Hate crimes aren't a big priority in Scandinavia. When we called up Iceland to talk about it for our [Hate Issue, they had no idea what the heck we were on about. So it's no surprise that Swedish non-conformist pastor Åke Green was freed from charges of hate speech in the recent trial against him (Åke has been telling people that homos rape animals, and that they are a general cancer on society in his public sermons).](http://
www.viceland.com/issues_uk/v2n11/htdocs/fashion2.php)[One happy side-effect of the freeing of Åke Green is that it's taken the wind out of the sails of the](http://
www.viceland.com/issues_uk/v2n11/htdocs/fashion2.php) God Hates Sweden campaigners, who were desperate for a martyr. Our favourite God Hates Sweden quotes include "THANK GOD FOR ALL DEAD SWEDES!!!" (about the tsunami), "The King looks like an anal-copulator, & his grinning kids look slutty & gay!" and "Sweden is a land of sodomy, bestiality, and incest."
www.viceland.com/issues_uk/v2n11/htdocs/fashion2.php)[One happy side-effect of the freeing of Åke Green is that it's taken the wind out of the sails of the](http://
www.viceland.com/issues_uk/v2n11/htdocs/fashion2.php) God Hates Sweden campaigners, who were desperate for a martyr. Our favourite God Hates Sweden quotes include "THANK GOD FOR ALL DEAD SWEDES!!!" (about the tsunami), "The King looks like an anal-copulator, & his grinning kids look slutty & gay!" and "Sweden is a land of sodomy, bestiality, and incest."