Hate crimes aren’t a big priority in Scandinavia. When we called up Iceland to talk about it for our Hate Issue, they had no idea what the heck we were on about. So it’s no surprise that Swedish non-conformist pastor Åke Green was freed from charges of hate speech in the recent trial against him (Åke has been telling people that homos rape animals, and that they are a general cancer on society in his public sermons).
One happy side-effect of the freeing of Åke Green is that it’s taken the wind out of the sails of the God Hates Sweden campaigners, who were desperate for a martyr. Our favourite God Hates Sweden quotes include “THANK GOD FOR ALL DEAD SWEDES!!!” (about the tsunami), “The King looks like an anal-copulator, & his grinning kids look slutty & gay!” and “Sweden is a land of sodomy, bestiality, and incest.”
Reader Comments
April 27th, 2006
11:25 pm
Okay, I don’t agree with what he said about gays, but I also don’t agree with putting him in jail for expressing his beliefs or opinions. If that were the case, then a lot of the things in this magazine could qualify as hate speech.
Remember when Gavin got shit for making fun of Beyonce’s hair?
http://www.viceland.com/issues/v11n9/htdocs/dos.php
How about that professor who got in trouble for placing Condoleezza Rice’s name in a problem that people considered to be suggesting a stereotype?http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/04/20/math_prof_apologizes_for_test_question/
April 28th, 2006
4:43 pm
maybe not that guy, but the people who run that website should definitely be locked up. in a room full of angry gay dudes with bats.
April 29th, 2006
5:23 am
one big que?
April 30th, 2006
10:42 am
This is sooo old. He ended up not doing jail time anyway.
May 4th, 2006
2:28 pm
Just a short sidenote to that: In 2000 those same God Hates Sweden guys (who also maintain godhatesfags.com) thought that the then elected president Tarja Halonen was a lesbian, and published a press release on how they were going to travel to Helsinki and “burn the fag flag of Finland”. xD