Swedish neutrality literally means Swedish hypocrisy

I do not understand what it means to be “a neutral country” as Sweden claims to be. There is nothing called “neutrality” in my vocabulary because human relationships are based on “subjectivity” and not “objectivity” as many baldly claim. You are either for racism/Nazism or against it. How could one stand by and look indifferently when the world around you is falling apart as never before. There is no any middle way here. You should take a side on issues like this and fight against it wherever the bell for freedom rings.

Swedish history is full of indifference and hypocrisy. Sweden managed to avoid a direct involvement both in the first and second world war. The country might not have been involved in colonialism and slave trade directly but did of course benefit from that inhuman treatment of coloured people. God knows the number of people who perished because of colonialism and slavery but a moderate estimation is 50 million. This is tantamount to genocide.

500 years of western domination across the world has cost the lives of 500 million people. 10 million in Congo alone! No western leader has yet faced trial for these crimes against humanity. Impunity is their trademark as they control the” international criminal court”.

Sweden allowed Nazi German soldiers to go through its territory on the way to Norway during the Second World War. It also deported a number of refugees from the Baltic States to the despotic Soviet Union after the war. Individual Swedes took their own initiatives and fought against Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union alongside fellow Danish, Norwegian and Finnish people.

The Swedish state/government was passive for most of the last century and never stood up against genocide/holocaust/extermination/pogrom. It was first during the 1960s when Olof Palme became the prime minister that he put Sweden on the international map after condemning the USA for its barbaric war in Vietnam. This single incident though can not make Sweden a self-gratifying “moral superpower” as it wrongly is perceived.

Sweden still keeps hundreds of refugees in custody for months and in some cases up to a year before deportation. It deported two Egyptians to Egypt a decade ago. The two guys were arrested upon arrival in Cairo, tortured and imprisoned for years. The then Swedish government of Göran Persson “was promised” by the dictator Hosni Mubarak that nothing was going to happen the two guys. You might call this blunder a blue-eyed naivety of unmatched magnitude but Sweden has not got the guts to tell Africans what is best for them as long as it keeps its double standards on course. The track record of western countries on human rights violations speaks for itself and does not call a genius mind to grasp the fallacy here. Guantanamo, Abu Ghrabi and Bahram are just a few examples of “the global age” under the banner of “restoring hope” or “imposing universal values of human rights and democracy”.

The west in general and Sweden in particular needs to set its house in order first before imposing the Swedish/western values of complacency, neutrality and indifference on other folks. Universal universalism is not euro-centric universalism which emphasizes the values of decadence, aggression, inferiority/superiority complex and impunity. We need the respect for human rights and the rule of law and democracy that accommodates everyone in Sweden as much as in many  other parts of the world.