In Sweden, a Christian couple is going through a nightmare that captures the growing bias and targeting of religious families in Europe. Daniel and Bianca Samson have been fighting to regain custody of their daughters since 2022 after the government cited their regular church attendance and faith as warranting their removal.
The parents, with the help of the Alliance Defending Freedom International, were delivered another blow after the European Court of Human Rights refused to accept their appeal as “inadmissible.”
This saga began when their eldest daughter had a fight with her parents over being denied a smartphone and makeup. She contacted police and made a false report of abuse.
However, Sara, quickly retracted the allegation and police found no evidence of abuse. Nevertheless, the state took both girls — aged 10 and 11 at the time –and refused to allow them to return home.
The government alleged that they found evidence of “religious extremism” and, according to ADF, cited the family’s habit of attending church three times a week. It also cited strict religious upbringing in the home. In the United States, the findings would be glaring violations of the free exercise clause of the First Amendment. In Sweden, it is a viable basis for taking away your children.
So these girls want to go home and the parents want to restore their family. The Swedish government and courts refuse to allow it.
They are still separated after the parents successfully completed state-mandated parenting courses. They also were denied requests to move the girls into foster homes in Romania, where they live. The Swedish Supreme Court refused to hear the case last year, but the European Court of Human Rights said that they had failed “to exhaust legal remedies in Sweden.”
Now, according to the ADF International, the government is moving to place the girls up for adoption.
The children have moved from foster home to foster home, including allegedly one placement that resulted in one of the girl’s suffering physical and mental health issues. She ultimately tried to commit suicide, according to the family.
I have only found articles attesting to the removal on the grounds of the family’s religious faith and practices. The implications are chilling if true. This family appears to have done everything demanded of them as their daughters begged to return home.
It is a case worthy of inquiry by the Administration in defense of religious liberty.
Iran using ‘satellite-like’ launches to double missile range
the launch had “doubled the demonstrated capability overnight” of what Iran could do when it targeted the joint UK-US base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.
Iran using ‘satellite-like’ launches to double missile range
They could use a modified USSR-era R-27 ballistic missile. The R-27 was mainly fired by the USSR from submarines and potentially had nuclear capabilities, but Iran could have modified it to launch from a land-based platform.
The Soviet-era R-27 (SS-N-6 Serb) submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) has been identified as a source for technology in modified, land-based systems, notably by
North Korea (Hwasong-10) and Iran. These modified versions, often leveraging the R-27’s unique submerged-engine design, can reach ranges of up to 3,000–4,000 km, placing significant areas under threat.
Obvious harassment wanting them to leave. Sweden is trying to remove resident immigrants, migrants etc by offering large sums of money. Two girls can seek asylum visas at chosen embassy. Presumably they’re 18 by now? Make it easy.
Not enough information…
The good news is this: As the world teeters on destruction, woke demands more Iranians be permitted to cross our borders illegally, to take down our airliners.
Iran just took out two massive oil tankers.
according to an Iranian official, all European countries are also in range
“recent launches may have exposed a clandestine program.” No Shi “
Any one who considered the possibility that Iran would reveal the truth about its strength to inflict damage on the world, should take anti-woke electric-shock therapy squared.
They will attack us here in the U.S. any minute. They have access to ships and jets they will equip with weaponry to knock out our grid.
Israel and the US have warned that Iranian satellite tests could turn out to have dual-use elements, leading to intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), both conventional and nuclear. While the Islamic Republic has long denied this possibility, Saturday’s launch has likely exposed a clandestine program it has operated for years for precisely such purposes.
Iran has been working on two-stage launch technologies for years to try to launch satellites into space.
Going on since 2022! Yes, investigate asap. Parents in Romania and will Romania accept the 2 girls? Have the girls seek asylum in the US, go to embassy. The parents also for reunification. From there Romania can be accept family.
Sweden has an American embassy request asylum visa at embassy. Just leave.
Abrego García can go to a Mexican embassy in the United States and request the same. Just leave for crissake. He has not been convicted of a crime that I’m aware of, doesnt mean he’s innocent. His family can get passports and visas for Mexican tourism, request asylum etc. Better than the saga…he can return later as the c9nquering hero.
Wish I had something more salient to say other than the modern left are cut from the same cloth as 1930s fascists, but I don’t. I think it’s safe to just write much of Western Europe off at this point. They have abandoned any semblance of freedom.
Western Europe is committing civilizational suicide. Any attempts to prevent the suicide appear futile at this point. In fact, it appears the patient is already deceased.
ChatGPT
That statement is dramatic and metaphorical. In plain terms, it’s saying:
“Some people believe Western Europe is making choices—social, cultural, or political—that are weakening its long-term stability and identity. They think these trends are so advanced that reversing them is either very difficult or already too late.”
A few important things to keep in mind:
“Civilizational suicide” is not a literal claim—it’s a strong opinion, not a neutral fact.
Different people point to different reasons (like demographics, immigration, economic policy, or cultural change).
Many experts strongly disagree with this view and see Europe as evolving rather than collapsing.
I strongly disagree with ChatGPT.
The comment is absolutely accurate, “In fact, it appears the patient is already deceased.”
Western Europe is a “Dead Man Walking!”
And who are these supposed “experts”? Notice they’re never named. If they exist at all, their only alleged expertise is some failed ideology cooked up in some drug-addled academic faculty lounge.
Many experts strongly disagree with this view and see Europe as evolving rather than collapsing
This is a typical garbage claim based on moronic media talk. “Evolving” is a left-wing buzz word that is totally meaningless other than to mask a dark truth: whatever is “evolving” is either dying or becoming a communist dystopia.
1) Euro court rules parents must exhaust all remedies in Swedish Courts.
2) Swedish courts drag their heels and throw process at the parents
3) Children years later turn 18
4) Euro court dismisses case as moot
5) Parents discover swedish court under In Loco Parentis renounced Romanian citizenship of children 1 day before turning 18.
6) Romania denies entry to children.
7) Sweden then passes resolution supporting Muslim children and parents who pray five times per day. Passes law that Christian Children may only attend church once a week, justifies action against Romanian Family on this new law.
8) Sweden then passes legislation clarifying that Mulsims who pray 5x/day are welcome because diversity, but Christians who attend church more than once a week are religious extremists and have no place in a pluralistic society like Sweden’s.
It would be nice if someone in the Trump administration were to embarrass the Swedes on this case.
The Swedish Supreme Court refused to hear the case last year, but the European Court of Human Rights said that they had failed “to exhaust legal remedies in Sweden.”
The parents inexplicably failed to appeal to the Svensk superduper högsta domstol som sitter över den vanliga högsta domstolen, du (the “Swedish super-duper supreme court that sits over the regular supreme court, yo”).
Our worid is becoming a sick place to live.
Still better than the alternative…many say we are due a population decrease and that would make the world a much better place for the survivors.
My goal is to make sure my family survives.
Sweden passed a law banning construction of new minarets, there are 4. A party in Sweden is pressing to deconstruct all mosques. Resident immigrants are being offered 37,000 dollars to leave. It’s a secular country.
The parents in this article have gone back to Romania. We’re they paid 37,000?
NEI
The US will face issues or turn a blind eye to Moslem practices. They are marrying minors, do have multiple wives, do maim and disfigure female babies, do beat their wives and other currently in the US. I expect the US to turn a blind eye being unable to separate behaviors from religions.
Toodles
Swedish constitution does have freedom of religion. Switzerland has banned minarets.
Scandinavia really dislikes immigrants it appears. Those are tiny cultures.
But your Honor shouldn’t we ask the children what they want before proceeding to judgment? No, absolutely not, the children are way too young to make the correct selection. But your Honor didn’t your son have transformation therapy and surgery? How old was he anyway, I heard he just turned 9. Whimsical as in freakish, is the mind set of American and Western Leftists who are over-educated and little learned, who “….endeavor to invade the property of the subject, and to make themselves, or any part of the community, master or arbitrary disposers of the lives, liberties, or fortunes of the people”, [John Locke ‘The Second Treatise on Civil Government” #221}
To define the Swedish officials I turned to, The Law.com Dictionary:
Scurrilous: The making or spreading of defamatory statements about another person, typically of a scandalous, vulgar and denigrating nature, with the intention of damaging the victim’s reputation. Slanderous of defamatory statements that are intended to be malicious in nature.
he wrote in he the sand and asked “where are thine accusers?”
John Lockes Two treatises on govt should be introduced and mandated as required reading with testing for comprehension in elementary school with perhaps editing for lower level reading as well but I believe it can serve as an antidote and mental and moral vaccination