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.
I love schadenfreude in the morning!
Great to see the self anointed, holier-than-thou “moral superpower” get its comeuppance.
Enjoy the “diversity” and “vibrancy” you so much yearned for.
Maybe being a boring, monocultural, monoracial, safe, clean, prosperous country wasn’t so bad after all!
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They failed to mention Sweden is the rape capital of Europe.
Oddly, Sweden had one of the lowest violent crime rates 30 years ago. Gosh, what happened?
Sweden is surprised by imported violence?
Barbara Spectre says otherwise.
The oldest legend of the Vampires that they cannot attack you until you INVITE them into your home.
Well, Sweden, as other countries have invited the moslems in!
My first visits were in 2001. As I said, I saw virtually no one dressed in burkas. It steadily increased over the years. My last visit was in 2023. I saw one bridal part group of about 10 German girls. Other than that, only a handful of German women. Or ANY women not dressed in the disgusting all black robes with full veils.
Wow. Truly sickening...
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