Swedish Welfare State Collapses as Immigrants Wage War

The Brussels Journal ^ | Tue, 2006-03-28 21:49 | Fjordman.

[Nachum]

Last year I wrote an article about how Swedish society is disintegrating and is in danger of collapsing, at least in certain areas and regions. The country that gave us Bergman, ABBA and Volvo could become known as the Bosnia of northern Europe. The “Swedish model” would no longer refer to a stable and peaceful state with an advanced economy, but to a Eurabian horror story of utopian multiculturalism, socialist mismanagement and runaway immigration. Some thought I was exaggerating, and that talk of the possibility of a future civil war in Sweden was pure paranoia. Was it?

In a new sociological survey (pdf in Swedish, with brief English introduction) entitled “Vi krigar mot svenskarna” (“We’re waging a war against the Swedes”), young immigrants in the troubled city of Malmö have been interviewed about why they are involved in crime. Although it is not stated, most of the immigrant perpetrators are Muslims. In one of the rare instances where the Swedish media actually revealed the truth, the newspaper Aftonbladet reported several years ago that 9 out of 10 of the most criminal ethnic groups in Sweden came from Muslim countries. This must be borne in mind whilst reading the following newspaper article:

Immigrants are “waging war” against Swedes through robbery

The wave of robberies the city of Malmö has witnessed during this past year is part of a “war against the Swedes.” This is the explanation given by young robbers from immigrant backgrounds when questioned about why they only rob native Swedes, in interviews with Petra Åkesson for her thesis in sociology. “I read a report about young robbers in Stockholm and Malmö and wanted to know why they rob other youths. It usually does not involve a lot of money,” she says. She interviewed boys between 15 and 17 years old, both individually and in groups.

Almost 90% of all robberies reported to the police were committed by gangs, not individuals. “When we are in the city and robbing we are waging a war, waging a war against the Swedes.” This argument was repeated several times. “Power for me means that the Swedes shall look at me, lie down on the ground and kiss my feet.” The boys explain, laughingly, that “there is a thrilling sensation in your body when you’re robbing, you feel satisfied and happy, it feels as if you’ve succeeded, it simply feels good.” “It’s so easy to rob Swedes, so easy.” “We rob every single day, as often as we want to, whenever we want to.” The immigrant youth regard the Swedes as stupid and cowardly: “The Swedes don’t do anything, they just give us the stuff. They’re so wimpy.” The young robbers do not plan their crimes: “No, we just see some Swedes that look rich or have nice mobile phones and then we rob them.”

Why do they hate the Swedes so much? “Well, they hate us,” Petra Åkesson reports them as answering. “When a Swede goes shopping, the lady behind the counter gives him the money back into his hand, looks into his eyes and laughs. When we go shopping, she puts the money on the counter and looks the other way.” Åkesson, who is adopted from Sri Lanka and hence does not look like a native Swede, says it was not difficult to get the boys to talk about their crimes. Rather they were bragging about who had committed the most robberies. Malin Åkerström,a professor in sociology, sees only one solution to the problem: “Jobs for everybody. If this entails a deregulation of the labor market to create more jobs, then we should do so.”

It is interesting to note that these Muslim immigrants state quite openly that they are involved in a “war,” and see participation in crime and harassment of the native population as such. This is completely in line with what I have posited before. The number of rape charges in Sweden has quadrupled in just above twenty years. Rape cases involving children under the age of 15 are six times as common today as they were a generation ago. Most other kinds of violent crime have rapidly increased, too. Instability is spreading to most urban and suburban areas. Resident aliens from Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia dominate the group of rape suspects. Lawyer Ann Christine Hjelm found that 85 per cent of the convicted rapists were born on foreign soil or from foreign parents. The phenomenon is not restricted to Sweden. The number of rapes committed by Muslim immigrants in Western nations is so extremely high that it is difficult to view these rapes as merely random acts of individuals. It resembles warfare. This is happening in most Western European countries, as well as in other non muslim countries such as India. European jails are filling up with Muslims imprisoned for robberies and all kinds of violent crimes, and Muslims bomb European civilians. One can see the mainstream media are struggling to make sense of all of this. That is because they cannot, or do not want to, see the obvious: this is exactly how an invading army would behave: rape, pillage and bombing. If many of the Muslim immigrants see themselves as conquerors in a war, it all makes perfect sense.

Malmö in Sweden, set to become the first Scandinavian city with a Muslim majority within a decade or two, has nine times as many reported robberies per capita as Copenhagen, Denmark. Yet the number one priority for the political class in Sweden during this year’s national election campaign seems to be demonizing neighboring Denmark for “xenophobia” and a “brutal” debate about Muslim immigration. During last years Jihad riots in France, Sweden’s Social Democratic Prime Minister Göran Persson criticised the way the French government handled the unrest in the country. “It feels like a very hard and confrontational approach.” Persson also rejected the idea of more local police as a “first step” in Sweden. “I don’t believe that’s the way we would choose in Sweden. To start sending out signals about strengthening the police is to break with the political line we have chosen to follow,” he said. Meanwhile, as their authorities have largely abandoned their third largest city to creeping anarchy, there is open talk among the native Swedes still remaining in Malmö of forming vigilante groups armed with baseball bats out of concern for their children’s safety. As I argued in another essay: If Arnold Schwarzenegger fails to get re-elected as Governor of California he may like to do a sequel to “Conan the Barbarian.” He could shoot it in Malmö. He will get the extras for free.

What happened to the famous Swedish nanny state, you say? Don’t Swedes pay the highest tax rates in the world? Yes, they do. But tens of billions of kroner, some say several hundred billions, are being spent every year on propping up rapidly growing communities of Muslim immigrants. Sweden has become the entire world’s welfare office, because the political elites have decided that massive Muslim immigration is “good for the economy.” Soon Sweden’s “army” may comprise no more than 5,000 men, five thousand troops to defend a nation more than three times the area of England. Moreover, it may take up to a year to assemble all of them, provided they are not on peacekeeping missions abroad. That Sweden might soon need a little peacekeeping at home seems to escape the establishment. In 2006 the celebrated Swedish welfare state has become the world’s largest pyramid scheme, an Enron with a national flag.

Although Sweden is an extreme example, similar stories could be told about much of Western Europe. As Mark Steyn points out, the Jihad in the streets of France looked like the early skirmishes of an impending Eurabian civil war, brought on by massive Muslim immigration and Multicultural stupidity. Law and order is slowly breaking down in major and even minor cities across the European continent, and the streets are ruled by aggressive gangs of Muslim youngsters. At the same time, Europeans are paying some of the highest taxes in the world. We should remind our authorities that the most important task of the state – some would even claim it should be the only task of the state – is to uphold the rule of law in exchange for taxation. Since it is becoming pretty obvious that this is no longer the case in Eurabia, we should question whether these taxes are still legitimate, or whether they are simply disguised Jizya paid in the form of welfare to Muslims and our new Eurocrat aristocracy. Although not exactly the Boston Tea Party, perhaps the time has now come for a pan-European tax rebellion: We will no longer pay taxes until our authorities restore law and order and close the borders to Muslim immigration.

This is urgent. When enough people feel that the system is no longer working and that the social contract has been breached, the entire fabric of democratic society could unravel. What happens when the welfare state system breaks down, and there is no longer enough money to “grease” the increasing tensions between immigrants and native Europeans? And what happens when people discover that their own leaders, through the EU networks and the Euro-Arab Dialogue described by Bat Ye’or in her book “Eurabia,” have been encouraging all these Muslims to settle here in the first place? There will be massive unemployment, and tens of millions of people will feel angry, scared and humiliated, betrayed by the system, by society and by their own democratic leaders. This is a situation in some ways similar to the Great Depression that led to the rise of the Nazis in the 1930s. Is this where we are heading once again, with fear, rising Fascism and political assassinations? The difference is that the “Jewish threat” in the 1930s was entirely fictional, whereas the “Islamic threat” now is very real. However, it is precisely the trauma caused by the events of 70 years ago that is clouding our judgement this time, since any talk at all about the threat posed by Muslim immigration or about preserving our own culture is being dismissed as “the same rhetoric as the Nazis used against the Jews.” Europeans have been taught to be so scared of our own shadows that we are incapable of seeing that darkness can come from the outside, too. Maybe Europe will burn again, in part as a belated reaction to the horrors of Auschwitz.

[ConsentofGoverned]

America will have this problem very very soon..
but then we got the 2nd amendment what do the swedes do with no guns at home??

[Publius6961]

BUMP!

[Aetius]

Sadly, this is not surprising.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[capt. norm]

What a bunch of clods!

They move into a country and then decide they don't like things the way they are there so they do the perfectly normal Islamic Nutcase thing to do. They steal and kill.

It's like a sci-fi movie where some cave people decide to "conquer" civilization.

Do they really think that it's better to bring everybody down to their level than to maybe advance a notch or two? If they were more primitive, they'd still have tails.

[jokar]

Well isn't that special.

[indcons]

There are so many examples of the failures of multiculturalism. However, people just refuse to learn and continue to encourage criminal alien entry. Even some free trade/illegal employing FReepers have gotten on this pro-criminal bandwagon.

[Phocion]

If runaway immigration collapses a welfare state, that's actually a pretty strong argument in favor of runaway immigration!

[monkeywrench]

Bttt to a good article. Very interesting, in deed.

I can see these troubles playing out here, if we don't wise up. Multicult societies need force to hold them together.

[1066AD]

And similar gangs of "hooded youths" rob the demonstrating students in France.

[Looking4Truth]

We've got another world war on our hands that's for sure.

[Lancey Howard]

This argument was repeated several times. “Power for me means that the Swedes shall look at me, lie down on the ground and kiss my feet.” The boys explain, laughingly, that “there is a thrilling sensation in your body when you’re robbing, you feel satisfied and happy, it feels as if you’ve succeeded, it simply feels good.” “It’s so easy to rob Swedes, so easy.” “We rob every single day, as often as we want to, whenever we want to.” The immigrant youth regard the Swedes as stupid and cowardly: “The Swedes don’t do anything, they just give us the stuff. They’re so wimpy.” The young robbers do not plan their crimes: “No, we just see some Swedes that look rich or have nice mobile phones and then we rob them.”

WOW!! I take it Swedes aren't allowed to have guns?

And that would be because the Swedes are indeed wimps who have opted for socialism, and installed a political class which will care for them, cradle to grave, and "protect" them.

Sweden is the perfect petri dish for observing the inevitable result of the Euro-style, secular-socialist welfare state - - the same Euro-style, secular-socialist welfare state that the Democrats are relentlessly pursuing for America.

[dfwgator]

Coming soon to the US.

[NYer]

Malin Åkerström,a professor in sociology, sees only one solution to the problem: “Jobs for everybody. If this entails a deregulation of the labor market to create more jobs, then we should do so.”

According to a program I saw about 20 years ago, Swedish employees are hired for life. The program focused on the problems of youth who can't find jobs because they are all taken, regardless of whether or not the hired employee ever shows up at the office. Perhaps the situation has changed since then. However, no country can guarantee "jobs for everybody" ... or it risks having to then provide the jobs "everybody" wants.

[afz400]

"Coming soon to the US."
Coming soon to the US is right. Coming shortly after that is the takeover of the US by Red China. Then the dream will be realized - Americans will be used for slave labor and body part farms so the Chinese elite and their best buddy George Bush can live forever.

[catbertz]

viva la Mexico

[the_Watchman]

One should take this as an extreme viewpoint. I have visited Sweden twice in the last three years and never saw evidence of crime or unrest. My wife and I wandered around the streets of Stockholm with no problems at all.

We did not go to Malmo, but a Swedish friend of mine has a brother in Malmo and he denies that this is a widespread problem.

I spend a lot of time in France. There are certain neighborhoods where you just don't go. Outside of those neighborhoods in Paris, you don't see anything special.

I was in an RER station that we were warned to avoid. We were not told that this was a Muslim problem, but I suspect that that is the case. We noticed that the police were patrolling, armed, six officers together, with two dogs. I felt uncomfortable.

I was in France during the end of the car burnings last year and didn't notice a thing. I was apprehensive, but assured when I saw lots of people pushing baby strollers on the streets of Paris.

I suspect that the situation is similar in Sweden. The local government succeeds in limiting the problem to specific areas where these thugs hold court.

How long the situation can be "contained" is the question to be asked.

[yankeedame]

Aftonbladet reported several years ago that 9 out of 10 of the most criminal ethnic groups gangs in Sweden came from are Muslim countries.

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

The USA is not much better.

The author stated, "We should remind our authorities that the most important task of the state – some would even claim it should be the only task of the state – is to uphold the rule of law in exchange for taxation."

The "rule of law" here would also include border security and protection of national sovereignty. Bush and the government as a whole are not upholding the rule of law re the illegal alien invasion.

Our budget is another example: 67% of our budget goes toward social welfare and 18% toward Defense. Reversing that and using the military to protect our borders and national sovereignty would be the proper agenda.

We may not be like Sweden yet, but it is coming, as this admin and past admins have abandoned the rule of law, have sacked national sovereignty and have changed this nation into a statist, socialist form of government.

[Sam Cree]

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[yankeedame]

The boys explain, laughingly, that “there is a thrilling sensation in your body when you’re robbing, you feel satisfied and happy, it feels as if you’ve succeeded, it simply feels good.”

Get outta here! We're honestly supposed to believe that boys aged 15-17,in a gang, actually talk like this? Yeah right, and I'll take vanilla.

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

Hmmm Is it open season yet?

[backhoe]

Two things:

First, Islam:

I've been beating the drum, "The dangers of militant Islam," for years- let those with eyes, see.

Everything I have found about Islam, a Religion of Peace®? ( links, blogs, quips, quotes, aggravating pictures ) is located here- click the Pic, and scroll backwards:

Read my links- first to last, last to first. Doesn't matter- you won't like what you see...

Then, Illegal Immigration:

To: Travis McGee

Oh My God. This country is heading for either civil war, or surrender.

That's how I see it, too.

You and I, and many others, have been trying to open people's eyes about this.

All the arguments about costs, social changes, etc., aside, it is an insufferable violation of National Security in a time of war.

It's not just the Mexican, Central, and South American gangs infiltrating- we have Muslims, and Chinese, too.

You know my boilerplate post:

For "Thunder on the Border," click the picture:

But it gets worse- this old post has some related info in it:

-Bustamante Busted? MEChA ties, and more.--

Oh My God. This country is heading for either civil war, or surrender.

[investigateworld]

Hey don't be calling Swedes wimps. Remember who stayed late at night so they could give dirty looks to Nazi troop trains passing through their country?

Remember the brave Swedish Railway System employees who allow no German Soldier on his way to Norway to board without a ticket. Remember who enforced the 'no free refills on coffee' to the Nazis on those trains?

And no iron ore was ever sold on credit to the Third Reich! Everything was cash on the barrel head.
Give credit where credit is due.

[US admirer]

They have been raised by a culture and a religiopn that teaches them to be savages. True barbarism.

[VeniVidiVici]

Well, these quotes sound familiar:

1. Malin Åkerström,a professor in sociology, sees only one solution to the problem: “Jobs for everybody. If this entails a deregulation of the labor market to create more jobs, then we should do so.”

2. Sweden has become the entire world’s welfare office, because the political elites have decided that massive Muslim immigration is “good for the economy.”

[muawiyah]

Whatever. The Swedes can eventually go Nazi on these guys, or ship them back home.

These guys who thought robbing Swedes was easy will certainly be able to appreciate how easy the boys back home rob them!

[muawiyah]

No, no ~ the Chi-Coms are Billzo Clinton's best buddy ~ and Schumer's.

"W" has Arab friends doncha'know.

[bill1952]

>There are so many examples of the failures of multiculturalism.

Here is the problem:

These are the successes of multiculturalism!
It is designed to be the end of Western Civilization, and as such, is working perfectly, just as the ACLU and others want it to.

[mmercier]

boo frickin hoo for the Swedish nanny state.

natural selection.

[somniferum]

No one laughed at the Swedes during the Viking Age.

[Rakkasan1]

maybe not, but evryone will laugh at the Vikings next year as they finish near last in the NFC Central.

[investigateworld]

Correct, poor attempt at humor!


And did I mention the NVA and the VC had to pay retail for the medical supplies the Swedes sent them?

[Sometimes A River]

Yet the number one priority for the political class in Sweden during this year’s national election campaign seems to be demonizing neighboring Denmark for “xenophobia”

Will these people ever wake up?

[georgia2006]

while we have an immigation problem, mexicans arent muslims and theUSA offers infinitely more opportunity for aeconomic dvancement than any europeam country does


there is no comparison between latin immigration and muslim immigration...id take 100 mexican for every muslim any day.

[ConsentofGoverned]

"there is no comparison between latin immigration and muslim immigration...id take 100 mexican for every muslim any day."
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>........................
just wait, you may be one of the victims of head in the sand syndrome

[georgia2006]

name me some of the comparisons between mexicans and muslims?

which islamic country is a better place to live than mexico or at least not as bad?

Do you know what Sharia is?

[ConsentofGoverned]

sure sure did you see the posting of pictures of the marches - bandannas over their faces, mexican flags, even a sign with Arab support with Arabic writing on it carried by illegals marching in la..t shirts with che on them and signs in spanish touting revolution..30% of our prison inmates are your illegals..gangs running humans and drugs are on our southern border..if you are sincere you get the idea if not no more need be said.

[georgia2006]

so answer my question.....what islamic country is no worse off a place to live than mexico? I dont deny a severe immigration crisis, but I am not idiotic enough to make the comparison to latin illegals here and Algerians in France.

When was the last mexican suicide bomber? Car bomber? When was the last time latin americans imposed religious law on anyone? Do you know what is going on in Nigeria, Thailand, Philipines?

Do you know what Sharia is?

[ConsentofGoverned]

georgia, please understand yes I understand the threat of the radical muslims..but do you understand the threat of LA RAZA?? if you take some time you will find dozens of threads on FR about the crimes of the illegals here from murder to rape to drugs to smuggling to killing US citizens in auto accidents by these people..are you blind to the threats the illegals bring to our society??

[T.L.Sink]

Excellent post but I'm afraid it may be too late for the Euros. There's a very good feature article in the Dec.'04 issue of "Commentary" by David Pryce-Jones titled "The Islamization of Europe?" Among many other factors it discusses demographics. There are more than 20 million Islamists in Europe who have a very high reproductive rate. This is contrasted with the zero population growth for the indigenous ethnic groups. The Euros were willing to accept this vast influx to keep their infrastructures maintained -- to clean their streets, wait on their tables, and perform other menial but necessary tasks until their Pension System collapses. They assumed that their benign socialist multiculturalist societies would remain tranquil. Unfortunately, they neglected a point made by a man many of them admire, Dr. Karl Marx. He said that after a critical point quantity irrevocably changes quality. For the Euros the "quantity" was a vast number of uncivilized and semi-barbaric Islamists from North Africa. The "quality" changed irrevocably is their own culture and social life. Pryce-Jones quotes a prophetic remark made by Hilaire Belloc in 1938: "Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Islamic world which will shake the dominion of the Europeans and ...reappear again as the prime enemy of our civilization?" Many talk about the "clash of civilizations" but havn't read Huntington's book. It really discusses and analyzes what's happening to us NOW. And it's not pretty!

[georgia2006]

I understand the problems with illegal immigration. La Raza is not Al Qaeda, Hamas or Hizbullah...they arent even the black panters in 1969-70.


Look 9% of Mexico is white european..they dominate the country in business, politics and entertaniment(notice how much Fox looks like Aznar)...The idea that illegal mexicans can take over our country when they cant even take over their own is ridiculous.

[restornu]

Thank for the post

It is interesting to note that these Muslim immigrants state quite openly that they are involved in a “war,” and see participation in crime and harassment of the native population as such. This is completely in line with what I have posited before. The number of rape charges in Sweden has quadrupled in just above twenty years. Rape cases involving children under the age of 15 are six times as common today as they were a generation ago. Most other kinds of violent crime have rapidly increased, too. Instability is spreading to most urban and suburban areas. Resident aliens from Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia dominate the group of rape suspects. Lawyer Ann Christine Hjelm found that 85 per cent of the convicted rapists were born on foreign soil or from foreign parents. The phenomenon is not restricted to Sweden. The number of rapes committed by Muslim immigrants in Western nations is so extremely high that it is difficult to view these rapes as merely random acts of individuals. It resembles warfare. This is happening in most Western European countries, as well as in other non muslim countries such as India. European jails are filling up with Muslims imprisoned for robberies and all kinds of violent crimes, and Muslims bomb European civilians. One can see the mainstream media are struggling to make sense of all of this. That is because they cannot, or do not want to, see the obvious: this is exactly how an invading army would behave: rape, pillage and bombing. If many of the Muslim immigrants see themselves as conquerors in a war, it all makes perfect sense.

[georgia2006]

it is too late for Europe.....their birth rate will probably not be reversed.

[aculeus]

Europe is finished.

[NZerFromHK]

According to a program I saw about 20 years ago, Swedish employees are hired for life. The program focused on the problems of youth who can't find jobs because they are all taken, regardless of whether or not the hired employee ever shows up at the office. Perhaps the situation has changed since then. However, no country can guarantee "jobs for everybody" ... or it risks having to then provide the jobs "everybody" wants.

I have just read a blog post by a Kiwi living in Sweden. The New Zealander's post reveals that it is still as bad as the programme you watched over 20 years ago:

French letter (reflections on Sweden "model")

Basically many people earn their livings as contractors, if they get lucky they can strike a fulltime job. Being a contarctor often means severe credit disadvantage and curiously tnough, they don't qualify for much welfare payments under Swedish laws, believe it or not.

[45Auto]

The point is, the "jobs for everybody" mantra is NOT a solution to the problem. The good professor can't see that the problem is that these "yoots" want to take over Sweden, not assimilate into Swedish society.

[restornu]

It called Sharia law
http://answering-islam.org.uk/Sharia/

That's what they were going to put to death that Muslim who coverted to Christanity...

They was to have Sharia law in the US!
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GWYA,GWYA:2005-51,GWYA:en&q=Sharia+law+USA

[45Auto]

No guns allowed.

" talk among the native Swedes still remaining in Malmö of forming vigilante groups armed with baseball bats"