Eddie Råbock (born Jonas Mohamed Omar; 7 June 1976)[1] is a Swedish essayist, poet and literary critic of Swedish-Iranian origin.
Then in 2009, as a reaction to, and becoming emotionally upset about, Israeli strikes against the Gaza Strip, he began describing himself as a "radical Muslim" and supporter of the Shia Islamist movements Hamas and Hezbollah, seeing the late Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini as a role model for Islamist resistance movements.
[2] He organized an anti-Israeli protest at Sergels torg in Stockholm on September 20, 2009, at Al-Quds day[3] in which leading figures from the neo-Nazi organization Nordisk Ungdom attended and both Arabic, Iranian and Swedish attendees did Hitler salutes.
In an article in the newspaper Folket i Bild/Kulturfront, on July 17, 2012, he withdrew from his Islamist standpoint and retracted his antisemitic statements, saying, "I ask for forgiveness for having promoted anti-Semitic ideas".
[4] In the publication "En opieätares bekännelser" (Confessions of an opium-eater, referencing to Marx's famous quote about religion), he explains and develops his thoughts about his return to "tolerance and secularism".