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"A campaign intended to promote tourism in Sweden using microblogging site Twitter has taken a bizarre twist after a woman using the account posted messages about Jews and Freddie Mercury.  A different Swedish citizen each week takes control of the @sweden account, as part of plans to show the diversity in the country&amp;#039;s population. However, mother-of-two Sonja Abrahamsson caused controversy after she tweeted messages such as: &amp;quot;What&amp;#039;s the fuzz with Jews.&amp;quot;  In another tweet, she wrote: &amp;quot;You can&amp;#039;t even see if a person is a Jew, unless you see their penises, and even if you do, you can&amp;#039;t be sure!?&amp;quot; After a string of negative comments from other users, she wrote: &amp;quot;Im sorry if some of you find the question offensive. Thats was not my purpose. I just don&amp;#039;t get why some people hates Jews so much (sic).&amp;quot; She had previously uploaded a Photoshopped image of the late Queen singer Freddie Mercury looking at a table of food. The caption said: &amp;quot;This pic I call, &amp;#039;hungry gay with aids&amp;#039;.&amp;quot;  Discussing Abrahamsson&amp;#039;s tweets, VisitSweden marketing director Maria Ziv said that, had they been deemed racist, &amp;quot;we would have taken them down&amp;quot;. People using the @sweden account do not need to get pre-approval for their tweets, but they do have to include the hashtag &amp;quot;#myownopinion&amp;quot; for any political views.  The account, which has more than 53,000 followers, has previously hosted a diverse range of tweeters, including a lesbian truck driver and female priest.  But Abrahamsson has caused most controversy so far with a prolific stream of often quite bizarre messages on the page.  In one tweet, she says: &amp;quot;Once my 4-year-old found Marijuana and porn in my bicycle-wagon. I keep that wagon in our basement. That was a little odd wasn&amp;#039;t it?&amp;quot; Another message reads: &amp;quot;In english you say &amp;#039;balls&amp;#039; about someone who is brave. In sweden we say &amp;#039;labia&amp;#039;. Example: &amp;#039;You surely showed some real heroic labia there&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; While some people have criticised Abrahamsson&amp;#039;s views, other have praised her for using the page for some frank and honest opinions.  Speaking to the BBC, VisitSweden&amp;#039;s London representative Malin Nyberg said: &amp;quot;This is really showing just how many different kinds of people there are in Sweden. &amp;quot;By doing this, people will get more interested and curious about Sweden. When things are not as you think they are, you get curious and you want to know more.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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