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Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Sweden's Descent Into Chaos

"I can assure you that the police in Malmo are doing everything we can for suspected perpetrators to be held accountable."
"But we cannot do it on our own [attempt to solve innumerable criminal acts, including murder, without the cooperation of residents]."
Malmo's chief of police, Stefan Sinteus

"There is a lot of violence and drugs and shooting here. It's gangs, and not many of them are Swedish."
"My son has nobody to play with because he doesn't speak Arabic. None of our neighbours talk to me."
"I am not a racist at all but it's like that. We are looking for another option where we can live because all of Malmo will become like this. Swedes are not happy about it."
Josefine Angusson, Rosengard, Sweden

"We hate it because of the murders, and they all seem to be Arabs getting killed."
"When we go on foot patrols there have to always be three of us. I am 21. I don't want to die for this job."
Eddie Hagmann, security guard, Rosengard

"Swedes don't have a problem with Muslims. They have a problem with Arabs. The cultures are just so different. And those differences are worse in Malmo than anywhere else."
Mahmoud, Yugoslavian refugee, Malmo, Sweden

More than 80 per cent of the people living in the Malmo suburb of Rosengard speak Arabic Matthew Fisher/Postmedia

"Sweden is a very good country but it cannot take in so many refugees. The cost to the people who are already here is too great."
"The radicals who have come are bad for the other Arabs. The Swedes think that when Arabs are together there will be problems. Those who come now don't want to learn the language. They want to live as they did back home."
Abdulhamid Abuqweili, Palestinian-Iraqi, Malmo

"This is a crisis for Sweden. The government asked us to open our hearts to refugees but they don't see the consequences. There are so many of them that they no longer mix in and we have created a whole industry of people who take care of them."
"It is a wonderful thing to help people, but it must be done in the right way."
"It is time for us to close our borders and take care of those who are already here."
"Swedes think the country is overcrowded with Muslims. But it is still generally considered a bad thing to say it, so it is said quietly."
Roger Knast, 56, tire salesman, Malmo, Sweden

POSANNAS•PATRIK HANSEN Riots in Sweden as police lose control

With a population of ten million people, in 2015 Sweden took in Syrian, Iraqi and Afghan asylum seekers numbering 163,000. The people of Sweden viewed themselves as responding to a humanitarian need, allowing people from the Middle East, ensnared and embroiled in tribal and sectarian violence to find haven within their country, widely acknowledged for its socialist idealism. The result is that there are areas of the country now hosting majority Arab populations.

And those areas have become hot-spots of violence. Those places that now host 80 percent populations that have migrated from Muslim-majority countries are hostile to authority. Swedish authority. They have become, like France's infamously violent banlieues, areas that become off-limits to non-Muslims, and most particularly those representing the institutions of civilized community such as police, fire-fighters, ambulance personnel.

The result is that tensions are rising in Sweden. Crimes are committed with absolute impunity. And despite the fact that the communities involved are themselves victimized, they are tight-lipped about speaking to police, refusing to cooperate and confusing and frustrating authorities unable to get to the bottom of criminal activities, yet alone solve crimes, including murders, attempted murders, rape and assault.

In 2014 and 2015, violence broke out in the country with bombs and mob riots. The kindness of the average Swede is being challenged by the realities on the ground. Now the general perspective is that refugees are taking undue advantage of the country's generous welfare system. Overcrowded and overtaxed hospitals, schools, housing and workplaces have become a burdensome problem. Reports are published pointing out the unemployment rate in Rosengard to be in excess of 60 percent.

Overlaid on those taxing circumstances is the realization that Islamic extremists have infiltrated the country, with Anders Thornberg, Sweden's top intelligence officer stating that where ten years ago fewer than 200 Islamic extremists were in the country, at the present time that number has become thousands. "We have never seen anything like this before. This is the new normal", he informed Sweden's TT news agency.

The situation has developed to the point that over half the population has a wish for the government to finally cut the refugee numbers it is willing to accept. The state statistician conducted a survey indicating one Swede in five gives full support to the anti-immigration Swedish Democrats, coming up strong behind the ruling Social Democrats in popularity. In response to the growing dissatisfaction and alienation of the voting public the government has stepped up its surveillance and examining of travellers' documents.

One woman who had emigrated to Spain but returned to visit her family in Malmo spoke of her homeland representing "a well-intentioned disaster. There was no plan for how to deal with so many refugees at once who arrived with little or no education or skills. Clearly it would be much better to help them where they were rather than here. But the government was blind to that".

A situation which fairly well describes much of western Europe, in point of fact. With a Europe once again becoming ground central for Islam-inspired anti-Semitism, Arabs and other Muslims bringing their religious-cultural-inspired hatred of Jews along with their other baggage, inciting violence against diaspora Jews whose untold generations of residence in Europe is being threatened once again by the presence of virulent hatred.