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.
Who? How big were the checks?
I didn’t know the Amish took over Sweden….
Trudeau is trying to bring the world to Canada
Disgusting too.
They asked for it and they got it!
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What’s happening in Sweden is EXACTLY what’s happening here in America, and it’s going to get exponentially worse unless the Democrats in Federal and State government are swept out in huge numbers in the coming election.
“If this continues for the next two decades, Sweden is lost. It’s tearing us apart,
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Hopefully it will dawn on the citizenry there that the very first thing they must do is escape from the tyranny of the EU, the ICC, and the UN. Then they must find the courage to round up every single migrant in the country and transport them to their home countries. The alternative? Stick their heads between their legs and kiss their asses GOODBYE.
Davos and DC marxist Globohomo proceeds apace
It’s gonna get worse - lots of third world people love having large families. You can’t assimilate people if you take so many so fast that your own culture drowns.
I spent a week in Mogadishu on the Mississippi nearly four decades ago and that was more of a sentence than a vacation.
Wow… when was that? Last time we were in Munich, I think it was 1996 or 1997. Never saw anyone in burkas back then - in the good old days apparently…
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Two or three grenades or bombs go off every day. Rape is 99% immigrants. And even the police have no go zones.
The women in Sweden wanted this and worked hard to make it happen.
Great work ladies!
If the rapes only happened to the women who desperately wanted this and voted for it, that would be one thing, but it is happening to sane people, too.
That is the only travesty. When people welcome something evil, they should get their evil on only themselves.
Before blaming women voters and women politicians for the mess that is DESTROYING European countries, NEVER FORGET that is was the MEN in those countries that permitted it all to happen.
“Who? How big were the checks?”
It wasn’t the money or they would have quickly been voted out of office. Remember, this was an issue being discussed here on FR 20 YEARS AGO, and we’re across the ocean from Sweden. It was who was now voting and who was allowed to be in the highest positions where they could open the floodgates - the result of ‘universal voting’.
I’ll leave it at that.
Sweden is the country that produced Olaf Palme, a naive leftist who criticized US foreign policy. Ended up murdered by a mid-easterner, the people he stood up for.
Reminds me of Amy Biel. This is what you get.
It’s Sweden and I’ll say it again-Who cares?
Palme was supposedly murdered by Swedes. Then there’s the Kurds who he called terrorists. We’ll ever know.
Europeans are so much more enlightened than stupid Americans.
You’re always pushing conspiracy theories but that isn’t the answer to everything that ever happens in the world.
It was more cultural naivete, especially women, and liberal idealism, that made it happen. A big part of the erroneous beliefs is that “people are naturally good and will behave well unless corrupted by society”. Not so.
And the feminist wimmin there welcomed them in.
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