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  • #76
    On second thought didn´t he resign due to the spy scandal? In that case he´s out as minister!
    I love being beaten by women - Lorizael

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    • #77
      Let's hope so. This is the guy responsible for the proposition allowing the government to bug it's citizens and newspapers "in order to fight organized crime". Unfortunatly the proposition will pass (as both S and all of the rightwing parties are for it) but atleast don't make the man who conceived a law that undermines our constitution so the minister of "justice" :-/
      No Fighting here, this is the war room!

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      • #78
        Ok, Fredrik Reinfeldt delivered his list of ministers to the king this morning. And there is a few surprises. The biggest one is that former PM Carl Bildt is returning as Minister of Foreign Affairs. The conflicts between Reinfeldt and Bild (who also was leader of the Moderate Party between 1986-1999) has been numerous and well known. However, this is the best choice Reinfeldt could´ve made IMO. No one else in the right-centre alliance has Bildts experience of foreign politics, seeing as he has concentrated on that since he stepped down as PM in 1994. He was active as mediator in the Balkans conflict, served as the European Union Special Representative to Former Yugoslavia from June 1995, Co-Chairman of the Dayton Peace Conference in November 1995 and High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina from December 1995 to June 1997 immediately after the Bosnian War. From 1999 to 2001, he served as the UN Secretary General's Special Envoy for the Balkans.

        Another surprise was the Minister of Finance, Anders Borg, a man who is very politically inexperienced. He is however very economically experienced, he has been working for the Bank of Sweden and numerous other financial institutions.

        Other ministers worth mentioning is the new minister for Integration and Equality, Nyamko Sabuni, who has been has been described as an islamophobe and as a "token minister"

        Full list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Sweden
        I love being beaten by women - Lorizael

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        • #79
          Originally posted by Zoid
          Kill the poor!!
          Eat them.


          You know it makes sense.
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          Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.

          ...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915

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          • #80
            The New integration Minister:



            "The appointment of Liberal Nyamko Sabuni as integration minister is proving to be one of Fredrik Reinfeldt’s most controversial choices. Sabuni, who moved to Sweden from Burundi at the age of 12, is the first black person to be appointed a minister in Sweden.

            Her suggestion that all girls should undergo compulsory checks for genital mutilation (otherwise known as female circumcision) led to controversy. Sabuni was also attacked by Muslim groups for proposing a ban on headscarves for girls under 15 and the introduction of a specific mention of honour crimes in the criminal code.

            Muslim commentator and author Kurdo Baksi slammed Sabuni’s appointment:

            “I am very disappointed that a person whom I consider to be an Islamaphobe has been appointed integration minister. It is a very poor start to a centre-right government’s integration policy,” he said."

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            • #81
              Islamophobe this, islamophobe that.. another fashionable but ultimately meaningless term gaining prominence in certain circles, so as to avoid debating the real issues.

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              • #82
                Originally posted by Winston
                Islamophobe this, islamophobe that.. another fashionable but ultimately meaningless term gaining prominence in certain circles, so as to avoid debating the real issues.
                Such as Islamofascist?
                “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                • #83
                  No, that one is in fact considered highly non-politically correct, as well as islamophobic, round these parts..

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                  • #84
                    Its fairly fashionable among a sizable group of people in these (by these, I mean the US) parts. And actually I do think it probably is an Islamophobic term (in the streaching of 'Fascism', which is still a worse word than 'terrorist' to most Americans, in an attempt to link it up to certain strains of Islam).
                    “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                    - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                    • #85
                      Imran, this is Winston you are talking to......
                      If you don't like reality, change it! me
                      "Oh no! I am bested!" Drake
                      "it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
                      "Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard Shaw

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                      • #86
                        Originally posted by Winston
                        Islamophobe this, islamophobe that.. another fashionable but ultimately meaningless term gaining prominence in certain circles, so as to avoid debating the real issues.

                        OMG, I agree with Winston!

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                        • #87
                          She's "islamophobic" because she wants to protect muslim girls from genital mutilation, forced marriages and honor violence

                          Sabuni
                          The enemy cannot push a button if you disable his hand.

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                          • #88
                            She´s throwing personal integrity out the window. Just because she´s doing it for a good cause (stopping genital mutilation, etc) doesn´t make it ok.
                            I love being beaten by women - Lorizael

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                            • #89
                              She´s throwing personal integrity out the window.
                              How?

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                              • #90
                                Originally posted by Zoid
                                She´s throwing personal integrity out the window.
                                I would say quite contrary - she shows personal integrity and shows lots of guts talking against political correctness and that, to make it way more difficult, in sweden.
                                With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

                                Steven Weinberg

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