Sunday, March 26,
2006
The War Against
Swedes
The noted blogger Fjordman is filing this report via Gates of Vienna.
Last year, I wrote a post about how Swedish
society was disintegrating and was in danger of collapsing, at least in
certain areas and regions. The country that gave us Bergman, ABBA and Volvo
could become known as the Bosnia of northern Europe. The “Swedish model” would
no longer refer to a stable and peaceful state with an advanced economy, but a
Eurabian horror story of utopian Multiculturalism, Socialist mismanagement and
runaway immigration. Some thought I was exaggerating, and that talk of the
possibility of a future civil in Sweden was pure paranoia. Was it?
In a new Sociological survey (pdf in
Swedish, with brief English introduction) entitled “Vi krigar mot
svenskarna” (“We’re waging a war against the Swedes”), young immigrants in the
troubled city of Malmö have been interviewed about why they are involved in
crime. Although it doesn’t say so here, most of the immigrants in question are
Muslims. In one of the rare instances where Swedish media actually revealed the
truth, newspaper Aftonbladet reported several years ago that 9 out of 10 of the
most criminal ethnic groups in Sweden came from Muslim countries. Keep this in
mind while reading from this newspaper article:
Immigrants are “waging
war” against Swedes through robbery
The wave of robberies the city of Malmö has witnessed during this past year is
part of a “war against Swedes.” This is the explanation given by young robbers
with immigrant background on why they are only robbing native Swedes, in
interviews with Petra Åkesson for her thesis in Sociology. “I read a report
about young robbers in Stockholm and Malmö and wanted to know why they are
robbing other youths. It usually doesn’t involve a lot of money,” she says. She
interviewed boys between 15 and 17 years old, both individually and in groups.
Almost 90% of all robberies that are reported to the police were committed by
gangs, not individuals. “When we are in the city and robbing, we are waging a
war, waging a war against the Swedes.” This argument was repeated several
times. “Power for me means that Swedes shall look at me, lie down on the ground
and kiss my feet.” The boys explain, laughingly, that “there is a thrilling sensation
in your body when you’re robbing, you feel satisfied and happy, it feels as if
you’ve succeeded, it simply feels good.” “It’s so easy to rob Swedes, so easy.”
“We rob every single day, as much as we want to, whenever we want to.” The
immigrant youth view Swedes as stupid and cowardly: “The Swedes don’t do
anything, they just give us the stuff. They’re so wimpy.” The young robbers
don’t plan their crimes: “No, we just see some Swedes that look rich or have
nice mobile phones and then we rob them.”
Why do they hate Swedes so much? “Well, they hate us,” they answer, according
to Petra Åkesson. “When a Swede goes shopping, the lady behind the counter
gives him the money back into his hand, looks him into the eyes and laughs.
When we go shopping, she puts the money on the counter and looks another way.”
Åkesson, who is adopted from Sri Lanka and thus doesn’t look like a native
Swede, says it was not difficult to get the boys to talk about their crimes.
They were rather bragging about who had committed the most robberies. Malin
Åkerström, professor in Sociology, can see only one solution to the problem:
“Jobs for everybody. If this entails a deregulation of the labor market to
create more jobs, then we should do so.”
It is interesting to note that these Muslim immigrants state quite openly that
they are involved in a “war,” and see participation in crime and harassment of
the native population as such. This is perfectly in line with claims I have
made before. The number of rape charges in Sweden has quadrupled in just above twenty
years. Rape cases involving children under the age of 15 are six times as
common today as they were a generation ago. Most other kinds of violent crime
have rapidly increased, too. Instability is spreading to most urban and
suburban areas. Resident aliens from Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia
dominate the group of rape suspects. Lawyer Ann Christine Hjelm found that 85
per cent of the convicted rapists were born on foreign soil or by foreign
parents. And it’s not just Sweden. The number of rapes committed by Muslim
immigrants in Western nations is so extremely high that it is difficult to view
these rapes only as random acts of individuals. It resembles warfare. This happens in most Western European
countries, as well as in other infidel countries such as India. European jails
are getting filled up with Muslims imprisoned for robberies and all kinds of
violent crimes, and Muslims bomb European civilians. You can see the mainstream
media are struggling to make sense of all of this. That’s because they can’t,
or don’t want to, see the obvious: This is exactly how an invading army would
behave: Rape, pillage and bomb. If many of the Muslim immigrants see themselves
as conquerors involved in a war, it all makes perfect sense.
Malmö, Sweden, set to become the first Scandinavian city with a Muslim majority
within a decade or two, has got nine times as many reported robberies per
capita as Copenhagen, Denmark. Yet the number one priority in for the political
class in Sweden during this year’s national election campaign seems to be
demonizing neighboring Denmark for “xenophobia” and a “brutal” debate about
Muslim immigration. During last years Jihad riots in France, Sweden’s Social
Democratic Prime Minister Göran Persson criticised the way the French
government handled the unrest in the country. “It feels like a very hard and
confrontational approach.” Persson also rejected the idea of more local police
as a “first step” in Sweden. “I don’t believe that’s the way we would choose in
Sweden. To start sending out signals about strengthening the police is to break
with the political line we have chosen to follow,” he said. Meanwhile, as their
authorities have largely abandoned their third largest city to creeping
anarchy, there is open talk among the native Swedes still remaining in Malmö of
forming vigilante groups, armed with baseball bats and concern for their
children’s safety. As I’ve argued
in another essay: If Arnold Schwarzenegger fails to get re-elected as
Governor of California he may like to do a sequel to “Conan the Barbarian.” He
could shoot it in Malmö. He will get the extras for free.
What happened to the famous Swedish nanny state, you say? Don’t Swedes pay the
highest tax rates in the world? Yes, they do. But tens of billions of kroner,
some say several hundred billions, are being spent every year on propping up
rapidly growing communities of Muslim immigrants. Sweden has become the entire
world’s welfare office, because the political elites have decided that massive
Muslim immigration is “good for the economy.” Pretty soon, Sweden could have an
“army” of just 5000 men. That’s five thousand troops to defend a nation
that is geographically more than three times the size of England. And it may
take up to a year to assemble all of them, provided they are not on peacekeeping
missions abroad. That Sweden could soon need a little peacekeeping at home
seems to escape the establishment. In 2006, the celebrated Swedish welfare
state has become the world’s largest pyramid scheme, an Enron with a national
flag.
Although Sweden is an extreme example, similar stories could be told about much
of Western Europe. As Mark Steyn points out, the Jihad in the streets of France
looked like the early skirmishes of an impending Eurabian civil war, brought on
by massive Muslim immigration and Multicultural stupidity. Law and order is slowly breaking down in major and even minor cities
across the European continent, and the streets are ruled by aggressive gangs of
Muslim youngsters. At the same time, Europeans pay some of the highest tax
rates in the world. We should remind our authorities that the most important
task of the state — some would even claim it should be the only task of the
state — is to uphold the rule of law in exchange for taxation. Since it is
becoming pretty obvious that this is no longer the case in Eurabia, we have to
question whether these taxes are legitimate anymore, or whether they are simply
disguised Jizya paid in the form of welfare to Muslims and our new Eurocrat
aristocracy. Although not exactly the Boston Tea Party, perhaps the time now
has come for a pan-European tax rebellion: We will no longer pay taxes until
our authorities restore law and order and close the borders for Muslim
immigration.
It’s getting urgent. When enough people feel that the system isn’t working
anymore and that the social contract has been breached, the entire fabric of
the democratic society could unravel. What happens when the welfare state
system breaks down, and there is no longer enough money to “grease” the
increasing tensions between immigrants and native Europeans? And what happens
when people discover that their own leaders, through the EU networks and the
Euro-Arab Dialogue described by Bat Ye’or in her book “Eurabia,” have been
encouraging all these Muslims to settle here in the first place? There will be
massive unemployment, and tens of millions of people will feel angry, scared
and humiliated, betrayed by the system, by society and by their own democratic
leaders. This is a situation in some ways similar to the Great Depression that
led to the rise of the Nazis in the 1930s. Is this where we’re heading once
again, with fear, rising Fascism and political assassinations? The difference
is that the “Jewish threat” in the 1930s was entirely fictional,
whereas the “Islamic threat” now is very real. However, precisely the trauma caused
by the events 70 years ago is clouding our judgment this time, since any talk
at all about the threat posed by Muslim immigration or about preserving our own
culture is being dismissed as “just like the rhetoric used against Jews by the
Nazis.” Europeans have been taught to be so scared of our own shadow that we
are incapable of seeing that darkness can come from the outside, too. Maybe
Europe will burn again, in part as a belated reaction to the horrors of
Auschwitz.