Salwan Momika, an Assyrian refugee from the jihadist horrors of the Middle East is dead. He was murdered by Islamic extremists who burst into the room in Sweden where he was in the process of taking part in a livestream and shot.
Mr Momika, who had a long and glorious reputation for criticising the ideology of Islam and for publicly burning copies of the Quran, had long been under threat from jihadist savages. He had fought against these savages in his homeland of Iraq and when his personal situation in that country got even worse than it had been, he attempted to flee to safety overseas. Both Norway and Sweden refused to grant him asylum status and even Sweden, a nation wrapped up in its own self-righteous claim to be a humanitarian superpower, turned on him and charged him with offending the very ideology that produced the people who murdered him. Maybe if he’d had more time he could have got to that new beacon of freedom and hope that is Trump’s America but he never got the chance to take that route, a route that might have saved him.
Dr Maalouf, a friend of Mr Momika and who runs a popular account on the X platform eulogised Mr Momika and told the world some of Mr Momika’s life story and I’ve reproduced that below.
Dr Maalouf said:
Mr Momika knew exactly who is opponents in this argument were. He knew that because he had been forced to take up arms against them when Jihadists massacred his people just as they’ve massacred many other peoples since Islam crawled, like a deathly infection, out of the Arabian peninsular in the seventh century. But rather than keep his head down when he escaped from the charnel house that Islam had turned Iraq into, as a lesser man might have done, had they had similar experiences to Mr Momika, he decided instead to speak up. He spoke up about the wrongness that Islam and its more rabid true believers had brought to his country and the world in the past and the problems it is bringing to places like Europe today.
Mr Momika’s death is a tragedy and an indictment on the asylum policies of Western nations that are content to let in hundreds of thousands of wrong’uns from the Islamic world but which fail dismally to protect those like Mr Momika who genuinely and obviously needed shelter. But his death should also inspire those who wish to see the Enlightenment born concept of free speech not die on the bloody altar of multiculturalism and a misplaced tolerance of what should be not tolerable. As Mr Brendan O’Neill said in an article in Spiked magazine, Mr Momika’s death is: ‘an intolerable assault on liberty’ and that it is time for us all to fight for the right to mock Islam and its ‘values’. Maybe Mr O’Neill is correct here and that the best way to remember Mr Momika is to carry on his work of being critical of Islam the ideology and of those who find appeasement of it a better path for them than being honest about it. May Mr Momika’s memory be for a blessing and may his life and his path be an inspiration to others. We should pray for a world of freedom where mocking Islam or indeed any religion* or philosophical or political or ideological path is normalised.
- My faith has a talking Donkey in it and even I as a believer and follower of the Jewish path think that is funny.