Hillel Neuer of UN Watch calls it a “walk of shame” by Sweden’s “first feminist government”

Sweden’s new “first feminist government in the world” donned hijabs while on a state visit to Iran, as U.N. Watch reports.

Trade minister Ann Linde and other members of Sweden’s “first feminist government in the world” walked past Iranian President Rouhani yesterday as they covered their hair in compliance with Iran’s compulsory hijab law, despite Stockholm’s promise to promote “a gender equality perspective” internationally, and to adopt a “feminist foreign policy” in which “equality between women and men is a fundamental aim.” The scene was also a sharp contrast to Deputy Prime Minister Isabella Lövin’s feminist stance against Trump, in a viral tweet and then in a Guardian op-ed last week, in which she wrote that “the world need strong leadership for women’s rights.” Linde “sees no conflict” between her government’s human rights policy and signing trade deals with an oppressive dictatorship that tortures prisoners, persecutes gays, and is a leading executioner of minors.

Here is Lovin’s tweet that was hyped as a taunt directed at Trump:

Just signed referral of Swedish #climate law, binding all future governments to net zero emissions by 2045. For a safer and better future. pic.twitter.com/OqOO2y8BU6 — Isabella Lövin (@IsabellaLovin) February 3, 2017

Contrast that stance with the actions by leftist feminist members of the Swedish government who recently traveled to Iran.

They had a choice — stand for their leftist feminist values by refusing to go to Iran if it meant supplicating themselves to the Mullahs.

We are witnessing the death of women's rights. The cause of death is suicide as female leaders submit to female-oppressing regime of Iran https://t.co/hdACA1PO52 — Michael Dickson (@michaeldickson) February 12, 2017

Walk of shame: Women of Sweden's "first feminist government in the world" don hijab as they walk past Iran's Rouhani https://t.co/aeEFgibVhV pic.twitter.com/urHrtObkYv — Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 12, 2017

4/ SHAME: Submission to Islamic Republic of #Iran by Swedish Trade Minister @AnnLinde—who helps oversee Sweden's "#feminist foreign policy." pic.twitter.com/ECuu5NV6SD — Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 12, 2017

3/ Meet @AnnLinde—who helps oversee Sweden's "feminist foreign policy"—as she dons Hijab & Chador to sign deal with misogynistic Iran regime pic.twitter.com/zRZUVPD5zj — Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 12, 2017

This bizarre sight was met with disdain and disgust on Twitter.

Culture relativism trumps feminism. @HillelNeuer : "Walk of shame: Swedish feminist government don hijabs in Iran." https://t.co/0XF50PQlQc — Paulina Neuding (@paulinaneuding) February 12, 2017

Sweden's feminist government when they were mocking Trump vs when they visited Iran. pic.twitter.com/MFSslh9fiF — PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) February 12, 2017

Sweden isn't a feminist state, its a pathetic appeasement state. Shameful. https://t.co/CYInPOcdeX — Sal Torito (@salsa_doom) February 12, 2017

@FeminismIsLies @JDefiant9 Sweden's oh so feminist govt donning the hijab in Iran. Why is feminism such a cosy bedfellow with Islam? pic.twitter.com/Hb0E1un2xm — PaStMiJo (@PaulSJones23) February 12, 2017

Meanwhile, while Swedish law enforcement was warning abt Muslim men raping women, Sweden's "feminist" gov't did this: https://t.co/clUrYV5SOg — SFK (@stephenkruiser) February 12, 2017

And a pointed reminder:



