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Message: [QUOTE="GranTurNismo, post: 12803702, member: 304353"] But I don't quite get how that would be true... if these people knew that there are laws which would prosecute them for their hateful speech and expression, wouldn't that make them [I]not[/I] want to speak up. I bet many of these people would be too cowardly to broadcast their hatred in public if they knew they could get arrested. Let's say for example, smoking cigarettes, a legal activity, becomes banned. A ban on cigarettes isn't going to make smokers smoke more out of anger; the majority of them would stop smoking in fear that they could get arrested. It's both. There are both Islamophobic Swedes and acceptant Swedes. Limiting hateful speech towards Muslims is certainly a good start, but it won't solve the entire problem. There will still be Islamophobes in Sweden even if they can't voice their hatred. Native Swedes should be taught how to integrate Muslims into their society and respect their culture, so that these immigrants seem less foreign and threatening to the natives, therefore less native Swedes would be prejudiced towards Muslims. Islamophobia is rooted in fear far more than it is about opposing Islamic ideology; many Islamophobes are simply misinformed about Muslims, buying into stereotypes that they support terrorism, are violent, and do not accept Western culture. They don't realize how similar these people are to themselves, sadly. [/QUOTE]