Sweden Prosecuting Pensioners, Welcoming ISIS
by Judith Bergman
February 16, 2019 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13651/sweden-isis-pensioners Translations of this item:
German
Perhaps the Council of Europe considers Ã…berg's successful efforts of turning in fellow Swedes to the police for perceived thought crimes an example that other European countries should emulate?
The pensioner explained during questioning, "I was angry when I read about how it worked with immigrants and how they avoid punishment for everything they do. They get acquitted, though they steal and do other things. It is unfair that those who commit gross crimes can go free...." The pensioner said that she would not have written what she did, had she known that it was illegal. She evidently labored under the misconception that she was still living in a democracy. In January, she was sentenced to a fine of 4,000 Swedish kroner ($443). She lives on a monthly pension of only 7,000 Swedish kroner ($775).
Swedish authorities clearly cannot -- or will not -- prosecute or convict the jihadists whom they so generously welcome to the country; yet they have no qualms charging and prosecuting harmless elderly pensioners. One might add that a culture that respects the human rights of returning ISIS fighters more than that of the elderly women who are afraid of them, is all but done.
