HA HA HA HA!
Terrornoia at its finest.
Who are they trying to be? America?
It would be fairly easy to stage and find out. Have a group of bearded non-white men, dressed in the same way as the men in this shoot, stand around making selfies with a banner, and have an anonymous friend call in the alert.
âIf you see something, shave something!â
Yes, âmistaken for Scary Muslim Terrorists by Swedish policeâ indeed.
I would also note that it was two police officers, not a swat team in riot gear, that were sent to investigate.
Great. One more thing to get me put on some terrorist watch list.
Iâd shave it off but I am too lazyâŚ
They didnât get arrested/the special search/shot, so they arenât up to American standards yet.
Side note- I was in this area on holiday a couple of weeks ago. Glad Iâm not beardy!
The gathering of the Lumbersexuals.
The public is right to be afraid! A beard is a powerful thing. Great power requires great responsibility.
If they hadnât all been white guys, they wouldnât have been in a beard appreciation society 
As usual, misleading/incorrect headline.
The Swedish police did not mistake them for terrorists. A member of the public did. The police apparently laughed.
Nothing to see here.
Misleading headline. Also, injecting American race politics into Swedish events.
I know that a certain level of clickbaity crap is to be expected, but are headlines that are directly contradicted in the article really necessary?
Probably I just canât handle the truth of news aggretation and I can only comment here because someone out there is willing to make up shit on my behalf.
IIRC - thereâs a âLumbersexualâ isle at Toys-R-Us. YAWNâŚYAWNâŚYAWNâŚ
Yes, but how did the conversation between police and the caller go?
Caller: Driving down the highway, I just passed a crowd of 30 bearded men standing on a hillside.
Police: Terrorists?
Caller: Could it be anything else?
Police: No need for more information, weâll be right there.
No the police didnât mistake a beard club for terrorists. The issue is that the amount of evidence required to elicit a police response is apparently quite low, and the police are complicit in that. The bottom line is that the police considered 30-odd bearded men gathered on a hillside to be a potential threat. That if they werenât wearing beards, there wouldnât have been a response.
I think the call probably went something more like this:
Caller: Thereâs a group of suspicious looking men hanging out together and taking pictures of each other!
Police: Suspicious how?
Caller: You know⌠<whispers> Terrorist looking.
Police: âTerrorist looking?â
Caller: Yeah⌠Bearded⌠Male⌠I think it might be ISIS!
Police: Ok, weâll send somebody to have a look. <rolls eyes>
hangs up
Police: Hey, if thereâs anybody whoâs not busy, will you go have a look? We just got a dummy calling up saying that ISIS was hanging out taking selfies.
Other guys: Yeah, weâll go have a look, itâs a slow day. Should be good for a laugh.
half an hour later
Other guys: Yeah, dispatch? Itâs a fucking beard club.
Dispatch: Hah! Figures.
I think of it like a game, now. âGuess which headlines are actually the complete opposite of the story in question!â
Isnât the current record for Scandinavian terrorism held pretty conclusively by a nearly beardless(sometimes has an atrocious little chinstrap thing) white guy?
Clearly its the ones who donât embrace their follicular potential that you have to watch out for.
