Sweden: Muslim Leftist party leader demands that Eid be made an official national holiday
MAY 3, 2023 12:00 PM
BY ROBERT SPENCER
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Sweden is not a Muslim country yet, but it’s getting there, and in anticipation of that happy event, Muhamed Nuur wants Eid to be a national holiday now. The principle is always and everywhere the same: in Muslim countries, one must conform one’s behavior to Muslim sensibilities. In non-Muslim countries, one must conform one’s behavior to Muslim sensibilities.
“V-top demands that Eid become a Swedish holiday,” translated from “V-topp kräver att eid blir svensk helgdag,” Samnytt, April 25, 2023:
The nearly one million Muslims in Sweden want to be able to celebrate Eid, the end of Ramadan, without stress and therefore it should be made a public holiday. This is the opinion of Muhamed Nuur, chairman of the Left Party Tensta Rinkeby Spånga.
When Muslims celebrate Eid and the day falls on a weekday, as this year, it creates problems, writes Nuur in a debate article.
The left-wing party compares to Christmas Eve and whether “people would need approval from employers to be able to be with their family” and “that the children would need approval from the principal not to violate their school obligations.”
“What is it that protects Christmas Eve and not Eid? I have respect for all religions, but please, don’t say it’s because Sweden is a Christian country. It is not the Swedish Church that makes decisions about official holidays, but Sweden’s Riksdag.”
Nuur assures us that although not all of the approximately 800,000 Muslims in Sweden fast during Ramadan, they do celebrate Eid. He now demands that they be allowed to “celebrate our holiday without feeling constant stress,” and that “it is time for Sweden to make Eid an official holiday.”
“If the racists reading this article think I am asking too much, I want to remind them of our country’s unwritten norm – ‘do your duty, demand your right.'”
“Swedish Muslims do their duty daily, fasting or not, and then they should also be able to claim their right.”
In a discussion on Twitter recently, Mohamed Nuur made it clear that he neither loves Sweden nor the Swedes… |
