Now We All Must Love Islam. If We Don’t, We Could Get Killed.
By Robert Spencer - on February 1, 2025
There are many lessons in the murder of Salwan Momika, who was murdered in a shooting late Wednesday night in Sweden, but it’s unlikely that those who need those lessons the most will take any notice of them. Momika, an immigrant to Sweden from Iraq, had been a hunted man for quite some time because he had repeatedly burned the Qur’an in public, maintaining that Sweden’s stated support for the freedom of expression allowed for this, and that it was necessary in order to call attention to the many evils that the Islamic book contained, condoned, and exhorted its believers to perpetrate. Swedish authorities disagreed, and that is why Momika is dead today.
The collapse of the West’s will to defend its own values and culture is thus the first lesson of the murder of Salwan Momika. The Swedish government states that “the constitutionally protected right to freedom of expression includes the right to express thoughts, opinions and feelings through speech, writing or images without interference by the authorities.” There is, however, a big caveat: “This freedom can only be restricted if it is necessary for the fulfilment of certain purposes specifically set out in the Constitution, and a restriction may never go beyond what is necessary to fulfil these purposes.”
All right. So Swedish government officials would likely insist that they tried to impede Momika’s activities because of their concern for the welfare of Swedes in general, and fear of what Muslims might do in response to his burnings of the Qur’an. While that may seem to be a reasonable stance, Swedish authorities don’t seem to realize or care about the fact that when they made it clear to Muslims in Sweden and around the world that they would not stand up for the freedom of expression, they only ensured that there would be more challenges to it. Bowing before violent intimidation always leads to more violent intimidation, and yet Western officials never seem to grasp that basic fact, one that we should have all learned on fourth-grade playgrounds.
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