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Sweden’s violent reality is undoing a peaceful self-image
Politico ^ | April 17, 2018 | Paulina Neuding

Posted on 04/18/2018 12:37:08 PM PDT by C19fan

Sweden may be known for its popular music, IKEA and a generous welfare state. It is also increasingly associated with a rising number of Islamic State recruits, bombings and hand grenade attacks.

In a period of two weeks earlier this year, five explosions took place in the country. It’s not unusual these days — Swedes have grown accustomed to headlines of violent crime, witness intimidation and gangland executions. In a country long renowned for its safety, voters cite “law and order” as the most important issue ahead of the general election in September.

The topic of crime is sensitive, however, and debate about the issue in the consensus-oriented Scandinavian society is restricted by taboos.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.eu ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: crime; islam; migrants; nogozones; sweden; waronterror; whywefight; wot
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/src on/But the Swedes feel real good about their virtue signalling./src off/
1 posted on 04/18/2018 12:37:08 PM PDT by C19fan
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the rape rate for swedish women now is about the same rate rate of women in soweto south africa.


2 posted on 04/18/2018 12:39:17 PM PDT by ckilmer (q e)
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I didn’t think Politico would ever publish an article even close to this.


3 posted on 04/18/2018 12:39:56 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Are that many Swedes converting to Islam? Or is the problem a domestic receiving of international terrorists?


4 posted on 04/18/2018 12:40:44 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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Apparently the Swedes would rather be raped than be called bigoted.


5 posted on 04/18/2018 12:41:05 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Leftism is an elaborate system for hiding shame behind a cheap mash of virtue. -Klavan.)
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In response, the Swedish government has launched an international campaign for “the image of Sweden” playing down the rise in crime,


Well that will fix the problem..................


6 posted on 04/18/2018 12:41:51 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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THREE YEARS ago, Breitbart was denounced by the entire media as “racist” for their “fake news” about these attacks. Now even they can’t ignore them...FAR too late to save the Swedes.


7 posted on 04/18/2018 12:42:17 PM PDT by montag813
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Theirs is a foolproof way to lower the crime statistics: don’t report them.


8 posted on 04/18/2018 12:42:37 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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It seems that Stockholm is in dire need of a Rudy Guillani.

But many more will be raped, killed, and harassed before the cries for law and order come out, unfortunately.

Unbelievable, but political correctness trumps even self-preservation. A lot of that going around.


9 posted on 04/18/2018 12:45:45 PM PDT by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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Keep this author in mind.

“Paulina Neuding is the editor-in-chief of the online magazine Kvartal.”


10 posted on 04/18/2018 12:48:03 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Too bad the Swedes won’t stand up for themselves, they used to have a peaceful and polite - albeit socialist - little country.


11 posted on 04/18/2018 12:48:26 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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Oh, this is Politico EU.

I wonder if they publish this article in the US Politico?


12 posted on 04/18/2018 12:50:41 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Keep this author in mind.
“Paulina Neuding is the editor-in-chief of the online magazine Kvartal.”


She wrote this for the NYT:
The Uncomfortable Truth About Swedish Anti-Semitism
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/opinion/sweden-antisemitism-jews.html


13 posted on 04/18/2018 12:53:28 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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What happened to all of that Viking blood?


14 posted on 04/18/2018 12:53:39 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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At one time they had a king Gustavus Adolphus the Great,. who led the mighty Swedish army to victory.

Now Gustavus Adolphus is a Lutheran College in Minnesota
known for it snow flakes-the students that is and not the real stuff.


15 posted on 04/18/2018 12:56:13 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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It’s interesting that non-filtered info can leak through to these propaganda centers like Politico and the NY Times occasionally.


16 posted on 04/18/2018 12:56:51 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ckilmer

What is your source for that claim?


17 posted on 04/18/2018 12:57:25 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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I am amazed. Who would have guessed that coming to Sweden, and being supported on welfare without having to work, would fail to turn a bunch of violent barbarian invaders into peaceful socialists?


18 posted on 04/18/2018 12:58:05 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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They also had Charles XII.


19 posted on 04/18/2018 12:59:10 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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"Sweden, which is a nation intent on collective virtue signalling, is a cautionary tale." - Black Pigeon Speaks
20 posted on 04/18/2018 1:03:06 PM PDT by snarkpup (Fake news is one-half of the problem. Fake education is the other half.)
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