Swedish Right Plans Gay Pride March Through Muslim Areas Of Stockholm
From the article:
Swedish nationalists are planning a gay ‘pride’ march through Muslim-majority districts in the country’s capital, according to media reports and a dedicated Facebook page.
The march, called ‘Pride Järva,’ is scheduled to take place on July 29, and will pass through Tensta and Husby, majority-Muslim districts in Stockholm’s north. (Järva is the name of an adjacent area.) Husby was the center of the 2013 Stockholm riots, which began in response to allegations of police brutality.
According to the event’s Facebook page, the march will include public “kissing.”
The organizer of the march, Jan Sjunnesson, is the former editor of the far-right Sweden Democrats’ newspaper, the Samtiden. The Sweden Democrats are known for their anti-immigration policies, and came out strongly in support of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten when it published cartoons derogatively depicting the Prophet Mohammed in 2005.
The scheduled march has been criticized as provocative and racist by those on the left, with angry comments appearing on the event’s Facebook page. Two residents of the Jarva area, Noah Nord and Emelie Mårtensson, claim that ‘Jarva Pride’ “pits two oppressed groups against each other,” and have organized a counter-demonstration.
That’s rights, folks. A gay pride march, organized by members of the political right, is going to be protested by members of the political left on the behalf of the religious beliefs of a number of residents in parts of Stockholm, Sweden.
