Lasītava

There is no real mystery to the cunrert events in Sweden.Lars Vilks is an established artistic force in Sweden. When he acts, the establishment has to react. Vilks has played a brilliant political game of openly challenging the cowardly arts establishment and its fear of Islam. In doing so he has simply forced the Swedish mass media to react and to print his works of art.This has brought the old feelings from "Motoons1" to the surface, including, I would guess, a wee bit of unstated guilt over the failure to support Denmark.Another factor is the new Swedish conservative government. When "Motoons1" was raging, Sweden was still under the dhimmified and openly islamophile leftist cabinet of Goran Persson. Today we have a new conservative coalition cabinet, which means slightly more cultural backbone and slightly less appeasement. The old leftist cabinet was openly supporting Islamic terror groups.A third point to remember is that the actions of the government and mass media are not in any way, shape or form representative of the Swedish people. Statistics show that Swedes are some of the most islamocritical populations in Europe. Thus, the problem lies not with the Swedish people per se, but with its government history of social democrat, near-totalitarian welfare policies, soft censorship and multiculturalism.