paladin Spark writes last year, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan,
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Like, can they do this from a perspective of how they treat Muslims over there?
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Check out the clip here just to get a little bit of footage from the event and what's happened so far.
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They're burning flags now, Swedish flags in Turkey now.
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Going out of Europe and escalating tensions between Turkey and Sweden as a dispute over Turkish opposition
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to Sweden joining NATO in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine has now intensified along
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Now, the conflict began with Ankara demanding Stockholm taking tougher steps against Kurdish dissidents
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in order for it to gain approval for admittance into the Atlantic Alliance.
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But this weekend, those differences got ugly with far-right protesters in the Swedish capital
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burning a copy of the Koran near the Turkish embassy.
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Ankara condemned what it called a vile anti-Semitic attack and hundreds of Turkish protesters retaliated
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by burning a Swedish flag in front of that country constantly now.
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It's like, ooh, yeah, you're getting Swedes riled up now.
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It is unacceptable that Swedish authorities are allowing such kind of a provocative action
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Also, it is not a coincidence that Turkish embassy is picked as the location for it.
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We are here in front of the Swedish embassy as new welfare party to show our reactions
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against the attack on our holy book, the Koran.
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We cannot accept the burning of Koran under the umbrella of freedom of expression and
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And we can never accept any attack against our holy values in any place around the world.
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They can't have Koran burning anywhere in the world.
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They're just like, this is people in Turkey that are complaining that Sweden is allowing this.
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And if there's some muzzies that have a problem with it, go home.
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But it is interesting to be a part of NATO now.
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Well, this has really been maybe not since the inception.
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But I mean, there was you could argue like in the days of like stay behind armies and
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And even the German Marshall Fund, you had like kind of a little slightly more like kind
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But now, of course, with all the gayification and NATO being about diversity and anti-white
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Think back to the war in the Balkans, for example, where NATO members, the supreme commander
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of Europe, Wesley Clark, said that the time for ethnic homogenous nations in Europe is
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And basically, they became the diversifying pushers now or the diversity pushers, which
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Which, again, is another reason which I don't which these pro-NATO nationalists don't understand.
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Like, it's not that NATO, just because one becomes a NATO member, overnight transform
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But it happens over time, gradual exposure to this.
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And it's just another very powerful institution that can put pressure on your country, right?
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In order to get membership, you have to submit and do certain things.
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That's how they're going to get to Ukraine if they ever becomes a NATO member as well.
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But it also shows you like, since, as you said, since when has NATO membership to do
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with, like, religious rights for Muslims, right?
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And, but so the Turkey has, Turkey has the right to put these pressures on Sweden.
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And the big question is, of course, will they fall to this?
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Because there was already, see, there was already a law change happened back in January
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Yes, free speech is different than hate speech, right?
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The same lingo as we see in all the liberal countries right now.
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Yeah, they can basically say that if anything kind of causes, like, a disruption to the
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order of sorts in Sweden, you can basically terrorist label anybody or anything, any group
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And although I have my suspicions about Rasmus Paladin, and as I said, if there is an outcome
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here where Sweden walks away from membership to NATO, then it would be like, okay, great,
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I understand some people that say that he's intentionally provoking in order, whether he
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knows it or not, that it's going to result in a law change in Sweden, where basically
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say it's going to cripple normal Swedes' ability to fight against the Islamification of
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That's the changes that are going to get implemented.
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But note that it's going to be at the behest of us joining NATO, that we have to, like, agree
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And now Turkey has, like, huge leverage all of a sudden.
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Turkey, they should be having land recognition rituals every day before they, you know, open
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a parliament in not Istanbul, but Constantinople, because it used to be Europeans.
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They're never going to fall on these liberal global homo ideas that we have to do in the
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And even here, outside of the Swedish consulate in Istanbul, they say, we do not share that
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They wouldn't flinch if someone was burning Bibles.
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And as you said, like, do you think it's worse with having, like, rape gangs by Muslims in
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Because there's not enough room to put all these immigrants in jail.
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Like, instead of sending these people to jail, deport them.
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And I do say that I see this more and more, just even normie Twitter or things that I
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The attitude now that I see, I mean, sure, I might be slightly in a kind of a bubble, I
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But I guess you get some exposure to non-kind of just right-wing views, or at least those
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who traditionally haven't been outspoken, like right-wing nationalists, that are just
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But like, yeah, Ulla, walk about a little, slightly different accent there.
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They're very good at burning flags, by the way.
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Yeah, but imagine that Sweden having this in their consulate.
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Could you imagine Muslims doing this for like, if people were burning Bibles or like the
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