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Last Night in Sweden
Frontpage ^ | February 22, 2017 | Bruce Bawer

Posted on 02/22/2017 6:21:15 AM PST by detective

Well, I knew I shouldn't have said anything. A few days ago I bragged in this space about having overcome my years-long addiction to the New York Times. Then, in the wake of President Trump's remark on Saturday in Melbourne, Florida, about “last night in Sweden,” I noticed on Facebook that the Times had run a “news story” by one Sewell Chan headlined “‘Last Night in Sweden’? Trump’s Remark Baffles a Nation.” I couldn't resist.   As it turned out, of course, Trump hadn't baffled the entire Swedish nation. What had really happened was that a great many members of the Swedish establishment – politicians, journalists, business and academic elites, and so on – had professed that they were baffled. “Sweden? Terror attack? What has he been smoking?” asked former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt. Chan himself maintained that some news media (those, you understand, that lean right and have less rigorous journalistic standards than than the august Times) had presented “numerous exaggerations and distortions” about Sweden, “including false reports that Shariah law was predominant in parts of the country and that some immigrant-heavy neighborhoods were considered 'no-go zones' by the police.” (False reports, min röv.) Chan went on to quote various Swedish officials who roundly denied that Muslim immigrants had had a significant impact on crime and rape statistics. 

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TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: hijrah; muslims; rape; riots; sweden; trump
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Trump was right.

The media and the Democrats were wrong.

1 posted on 02/22/2017 6:21:16 AM PST by detective
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To: detective

Bruce Bawer wrote a book in 2006 titled “While Europe Slept” outlining the immigration problems in Europe country by country.

The problems have increased multiple times since then.


2 posted on 02/22/2017 6:24:50 AM PST by MustKnowHistory
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To: detective

I hope this is satire.


3 posted on 02/22/2017 6:24:56 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: detective
Trump was right.

The media and the Democrats were wrong.

Were they wrong, or being, as usual, deceptive? My money is on the latter, as they, like all human beings, are creatures of habit...

the infowarrior

4 posted on 02/22/2017 6:28:05 AM PST by infowarrior
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To: detective

The media thinks that if they avoid reporting all the thousands of times Trump is right and correct, nobody will notice.


5 posted on 02/22/2017 6:28:37 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: detective

The media seemed to insist on the fact that Trump suggested that there had been a “terror attack” in Sweden. I have not followed this all that closely, but I think he more-or-less just referenced the status of things in Sweden, as relates to the Muslim migrants.

Since there had not been a “terror attack”, all of the dems and MSM came out to say that he was lying.

He was right, as we know, that Sweden has become a crime-infested swamp, with skyrocketing crime rates, due to the Muslim migrants.


6 posted on 02/22/2017 6:37:19 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: MustKnowHistory

Migration and immigration has become like nuclear science...with few really grasping what has been created.

1. Across Europe, you’ve got roughly a hundred different cultures within almost every country now (it’s not just Islam as some people think). None of these European countries can handle the educational requirements of this many kids, or comprehend the behavior attitudes from one society to another.

2. Drug and crime situations have reached a point where it’s simply more profitable for the migrants to sell drugs than work a normal job. None of them understood the high cost of living...the taxation rate...or the cost of cars/gas.

3. Never intentional in nature....but virtually every single European country has created ghetto situations. No one is immune from this.

4. Cops don’t see their profession as they did a decade ago. No respect by the migrants, and no respect by the political dimwits above them.

5. Solutions....believe it or not...have nothing to do with money, tax revenue, or funding. That’s the big shocker.

Anyone who thinks this is purely an Islamic theme....is totally wrong. Most of the riot participants in France? From Africa. Most of the riots in Malmo or Stockholm? Various groups of migrants. It’s an urbanization and migrant situation.


7 posted on 02/22/2017 6:37:46 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: detective

Another example of Trump’s genius.

The news media was paying none or little attention to the violence in Europe and with one sentence, Trump made them bring it to the forefront of the news.

I had a lawyer once, now deceased, who would ask the witness questions that appeared to me to be stupid. I would sit there asking myself if this guy is really the best lawyer in the state....and the witness would think the same thing and suddenly, in frustration, blurt out remarks that were destructive to his case.

Trump is using the same technique. And the libs and rinos, but I repeat myself, are going bonkers over his “ignorance” and showing their true colors for all to see.

Under estimate him at your peril.


8 posted on 02/22/2017 6:52:26 AM PST by old curmudgeon
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To: detective

Trump was right.

The media and the Democrats were wrong.


And the sun will set in the west today — confirmed.


9 posted on 02/22/2017 6:52:35 AM PST by samtheman (Imaginary news. Square root of negative news.)
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To: Lion Den Dan
I hope this is satire

And that is one of the problems with leftists. They absolutely will not acknowledge that something may not be perfect in their view of the world. They really do believe that any negative statements about how wonderful all things are is based on satire and lies.

10 posted on 02/22/2017 6:56:33 AM PST by ProudFossil
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Trump was right.
The media and the Democrats were wrong.

The "Nostradamus Effect"!

President Trump seems to have an uncanny knack to either see into the future or anticipate upcoming events to the degree that it borders on the incredible.

How many times as a candidate and now as President has he been ridiculed and attacked for making a statement or prediction about something?

And how many times has proof of his statements surfaced almost as soon as he makes them?

As is the case with Sweden.

And how many times have his predictions come true in just a short period of time?

It happens with such regularity you might think that at least a few members of the MSM would have learned to exercise a little caution and do some research before they attack.

But it doesn't appear that they have connected the dots yet.


11 posted on 02/22/2017 6:57:11 AM PST by Vlad The Inhaler ("I really took notice when the animals began to pair up and stand in line." - NOAH)
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13 posted on 02/22/2017 7:01:01 AM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: pepsionice

“Camp Of The Saints”, anyone?

Swedish contempt for America is now getting a huge karma buttshot.

Evacuate the Swedish Bikini Skydiving Team & let the rest enjoy their moral superiority with rapefugees. Screw ‘em.


14 posted on 02/22/2017 7:02:48 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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Most of the riot participants in France? From Africa. Yes, but from Muslim North Africa, especially Algeria.
15 posted on 02/22/2017 7:03:31 AM PST by expat2
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No one can say the demographic number of ethnic groups in France....because they choose a number of years ago to make it illegal to collect such data (I know....they are that stupid).

Based on various foundations and simple “guesses”...somewhere around five to seven percent of the population are black African in origin or 1.3 million. The North African group (the Maghreb group) are estimated to be around 3.5 million. Note, this is info from 2008...and could be way off by today’s standards.

However, if you use original generation (first generation) immigrants...the sub-Sahara group is at the same level as Algeria (this leads back to the 1960s and the failed migrant programs of that era).


16 posted on 02/22/2017 7:38:20 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: detective

ABC news said that the only thing going on in Sweden is Swedish Meatballs. If your mission was to trojan horse destroy a nation you would keep the public ignorant so they could not fight back. ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and the rest are in colusion to destroy the west, keep the facts buried and expound a made up narrative to explain away reality. Its a war of reality our facts vs theirs and the TV is winning. Moslem oil money flows in spigots to the propaganda establishment to keep them in line.


17 posted on 02/22/2017 7:46:07 AM PST by x_plus_one (The Chaotic Evil of the Soros funded left can be expunged with the power of Christ.)
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To: detective
The media and Democraps are LYING. They know what is true and choose to speak the opposite. We have reached the Time when up is down and wrong is right. ... Look up! He is coming back soon in the air, but won't step on the planet then or for another seven years thereafter.

The media and Democrats are enemies of the Truth. They serve the father of lies, a murderer from the start.

18 posted on 02/22/2017 7:51:06 AM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: 1Old Pro

So is the Swedish PM really Baghdad Bob?


19 posted on 02/22/2017 7:51:34 AM PST by Jimmy The Snake
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To: pepsionice
It’s an urbanization and migrant situation.

Not so

The big issue in UK following joining EEC was the vast number of Polish and East German immigrants that took over the construction jobs...plumbers...electricians...carpenters etc.

Meanwhile the islamics from Pookistan etc were "grooming" white teen girls for the slave trade.

20 posted on 02/22/2017 7:54:01 AM PST by spokeshave (In the Thatch Weave,..Trump's Wing Man is Truth)
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