Posted on 05/08/2024 6:29:56 PM PDT by lasereye
The Financial Times headlines: “The violent gang crisis shaking Sweden.” Spoiler alert: it all has to do with immigration.
Sweden has suffered an extraordinary spate of violence in recent months, particularly in Uppsala and its neighbour to the south, capital Stockholm. At its worst in September and October, barely a day went by without a shooting, bombing or hand grenade attack — sometimes several.The Nordic country has gone from having one of the lowest levels of fatal shootings in Europe to one of the highest in just a decade. …
In a televised addressed at the end of September, Ulf Kristersson, the prime minister of Sweden, offered his diagnosis for the unprecedented violence, directly blaming “irresponsible immigration policy and failed integration”.
“I cannot over-emphasise the seriousness of the situation,” added the leader of the centre-right Moderate party. “Sweden has never seen anything like it before. No other country in Europe is seeing anything like it.”
The issue has shaken the full strata of society in the Nordic country. “This is a social earthquake in Sweden,” says Jesper Brodin, chief executive of furniture giant Ikea’s retail arm and one of the country’s most high-profile business leaders.
“If this continues for the next two decades, Sweden is lost. It’s tearing us apart,” says Richard Jomshof, head of the Swedish parliament’s justice committee and an MP from far-right Sweden Democrats.
As always, “far right” means “not crazy about mass immigration from third-world countries.” So most people are, in fact, “far right,” and the Sweden Democrats are now one of Sweden’s largest parties.
Sweden currently has a rate of homicide committed with a firearm that is nearly twice that of any other EU country. That is a brand-new phenomenon, attributable entirely to Sweden’s welcoming attitude toward “refugees,” of which it has imported two million. The Financial Times article quotes Swedes who attribute the problem to a lack of assimilation of immigrants:
[T]he nearest thing to agreement across the political spectrum is that Sweden itself has not done enough to integrate its immigrant communities.Almost all Swedish cities have at least one so-called vulnerable area, where immigrants often make up a majority of the population. Crime rates there tend to be high and schools struggle to keep students or maintain discipline.
“I don’t want to say migration is what went wrong; I would rather say integration [went wrong],” says Jens Lapidus, a criminal defence lawyer turned crime author…
That is almost a tautology. But hasn’t it become obvious that some groups of people are easier to assimilate than others? And wouldn’t a sane immigration policy, such as the U.S. formerly had, prioritize immigration from countries that are culturally compatible? The answer obviously is Yes, and yet posing the question, let alone answering it, is anathema on the American Left, as on the Swedish Left. But at least in Sweden, they are having an intelligent debate.
What? They don't have gun control in Sweden?
Diversity! Multiculturalism! Inclusion! Tolerance!
complete insanity. Germany is facing many of the same problems.
The last time I was there, in downtown Munich, fully 2/3rd of the women walking around on the street were in full black burkas. It was shocking.
They asked for it and they got it!
How many of these people are Muslims?
They asked for it and they got it!
They asked for it and they got it and the US is well on its way.
All of Western and Northern Europe are being inundated by African and Muslim fighting-age men.
But hey, at least they’re not speaking German!
That’s what they get.
It’s coming to us too folks
Isn’t diversity wonderful??
>> They asked for it and they got it!
Good & HARD.
Ta, ta, ta...you can’t speak out or criticize it. It’s antisemitic/racist/whitesupremacy.
Cultural enrichment!
A lot of it is already here.
This is part of their problem:
The first exchange student we ever had in high school was from Sweden. He was shockingly unaware of danger (this was in Memphis, so if you’re from here you’d be quite familiar with danger).
He would say he wanted to go to, pick any bad neighborhood. He’d be told over and over again that drug dealers, prostitutes, child molesters, drunks and all kinds of bad people were there. By the end of the school year he finally figured it out.
Many Western Europeans I met in the 80s and 90s were like this, not all, but the majority were (Eastern Europeans are a different story).
So Sweden let in a bunch of people who came across the Mediterranean Sea on rafts, who probably threw the Christians with them overboard to be eaten by sharks, and then expected things to go swimmingly?
Diversity = Death
>> “I don’t want to say migration is what went wrong; I would rather say integration [went wrong],” says Jens Lapidus
Well Jens, if you took the time to read your Koran, you’d learn this useful truth:
Muslims don’t intend to integrate. They plan only to SUBJUGATE.
Bend over, Jens! They will find you useful.
Now there’s a scenario tailor made to illustrate the importance of high capacity magazines. 😉
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