Hah... quite curious that such thing makes into papers in Sweden.. or anywhere. Some journalist gets e-mail where someone says her family should be killed. She gets good laugh about it, when tells husband, he's not so happy about it. Goes to papers most likely due recent media attention of similar cases.
Internet gave possibility for everybody to do anything with little (if any) effort. This means that most useless mindfart may be voiced, yet should it be considered real genuine death threat or something else - who knows.
There has been ongoing debate about all sorts of journalists and scientist receiving threats and shitmail - especially if they deal with topics as multicultural and immigration. While one could have sympathy for university scientist who just does his job and starts to receive unwanted hatemail... at the same time when there are articles about it where scientist showed his recent "hatemail" which was links to Pekka Siitoin youtube clips, I was like "AAARRRGHHH!!!" That is THIS the level of threats, and what are these crybabies doing on pages of newspapers?! And the other cases where it really is not about objective scientist, but person very vocal and very provocative against other groups of people with other politics. And then goes cry on papers when she gets what was expected for such provocations...
But about status of Swedish language, I think quite many oppose the fact that every citizen has mandatory swedish language in school from 7th grade onwards. Simply due fact that it's not optional. There has been attempts to offer possibility to choose other 3rd language (besides Finnish & English), for example Russian. That is much much more useful language for entire eastern part of Finland who have little if any connect to Swedish culture of west coast of Finland... But no. It would be against the law. I studied 6 years of swedish, and kind of regret that was stubbornly against it. Think how many good swedish sleaze magazines I have I could understand properly!