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Category Archives: Sweden
A grim video about the facts on the ground for Jewish people in Europe today
This was uploaded from French TV to youtube without subtitles Oct 9 2011 and Bear translated it and Vlad subtitled it today as well. Thanks for the link Bad Faun
‘Vilks was target of Gothenburg attack’
From The Local.Se
GOTHENBURG MURDER PLOT
Published: 21 Sep 11 08:25 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Controversial Swedish artist Lars Vilks was the target of a foiled attack at the Röda Sten art gallery in Gothenburg on September 11th, according to a report in the Metro newspaper.
- Sweden terror suspect denies crimes (12 Sep 11)
- Sweden terror suspects tied to Islamists: report (12 Sep 11)
- Four arrested for preparing terror crimes (11 Sep 11)
The Swedish prosecutor’s office refused to comment on the report.
Vilks has meanwhile decided to cancel his participation in a debate on Friday at the Gothenburg Book Fair due to the security risks involved.
“The debate will be held but the security situation dictates that it wouldn’t have been were I to be present,” Vilks said.
The artist, who has faced numerous death threats and a suspected assassination plot after publishing a caricature depicting the Prophet Mohammed as a dog in 2007, was coy about whether he would be attending the book fair at all.
“If I do I am not going to talk about it. I’ll have to sneak in in costume, so if you see a bearded man with black glasses on, then….”
Sweden’s elite counter-terrorism unit, together with the police, on September 10th arrested four men – 23-year-old Salar Sami Mahamood, 26-year-old Abdi Aziz Mahamud, 25-year-old Abdi Weli Mohamud, 24-year-old Mohamed Adel Kulan – for plotting an attack. Continue Reading →
Sweden: Imam calls to kill converts on Radio Sweden
From Islam in Europe
Islam in Europe 14 September 2011
Sweden: Imam calls to kill converts on Radio Sweden Via Dagen (Swedish): “It is the duty of every Muslim to kill those who leave Islam.” This statement was made on Radio Sweden recently when an Imam from Rinkeby (Stockholm) was allowed to speak about how people should act against Somalis who convert to Christianity.
The program with the death threats against converts was broadcast by the Somali department of Radio Sweden and was a follow-up on a previous segment about a group of Christian Somalis who came to Rinkeby Square to evangelize. They also got to talk about it in the radio report.
Wife of Stockholm Suicide Bomber Arrested in Britain
From VOA news:
Posted Wednesday, September 14th, 2011 at 4:10 pm
British police have revealed that the wife of a suicide bomber who targeted Christmas shoppers in Sweden last year has been arrested on suspicion of making preparations for a terrorist attack.
Police confirmed Wednesday that 28-year-old Mona Thwany was taken into custody on Tuesday. London police said officers detained the woman at her home in Luton — a small city close to London — and also searched two properties. Police released Thwany on bail until November. Continue Reading →
THE GOTHENBURG FOUR HAVE TIES TO AL-SHABAAB IN SOMALIA
4 arrested in Gothenburg for planning terror
Wikileaks report on immigration crime statistics in Sweden
From Politically Incorrect.
The whole wikileak is there. A short excerpt from the start is below:
UNCLAS STOCKHOLM 000235
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EUR/NB
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: SOCI PINS PGOV KCRM ASEC SW
SUBJECT: SWEDEN’S IMMIGRANTS’ DISPROPORTIONATELY HIGH REPRESENTATION IN CRIME & WELFARE STATS
Ref: Stockholm 192
Sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet.
1. (SBU) Summary. Two recent GoS reports show immigrants in Sweden to be overrepresented in crime and sick leave statistics, which are interpreted as being indicators of integration shortcomings. The level of attention applied to the issue of integration stands to increase as we approach the September 2006 parliamentary elections. End Summary.
Immigrants Overrepresented in Crime Statistics
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2. (SBU) According to a report by the National Council for Crime Prevention published in December 2005, immigrants or individuals with at least one immigrant parent perpetrated about 45 percent of all crimes during the period 1997-2001. In regard to the most serious felonies — murder, manslaughter, assault and rape — the percentage was even higher.
3. (SBU) A National Council press release about the report focused on other findings showing immigrants are often wrongly suspected of crimes — possibly in deference to the politically sensitive nature of the crime statistics. The Council report cites failed government integration strategy as partly responsible for the over-representation of immigrants in criminal activity.
Immigrants Use More Sick Leave
NEW WIKILEAK ON SWEDEN: IMMIGRANTS OVERREPRESENTED IN CRIME AND SICK LEAVE STATISTICS
Remember, to highlight any negative statistics about immigration whatsoever, is akin to walking around with Hitler mustache, This is certainly bound to make the Left’s own Marxist mustache turn on end. KGS
FROM: PI via Frank Kitman
UNCLAS STOCKHOLM 000235
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EUR/NB
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: SOCI PINS PGOV KCRM ASEC SW
SUBJECT: SWEDEN’S IMMIGRANTS’ DISPROPORTIONATELY HIGH REPRESENTATION IN CRIME & WELFARE STATS
Ref: Stockholm 192
Sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet.
1. (SBU) Summary. Two recent GoS reports show immigrants in Sweden to be overrepresented in crime and sick leave statistics, which are interpreted as being indicators of integration shortcomings. The level of attention applied to the issue of integration stands to increase as we approach the September 2006 parliamentary elections. End Summary.
Immigrants Overrepresented in Crime Statistics
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2. (SBU) According to a report by the National Council for Crime Prevention published in December 2005, immigrants or individuals with at least one immigrant parent perpetrated about 45 percent of all crimes during the period 1997-2001. In regard to the most serious felonies — murder, manslaughter, assault and rape — the percentage was even higher.
3. (SBU) A National Council press release about the report focused on other findings showing immigrants are often wrongly suspected of crimes — possibly in deference to the politically sensitive nature of the crime statistics. The Council report cites failed government integration strategy as partly responsible for the over-representation of immigrants in criminal activity.
Immigrants Use More Sick Leave
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4. (SBU) Just days after the crime report the National Social Insurance Office issued a report on use of sick-leave. This report concludes that immigrants use sick-leave more often than indigenous Swedes. Those of certain national origins, such as people from North Africa, the Middle East and Turkey, show high rates of sick leave, especially among women. These groups take an average of 34 sick days per year, as compared to 20 days for ethnic Swedes. The report offers as a possible explanation that immigrants often fill low status jobs with low wages and often difficult work
5. (SBU) The sick-leave report stated that long-term unemployment can lead to loss of health insurance. Among ethnic Swedes some 5 percent are outside the social insurance system, while among people from North Africa and the Middle East the rate is as high as 30 percent. These people are often long-term recipients of state welfare, which is arguably generous enough to serve as a disincentive to work.
Comment
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6. (SBU) Sweden’s population is approximately 9 million. The rapid arrival of large numbers of immigrants (Sweden granted 873,040 residence permits between 1980 and 2004) combined with a widely-held perception that immigrants are a burden upon society due to welfare dependence and disproportionate criminal activity, has generated a measure of hostility towards them. Although none of the political parties currently in parliament advocate a more restrictive immigration policy, 1.4 percent of the electorate supported the extremist, xenophobic Sweden Democrats (whose online paper was shut down after publishing the Mohammed cartoons – see Reftel) in the 2002 parliamentary elections.
7. (SBU) Sweden has significant immigrant integration problems, resulting in high rates of unemployment and welfare dependency, and, as recent studies indicate, criminality. Sweden, with its generous worker benefits and high carrying costs per employee, also makes it expensive and difficult to create the entry-level positions these immigrants could fill. Combine the disincentives to job creation with the relatively generous welfare benefits and actual prohibitions against asylum seekers from taking employment, and you end up with an idle group with few productive outlets. These results of these recent studies coupled with concern about local effects from the Mohammed cartoon controversy are likely to raise a notch the level of concern about integration during the parliamentary elections campaign.
NOBLE
TED EKEROTH ANSWERS CRITIC OF THE ANTI-ISLAMIZATION MOVEMENT IN SWEDEN
Ted Ekeroth: “Debate” in this country (Sweden) is nothing more than an intellectual desert with huge element of hypocrisy and cowardice.
Here is an op-ed by Ted Ekeroth in response to a horrid article by, Jesús Alcalá, that attacked not only the Ekeroth brothers, (Ted and Kent), the Sweden Democrats but the Counterjihad anti-Islamization movement as a whole. KGS
Ekeroth responds to Alcalá: I participated as an individual
August 17, 2011 at 02:00
RETORT Anders Behring Breivik has no place in the counter-Jihad movement who wants to fight Islamization with words, not violence. Ted Ekeroth writes in response to Jesús Alcalá. But one must also take responsibility for every word where it may lead, responds Alcalá.
Apart from the intellectually dishonest buildup throughout his article (SvD 3 / 8 ) with a “guilt by association” principle, Jesús Alcalá also shows a willingness to deliberately misinterpret the anti-Islamization movement.
Firstly, I was not at the Copenhagen meeting as a representative of the Sweden Democrats, but as an individual among other intellectuals whose courage and sense of human rights led them to gather to discuss the ongoing problem of Islamization.
Anders Behring Breivik has no place in counter-jihad movement for several reasons: he is a murderer who kills children, he wants to cooperate with Al Qaeda and other jihadists, and discuss the possibility to detonate nuclear bombs in European cities. In addition, he wants to impose a Taliban-like patriarchal society where women are subjugated, a selection of his madness that can never be accepted in the anti-Islamization movement.
That he then chose the counter-jihad movement as “his thing” can not be blamed on anyone. He began his plans in 2002 and chose violence as a method already 1999/2000 in its own words – well before the Copenhagen meeting, and long before either Robert Spencer and Fjordman had begun to write. Breivik could choose the “orientation” at any time which should be obvious when you read his manifesto, which is contradictory and confused. The terrorist attack was not about his ideas, but about his willingness to “be someone”, to be known.
Counter Jihad movement fights Islamization with words, pencil and paper. Islamization is not imaginary and it is perhaps easier to see this clearly by looking at the outside world. Non-Muslims in many countries have been displaced because of violence, intimidation and oppression. The non-Muslim populations in the Arab world have been decimated, if not completely erased in some places, precisely because of the pressure they have endured by their Muslim surroundings.
In Europe, it springs up more and more so-called “no-go areas”, ie areas where the government lost control or are on track to do so. These areas are often dominated by Islam, which in many places for an “Islamic way of life” often including Sharia law, there is thus parallel societies in which the host country’s norms, rules and laws are disregarded in favor of Islam. Segregated bathing time, anti-Semitic tapes sold in the Södermalm mosque with incitement to murder, withdrawal of pork from school menus, whilst introducing the ritual slaughter of halal meat, calls for the introduction of Sharia law in Sweden (Mahmoud Aldebe), Muslim groups who attack manifestations that they do not like (Malmo) and violence and threats such as Jews in Malmo (fleeing the city) are just some of Islamization that is happening in Sweden.
Alcalá text does discuss substance, but it is most unclear and unfair innuendo. Is there no Islamization? We are lying in claiming that Islamic texts encourage jihad? Are our observations of how it looks in different European cities fabrications?
These issues, as usual, are never discussed. It is considered to be irrelevant because Islam has nothing to do with the jihadists’ ideas, they say. Instead, it is highly relevant to try to connect the anti-Islamization movement’s basic ideas with Breivik, although his rigmarole, manifesto and practices are in stark contrast to what we are fighting for. Then suddenly it’s all right to try to link the man’s actions to the peaceful anti-Islamization movement, no matter how wrong the link is. But looking at the very core of Islam and the ideological basis and then consider where jihadis get their motivation from, is being “racist” and “dangerous”.
“Debate” in this country is nothing more than an intellectual desert with huge element of hypocrisy and cowardice.
ready to stuff your guts after the daily Ramadan fast? Mickey D’s in Sweden has got your back
Mickey D cashin in on the fast
Sign reads:
“Now its ramadan even on Mc Donalds in Rissne (Stockholm suburb)
When the sun goes down, you can buy a ramadan-menu for only 90 kronor”
Maybe I can sell them this Ramadan commercial I made last year.
HYPOCRITICAL SWEDISH MEDIA AND POLITICAL ELITE ON SWEDEN DEMOCRATS
If it had been a camp of Sweden Democrats assaulted by a Left-wing extremist, shooting scores in a bloody massacre, how many of you think that they (the bigger parties in Sweden) would be pointing a finger at the policies of the SD as being to blame for their own attack? The TT does.
Think of how the more established Swedish parties (the self anointed elite) took to disparaging the Sweden Democrats over the years as basically being riff raff, which undoubtedly led to SD politicians being assaulted by real riff raff. As the TT recalls, the Swedish PM, Fredrik Reinfeldt, stated at one point (here also) that the SD had their own selves to blame for their members being assaulted, yet no one took the PM and the Swedish elite who agreed with him to task for fomenting violence.
“I want to stress that those who make a living out of inciting an us-against-them mentality and a thoroughly hateful way of looking at relations between people should not be surprised if these things happen.”
Do you see the double standard here folks? The self anointed Swedish elite foment political violence against the SD (with the media’s blessing), publicly painting bulls eyes on the backs of SD politicians, and then blame them for any violence that they may encounter as result of their declaring it’s open season on them.
The established political system is in some way responsible for the present day climate in the public discourse, due to their brutal, over the top and beyond the pale disparaging of politicians and pundits with whom they disagree. The witch hunt against the tolerant and patriotic citizens of Europe, especially here in Scandinavia, has gone on long enough. Time for civility if they can manage it, it will be reciprocated in like manner. KGS
NOTE: Also take time to read Gates of Vienna’s piece on Not Playing the Left’s Three Card Monty.
Åkesson stands firm on immigration
Published: 7 Aug 11 10:28 CET |
The Local: Despite the recent outrages in Norway, Sweden Democrat (SD) leader Jimmie Åkesson refused to change his stance on the controversial party’s line on immigration during his summer speech on Saturday.
Addressing some 500 people in his hometown Sölvesborg in Blekinge, Southern Sweden Åkesson stressed that recent events would not make a difference to the party line, although he believes it should trigger a less combative tone when debating such issues, not just among his own party but all his opponents as well.
“We must be able to continue to criticise Sweden’s immigration policies without being blamed for mass murder,” said Åkesson.
However, he added, “What is important to emphasise is that we will always keep a good tone in the debate, that we have a civilised conversation and we hold back throwing the gravest expression at each other. This applies to me and all politicians.”
Flanked by security guards as he made his speech from the podium at a marina in the town Åkesson once again expressed his anger that the party had been held in some way responsible for the atrocities in Norway because of their outspoken opposition to multiculturalism and refused to condemn the Fremskrittspartiet (FRP) the right wing party which had such an influence on Anders Behring Breivik.
The Norwegian party has promised to tone down its rhetoric in the wake of the incidents, which Åkesson claims is a good example for parties like his own to follow.
He said, “If you mean just what it is now important that we stick together and that we as Democrats stand up for sensible political discourse, it is a great policy initiative.”
H/T: Baron Bodissey
The Swedish Witch-Hunt
From Gates of Vienna Verbatim:
If anyone was still wondering about the contours of post-Breivik Scandinavia, the following piece of nastiness should provide a hint of what lies ahead.
As I said last night, at this point it doesn’t really matter whether the atrocities in Norway were a “false flag” operation, or simply an opportune moment for the Socialist establishment to cripple the European resistance to Islamization — the outcome is the same. The Left has now found the longed-for albatross that it can hang around the neck of every politician or activist who has ever criticized Islam.
In Sweden the main target of opportunity is Sverigedemokraterna, the Sweden Democrats, who entered parliament for the first time in the most recent election. They are the only significant party in Sweden that opposes mass immigration, and they, like so many others, were mentioned in Anders Behring Breivik’s 1,500-page manifesto.
Long-time readers are familiar with the Ekeroth brothers, Ted and Kent, who are staunch in their resistance to Islamization, and have been involved in Counterjihad events all across Europe during the past four years. This makes them fair game for the guilt-by-association lynch mob that is now raging through the Swedish press.
A Swedish reader sent us this brief note, with a link to an appalling photo:
The witch-hunt is on. The Lund artist Dan Park has now presented this:
The text says “My name is Ted and I’m a representative of the municipal assembly in Lund and I like Anders”.
This targets both Ekeroth brothers, since the text refers to Ted but the picture is of Kent.
Stand up for the Ekeroths! Public figures who are being smeared need to be defended.
And indeed we will stand up for the Ekeroths. I know Ted and Kent, and this is a vile, demonic slander. Continue Reading →
Six stabbed at Swedish wedding
Excerpt from The Local.Se but click through for the comments to have the giant, glaring omissions answered. To the best of my knowledge, it is not customary for Swedes to bring knives to a wedding.
Published: 17 Jul 11 09:49 CET
Several people were stabbed on Saturday afternoon, when a wedding party at a castle outside Eslöv, in southern Sweden, got out of hand.
A 52 year-old man was arrested, for attempted murder and aggravated assault.
For reasons that are still unclear, a fight broke out between the man and several of the other guests, resulting in the man going berserk, and stabbing one person in the stomach.
In the chaos that ensued, several other people were also stabbed, and the 52 year-old was wounded as well.
A total of six people were in the end taken to nearby Skåne University Hospital with knife wounds, but none of the victims have life-threatening injuries, according to police officers.
The 52 year-old was arrested, but due to the head injuries he received during the fight was among those brought to the hospital.
He is suspected of attempted murder and aggravated assault, according to Lund police.
Police are still working to establish the cause of the knife fight. Several witnesses have already been questioned about the event, and when possible, the victims who are currently in the hospital will also be interviewed.
TT/Clara Guibourg (ne**@******al.se)
now read the comments. You can save time by searching for the word ‘Iran’.
UPDATE:
The local seems to have scrubbed all the comments on this issue. (When will I learn to take a screen capture of anything that looks like it might be true but shine a bad light on Islam?) however Snaphanen was kind enough to provide me with this link which discusses the identity of the Wedding Stabber, and below a screen cap of the machine translation:
I guess it pays (very rarely) to be lazy. I still had a tab open to the original Local article with the comments un-scrubbed: Continue Reading →
Immigrants to Sweden show gratitude for the new and better life they have there.
An immigrant artist does an honest tribute to the native Swedes.