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Improving Muslim Integration: Sending in the Clowns-surreal world of Sweden's new migration policy
Frontpagemagazine ^ | 7-18-17 | Bruce Bawer

Posted on 07/19/2017 3:54:08 AM PDT by SJackson

If some of the things that are being done in Sweden today weren't demonstrably true, they'd be unbelievable. If they weren't so idiotically tragic, they'd be brilliantly funny.

What follows is not a joke. Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven and his crew have come up with a great new way to improve integration.

One word: clowns.

A quick reminder: thanks to the astronomical cost of feeding, housing, and clothing immigrants who prefer not to support themselves, and the equally formidable expense of policing those multiculturally enriched, high-crime areas that the authorities haven't already given up on policing, Sweden is bleeding cash – big time. Among the results: major cutbacks in outlays for schooling, health care, and benefits for the elderly.

Nonetheless, the Swedish Migration Board has managed to find an unspecified number of kronor – apparently in the millions – to spend on the services of an organization called Clowner utan Gränser. Translation: Clowns without Borders (hereafter CWB). According to an article in the invaluable Friatider website, CWB plans to “'play' its way to better integration.”

The Migration Board specifies that the clowns will be used to integrate non-EU immigrants – which in Sweden, of course, mostly means Muslims.

After reading Friatider's story, I naturally went straight to CWB's website. Front and center is detailed information about how to contribute money to this thing: “Become a donor and spread laughter every month!”

Click on “about us” and you'll find out that CWB was founded in 1996 and operates in a dozen countries, sending clowns into refugee camps and youth prisons. CWB's declared mission is “to meet children in pleasure, play, and joy.” It seeks to create “hope, humanity, and the will to live.” Its vision is “a world filled with play, laughter, and dreams, where all people have the opportunity to develop, express themselves freely, and feel hope even in vulnerable situations.” All its work “is done in our belief that it creates a better world.”

Of course it would be terribly cynical to call B.S. on all this. I'm sure it's totally on the level and every bit as wondrous and magical as it sounds – and worth every kronor.

Just speaking for myself, however, the last thing I can imagine wanting to see if I were a little kid in a Third World refugee camp or youth prison would be a bunch of guys in clown outfits climbing out of a tiny car, juggling bowling pins, riding unicycles, making balloon animals, and sweeping up spotlights. Not to put too fine a point on it, but is any child ever really entertained by the antics of clowns? I've always had my doubts. All I know is that for as long as I can remember, clowns struck me me as witless, depressing, and vaguely creepy. Their costumes look as if they must be sweaty and smelly. A painted-on smile seems the very opposite of cheery. But hey, maybe that's just me. 

Also, the whole premise reminds me of the notorious Jerry Lewis movie The Day the Clown Cried (1972), about a clown who entertains Jewish children on a train to Auschwitz and then on their way into the gas chambers. It was never released because it was considered to be in outrageously bad taste. Just sayin'.

I did react to one detail on CWB's site. It informs us that the group “is based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.” What is that supposed to mean? As it happens, the convention in question is one of those ridiculous international agreements that are at best meaningless and at worst menacing, but that diplomats from countries like Sweden are crazy about. The U.S. is the only nation on earth to have refused to ratify it, one reason being that it can be interpreted as denying basic parental rights. (In the recent case of the critically ill baby Charlie Gard in the U.K., it was reported that the court's refusal to let the parents seek extraordinary treatment for their son was founded, at least in part, on the UN convention.) Needless to say, the fact that the convention has been ratified by every government on earth other than America's mean that it's gotten the stamp of approval from places where children are openly enslaved, prostituted, and put to work in factories. So CWB's pious mention of this hollow document – this empty, worthless specimen of pure technocratic sanctimony – is, for this reader, for what it's worth, something of a red flag.

But the main point here, obviously, is that the eagerness of the Swedish Migration Board to bring “play, laughter, and dreams” to Muslim children makes one thing perfectly clear: namely, that – even after all these years, all these immigrants, and all these failed efforts at integration – Swedish authorities still don't know the first damned thing about Islam. Have none of them ever come across the Ayatollah Khomeini's famous pronouncement on the subject of play and laughter? “Allah,” declared Khomeini, “did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious.”

To reread Khomeini's ukase is to experience, shall we say, an increased curiosity as to the potential results of the Swedish Migration Board's inspired new initiative. What can happen? One imagines a troupe of these clowns dancing and frolicking their way into some no-go zone in Malmö and ending up in a decapitation video. One pictures some burka-clad version of Kathy Griffin posing for the camera, holding up a clown's real head by its fake red hair. Now that's one image that likely would bring a few laughs to some of the humor-deprived denizens of Rosengård or Rinkeby.  


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: europejihad; swedenjihad

1 posted on 07/19/2017 3:54:08 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson
lso, the whole premise reminds me of the notorious Jerry Lewis movie The Day the Clown Cried (1972), about a clown who entertains Jewish children on a train to Auschwitz and then on their way into the gas chambers. It was never released because it was considered to be in outrageously bad taste. Just saying’.


In Sweden, the clowns are entertaining the future concentration camp guards

2 posted on 07/19/2017 3:57:43 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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Maybe they can perform in our inner cities. If they're free, don't want to pay them.

3 posted on 07/19/2017 3:57:43 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

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Maybe they can perform in our inner cities. If they're free, don't want to pay them.

4 posted on 07/19/2017 3:58:43 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: SJackson
>>I'm sure it's totally on the level and every bit as wondrous and magical as it sounds 
 
psy·cho·sis
sīˈkōsəs/
noun
  1. a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.
"According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.
 
It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages.
 
The first stage being "demoralization". It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of [their] enemy. In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least 3 generation of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism; American patriotism.
 
Most of the activity of the department [KGB] was to compile huge amount / volume of information, on individuals who were instrumental in creating public opinion.  Publisher, editors, journalists, uh actors, educationalists, professors of political science.  Members of parliament, representatives of business circles. 
 
Most of these people were divided roughly into two groups:  those who would tow the Soviet foreign policy, they would be promoted to positions of power through media and public manipulation;  [and] those who refuse the Soviet influence in their own country would be character assassinated OR executed physically, come Revolution.  "
--KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov
--Soviet Subversion of the Free Press (Ideological subversion, Destabilization, CRISIS - and the KGB)


5 posted on 07/19/2017 4:15:19 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: SJackson

One should never under estimate the lengths that progressives/communists and socialists well go to.

To maintain power and control even if it ends up destroying them in the future.


6 posted on 07/19/2017 4:22:38 AM PDT by riverrunner
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To: SJackson

This is sick.


7 posted on 07/19/2017 4:46:58 AM PDT by fivecatsandadog (DRAIN THE SWAMP. BUILD THE WALL. EFF the rogue judges, Obama and the MSM.)
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To: SJackson
No limit to the stupidty of the PC Left.

"Sweden Builds Camel Park to Help Integrate Migrants"

I remember an old timer who used to love saying, "It takes a lot of education to make someone that stupid." Witnessing the results of modern Western education, I'm reminded of that more and more.

8 posted on 07/19/2017 5:23:46 AM PDT by drpix
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To: SJackson
"is any child ever really entertained by the antics of clowns? I've always had my doubts. All I know is that for as long as I can remember, clowns struck me me as witless, depressing, and vaguely creepy."

My children are utterly creeped out by clowns. One of them is afraid of them almost to the point of phobia.

9 posted on 07/19/2017 5:33:33 AM PDT by Savage Beast (You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
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To: SJackson
One can only imagine how Swedish Muslums will adapt their traditions in the future:


10 posted on 07/19/2017 5:39:44 AM PDT by drpix
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To: SJackson
They forgot "hope" [honk honk] Image result for obama clown
11 posted on 07/19/2017 5:46:00 AM PDT by Leep (Less talk more ACTiON!)
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To: SJackson

Sweden ===> national suicide


12 posted on 07/19/2017 5:51:42 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Comey = The Swamp Fighting Back)
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To: HLPhat
Europe is in the grip of its most recent pandemic, in this case a mass psychosis, and nowhere is the disease more disastrous than in Sweden.

Such pandemics sweep over Europe as regularly and as predictably as the tides that submerge the beaches of Normandy: the Black Plague, the Hundred Years War, World War I, the Nazi Reich, and the present pandemic of mental illness whatever it's called--to name a few.

The sane Americans and other sane people throughout the world who resist the devastating diseases that grip Europe appear, to the sick, to be insane themselves--or evil--or, worse, unfashionable.

To the insane, the sane appear to be insane.

Will the pandemic destroy America as it destroys Europe? About half of the American population is already infected.

Will America send her sons to die, yet again, to save Europe from its latest pandemic? That is doubtful, and it depends, to some extent, on how many Americans succumb to it themselves.

Will America's profound resources and puissance develop a cure for the disease and send public health workers to rescue Europe? As slim as it is, that's probably Europe's--and America's--best hope--and it depends almost entirely upon whether or not President Trump succeeds--and that depends upon the number of Americans who are able to resist the infection and remain sane.

The situation is critical.

13 posted on 07/19/2017 5:57:08 AM PDT by Savage Beast (You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
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Europe is in the grip of... 

...Progressive Cultural Marxism.

 

[The Architects of Western Decline: A Study on the Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTmNWY0ZPfM&t=18m 

 

Here is our progressive, "spiritual", tolerant, inclusive, opinion

- now you shut up and agree to disagree...

you nazis!

[IDIOTS REACT TO MAN WITH SIGN]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL0tRHvBlQQ


  >>The situation is critical.

And It ain't even January 29 yet in 1968 version 2.0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968#Events

 

14 posted on 07/19/2017 6:03:27 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: SJackson

The docile, obedient nature of the Swedish people is causing them to allow their leaders to destroy the country. They need to cast off their chains and rise up.

Last week I read a piece describing how a leftwing Swedish feminist attempted to build a bridge to the Muslim community by holding regularly scheduled coffee house meetings with Muslim men (the men wouldn’t allow any Muslim women to attend). The concept failed immediately due to the mocking disrespect directed at the feminist by the Muslims.

A clash of civilizations indeed.


15 posted on 07/19/2017 6:28:35 AM PDT by beckett (Amor Fati)
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To: SJackson
Contrast:

“Allah,” declared Khomeini, “did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious.”

vs. this:

4 Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, dear friends!

2 I plead with Euodia and I plead with Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord. 3 Yes, and I ask you, my true companion, help these women since they have contended at my side in the cause of the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my co-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

(Final Exhortations)

4 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. 9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.

16 posted on 07/19/2017 6:47:07 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: HLPhat
"Progressive Cultural Marxism"

It that what it's called?

Whatever the name, it is a highly dangerous pandemic of mass psychosis that will probably destroy Europe once and for all and threatens to destroy America also.

17 posted on 07/19/2017 7:01:26 AM PDT by Savage Beast (You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
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To: Savage Beast

[The Architects of Western Decline: A Study on the Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTmNWY0ZPfM&t=18m

Same Ol’


18 posted on 07/19/2017 7:11:42 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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