(European Conservative) Sweden Democrat MP Richard Jomshof is stepping down from his chairmanship in the parliamentary justice committee after being notified that he is “reasonably suspected” of “incitement against an ethnic group.” Jomshof’s alleged crime? Retweeting two cartoons, created by an Indian satirist and originally posted by a Pakistani atheist living in England. Jomshof has been called to an interrogation by the Special Prosecutors Office on Tuesday, September 17th.
It was in May of this year that Jomshof retweeted two cartoons posted by Imtiaz Mahmood, whose bio on X describes him as “Outspoken atheist, anti-theist, freethinker, an unapologetic and staunch heretic. I refuse NOT to mock all religions.” The cartoons, by Indian satirist Manoj Kureel, show Muslim immigrants being welcomed by Western Europeans and then violently taking over — in one case setting fire to [a] house with the label “Europe”; in the other, pushing a European man out of a boat while keeping the women in it.
