[exnavy]

As the moslum population increases, and riots spread due to offended moslom cartoon caricatures, governments from around the world make politicly correct statements of appeasement ...

[raybbr]

Sweden suffered from bad decisions and bad timing. In 1985, it shifted responsibility for integrating immigrants from its employment bureaucracy to its welfare system. Then, between 1990 and 1994, squeezed between an expanding state sector and increasing global competition for its industries, Sweden underwent the worst economic collapse of any Western European economy in decades. G.N.P. contracted by 6 percent, and employment levels declined by 12 percent.

All you really need to know about where Bush's guest program will go.

[proxy_user]

I like the final paragraph:

"Critics of capitalism used to cite Joseph Schumpeter and Daniel Bell to show that the free market is ultimately undermined by its own successes: the wealth the work ethic creates makes people want to work less. The welfare state has its cultural contradictions, too. It rests on consensus, which is another way of saying a lack of cultural variety. The stronger the consensus, the more room a welfare state has to grow. But as consensus strengthens, so does a certain naïveté, a belief that your own idiosyncratic habits are something that no one else could fail to find irresistibly seductive. Sweden's biggest immigration problem may be a matter not of crime, unemployment and Islamic radicalism but of something else altogether: that its newcomers understand perfectly well what this system erected in the name of equality is and have decided it doesn't particularly suit them.

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hope article gets into Swedish mainstream press and other media

[WilliamofCarmichael]

citizens of other countries make up 26 percent of Swedish prison inmates.

Hey! Sweden is just like us.

"Because if the problem is not discrimination, then the problem is the Swedish system ["vaunted welfare state"] itself."

No. Wait a minute. We could never say that about a U.S. welfare system in the NY Times.

Sweden's biggest immigration problem may be a matter not of crime, unemployment and Islamic radicalism but of something else altogether: that its newcomers understand perfectly well what this system erected in the name of equality is and have decided it doesn't particularly suit them.

Listen up, Sweden. Here's how we do it. When our undocumented immigrants like the dollar but nothing else here our leaders say, "they do jobs Americans won't do." Got it? Oh.. yeah, do two screams of "Bigots! Xenophobes!" daily.

[RobbyS]

The welfare state is, at its heart, paternalitic. and inevitably the step children and the bastards cannot be treated as the equals of the children of the "first" wife.