Citations:Swedistan

English citations of Swedistan

A facetious movement begun on 4chan that advocated replacing the Swedish flag with one that had a crescent and star rather than a cross, as an attempt to arouse a rejection of Islamic immigrants to Sweden.
- 2017 November 17, Mike Wendling, “A failed 'Swedish flag' hoax shows the decline of the extremist 4chan message board”, in BBC News:
  Since Monday, posts on the board have been pushing "Operation Swedistan". One of the original threads outlined the aims of the effort, starting with: "Create significant traction in a movement to replace Sweden's Christian flag with an Islamic crescent."
- 2018, James Pamment, Howard Nothhaft, Henrik Agardh-Twetman, Alicia Fjällhed, The role of communicators in countering the malicious use of social media:
  A case in point is the meme-driven influence operation referred to as 'Operation Swedistan', which was coordinated over the controversial online forum 4chan to reinforce the narrative of 'Sweden as a haven for Islamic extremism'.
(slang, derogatory) Sweden, viewed as an Islamic country because of immigration from Islamic countries.
- 2016 April 16, “The Reddit war between Donald Trump supporters and Swedes is the next great political feud”, in The Daily Dot:
  It should be noted that in the original post, the artist referred to Sweden as “Swedistan,” a jab at Sweden's growing migrant population.
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