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http://expo.se/2017/notorious-swedi...st-touted-as-expert-by-fox-business_7268.html

Sweden has become a topic of debate in American news media following Donald Trump's recent statements about the country. To support the assertion that CNN is whitewashing Sweden, the conservative news network Fox Business recently invited right-wing extremist Ingrid Carlqvist on the channel to give her views. Carlqvist's involvement with the Swedish far-right was not disclosed to the viewers.

"Well, CNN and other liberal media outlets reporting that there's no crisis in Sweden after President Trump mentioned crime in the country at Saturday night's rally. But take a look at these images," the Fox Business anchor says in the introduction to the segment, which aired on February 21.

In the segment, images show torched cars in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby, and next the anchor introduces Ingrid Carlqvist:

"So what's the reality? Well, let's ask somebody who's on the ground there. Swedish columnist Ingrid Carlqvist joins us now from her home country."

Ingrid Carlqvist says in the segment that Sweden has reached a "critical mass" of immigrants that "don't love Sweden" and "don't love Swedish people".

The Fox Business anchor ends the interview by exclaiming: "Sweden is not Swedish anymore, oh my gosh."

What the viewers are never told is that Ingrid Carlqvist has been a central player in the anti-Muslim counter-jihad movement. Nor are the viewers made aware that she recently accused "representatives of the ethnic group of Jews" in Sweden of being behind Sweden's cultural diversity, a conspiracy theory that Swedish nazis have long promoted.

Carlqvist is known for her hard-line anti-Muslim views. In December 2016, on a podcast run by members of the violent nazi organization "Nordic Resistance Movement", she declared that she wants to drive out all Swedish Muslims from the country. (Radio Regeringen #28, 21 December 2016.)

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In recent years, Ingrid Carlqvist has moved closer to the openly racist, white supremacist milieu in Sweden. She recently declared her willingness to collaborate with the Nordic Resistance Movement, a militant nazi group.

Last year she was one of the speakers at Stockholm's annual fascist conference "Identitarian Ideas". She also attended this year's conference, where a new alliance between the organizers and the American Alt-Right movement and Richard Spencer of the National Policy Institute was announced. Spencer gained international notoriety after giving a speech in praise of Donald Trump in which he yelled "Hail Trump!", while large sections of the audience stretched out their right arms in a Hitler salute.

In February, during a presentation of her new book at a seminar in Gothenburg, she stated that the big problem wasn't just Muslims. It was also Jews.

"It pains me, believe me, to have to state this. But those who have been the vanguard of Sweden's cruel transformation into Absurdistan are Jews. In my naïvity, I have viewed Swedish Jews as entirely sympathetic to the fatherland. Presumably the majority is, but those who stubbornly and purposefully, in the 60s, claimed that Sweden was awful and had to change, were above all Jews."

Ingrid Carlqvist also declared that she considers those who advocate cultural diversity to be "traitors to the people" (folkförrädare) and that she looks forward to their being punished by a tribunal.

"They are traitors to the country (landsförrädare), they are traitors to the people (folkförrädare) and the eternal question is: Have they done this because they are really stupid or is it part of a diabolical plan to eradicate Europe?"

Carlqvist also discussed her theory of an underlying agenda behind cultural diversity.

"If a people is splintered and warring against each other […] it is easier to take control over a country," she said.

Carlqvist does not just move in the same circles as white supremacists, but also expresses the same ideological convictions.

"Our country's population is homogeneous not just in terms of the race but also in many other respects," she asserted during her presentation in February.

To Carlqvist, Swedes are white and blue-eyed and, she claims, are a people under threat.

"About 17 percent of the world's population consists of white people. However, our polticians don't seem to care that we are getting fewer and fewer – on the contrary. The same politicians who speak of the importance of diversity are not the least interested in Swedes surviving as a people."

"No-one cares whether the children who are born here are Swedes or not. Being blue-eyed is not just an eye color, it is also a figure of speech meaning being naïve, and one can't help but wonder if it is related. Are we so blue-eyed that we cannot see we are getting exterminated?"

Ingrid Carlqvist is not the first Swede to be picked up by American media to confirm Donald Trump's view of Sweden as a country in crisis due to immigration. A Fox News interview with pundit Nils Bildt was recently the subject of controversy, as it was revealed the channel incorrectly presented Bildt as being a national security adviser in Sweden; in fact he was not.

 

[i-Lo]

When the "immigrants" are practically classed as second class citizens and the violent against them rise notably, remember to hold these outlets responsible for their both explicit and implicit involvement in shaping that future.

 

[dragonelite]

Inbe4 Trump tweet..

 

[Boney]

If only Clinton wouldn't have passed the 96 Telecomunications Act

Imagine, the media without the crazies.

 

[KHlover]

Isn't this "news" already four days old or so by now?

EDIT: Or not. This is another one? lolFox

 

[AnotherDayAnotherDollar]

If only Clinton wouldn't have passed the 96 Telecomunications Act

Imagine, the media without the crazies.

No way. It is high level entertainment.

I want Ryan Lochte to come on TV to talk about the security and safety concerns of traveling to Brazil.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

This is so disgusting

Pls leave us out of your political post-truth bickering :/

 

[Shrike_Priest]

Oh great. They got caught on Nils Bildt, who only had a tangential connection to the parlamentary right wing, and went straight for Sweden's Pro-Nazi Alex Jones.

Seriously. That woman is ridiculous. And Fox is stooping lower each day.

 

[Jag]

In my naïvity, I have viewed Swedish Jews as entirely sympathetic to the fatherland.

Yeah, nothing makes Jews feel safer than a blind devotion to the Fatherland. :smh:

 

[5taquitos]

No way. It is high level entertainment.

I want Ryan Lochte to come on TV to talk about the security and safety concerns of traveling to Brazil.

We're far beyond entertainment at this point.

 

[Joel Was Right]

Fox has been doing this sort of selective hiring for a decade; they're well known for this type of overt bias, especially when it comes to Muslims. It's not coincidental.

 

[Paganmoon]

LEAVE US ALONE, FUCKERS!

This is seriously going to start a feedback loop were ultra right wingers in Sweden are going to share Fox articles to reinforce their beliefs, then more ultra right wingers will go on the news and spew bullshit, and round and round we go.

You fucked up your country already, stop trying to fuck ours up...

 

[Do Better]

LEAVE US ALONE, FUCKERS!

This is seriously going to start a feedback loop were ultra right wingers in Sweden are going to share Fox articles to reinforce their beliefs, then more ultra right wingers will go on the news and spew bullshit, and round and round we go.

You fucked up your country already, stop trying to fuck ours up...

Russia/Putin must want something from you guys.

 

[norinrad]

What does they do not love Sweden even mean?

 

[I H8 Memes]

Yall notice how Fox news didnt hesitate at all to shift to defend the Fascism and Nazism. They are defending it with other Nazis. This is all real and it's all happening right now. Wish everyone would have voted. Now I dont think there will be another legitimate election in America.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

What does they do not love Sweden even mean?

codeword for "dirty muslims"

 

[Razgriz-Specter]

Fox and Friends were patting Trump on the back this morning saying those "riots" were definitive proof Trump was right about Sweden.

 

[Keasar]

America, prepare yourself, for our retaliation will be swift and merciless for this constant injustice and mud dragging.

We will deliberately "forget" to include enough screws to put together that fucking kitchen table of yours.

We will drive you slowly, but surely, insane.

Spoiler

Seriously though, goddamn FOX News, feels like it's back to the shit I had to listen to about every day on The Daily Show!

 

[Faustek]

Sigh, please leave us alone. We have our own problems to actually deal with and I don't feel like this added fantasy scenarios will actually help anyone. Also using "far-right" doesn't sit well with her. She is a Nazi. Joining up with the NRM, Nordic resistance movement, which is a well established militant Nazi group makes you just that. A disgusting Nazi.

What does they do not love Sweden even mean?

You see it means that every third Thursday after a full moon we gather to plot the downfall of the Swedish race. Mostly by making Swedes eat greasy fat pizzas.

 

[Felix Lighter]

Far-right swedes would probably line up pretty well with your average Fox News viewer.

 

[kmax]

Never heard of her, but just going off the Swedish Wikipedia.

Carlqvist is very active on Twitter, with over 40 000 tweets and 8700 followers (August 2016). On Twitter, she has stated that all Muslims lack conscience, are potential terrorists and are less equal as human beings. She draws parallells between Islam and Nazism and has stated that Hitler was more of an Islamist than part of the Christian establishment. Those that do not hate Islam or see Islam as a threat, are fools. It is sound to be afraid of Islam. Anti-racists are anti-democrats, and they seek to destroy western deomocracy and are in fact facists. Moreover, Carlqvist thinks that immigrants have too low intelligence for democracy.

I mean, you can judge yourselves. I don't know why Fox News would invite these sort of people other than to brainwash the American people with right wing extremist propaganda.

 

[Faustek]

Never heard of her, but just going off the Swedish Wikipedia.



I mean, you can judge yourselves. I don't know why Fox News would invite these sort of people other than to brainwash the American people with right wing extremist propaganda.

Asked the question and answered it yourself.

 

[kmax]

Asked the question and answered it yourself.

Well to be fair, I said "other than..".

You kind of want to think that there must be another reason for the madness since since it's so blatantly overt what they're doing, but at the same time, you just sigh that when you realise that people are buying the crap that they're doing.

 

[Faustek]

Well to be fair, I said "other than..".

You kind of want to think that there must be another reason for the madness since since it's so blatantly overt what they're doing, but at the same time, you just sigh that when you realise that people are buying the crap that they're doing.

If Trump has taught us anything its that being wrong and lying works.
Sometimes I wonder if they buy it themselves and other times I just stop and realise that there exists people out there that are this stupid. Education or not many people are just pure, unadulterated humongous Shit bags that just don't care to think longer than their nose reaches.

 

[Ullus]

It's true, we do have a problem here in Sweden.

And that is people and politicians who claim to love their country, yet take every opportunity they get to trash-talk and spread lies about it.

 

[RinsFury]

Why are these right wing nazis so obsessed with hating Sweden?

 

[Easy_D]

Why are these right wing nazis so obsessed with hating Sweden?

Because we spoke the fuck up against the bs and pissed them off

Far-right swedes would probably line up pretty well with your average Fox News viewer.

They would, yes because they're often in the same group of low education people living in the sticks

 

[Copenap]

It's disgusting how a mainstream media outlet like Fox panders to the extrem right because they cannot question the Republicans.

 

[Pedrito]

Why are these right wing nazis so obsessed with hating Sweden?

Sweden has this reputation, deserved or not, of being a "socialist paradise". If it crumbles, it must mean that socialism/leftism/equalism/feminism/etc. is a failure. Simple as that.