Is Sweden a Safe Haven for IS Terrorists?

Hat tip Nyheter Idag (Sweden)

Here is an op-ed running in the conservative Swedish site, Nyheter Idag (News Today). It is written by Ann Heberlein. In this article, she severely criticizes how Sweden accepts returning ISIS terrorists. Translation by Fousesquawk.

https://nyheteridag.se/ann-heberlein-ondskan-i-marocko/

Ann Heberlein: Evil in Morocco

Today, Sweden is for Islamic State (IS) terrorists what Argentina and Brazil were for Nazis after the Second World War. A sanctuary where they can lick their wounds and start a new life without taking the consequences for all the abuses and crimes  they committed. Instead of being locked up the terrorists receive visits by social workers. It is high time that Sweden changes its attitude, writes Ann Heberlein.

“Evil,” wrote Hannah Arendt in Responsibility and Judgment,” is something that makes us think, “this should not have happened”.

In the middle of preparations for Christmas, evil is brought to mind- first, an act of terror at a Christmas market in Strasbourg. A man senselessly shoots straight into a group of people drinking mulled wine and buying Christmas presents. Five people die and ten are wounded. This should not have happened.

Barely a week after the massacre in Strasbourg, two young women, Norwegian Maren, age 28, and Dane Louisa, age 24, are found brutally murdered in Morocco.

The two friends were to spend the Christmas holidays hiking in the Atlas Mountains. It would be an adventure, a memory of a lifetime, ended with their deaths. Several men sit in custody, suspected of killing both girls. This shouldn’t have happened.

The common denominator for the acts is spelled Islamism. The perpetrator in Strasbourg, like the murderers in Morocco, are reported to be Islamic terrorists. Blinded by religious fanaticism and hate against our Western life style they consider sinful, they turn on innocent people. We are their enemies.

At the same time, home in Sweden, social services and politicians discuss how we best treat the “returnees” who are now coming back to Sweden as ISIS loses ground in Syria and Iraq.

As the Islamist dream of a caliphate seems increasingly distant, Sweden, with its forgiving attitude and its generous welfare system, is a s good as a treat for the terrorists: Because that is precisely what they are, terrorists, with human lives on their conscience and blood on their hands. To call these men “returnees”- as if they studied or worked abroad for a time- is a mockery of their victims.

Since 2012- so far as we know- about 150 people have returned to Sweden after having fought for jihadist, violence organizations in Syria and Iraq. In Stockholm, people are waiting for them to report for social services to be “de-radicalized”.

In Gothenburg, they are sought out by social workers who will “ensure that they share our values”. Well-meaning Swedish sociologists will talk Islamic terrorists into justice. “It’s about opening a way for them,” says Bettan Byvald, a sociologist who seeks out many of the returning jihadists.

In neighboring Denmark, returning jihadists lose their citizenship-In Sweden, we tie ourselves into a knot to “understand” and talk terrorists into the right way, all with the starting point of the banal faith in the innate goodness of each person. No wonder Sweden has become for Islamists what Argentina and Brazil were for Nazis: a safe retreat where they can lick their wounds and rest.

Swedish compliance and naivete have created a good environment for the so-called terror tourism. Anna Sundberg, earlier married with a mujahideen, describes in the book, “Dear Terrorist- 16 years with Militant Islamists,” how Islamists use Sweden in their activity.

Sundberg believes that “terror tourism, that is to say that terrorists commute between a safe existence in Sweden and fighting in Islam’s name in Afghanistan and Syria, for example, or participating in terrorist acts in Europe, has been occurring since the turn of the millennium.

The generous Swedish welfare system, in association with a widespread lack of need, makes Sweden an excellent country for an Islamist terrorist to rest between (jihads). In Sweden Islamists can forge plans in peace and quiet without risking being disturbed by anything worse than Bettan Byvald, who, with his  troubled head on crooked, wants “to open up a way for them”.

We must change our attitude in relation to those who leave Sweden to join Islamist organizations. We are not talking about confused teenagers who make a mistake.

These are people who, of their own free will, choose to go with organizations that regards us, Westerners, as their enemies. We should not open up a way for them, as Bettan Byvald suggests.

We will close all doors for those who attach themselves to evil.