FOREIGN MINISTER IN SUPPORT OF HAMAS

The Swedish foreign minister, Laila Freivalds, has expressed her support for Hamas running in the upcoming Palestinian election. This is horrible any way you look at it, of course, and as a Swede I'm embarrased that my government wants one of the most malicious terror organizations to run for presidency of the Palestinian people.

Either Ms Freivals doesn't know what she's talking about, which is very bad, or else she does now what she's talking about which is far worse. To me, statements like this should get her sacked. That's not going to happen though - in fact, the mainstream media hasn't considered this statement as particularly strange at all. Maybe they should have a look at the Hamas Covenant, written in 1988 (which is their latest covenant). They may, for instance, have a look at article seven which states that: "The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: 'The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews.' (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem)."

To think that these people should run the Palestinian authority. And to think that Ms Freivalds feels that this would be perfectly alright, if they just change their ways slighty. And to think that she represent me and my fellow citizens in Sweden.

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