Mikail Yüksel, who grew up in Turkey and is now party leader for Nyans in Sweden, has spoken to Turkish media about the quran burnings in Sweden. The Turk urges Ankara to demand a ban on quran burnings, but also that the Tidö government should be forced to pursue pro-Muslim policies. “Sweden must learn to bend to Islam,” says Yüksel.
Samnytt (h/t Marvin W) The Nuance Party (Swedish: Nyans) is a pro-Islamic political party in Sweden founded in 2019. According to national broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT), the party targets mainly the country’s Turkish Muslim population. Sweden, which is home to an estimated 810,000 Muslims, or around 8.1% of the population. Of these, around 50,000 people have Turkish origins.
In the Riksdag election last year, the Islamic party Nyans received 0.4 percent of the vote and became the largest party outside the Riksdag. Furthermore, the party took seats in the municipal councils in Landskrona and Botkyrka. Now the party leader has raised his voice about Sweden in his home country of Turkey.
Mikail Yüksel has participated in an interview with the Turkish newspaper Sabah, which is close to President Erdogan, and urges the home country to go hard against Sweden in the ongoing NATO process. According to Yüksel, Sweden will stop condemning the quran burnings when NATO membership is approved.
Clearly, legislation is needed. Such actions cannot be seen as an expression of freedom of expression. The Swedish government is determined to join NATO and needs Turkey’s support. By pushing, Ankara can help prevent hate crimes such as burning the quran, Yüksel told Sabah.
SWEDEN’s Islam Party Nuance (Nyans) organizes symbolic hanging of Jimmie Åkesson (Right-wing Sweden Democrats leader) doll. Nyans party leader Mikail Yüksel became very upset and offended by Rasmus Paludan’s quran burning outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm.
Samnytt (h/t Marvin W) In addition to the burning of the Koran, the Turkish president Erdogan, whom Yüksel supports, has also been offended that PKK activists hung a doll representing him at the city hall in Stockholm.
Mikail Yüksel is now taking this idea into account when he plans a “Manifestation against quran burnings” later in February in Stockholm.
As leader of the right wing Sweden Democrats, Jimmie Akesson (below) has steered his party from “pariah” to heavyweight whose support was indispensable the right-wing bloc winning in the recent election. The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats soared to become the country’s second-biggest party in the legislative vote, garnering 20.6 percent with more than 99 percent of electoral districts counted.
One who commented on the demonstration is Richard Jomshof (SD):
Sweden is a fantastic country. Our freedom of opinion and speech also allows Islamists like @MikailYuksel_ to express themselves freely. That freedom is worth defending. How do you think it would have gone if we had done something similar in Turkey?
When the Nyansledaren recently referred to the burning of the Swedish flag in various Muslim countries to cause Swedes to be offended, and asked if it is freedom of expression, it became an own goal like no other and the unison answer was yes – no one considered that it is something that should be prohibited.
Yüksel is also said to have participated in state Turkish propaganda television about the situation in Sweden.
According to the election authority’s final results report, it looks like Nyans will enter the Landskrona and Botkyrka municipal councils. However, the party’s ambitions were considerably higher.
In many places, Nyans has taken votes from above all the Social Democrats and according to mathematics professor Svante Linusson, the party’s almost 30,000 votes may have secured the victory for the blue-yellow bloc.
With 2.53 and 2.44 percent of the votes, respectively, the party takes seats in the Botkyrkas and Landskrona municipal councils. In municipalities that are constituencies, the limit is two percent. It’s just gratifying, it was also expected, says Nyan’s party leader Mikail Yüksel to Expressen .
He believes that it is issues such as LVU, the quran burnings and integration that led to the successes.
State television has interviewed voters in one of the Muslim party Nyan’s strongest strongholds in Gothenburg. A Muslim woman says that many people vote for Nyans because the other parties “have many Swedish speakers”. The Nyans party has people who speak Turkish, Arabic and Somali.
The party had also hoped to enter Malmö’s municipal council. There we are missing 0.07 (percent) right now and there are nine districts left to count. And they count invalid votes too so there is still a chance. But if we don’t get in, we will appeal in Malmö, says Mikail Yüksel.
In 30 electoral districts in Gothenburg, which are characterized by a high percentage of residents with a foreign background, the party received over ten percent. In the electoral district Svarte mosse, every fourth voter votes for Nyans.
The Nyan’s party classifies criticism of Islam as “racism” and promises that quran burners will be jailed.
The party also wants to see a review of the LVU that governs the care of children. Alongside these questions, there is an appreciation that the party communicates in Turkish, Arabic and Somali.
After the controversial Quran burning protests in Sweden, Stockholm is facing diplomatic heat by Islamic nations. Iran has refused to send its diplomat to Sweden even as Muslim nations demand action against the protesters. Watch the video to find out more.
Imposing restrictions on speech, even when dealing with offensive or blasphemous expressions, establishes a perilous precedent. When governments or authorities possess the ability to curtail objectionable speech, it paves the way for censorship, the stifling of dissent, and the erosion of civil liberties. Safeguarding freedom of speech, even in the face of controversial or unpopular opinions, serves as a protective measure against authoritarianism and upholds the democratic principles upon which societies are constructed.
It is therefore not difficult to imagine the clash of cultural, religious and political values that arises when citizens use their constitutional right to freely express criticism of religious ideology. In a secular democracy, the police must threfore defend this right, while maintaining a neutral attitude towards the views expressed by citizens as long as they do not contain direct threats and incitement to violence.
Jack Rider says
did i read this news correctly? the radical left wing party Nyans condemns the quran burnings and wants those that exercize the right to free,dom of expression to be prosecuted convicted and imprisoned. but at the same time the Nyans Party orchestrates and approves of the hanging in effigy of the leader of the Swedish Democrats for defending free speech. One act focuses on a physical object whose ideas justify and inspire religious intolerance and violence. The other act focuses on direct symbolic harm to a specific individual. clearly those on the left do not have insight or they are in alignment with those who hate the nation, its laws and its traditions. i would call that treason.
Daniel Erbstoesser says
Me to and do you know the law for treason?. The problem is that the ones comitting the crime are also the ones keeping the law and they make them. These people step on our constitutions and freedom. I say millitary court and all of the concequences.
John1 says
Yüksel is no different than radical paki muslims with their Asia Bibi dolls with a noose, wanting her executed for alleged blasphemy. He is a traitor and should be tried for treason, imprisoned or expelled to his beloved Turkey.(which should be removed from NATO if there was a way to remove a member)
The Tasmanian Devil says
How about instead, an organized mass Quran burning?
I’ll cast the first Quran.
Daniel Erbstoesser says
Questions on all out there. Why must we crawl up the muslims ass, why must we let them into our countries when they hate us and our system?, why must we tolerate the backwards cultur, why is this all being forced upon us. Answer these questions and you will be surprized. They think that by destroying our system that they can install their, you own nothing but are happy system but what they forget or not see is that the imported invader does not share the wish for this system, no he brings his with him so you see the cards will be schuffelt again and who knows the outcome. You can figure your chances like this how many fighting men do we have and are they really ready to fight, then see how many of them are ready to fight and for all how do they fight. This should give you all an answer that should awaken you then by us here in europe its too late.