I was talking about Muslim immigrants. Is Goteborg not the city where there is a major immigrant crime problem? Or is that Malmo? I lived in Sweden for almost a year as a child and found much to love there. And I have Swedish ancestry. I don't like to hear about it becoming un-Swedish.
Mrs VS
"I was talking about Muslim immigrants. Is Goteborg not the city where there is a major immigrant crime problem? Or is that Malmo? I lived in Sweden for almost a year as a child and found much to love there. And I have Swedish ancestry. I don't like to hear about it becoming un-Swedish.
Mrs VS"
I am likewise talking about muslim immigrants. Muslim violence is not a problem in Gothenburg. Most of our Muslims are secularized ones (like those sane iranians who've fled the present regime of Iran and have settled in the Gothenburg Area) or have become secularized as they've found out what a blessing the progressive lifestyle of Scandinavia in fact is.
Yes, Gothenburg has crime, like all cities, but it's the competition of a biker crime gang that's in a war with a "balkan" maffia that causes most of the problems.
In Malmö there is a real muslim problem, but it is a very exaggerated one.
Malmö is a city that has overestimated its economic potential. A lot of well of "malmoites" are moving to the affluent suburbs while immigrants (many of them muslims), working class and lower middle class citizens are staying. Many of the native swedes seem to enjoy the different aspects of "multiculturalism" and I don't blame them. There are several fascinating features of Asian, Latin American and African culture. As long as people from these parts of the world behave, they are welcome (and most of them DO behave, even in Malmö). But can these people find work?
The local government of Malmö is very naive and impotent. They seem to feel overly proud over the newly erected Öresund Bridge (Connecting Sweden and - via Denmark - The European Continent) and the Turning Torso skyscraper. These structures are great, but they can't compete with having the money making machines of the Gothenburg industrial plants or the Corporate HQ:s of Stockholm.
Malmö needs to attract major industrial or administrative investments. Geographically speaking, things look very good (as Malmö connects a major part of Scandinavia to the European Continent), but I believe the leadership of the region could be far better.