[ April 17, 2024 ]
The new head of the Swedish National Heritage Board is a Muslim, Qaisar Mahmood, born in Pakistan. He was chosen for this position despite the fact that he has never studied — not TAKEN a single course — in Swedish history, nor has he ever studied archaeology, and he proudly claims that “I know nothing about it [Swedish heritage].” What got him his initial job at the Swedish Heritage Board was that he claimed to have “participated in debates about culture and questions of identity,” had delivered lectures on the same theme, and he further stated how important it was to make the newest arrivals to Sweden, the Muslims, feel a “part of the culture,” which meant that the Swedish past should be scoured for evidence of early appearances of Muslims. Recently, in fact, a Swedish researcher, Anneke Larsson, believed that she had found, written in the Arabic script known as Kufic, the name “Allah” on some scraps of a Viking tapestry, a burial cloth. This caused great excitement in the archaeological establishment in Sweden, delighted at this “staggering” find that, if true, would have dated Islam, or Muslims, in Sweden, back to the time of the Vikings, that is, roughly between 800 and 1000 A.D. But then Stephennie Mulder, a researcher at the University of Texas, pointed out that the Kufic script only started to be used 500 years after the Vikings had disappeared. That put paid to that false story of the Islamo-Viking tapestry, but not to the eagerness with which some Swedes are still trying to backdate the Muslim presence in their country, in a display of what has correctly been described as “ethnomasochism.”
As Qaisar Mahmood moved steadily up the bureaucratic ladder at the Swedish National Heritage Board, he gave no signs of becoming interested in, or even of having decided to study, the Swedish national heritage. For him, culture was part of a narrative, and multiculturalists had to “create the narrative” that best promoted their interests. As a Muslim, he wanted to fashion a “national heritage” for Sweden that would reflect the “inclusivity” of the present. The Viking tapestry turned out to have nothing to do with Arabic script, or Islam, but archaeologists getting with the program have not given up hope. Their appetites have been whetted; the search goes on for an early appearance of Islam, no matter how brief or how bloody, in Sweden.
Mahmood sees as a main part of his task finding “how to make these people [Muslims] part of something.” But they already feel “part of something” — that is, Islam itself. And that faith keeps them from taking a sympathetic interest in the Swedish past or, indeed, in any pre-Islamic or non-Islamic culture.
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The inculcated contempt that Muslims feel for the pre-Islamic past of their own countries is well known. Muslims believe that until the arrival of Islam, there was nothing of value, nothing worth studying. It was a period they call the Jahiliyya, or Time of Ignorance. Devout Pakistanis have nothing to do with the fabulous pre-Islamic Harappan civilization, of which the city of Mohenjo-Daro is representative. Muslim Iranians have no interest in the pre-Islamic civilization of Persia, as represented by the ruins of Persepolis. In Iraq, the Arabs have displayed no interest in the pre-Islamic civilizations of Mesopotamia — the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians — despite the obvious achievements of those peoples, especially the Babylonians. In Egypt, the Muslim Turks, indifferent to the artifacts of ancient Egypt, shot off the nose of the Sphinx. Muslim Egyptians did appreciate the pyramids — suitable, it seemed, only for grave-robbing — until those same pyramids were made much of by Europeans, and still today they are seen by Muslim Egyptians not so much as objects of great cultural interest, but mainly as a tourist attraction for foreigners, and therefore worth keeping as a welcome source of revenue.
Muslim indifference to pre-Islamic civilizations is also shown by the history of archeological finds in the Middle East. The discovery of the pre-Islamic past was entirely the work of European archeologists. It was an English archaeologist who famously found the tomb of Tutankhamen, and other Europeans, mainly English, French, and German, who discovered other pharaonic tombs, unearthed and deciphered hieroglyphs, systematically collected, catalogued, and preserved pre-Islamic artifacts of every kind. Such great Egyptologists as Champollion (the Rosetta Stone), Lepsius (Champollion’s worthy successor in decipherment), and Howard Carter (who found the tomb of Tutankhamen) come immediately to mind. Not an Arab nor a Muslim among this impressive crew. The Baghdad Museum was founded by an Englishwoman, Gertrude Bell. The Cairo Museum was founded by a Frenchman, Mariette. No Muslim Arabs took part, save as hired diggers, in the discovery and unearthing of pre-Islamic sites, or in the collecting and cataloguing of artifacts. The discoverer of the Assyrian sites was the Englishman Austen Henry Layard, excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh. The fabulous artifacts of Ur were found by another British archeologist, Sir Leonard Woolley. And once these sites were unearthed, who made their life’s work the preservation and study of the artifacts found at these sites, at such places as the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, the Louvre, the British Museum, the Oriental Institute in Chicago? Always, and only, non-Muslim Western scholars.
Muslim indifference to the civilizations of the time of the Jahiliyya in what are now the Muslim lands also extends to the non-Islamic history of the West. For what are the kuffar but “the most vile of creatures” (Qur’an 98:6), and what, aside from military technology, do Muslims think they have to learn from what is too optimistically still called Western civilization?
The Swedish authorities who deal with “Swedish heritage” are unlikely to know any of this. They are unlikely to realize that the Muslim, Qaisar Mahmood, whom they have now put bizarrely in charge of the “Swedish National Heritage Board,” is not only unapologetic about knowing “nothing” — as he admits — about that heritage, nor anything about archaeology (why should Mahmood care about digging up a Viking longboat from the time of the Jahiliyya?), but is eager to find or fabricate a Swedish presence for Islam in as distant a past as possible, in order to help the contemporary cause of multicultural “inclusivity” which, for Muslims, doesn’t mean their integration into a larger Swedish society but, rather, that that larger society of indigenous non-Muslims must eventually succumb to their laws, their customs, their rightful dominance as “the best of peoples.”
Meanwhile, Qaisar Mahmood is a superb choice to head the Swedish National Heritage Board, given that the task at hand is to make sure, to borrow the phrase Thilo Sarrazin applied to Angela Merkel’s Germany, that “Sweden undoes itself.” Qaisar Mahmoud will do — inshallah! — his Swedish promoters proud.
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38 Comments
6 years ago
As if more evidence of the total stupidity of the nation of sweden was required. swedes are determined to be remembered by history as the first nation that stupided itself out of existence.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
You’re right. It will be the first. Most likely to be followed by Britain, then Canada. The three countries which have gone furthest down the route of multiculturalism and “diversity”, sacrificing their own culture and identity to that of their Third World immigrants.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
There are way too many Swedish socialists with too much time on their hands!
http://www.jpost.com/OMG/Swedish-man-walking-4800-km-to-raise-awareness-for-Palestinian-cause-542473
6 years ago
Typical loonism by Left/Liberal pro-jihadi loons.
swedish police is so overworked, outnumbered that the Police chief is begging for help from his own govt http://bit.ly/2s75qAn
But they are too busy bringing in more jihadis and dumb Left/liberal women I heard are allowing themselves be their sex slaves so they won’t be killed !
6 years ago
The Swedes are about to learn this is still an uncivilized world, and if a people become too civilized to do what’s necessary to survive in an uncivilized world, they’re not going to survive.
6 years ago
Sweden opened its doors to Muslim Immigration, today it’s the Rape Capital of the West.
Smart Japan did not.
6 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
There is a mosque in Tokyo and Japanese school children have been brought there to be propagandized about islum — incl. having school girls wear hijab. Ms. Geller reported the story right here some three or four years ago.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
Funny. My wife’s sisters have queried her about living in the United States of America. “How can you live there … so many moslems?” I won’t get into the other group that appalls them.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
I wonder if the mosque consists of foreign muslums or native born Japanese converts?
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
What difference would that make? A city the size of Tokyo .. and HOW many mosques? In the USA (United Sharia of America) we have small towns, with populations under ten thousand, that have a mosque.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
Your POV is similar to saying one has only contracted a slight case of cancer.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
A slight case of cancer beats being slightly pregnant.
6 years ago
86 percent of ‘Underage’ Migrants in Sweden are actually Adults.. only 3.3 per cent were female.
6 years ago
Over the past few years, there has been a great deal of brouhaha, within the archeological community. Historic artifacts, inclusive of coins, swords, daggers, and jewelry, have been smelted down .. as the svedes “just don’t have the place to store them, anymore”. When proposals have been made .. simply selling them at auction, those proposals were widely shouted down. There was never a reason given .. but … swords, in incredible condition, over ten thousand layers of steel, centuries old … at auction, some of them would have gone for six figures (US Yankee Greenback Dollars), but .. they were actually smelted down. Gotta hand to svedland … Ten thousand svedes, running through the veeds, being chased by vun soomawli …
6 years ago
Sweden, like Great Britain, is gone. If you want to visit either country you’re SOL because culturally they don’t exist anymore.
6 years ago
Reply to
CrustyB
Actually, England may still have a chance at redemption. A slight chance, but a chance none the less.
6 years ago
Muslim storms an Indonesian church, wounding pastor and others, beheading the statue of Jesus.
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2018/02/12/fear-grips-yogyakarta-after-attacks.html
6 years ago
This is what happens when the muzlum population gets to
10% and 20% of the population of the country they are taking over.
They will be able to vote in more and more muzlums until they can change the laws to make the country a izlamic s**t hole country.
6 years ago
I sense a Swedish cultural revolution coming on. The Chinese smashed their irreplaceable heritage to remake themeselves in Mao’s image. The Swedes want the same thing and Qaisar Mahmood is just the man to spearhead that initiative. I expect a Cheddar Man gambit where they “prove” that ancient Scandinavians looked just like today’s Pakistanis. Once done, all Scandinavian history becomes irrelevant. Everything that happened between the ancient one and today’s New Swedes simply won’t matter.
6 years ago
Stefan Lofven, Prime Minister of sweden.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
And a mushroom would be the appropriate fungus to represent the Swedish native population:
http://www.bertbeckers.be/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/DSC_1441.jpg
because they’re kept in the dark and fed a steady diet of excrement.
6 years ago
They can kiss there freedom good by.
They will rape your women and young girls.
How stupid could a country be
6 years ago
Reply to
Susan Lee Baker-Deeds
child groomers and rapists and welfare bums making money off govt to support their many wives and trillion of children
6 years ago
THE SVEEDISH NATIONAL HERITAGE BOARD ???? REALLY ??? A MOSLEM FROM THE SANDS OF SOME OF THE WORST HELLHOLES ON THE PLANET IS IN CHARGE OF SVEEDISH HERITAGE ???? AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH, SNORT , SNORT, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH, SNORT .
6 years ago
Ironically, his homeland Pakistan has no real “cultural heritage” — all it has is Islam, forcibly imposed by Arabs, Turks and other invaders over hundreds of years.
Everything their ancestors had before that has been torn apart into bloody shreds, and ironically now they are doing the same thing to other nations. Kind of like a zombie plague…
6 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
child groomer! world is overpopulated and overdeveloped with too mannnnyyyyy chinese and arabs and negroes.
6 years ago
Truth or evidence never matters to the lefty multi-culturalists. They will rewrite history to accommodate the savages. Little do they realize that Muslims don’t want to be a part of the INFIDEL culture or history UNLESS they DOMINATE!
6 years ago
The Swedes are insane.
6 years ago
Sweden is done if it is ever to be free some one besides the sweds will have to run the Muslims out. To bad .
Buck a Christian 100% disabled Vietnam veteran ??⚔?? right wing republican life time member NRA and friend to Israel
6 years ago
Muslims care nothing of history, except it be something to be destroyed to erase any knowledge that their existed anything before islam.
6 years ago
Jeesh. Sweden has fallen under the sway of Stockholm Syndrome. In reverse! It is the Muslim mind which has taken their hosts captive, body and soul, and the native Swedes who are striving for the approval of their new cultural bosses.
