Sweden's rising Muslim tide

Christian Science Monitor ^ | December 06, 2005 | James Brandon

[Charles Henrickson]

Gustavus Adolphus and Charles XII must be rolling over in their graves.

We both came up with the same imagery at the same time. See my post after yours.

And yes, the great Gustavus Adolphus (d. 1632) stood for three things that modern Swedes detest and reject: nationalism, militarism, and Christianity (specifically, Lutheranism).

[Lazamataz]

So now we will have to deal with the Swedish Bhurka Team?

[A. Pole]

But while the mosque has been a target for attacks since its founding, there is increasing evidence that Islamic militants are gaining a foothold in Sweden by successfully exploiting racial tensions and Muslim anger over economic underachievement, and ghettoization.

KosovA / StockhAlm bump!

[Gritty]

"But in Sweden it's almost as if the state has sided with the immigrants against the Swedish working class."

This sounds familiar...

"Sweden thinks of itself as immune from terrorism because of its foreign policies," adds Magnus Ranstorp, an analyst at the Swedish National Defence College.

I've got news for you, Mr. Ranstorp. It has little to do with "foreign policy" and everything to do with "theology"!

[jb6]

Funny how all these islamics come out of dirt poor 10th centuary hell holes, move to these progressive socialist european countries. Get an apartment much better then anything they had in their mud hovels or aluminum shacks, get food, money, etc, don't bother to set up their own businesses or work hard and then use the excuse of their "poverty" to destroy the societies that have given them so much and try to turn them into the same hell holes they originally came from.

Islam is trully a virus, not only on the earth and society but also on the soul of man.

[David Isaac]

"Malmo, which has one of the highest percentage of Muslims of any western European city, illustrates the challenges facing a continent whose native population is increasingly wary of a rapidly expanding and often discontented Muslim population."


"Wary" is a start, but will not get the job done. Hopefully the Jihadis will overplay their hand and push their suicidal hosts into action.

[Sometimes A River]

Right...and when Muslims don't have jobs, they have a lot of spare time.

And their spare time is spent in the Mosque.

And the idiot Left thinks Muslims in the West are radicalized because we haven't spent enough on Welfare for them.

[kabar]

The number of rape charges per capita in Malmö is 5 – 6 times that of Copenhagen, Denmark. Copenhagen is a larger city, but the percentage of immigrants is much lower. And it’s not just the rape statistics that reveal a scary increase in Malmö or Sweden. Virtually every kind of violent crime is on the rise. Robberies have increased with 50 % in Malmö only during the fall of 2004. Threats against witnesses in Swedish court cases have quadrupled between 2000 and 2003. During the past few decades, massive immigration has changed the face of Sweden’s major cities, as well as challenged the viability of the welfare state. In 1970 Sweden had the fourth highest GDP per capita among developed countries with income about 6% above the OECD average. By 1997 it was at fifteenth place with an average GDP per capita 14% below average. Malmö has a heavy concentration of Muslim immigrants in particular. According to some estimates, it will be a Muslim majority city in no more then 10 years. Crime is rampant in the growing ghettos:

Becirov runs the Islamic Center of Malmö, on the outskirts of Sweden's third-largest city. Some immigrant neighborhoods in the city have (official) unemployment rates exceeding 50 percent. Swedish authorities have failed to lift up the area, and seem to be giving the Islamic Center of Malmö a great deal of leeway in attempting to do so. An article that appeared in 2003 noted that "a few" of the 6-to 10-year-old girls were wearing headscarves. On a visit in January 2005, fully 80 percent were covered in class--only a handful were not. In a fit of absent-mindedness, Sweden has suddenly become as heavily populated by minorities as any country in Europe. The percentage of foreign-born is roughly equivalent to the highest percentage of immigrants the United States ever had in its history (on the eve of World War I). Rosengård appears to be all-immigrant. The public schools have virtually no ethnically Swedish children. There are stories--familiar in other parts of Europe where immigrants from the Muslim world have recently settled--of students harassing Jewish teachers and defacing textbooks that treat Jewish themes. Crime is high.

Is it unfair and “racist” to suggest a link between the influx of Muslim immigrants and the growing number of rapes? Not if we compare with the situation in neighboring Denmark, where this trend has been evident for years:

Criminologist: immigrants are rape champions

If one leading expert is to be believed, the sharp rise in the number of rapes in this over the last 5 years is largely attributable to a group of unemployed and alienated immigrants. 'Over the last 5-10 years there has an increasing tendency to marginalise and alienate immigrants,' says Professor Flemming Balvig, a criminologist at Copenhagen University. 'As a result, many second generation immigrants have reacted against this through various types of criminal activity, including rape.'

Muslim rape concern

Alarmed at last week's police statistics, which revealed that in 68% of all rapes committed this year the perpetrator was from an ethnic minority, leading Muslim organisations have now formed an alliance to fight the ever-growing problem of young second and third-generation immigrants involved in rape cases against young Danish girls.