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How The Far Right Conquered Sweden
New York Times ^ | September , 2018 | Jochen Bittner

Posted on 09/06/2018 7:40:44 AM PDT by OddLane

To understand why Sweden, a bastion of social democracy, might end up with a far-right party in government after national elections on Sunday, you need to take a walk with Ahmed Abdirahman.

An American-educated Somali immigrant who works as a policy analyst at the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Abdirahman grew up and now lives in the suburb of Rinkeby-Tensta, where some 90 percent of residents have a foreign background, roughly 80 percent live on welfare or earn low incomes and 42 percent are under age 25. It is a violent place: Sixteen people were killed there in 2016, mostly in drug-related conflicts, an unheard-of number in this typically peaceful country.

As we walk along one of its main streets at 7 p.m., shopkeepers pull down the metal shutters in front of their windows, while young masked men on scooters start speeding through the streets. A police helicopter hovers overhead...

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: immigration; islam; sweden
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To: OddLane
Mr. Abdirahman grew up and now lives in the suburb of Rinkeby-Tensta, where some 90 percent of residents have a foreign background, roughly 80 percent live on welfare or earn low incomes and 42 percent are under age 25.

Which provides the answer right there...

And I doubt a Swedish far right party is really that far right.

21 posted on 09/06/2018 8:13:29 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: OddLane
Remember when Trump tweeted that Sweeden was in chaos due to muslim immigrants and he was laughed at, mocked, called a fool. You all might have forgotten, it's been a very long time, back when Sweden was still great. Well, actually just a few months. But still, Sweden was great then but it changed suddenly over the last few months, probably because of Trump's tweets I suppose, and now Swedes are desperate for changes.

But he was crazy and stupid for saying it, Chelsea Clinton said so.

22 posted on 09/06/2018 8:13:54 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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To: OddLane

It may be too late, but regular folks are waking up to the myth of multicultism.


23 posted on 09/06/2018 8:14:06 AM PDT by lurk
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To: OddLane
"This can lead to a point where they reject gay rights or liberalism as “white, Western ideas,” and even attack firefighters because they represent the state."

Notice how he spins it make it sound like the Muslims came here as nascent liberals, but sloughed off their liberalism because of resentments about how they are treated.

In fact, the Muslims CAME HERE as illiberal representatives of a culture which rejects most aspects of modern Western civilization, and always has.
24 posted on 09/06/2018 8:14:32 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: OddLane

They let the left impose its will and reaped the predictable backlash.


25 posted on 09/06/2018 8:15:29 AM PDT by MortMan (The white board is a remarkable invention.)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Excellent point. Trump was savaged as a fool and a liar for saying basically what this article is now admitting. Oh, Trump - as usual - may have fluffed some of the details, but he got the big picture right.


26 posted on 09/06/2018 8:18:11 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: TigerClaws

Yes, if you’re opposed to crime, drug use, laziness, welfare and immigration that increases all that

Then you are FAR RIGHT

FAR OUT !!


27 posted on 09/06/2018 8:19:01 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Moderates/Independents/Non-voters" Are DIMS REALLY who you'd want BACK in POWER?)
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To: OddLane

Only a s$&%hole country would allow masked Moslems on scooters to speed down its streets. What could go wrong?


28 posted on 09/06/2018 8:20:43 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: OddLane

Conquered or liberated?


29 posted on 09/06/2018 8:22:54 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Noumenon

Or get on an overpass, so you can get them with plunging and defilade
fire.


30 posted on 09/06/2018 8:34:49 AM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: OddLane

Define “Far Right” in Sweden.
Are they as far right as Mondale? Carter? Dukakis?


31 posted on 09/06/2018 8:35:10 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Grampa Dave

“Piano wire just below chin level works, too. Pulled taut at just the right moment.”

Using piano wire was a favorite of European resistance fighters during WW II.


32 posted on 09/06/2018 8:35:43 AM PDT by WMarshal (America First)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

That could have been written about all kinds of cities/towns here with Mexicans/South Americans as the subject.


33 posted on 09/06/2018 8:57:41 AM PDT by sheana
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To: OddLane

“Lo, there do I see my father.
Lo, there do I see my mother,
and my sisters, and my brothers.
Lo, there do I see the line of my people,
Back to the beginning!

Lo, they they turn their backs to me.
They refuse me a place among them,
In the halls of Valhalla!
Where only the brave may live forever!”


34 posted on 09/06/2018 9:36:26 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: All

Author at right.

35 posted on 09/06/2018 9:57:52 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: OddLane
where some 90 percent of residents have a foreign background, roughly 80 percent live on welfare or earn low incomes and 42 percent are under age 25. It is a violent place: Sixteen people were killed there in 2016, mostly in drug-related conflicts, an unheard-of number in this typically peaceful country.

Question answered right here.

Euros can make fun of US gun laws all they want, but at least we don't have to dodge grenade attacks here.

36 posted on 09/06/2018 10:06:22 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (I'd rather have one king 3000 miles away that 3000 kings one mile away)
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