INTL Riots grip Stockholm suburbs after police shooting

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22 May 2013 Last updated at 05:18 ET

Riots grip Stockholm suburbs after police shooting

Dozens of cars have been set alight during the riots

Rioters have lit fires and stoned emergency services in the suburbs of Stockholm for the third night in a row after a man was shot dead by police.

Incidents were reported in at least nine suburbs of the Swedish capital and police made eight arrests.

On Sunday night, more than 100 cars were set alight, Swedish media report.

Police in the deprived, largely immigrant suburb of Husby shot a man dead last week after he reportedly threatened to kill them with a machete.

The founder of a local youth group told Swedish media the riots were a reaction to "police brutality".

Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt told reporters on Tuesday that Sweden would not be intimidated by rioters.
'Opportunistic'

On Tuesday night, cars were torched in western and southern Stockholm, and stones were thrown at police officers and firefighters. One area affected, Rinkeby, saw similar rioting in 2010.

Kjell Lindgren of the Stockholm police told Aftonbladet newspaper that the unrest had spread from the original rioting in Husby.

"It feels like people are taking the opportunity in other areas because of the attention given to Husby," he said.

Earlier on Tuesday, Prime Minister Reinfeldt said: "We've had two nights with great unrest, damage, and an intimidating atmosphere in Husby and there is a risk it will continue.

"We have groups of young men who think that that they can and should change society with violence. Let's be clear: this is not okay. We cannot be ruled by violence."

More than 80% of Husby's 12,000 or so inhabitants are from an immigrant background, and most are from Turkey, the Middle East and Somalia.

Mr Reinfeldt said the situation in the district had been improving in recent years, with more jobs being created and a falling crime rate.
'Monkey' slur

However, local people accused the police of racism.

Rami al-Khamisi, a law student and founder of the youth organisation Megafonen, told the Swedish edition of online newspaper The Local that he had been insulted racially by police. Teenagers, he said, had been called "monkeys".

He said the crowd was reacting to a "growing marginalisation and segregation in Sweden over the past 10, 20 years" from both a class and a race perspective.

Justice Minister Beatrice Ask said anyone who felt mistreated by police should file a report.

An investigation is under way into the shooting of a man, 69, last Monday after police were called out to a home in Husby where the man was allegedly brandishing a machete.

Police say they tried unsuccessfully to negotiate with the man after learning a woman was inside the flat along with him. They then stormed the flat.

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Stockholm hit by third night of rioting

Disturbances in Sweden spark debate about government failures over youth unemployment and immigration

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guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 22 May 2013 07.36 EDT

Hundreds of youths have set fire to cars and attacked police and rescue services in poor immigrant suburbs in three nights of rioting in Stockholm, in Sweden's worst scenes of disorder in years.

On Tuesday night, a police station in the Jakobsberg area in the north-west of the city was attacked, two schools were damaged and an arts and crafts centre was set ablaze, despite a call for calm from Sweden's prime minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt.

The riots in one of Europe's richest capitals have shocked a country that prides itself on a reputation for social justice, and fuelled a debate about how Sweden is coping with both youth unemployment and an influx of immigrants.

"We've had around 30 cars set on fire last night, fires that we connect to youth gangs and criminals," Kjell Lindgren, a spokesman for Stockholm police, said on Wednesday. He said eight people had been arrested on Tuesday night, but there were no reports of injuries.

The riots appear to have been sparked by the police killing of a 69-year-old man wielding a machete in the suburb of Husby this month, which prompted accusations of police brutality. "Everyone must pitch in to restore calm – parents, adults," Reinfeldt told reporters on Tuesday.

After decades of the "Swedish model" of generous welfare benefits, Sweden has been reducing the role of the state since the 1990s, spurring the fastest growth in inequality of any advanced OECD economy.

While average living standards are still among the highest in Europe, governments have failed to substantially reduce long-term youth unemployment and poverty, which have affected immigrant communities worst.

The left-leaning tabloid Aftonbladet said the riots represented a "gigantic failure" of government policies, which had underpinned the rise of ghettos in the suburbs. "We have failed to give many of the people in the suburbs a hope for the future," Anna-Margrethe Livh of the opposition Left party wrote in the daily Svenska Dagbladet.

An anti-immigrant party, the Sweden Democrats, has risen to third in polls ahead of a general election due next year, reflecting unease about immigrants among many voters. Some 15% of the population is foreign-born, the highest proportion in the Nordic region.

Unemployment among those born outside Sweden stands at 16%, compared with 6% for native Swedes, according to OECD data. Among 44 industrialised countries, Sweden ranked fourth in the absolute number of asylum seekers, and second relative to its population, according to UN figures.

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AnthonyBoccio: RT @cheshirecat0025: #sweden #Muslim immigrants who have received gov funds riot rape and promise to kill police #burnthecity http://t.co/OH734pnjh5 #Myjihad
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 10:29:14 AM


UPDATE on the Muslim savages rioting in Sweden

In the area of Husby in Stockholm Sweden, About 200 armed Muslims carried out a well-planned riot that burned hundreds of cars and buildings. The main group behind the riots, Megafonen, received City funding as a ‘youth activist group.’ Turns out the “youths” consisted of revolutionary Muslim activists whose goal was to destroy the area they live in (no doubt living on government welfare benefits).

Over 80 % of the residents are non-european immigrants, legal and illegal, mainly Arab and African Muslims. First the Muslim demand that the state build them mosques, then they demand loudspeakers to broadcast the Muslim Call to Prayer five times a day. Next they demand money, free housing and welfare money for their clans, vacation pay and cars. Next they begin to demand money and offices for their groups and community organizations.

In this case, one of the groups, Megafon organized the riots, and the leader stirred up violence against the police before she shut down her Twitter account to hide her tracks. A screen shot was saved and can be seen int the film. Rioting in the 200 burning hell hole cities called ghettos are common in Sweden. Large masses of rioting Muslims roam in packs, set fires to trick police and fire to arrive, them they pelt the emergency vehicles with rocks, IED’s, fireworks or use guns.

Pictures and videos and many comments at the link:

http://www.barenakedislam.com/2013/05/21/update-on-the-muslim-savages-rioting-in-sweden/

kay_sesen: RT @sara_HR4All: Multiculturalism failing: Swedish PM pleas for order as riots engulf Stockholm suburbs http://t.co/NyiBdfKZ8w #Sweden
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 10:23:13 AM

Crazy pictures here:

http://rt.com/news/sweden-riots-multiculturalism-not-working-598/

Need to use live ammo on the protesters that are destroying private property!!!!!!!!!

If I were a cop, and someone threw a molotov cocktail at me, I would shoot that person, as I want to defend myself........
(maybe that's why I'm not a cop...........)

MSNNews: Riots in #Sweden? Three nights of mayhem http://t.co/RYXtSyJ1s2
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 10:04:06 AM

Stockholm hit by worst riots in years

STOCKHOLM — Hundreds of youths have set fire to cars and attacked police and rescue services in poor immigrant suburbs in three nights of rioting in Stockholm, Sweden's worst disorder in years.

On Tuesday night, a police station in the Jakobsberg area in the northwest section of the city was attacked, two schools were damaged, and an arts and crafts center was set ablaze, despite a call for calm from Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.

The riots in one of Europe's richest capitals have shocked a country that prides itself on a reputation for social justice and fueled a debate about how Sweden is coping with both youth unemployment and an influx of immigrants.

"We've had around 30 cars set on fire last night, fires that we connect to youth gangs and criminals," Kjell Lindgren, spokesman for the Stockholm police, said Wednesday.

He said eight people had been arrested Tuesday night, but there were no reports of injuries.

The riots appear to have been sparked by the police killing of a 69-year-old man wielding a machete in the suburb of Husby this month, which prompted accusations of police brutality.

"Everyone must pitch in to restore calm — parents, adults," Reinfeldt told reporters Tuesday.

After decades of practicing the "Swedish model" of generous welfare benefits, Sweden has been reducing the role of the state since the 1990s, spurring the fastest growth in inequality of any advanced economy in the nations belonging to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

While average living standards are still among the highest in Europe, governments have failed to substantially reduce long-term youth unemployment and poverty, which have affected immigrant communities worst.

The left-leaning tabloid Aftonbladet said the riots represented a "gigantic failure" of government policies, which had underpinned the rise of ghettos in the suburbs.

"We have failed to give many of the people in the suburbs a hope for the future," Anna-Margrethe Livh of the opposition Left Party wrote in the daily Svenska Dagbladet.

An anti-immigrant party, the Sweden Democrats, has risen to third in polls ahead of a general election due next year, reflecting unease about immigrants among many voters.

Some 15 percent of the population is foreign-born, the highest proportion in the Nordic region. Unemployment among those born outside Sweden stands at 16 percent, compared with 6 percent for native Swedes, according to OECD data.

Among 44 industrialized countries, Sweden ranked fourth in the absolute number of asylum seekers, and second relative to its population, according to U.N. figures.

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Nah , can't be, Sweden is a liberal shangri-la, a utopia of happy happy joy joy, must be some other country they're reporting on

What the police need to do is shoot the rest of the Muslims and that would end the problem.

This is what happens when you let so many muslims into a country. Can't support them all, and then they go bonkers. It would be the exact same thing here, except obviously this country has placed them in many high positions in the government.

Social experimentation gone wrong. It still CAN happen here via their use of our laws against us. And is.

Why, you'd think those psycho politicians and NWO policy makers didn't plan this, wouldn't you?

mzkitty said:

This is what happens when you let so many muslims into a country. Can't support them all, and then they go bonkers. It would be the exact same thing here, except obviously this country has placed them in many high positions in the government.

Social experimentation gone wrong. It still CAN happen here via their use of our laws against us. And is.

Why, you'd think those psycho politicians and NWO policy makers didn't plan this, wouldn't you?

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It all stems from some crazy idea of bring them in and they will integrate into western life and culture and so far its going the other around I.E. not working as they are taking advantage of the laws (free lunch) and also forcing the government to give into their demands.

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Sweden's riots raise questions about inequality
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By MALIN RISING | Associated Press – 7 hrs ago

HUSBY, Sweden (AP) — Sweden has long been a bastion of generous social welfare and an egalitarian political culture. So many people were shocked when scores of youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze during rioting in several largely immigrant areas near Stockholm this week.

Few dispute that the violence was probably touched off by the fatal police shooting of an elderly man who had locked himself in an apartment wielding a knife. But some residents in the area accused police who responded to the violence of racism.

For some, the real reason for the unrest is the high unemployment and isolation of youths in the southern and western Stockholm suburbs where the violence occurred — ones who see little future for themselves or access to Sweden's prosperity.

"The segregation in Stockholm increases all the time, and it's happening fast," said Nina Edstrom, a social anthropologist who promotes integration at a center for multiculturalism in Fittja, where some of the violence occurred. "There are very large social differences. There are many unemployed, frustrated young people. I'm not surprised something like this happens," she said.

Still, Edstrom added, it would be a mistake to see the youths involved in the riots as political activists.

Overall, about 15 percent of Sweden's 9.5 million people were born abroad, compared to 10 percent 10 years ago. The influx has mostly come from war-torn countries such as Iraq, Somalia, former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Syria.

In 2012 alone, Sweden accepted 44,000 asylum seekers, up by nearly 50 percent from a year earlier.

During the rioting, 15-year-old Sebastian Horniak said he saw police firing warning shots in the air and calling a woman a "monkey."

Quena Soruco, a representative for Megafonen, an organization that represents citizens in Stockholm's suburbs, said she heard police say "rats, hobos, Negroes."

The unrest in Fittja and the Husby area is a challenge for the center-right government of Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, which after seven years in power is trailing in polls and has come under fire for failing to address social problems.

The rioting also has added fuel to arguments from the far-right Sweden Democrats party, which polls now show as Sweden's fourth biggest party.

Some say that one reason such immigrant areas can feel isolating is the growing disparity between the haves and have nots in Sweden, as in many other Western countries.

Despite Sweden's high living standards and its egalitarian ways, the country has seen the biggest surge in inequality of any Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development country over the past 25 years, according to a recent OECD report.

The difference is striking between native Swedes and the fast-growing immigrant population.

In Husby, the neighborhood west of Stockholm where the violence started Sunday, around 80 percent of the 11,000 residents are either first or second generation immigrants. Still, the area appears well kept and nothing like a slum.

"We have such wonderful things. We have a mixture of cultures. You go out on the streets and you know your neighbors," said Soruco, 26, who lives in Husby.

However, she also said youth unemployment is high there and that nearly 50 percent of the kids in Husby finish junior high school with grades too low to get into high school.

"I do not think that Sweden is as equal as some people try to paint it to be. We see it every day: people trying to get jobs and get rejected because of their last name, because of how they look, or even because of where they live," she said.

Outside a grocery store, local soccer coach Shain Akbari, 30, stood talking to a group of youths. He is upset that youths hurled rocks at police and firefighters, burned down buildings and set nearly 100 cars ablaze.

"It is tragic ... it's wrong," he said. But Akbari, a Swede of Iranian background who grew up in Husby, said the neighborhood has changed drastically in the past 10 years.

"Before it wasn't like this. Before we had Swedish friends who played on the same football team. We went to school together and they helped us integrate into society. You got a job through friends. But it isn't like that now. Now they are locked in here. They don't leave the area. ... They have no possibilities."

Camilla Salazar, who works at the youth center Fryshuset, agreed.

"I speak to young people in certain suburbs who say, 'It would have been fun to get to know a Swede,'" she said. She also noted that as the violence began in Husby, many Swedes in more prosperous areas were preoccupied celebrating their country's World Cup ice hockey victory.

Prime Minister Reinfeldt has acknowledged that Sweden's income disparities increased, but said it primarily occurred before he came to power in 2006, and that he remains proud of his country's liberal immigration policies.

Reinfeldt said the transition can be trying, but he added: "We are more open than other countries. Long term, as a society, we win on this. It will lead to more people getting jobs. It will contribute to a more exciting and open society."

He urged citizens to come together to stop the violence, and on Wednesday night hundreds of Husby residents took to the streets to oppose the violence.

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Stockholm is burning: Why the Swedish riots bode ill for Europe
By Harold Maass | The Week – 12 hrs ago

Rampaging immigrant youths have upended the country's reputation as a prosperous refuge

Stockholm is burning. Yes, Stockholm, the Swedish capital, is in flames, after hundreds of immigrant youths rampaged through the streets for four straight nights, torching cars and buildings, hurling rocks through windows, and attacking police.

The chaotic scenes are at odds with Sweden's reputation as a liberal model of prosperity, social security, and openness. The riots reportedly started in reaction to Swedish police killing a 69-year-old machete-wielding man earlier this month. But the ferocity and duration of the violence has shocked locals, who say they're at a loss to explain it.

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"It's difficult to say why they're doing this," Selcuk Cekenhe, who works at a youth center in one of the affected suburbs, tells NBC News. "Maybe it's anger at the law and order forces, maybe it's anger at their own personal situation, such as unemployment or having nowhere to live."

Some analysts say the explosion this week has exposed an ugly side of Sweden that has long festered beneath the surface. Niklas Pollard and Philip O'Connor of Reuters say Sweden's generous welfare model — with its 480 days of parental leave for each child — has overshadowed deep resentment between native-born "haves" and newly arrived "have nots."

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Some 15 percent of the population is foreign born, the highest in the Nordic region. The rise of the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats party, which has called for a curfew in response to the violence, has polarized Swedes.

Metros and trains out of Stockholm center late at night are full of exhausted-looking Arabic or Spanish speaking immigrants returning home from menial jobs. Even second generation immigrants struggle to find white collar employment.

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As one Asian diplomat puts it: "On the one hand Sweden has all these immigrants. On the other hand, where are they? It sometimes seems they are mostly selling hotdogs." [Reuters]
The worst of the rioting — Sweden's worst unrest in years — has occurred in heavily immigrant neighborhoods, mainly the Husby suburb of Stockholm. According to Elias Groll at Foreign Policy, this indicates that the violence is "clearly a symptom of Sweden's failed effort to integrate its massive immigrant population."

Housing segregation is rampant in the country, and Husby is a case study in how immigrant populations have come to dominate Stockholm's outer suburbs... Depending on your political perspective, native-born Swedes have either fled Husby or been pushed out by immigrants:

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Husby also suffers from rampant unemployment — a problem that is particularly acute for its youth. Nearly 30 percent of the city's young people are neither employed nor actively enrolled in school, a number that mirrors a broader trend of immigrant underemployment relative to the native-born population. [Foreign Policy]

The government's response doesn't appear to be helping matters. Witnesses say riot police — wielding clubs and leading snarling dogs — have hurled racial insults at the rioters, calling them "monkeys" and "rats."
"I can understand the police officers were stressed, but this language is unacceptable, and unfortunately nothing new," Rami al-Khamisi, a law student, told The Local.

Khamisi said the government's heavy-handed response is unlikely to restore calm. "We're seen as a problem that politicians want to solve by sending more police," he said. "This is not a solution we agree with."

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The rioting has already raised questions about Europe's struggle to assimilate its large immigration populations. Because if violence can break out on the placid streets of Stockholm, it could seemingly break out anywhere.

The suicide of the West.......

Knew it was muzzie scum before I clicked the link.

They let these people in as a "humanitarian" gesture, yet there is nothing for them there. No jobs. Isn't that just freaking stupid? What's wrong with them?

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Cars, schools torched in fifth night of Stockholm riots

Cars, schools and a police station were torched Friday after a fifth night of riots in Stockholm's immigrant-majority suburbs following the fatal police shooting on Sunday of a 69-year-old wielding a machete.
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At least nine cars were torched and two schools and a police station were set ablaze as riots swept through Stockholm's immigrant-dominated suburbs early Friday for the fifth straight night, police and firefighters said.

The riots, which have shattered Sweden's image abroad as a peaceful and egalitarian nation, have sparked a debate about the assimilation of immigrants, who make up about 15 percent of the population.

Many of the immigrants who have arrived due to the country's generous refugee policy struggle to learn the language and find employment, despite numerous government programmes.

Early Friday, police told Swedish news agency TT eight people had been arrested so far for the night's rioting, but no injuries were reported.

In Rinkeby, one of the city's immigrant-dominated areas, firefighters rushed to put out flames that engulfed six cars parked alongside each other. Five cars were totally gutted, and one sustained more moderate damage, according to an AFP photographer on the scene.

Three more cars were torched in the Norsborg suburb, and a police station in Aelvsjoe was set on fire but quickly extinguished, police said.

Firefighters meanwhile said a school in another immigrant-heavy suburb, Tensta, was set ablaze but quickly extinguished, and a nursery school in the Kista suburb was also on fire.

And police in Soedertaelje, a town south of Stockholm, said rioters threw stones at them as they responded to reports of cars set alight.

The previous night, the fire brigade had been called to some 90 different blazes, most of them caused by rioters.

"We are gradually becoming more like other countries," said Aje Carlbom, a social anthropologist at Malmoe University.

The troubles, which began Sunday in the Husby suburb, are believed to have been triggered by the fatal police shooting of a 69-year-old Husby resident last week after the man wielded a machete in public.

The man had fled to his apartment, where police have said they tried to mediate but ended up shooting him dead in what they claimed was self-defence.

Local activists said the shooting sparked anger among youths who claim to have suffered from police brutality. During the first night of rioting, they said police had called them "tramps, monkeys and negroes."

Police meanwhile downplayed the scale of the events.

"Every injured person is a tragedy, every torched car is a failure for society... but Stockholm is not burning. Let's have a level-headed view of the situation," Ulf Johansson, deputy police chief for Stockholm county, said Thursday.

Residents of areas largely populated by immigrants are suffering from segregation, anthropologist Carlbom told AFP.

"Living as a young person in these segregated areas can be very hard in many ways. You have virtually no contact with other Swedes and a lot of times I don't think you have a good understanding of Swedish society," he said.

For example, some 80 percent of the 12,000 residents in Husby are immigrants.

Due to its liberal immigration policy, Sweden has in recent decades become one of Europe's top destinations for immigrants, both in absolute numbers and relative to its size.

In the past decade it has welcomed hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia and the Balkans, among others.

This is not the first time the Scandinavian country has seen riots among immigrants.

In 2010, up to 100 youths threw bricks, set fires and attacked the local police station in the immigrant-dominated suburb of Rinkeby for two nights.

And in 2008, hundreds of youths rioted against police in the southern Swedish town of Malmoe, sparked by the closure of an Islamic cultural centre in the suburb of Rosengaard that housed a mosque.

Integration Minister Erik Ullenhag attributed the violence to high unemployment and social exclusion in Sweden's immigrant-dominated areas.

"We know that there is discrimination in these areas, and these events don't improve the image of these areas, where there is a lot of positive stuff going on but which is totally eclipsed right now," he told TT.

In Husby, overall unemployment was 8.8 percent in 2012, compared to 3.3 percent in Stockholm as a whole, according to official data.

And a total of 12 percent in Husby received social benefits last year, compared to 3.6 percent in Stockholm as a whole.

The riots have received international media attention, with some comparisons being drawn to similar problems assimilating immigrants in other European countries such as Britain and France.

(AFP)
Date created : 24/05/2013

Good, every brick thrown by a slimy ass muslim invader wakes up one more sheeple. Keep rioting, mayhaps the Viking blood will course through the original inhabitants once again. I would love to see Sven and Lars hacking at Muslim scum with an axe.......

mzkitty said:

They let these people in as a "humanitarian" gesture, yet there is nothing for them there. No jobs. Isn't that just freaking stupid? What's wrong with them?

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They were Leftists, that is what is wrong with them. Peter Hitchen, brother of the late Christopher Hitchens, explained it quite succinctly in a recent column;

When I was a Revolutionary Marxist, we were all in favour of as much immigration as possible.

It wasn't because we liked immigrants, but because we didn't like Britain. We saw immigrants - from anywhere - as allies against the staid, settled, conservative society that our country still was at the end of the Sixties.

Also, we liked to feel oh, so superior to the bewildered people - usually in the poorest parts of Britain - who found their neighbourhoods suddenly transformed into supposedly 'vibrant communities'.

If they dared to express the mildest objections, we called them bigots...

....Even back in my Trotskyist days I had begun to notice that many of the migrants from Asia were in fact not our allies.

They were deeply, unshakably religious.

They were socially conservative.

Their attitudes towards girls and women were, in many cases, close to medieval.

Many of them were horribly hostile to Jews, in a way which we would have condemned fiercely if anyone else had expressed it, but which we somehow managed to forgive and forget in their case.

We have recently seen this in the distressing and embarrassing episode of Lord Ahmed's outburst against a phantom Jewish conspiracy.

But I recall ten years ago, in a Muslim bookshop in the backstreets of Burnley, seeing on open display a modern edition of Henry Ford's revolting anti-Jewish diatribe The International Jew, long ago disowned by Ford himself.

It is unthinkable that any mainstream shop in any High Street could sell this toxic tripe.

Many of these new arrivals, though we revolutionaries welcomed them, knew and cared nothing of the great liberal causes we all supported. Or they were hostile to them.

Many on the Left still lie to themselves about this. George Galloway, the most Left-wing MP in Parliament, owes his seat to the support of conservative Muslims.

Yet he voted in favour of same-sex marriage....

....The thing that made these new residents different was culture - language, customs, attitudes, sense of humour.

Rather than them adapting to our way of life, we were adapting to theirs.

This wasn't integration.

It was a revolution.

Yet nobody - especially their elected representatives - would listen to them, because they were assumed to be Powellite bigots, motivated by some sort of unreasoning hatred.

I now believe that the unreasoning hatred comes almost entirely from the liberal Left.

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And that is the same groupthink seen in Sweden and countless other places in Europe. Only a brave few have admitted to their errors. Sadly, too little too late and it is the average European paying the price for these errors in judgment, often with blood.

You can take a rat into your home and play nice with it but it will always be a rat. It will behave like a rat and do rat-like things. Same goes for some humans.

You reap what you sow.

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Stretched by riots, Swedish police call reinforcements

By Ilze Filks and Mia Shanley
STOCKHOLM | Fri May 24, 2013 12:58pm EDT

(Reuters) - Police in Stockholm called in reinforcements on Friday after youths set cars and a school ablaze in a fifth night of rioting, the worst to hit Sweden for years.

Pupils at a primary school in Kista - an IT hub that is home to the likes of telecoms equipment maker Ericsson and the Swedish office of Microsoft - arrived to find the inside of the small red wooden building had been completely burnt out.

While Thursday was slightly calmer than the four nights before, about 30 cars were torched and eight people, mostly in their early 20s, were detained, police said.

In a country with a reputation for openness, tolerance and a model welfare state, the rioting has exposed a fault-line between a well-off majority and a minority - often young people with immigrant backgrounds - who are poorly educated, cannot find work and feel pushed to the edge of society.

"In the short run, the acute thing is to ensure that these neighborhoods get back to normal everyday life. In the long run we need to create positive spirals in these neighborhoods," Erik Ullenhag, Sweden's integration minister, told Reuters.

The police said they were calling in extra backup from the cities of Malmo and Gothenburg.

"Now it's Friday, the weekend, and we usually have more to do. We think there's going to be a lot of work and many have worked hard these last few days, so we are calling in extra police," spokesman Anders Jonsson said, without giving numbers.

MASKED YOUTHS

The spree of destruction has seen masked youths vandalize schools, libraries and police stations, setting cars alight and hurling stones at police and firefighters.

It was sparked by the fatal police shooting earlier this month of a 69-year man, reported by local media to be a Portuguese immigrant and suspected of wielding a large knife, in a Stockholm suburb called Husby.

Though far from the scale of riots in London or Paris in recent years, the violence has shocked a nation which has long taken pride in its generous social safety net.

Some seven years of center-right rule, however, have chipped away at benefits, while some communities have struggled to cope with the heavy wave of immigration they are seeing from war-torn countries like Syria.

Youth unemployment is especially high in immigrant neighborhoods like the ones where the riots have taken place.

Kicki Haak, head of the small Montessori school that was set alight in Kista, said she did not know if it would be able to reopen. The 94 students will move into improvised classrooms in nearby office buildings from Monday.

"Five nights in a row - it's incomprehensible," said Faisal Lugh, whose two children are pupils at the school.

"My children asked about the things they had there: 'How about my books? My rain jacket? My pictures? Are they all gone?'" said Lugh, who works for an unemployment office and often helps new immigrants find jobs.

FRUSTRATED RESIDENTS

There are signs that residents in the affected areas are getting fed up with the violence. Many community leaders, dressed in fluorescent jackets, have taken to the streets to try to calm things down.

"When will it stop?" said Maryam Rahimi, who works at a school in Husby that was vandalized earlier this week.

Risto Kajanto, brother-in-law of the man who was shot dead, told Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet he condemned the violence.

"I want to say to all those who are burning cars that it is totally wrong to react that way," he said.

The incident prompted accusations of police brutality, and violence spread from Husby to other poor neighborhoods.

One recent government study showed up to a third of young people aged 16 to 29 in some of the most deprived areas of Sweden's big cities neither study nor have a job.

The gap between rich and poor in Sweden is growing faster than in any other major nation, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, though absolute poverty remains uncommon.

(Additional reporting by Simon Johnson and Patrick Lannin, Writing by Mia Shanley, Editing by Alistair Scrutton and Mark Trevelyan)

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carlosbaran49: RT @Live4Israel: #Swedish #Islamist Multiculturalism Goes Awry http://t.co/yJGE396AaO "#Sweden is the best #Islamic State" PLS RT #EU #Stockholm #London
Friday, May 24, 2013 1:42:31 PM

Swedish Multiculturalism Goes Awry

by Soeren Kern
May 24, 2013 at 4:45 am

"Sweden is the best Islamic State." — Adly Abu Hajar, Imam based in Malmö

Hundreds of Muslim immigrants have rampaged through parts of the Swedish capital of Stockholm, torching cars and buses, setting fires, and hurling rocks at police.

The unrest -- a predictable consequence of Sweden's failed model of multiculturalism, which does not encourage Muslim immigrants to assimilate or integrate into Swedish society -- is an ominous sign of things to come.

The trouble began after police fatally shot an elderly man brandishing a machete in a Muslim-majority neighborhood. Although the exact circumstances of the May 13 incident remain unclear, police say they shot the 69-year-old man (his nationality has not been disclosed) in self-defense after he allegedly threatened them with the weapon.

Two days later, on May 15, a Muslim youth organization called Megafonen arranged a protest against alleged police brutality and demanded an independent investigation and a public apology.

On May 19, Muslim youths initiated a riot in Husby, a heavily Muslim suburb in the western part of Stockholm where more than 80% of the residents originate from Africa and the Middle East.

At least 100 masked Muslim youths set fire to cars and buildings, smashed windows, vandalized property and hurled rocks and bottles at police and rescue services in Husby. The riots quickly spread to at least 15 other parts of Stockholm, including the districts of Fittja, Hagsätra, Kista, Jakobsberg, Norsborg, Skaerholmen, Skogås and Vaarberg.

After two nights of spiraling violence, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt appealed for calm, condemning the riots as hooliganism. But his plea ("Everyone must pitch in to restore calm -- parents, adults") failed to prevent more nights of unrest, during which Muslim youth set fire to two schools, a police station, a restaurant, and a cultural center, and burned more than 50 cars and buses.

The unrest -- which has many parallels to the Muslim riots that occurred in France in 2005 -- has shocked Swedes who have long turned a blind eye to immigration policies that have encouraged the establishment of a parallel Muslim society in Sweden.

Although there are no official statistics of Muslims in Sweden, the US State Department reported in 2011 that there are now between 450,000 and 500,000 Muslims in the country, or about 5% of the total population of 9.5 million.

Muslim immigration to Sweden has been fostered by open-door asylum policies that are among the most generous in the world.

During the early 1990s, for example, Sweden granted asylum to nearly 100,000 refugees fleeing the wars in the Balkans. Sweden has also been a magnet for refugees from Iraq; as a result of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), the Gulf War (1990-1991) and the Iraq War (2003-2011), there are now more than 120,000 Iraqis living in Sweden. In fact, Iraqis (both Christians and Muslims) now make up the second-largest ethnic minority group in Sweden, second only to ethnic Finns.

More recently, Sweden has granted asylum to thousands of refugees from Afghanistan, Somalia and Syria, as well as from Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, Turkey, Uzbekistan and Yemen.

Sweden is forecast to receive some 54,000 asylum seekers in 2013, according to the Swedish Migration Board (Migrationsverket), the highest level since the 1990s. In 2012, Sweden accepted 44,000 asylum seekers, up by nearly a half from 2011.

Sweden is expected to receive at least 18,000 Syrians in 2013 alone. Since September 2012, asylum seekers have arrived in Sweden at the rate of 1,250 per week, far more than the Migration Board's capacity of between 500 and 700.

Sweden is a prime destination for asylum seekers because the country offers new immigrants free housing and social welfare benefits upon arrival. But many immigrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East are poorly educated and have great difficulty finding a job in Sweden.

As a result, many immigrants are segregated from Swedish society and often live in areas where much of the population comes from countries other than Sweden. This in turn has encouraged the creation of parallel societies and the establishment of so-called no-go zones, parts of Sweden that are off limits to non-Muslims.

In some areas, no-go zones function as microstates governed by Islamic Sharia law where Swedish authorities have effectively lost control and are unable to provide even basic public aid such as police, fire fighting and ambulance services.

In the southern city of Malmö -- where Muslims make up more than 25% of the population -- fire and emergency workers refuse to enter Malmö's mostly Muslim Rosengaard district without police escorts. The male unemployment rate in Rosengaard is estimated to be above 80%. When fire fighters attempted to put out a fire at Malmö's main mosque, they were attacked by stone throwers.

In the Swedish city of Gothenburg, Muslim youth have hurled petrol bombs at police cars. In the city's Angered district, where more than 15 police cars were recently destroyed, teenagers have been pointing green lasers at the eyes of police officers, some of whom have been temporarily blinded.

In Gothenburg's Backa district, youth have been throwing stones at patrolling officers. Gothenburg police have also been struggling to deal with the problem of Muslim teenagers burning cars and attacking emergency services in several areas of the city.

At the same time, Muslim immigrants are becoming increasing assertive in demanding special rights and privileges for Islam in Sweden.

In February, for example, a mosque in Stockholm received final approval from the mayor's office to begin sounding public prayer calls from its minaret, the first time such permission has ever been granted in Sweden.

A majority of the members of the city planning committee in the southern Stockholm suburb of Botkyrka voted to repeal a 1994 prohibition on such prayer calls, thereby opening the way for a muezzin to begin calling Muslims to prayer from the top of a 32-meter (104-foot) minaret at a Turkish mosque in the Fittja district of the city.

The issue was put to a vote after Ismail Okur, the chairman of the Botkyrka Islamic Association (Islamiska föreningen i Botkyrka), filed a petition with the city in January 2012 demanding permission to allow public prayer calls at the mosque.

In an interview with the Swedish newspaper Dagen, Okur said earlier generations of Muslim immigrants "did not dare" to press the issue, but that he represents the "new guys" who are determined to "exercise their right to religious freedom" in Sweden.

When told that Sweden has historically been a Christian country, Okur responded: "So it was perhaps before, during the 1930s and 1940s. Now it is a new era. We are more than 100,000 [sic] Muslims in Sweden. Should we not have our religion as well, especially here in Botkyrka, where we are so many?"

Swedish multiculturalists agree. The Multicultural Center (Mångkulturellt centrum) in Botkyrka recently called on Swedes to "separate whiteness from Swedishness in order to be a socially sustainable future Swedishness."

On the other hand, a growing number of Swedes are beginning to have second thoughts about the long-term sustainability of multiculturalism and mass immigration.

Immigration Minister Tobias Billström recently marked a turning point in the debate when he told the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter that Sweden needs to tighten rules for asylum seekers and other would-be immigrants to reduce the number of people coming into the country.

"Today Sweden is one of the countries that receives the most immigrants in the EU. That's not sustainable," Billström said. "Today, people are coming to households where the only income is support from the municipality. Is that reasonable?" he added.

Reflecting the unease about immigrants among many voters, an anti-immigrant party, the conservative Sweden Democrats, have risen to third-place in the polls ahead of a general election set to take place in September 2014.

But the riots in Stockholm imply that the damage has already been done. The fatal flaw of Swedish multiculturalism has been to grant asylum to hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have no prospect of ever finding a job or making a meaningful contribution to Swedish society. Many immigrants are, and will remain, wards of the state.

The Malmö-based Imam Adly Abu Hajar, in an interview with the newspaper Skånska Dagbladet, recently summed it up this way: "Sweden is the best Islamic state."

Soeren Kern is a Senior Fellow at the New York-based Gatestone Institute. He is also Senior Fellow for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos / Strategic Studies Group. Follow him on Facebook

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3729/sweden-multiculturalism

police say they shot the 69-year-old man (his nationality has not been disclosed) in self-defense after he allegedly threatened them with the weapon.

his nationality has not been disclosed = muzzie

bluerobbo69: @irritatedwoman @DavidCoburnUKip You can't take people from 3rd/4th world countries and plonk them in a 1st world one. #Sweden
Friday, May 24, 2013 1:36:44 PM

semmoneglynn: RT @theshawnna: If training and education were THE problem, immigrants would be close to equally empl. as equally qualified Swedes. #sweden #integration
Friday, May 24, 2013 1:35:19 PM

TylerNull: NEWSFLASH: "They don’t want to integrate" #Sweden: #Atheists' Happy Place. H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S http://t.co/UEXTxlIZcV #jihad #Islam #Socialism
Friday, May 24, 2013 1:13:08 PM

Lots of pictures and a video at the link:

‘They don’t want to integrate’: Fifth night of youth rioting rocks Stockholm

Published time: May 23, 2013 13:17
Edited time: May 24, 2013 13:09

Youth gang riots in the Swedish capital Stockholm have entered fifth straight night. Hundreds of mostly immigrant teenagers tore through the suburbs, smashing windows and burning cars in the country’s worst outbreak of violence in years.

At least six vehicles were torched throughout the city late on Thursday while the police called for reinforcements from other Swedish cities bracing for further unrest.

Firefighters were putting out flames that engulfed several cars and a school in immigrant-dominated areas of Stockholm.

The night before, the fire brigades were called to some 90 different blazes. On the fourth night of violence, youths torched over 30 cars in 15 neighborhoods along with a restaurant in Skogas, south of Stockholm. Three law enforcement officers were injured, police spokesperson Kjell Lindgren reported.

Stockholm firefighters were busy throughout the night, saying they had “never before seen so many fires raging at the same time.” Some 90 blazes were reported in total, most of them reportedly caused by the rioters. Still, the fourth night of violence was relatively quiet compared to the previous three, RT's Peter Oliver reported from Stockholm.

Leaders of immigrant communities were out on the streets in a bid to stop young people from rioting. Despite their efforts, as soon as the night fell, groups of arsonists took to the streets to set cars on fire. RT's Peter Oliver witnessed rioters throwing stones at police and journalists alike.

Civil disorder in Stockholm started on Sunday, when police shot and killed a 69-old-man in his apartment after he confronted officers with a machete; the unrest has since continued throughout week.

Community leaders insist that a main reason for the violence is the high rate of unemployment in immigrant communities, particularly in the suburb of Husby near central Stockholm, one of the worst affected by the nighttime violence, Peter Oliver reported.

Although Sweden’s unemployment rate is below the EU average, joblessness among those under 25 has reached nearly 25 percent. The RT crew in Stockholm noted that a majority of those taking part in the violence are young.

“In Sweden you’ve got welfare, access to the educational system – up to university level, you got access to public transport, libraries, healthcare – to everything. And still they feel that they [immigrants] need to riot through stones and Molotov cocktails. It’s ridiculous and a bad excuse,” Swedish Democrats MP Kent Ekeroth told RT.

“Police can put down these riots in five minutes – if the politicians were to allow them,” Ekeroth added.

Parents of the rampaging teenagers and community religious leaders are now spending sleepless nights on the street in an effort to prevent their children from wreaking havoc.

Meanwhile, the Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt blamed the violence on “hooligans” and said they did not represent the majority in the rioting neighborhoods.

“I think it’s dangerous to draw a picture of Sweden with a capital separated from its suburbs. I don’t think that’s true. I think the dividing line runs straight through Husby, with a majority population and then a small group of troublemakers,” Reinfeldt said.

But the Husby youth taking part in riots told Reuters they are indeed divided from the rest of Stockholm, struggling to find a full-time job with their Husby address. Most of the interviewed rioters were reportedly unemployed.

The claims of social exclusion in immigrant-dominated suburbs have been partly conceded by Sweden’s Integration Minister Erik Ullenhag, who said the ministry is aware of “discrimination in these areas.” But the riots “don’t improve the image of these areas, where there is a lot of positive stuff going on,” he added.

For years, Sweden – one of Europe’s most tranquil countries, famous for its attractive immigration policies and generous welfare system – has been accepting an influx of immigrants, which now make up about 15 per cent of its population. These migrants have failed to integrate into Swedish society, and are only in the country to enjoy the country’s social benefits system, Swedish journalist Ingrid Carlqvist told RT.

“The problem is not from the Swedish government or from the Swedish people,” the editor in chief of Dispatch International said. “The last 20 years or so, we have seen so many immigrants coming to Sweden that really don’t like Sweden. They do not want to integrate, they do not want to live in [Swedish] society: Working, paying taxes and so on.”

“The people come here now because they know that Sweden will give them money for nothing. They don’t have to work, they don’t have to pay taxes – they can just stay here and get a lot of money. That is really a problem,” Carlqvist added.

“The police could do so much, [instead] they have told the public that they mean to do as little as possible. But they could go there and use water cannons, they could not let people out onto the streets at night. There are so many things they could do within the law – but they don’t do it,” she said.

Young Muslims who enjoy tolerance, social institutions and welfare while living in Sweden nevertheless refuse to integrate into the West, Gerolf Annemans told RT. Annemans is the parliamentary leader of Vlaams Belang (‘Flemish Interest’), a Belgian far-right nationalist political party.

“They [Muslim youths] have always sought excuse to show that they are not agreeing with the basic values of Western society,” Annemans said, pointing to the recent cases of the Boston Marathon bombing in the US and yesterday’s beheading of a British soldier in the UK.

“It’s always the same problem. There is a massive refusal by Muslim youngsters of the basics of Western society... and they take any excuse whatsoever to show that with violence – that is where the problem is,” he said.

As rioting continues to rip through Stockholm, some claim the violence has clearly been orchestrated for ulterior motives, Lars Hedegaard, Editor-in-Chief of Swedish newspaper Dispatch International said to RT.

“Some people would like to gain recognition as stakeholder in society. In other words, there are people who would like to be in a negotiating position… that they can make things happen and go away. That they have power in local communities and should be reckoned with,” he explained.

“These riots in the country that are spreading and continuing for a long time that the [multiculturalism] success was a fiction, they never succeeded,” Hedegaard said.

469 comments at the link. Here are 3:

24.05.2013 18:05

Notice how they say "YOUTHS" they don't wanna call a spade a spade.
Anonymous user 24.05.2013 18:04

What do they expect? islam isn't compatible with humanity.
Anonymous user 24.05.2013 18:04

Why not just shoot the rioters. Problem solved.


http://rt.com/news/stockholm-violence-outbreak-fires-671/#.UZ-ezVj7eyY.twitter

Rioting spreads outside Stockholm; police reinforcements reduce violence in capital - @Reuters

2 hours ago from news.yahoo.com by editor

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Stockholm calmer but violence spreads outside Swedish capital

Reuters – 2 hrs 15 mins ago

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A nearly week-long spate of rioting spread outside Stockholm on Friday but authorities said police reinforcements sent to the Swedish capital had reduced the violence there, even though dozens of youths set cars and a recycling station ablaze.

The rioting - set off earlier this month by the police shooting of a 69-year-old man - continued for a sixth night in mainly poor immigrant areas in Stockholm.

In a country with a reputation for openness, tolerance and a model welfare state, the rioting has exposed a fault-line between a well-off majority and a minority - often young people with immigrant backgrounds - who are poorly educated, cannot find work and feel pushed to the edge of society.

Two cars were torched in Stockholm but the city appeared to have had its calmest night since the trouble began.

"It is a bit calmer. Of course, there are still fires," said Towe Hagg, a police spokeswoman in Stockholm.

But in Orebro, a town in central Sweden, some 25 masked youths set fire to three cars, a school and tried to torch a police station, police said. An old empty building was set alight in the town of Sodertalje, less than an hour's drive from the capital.

Pupils at a primary school in the Stockholm suburb of Kista - an information-technology hub that is home to the likes of telecoms equipment maker Ericsson and the Swedish office of Microsoft - arrived on Friday to find the inside of the small red wooden building had been burned out.

"In the short run, the acute thing is to ensure that these neighborhoods get back to normal everyday life," Erik Ullenhag, Sweden's integration minister, told Reuters. "In the long run we need to create positive spirals in these neighborhoods."

The police said they had called in backup from the cities of Malmo and Gothenburg. Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt held an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the crisis.

MASKED YOUTHS

The spree of destruction has seen masked youths vandalize schools, libraries and police stations, setting cars alight and hurling stones at police and firefighters.

It was sparked by the fatal police shooting earlier this month of a 69-year man, reported by local media to be a Portuguese immigrant and suspected of wielding a large knife, in the Stockholm suburb of Husby.

The scale of riots pales to the disturbances seen in London and Paris in recent years and there have been almost no injuries. Much of the capital has gone about business as normal.

But the violence - with more than 100 cars set ablaze this week - has shocked a nation that has long taken pride in its generous social safety net.

Some seven years of centre-right rule, however, have chipped away at benefits, while some communities have struggled to cope with the heavy wave of immigration they are seeing from Syria and other war-torn countries.

Youth unemployment is especially high in neighborhoods such as the ones where the riots have taken place, home to asylum seekers from Iraq to Somalia, Afghanistan and Latin America.

About 15 percent of Sweden's population is foreign born. While many are from neighboring Nordic countries, others are drawn by the country's policy of welcoming asylum seekers from war-torn countries.

Kicki Haak, head of the small Montessori school that was set alight in Kista on Thursday night, said she did not know if it would be able to reopen. The 94 students will move into improvised classrooms in nearby office buildings on Monday.

"Five nights in a row - it's incomprehensible," said Faisal Lugh, whose two children are pupils at the school.

"My children asked about the things they had there: 'How about my books? My rain jacket? My pictures? Are they all gone?'" said Lugh, who works for an unemployment office and often helps new immigrants find jobs.

FRUSTRATED RESIDENTS

There are signs that residents in the affected areas are getting fed up with the violence. Many community leaders, dressed in fluorescent jackets, have taken to the streets to try to calm things down.

"When will it stop?" said Maryam Rahimi, who works at a school in Husby that was vandalized.

Risto Kajanto, brother-in-law of the man who was shot dead, told Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet he condemned the violence.

"I want to say to all those who are burning cars that it is totally wrong to react that way," he said.

One recent government study showed up to a third of young people aged 16 to 29 in some of the most deprived areas of Sweden's big cities neither study nor have a job.

The gap between rich and poor in Sweden is growing faster than in any other major nation, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, although absolute poverty remains uncommon.

http://news.yahoo.com/violence-spreads-outside-swedish-capital-violence-abates-001206028.html

Enjoy the Diversity.....

MULTICULTURALISM IS A DISASTROUSLY FAILED IDEA!
For years, Sweden – one of Europe’s most tranquil countries, famous for its attractive immigration policies and generous welfare system – has been accepting an influx of immigrants, which now make up about 15 per cent of its population. These migrants have failed to integrate into Swedish society, and are only in the country to enjoy the country’s social benefits system, Swedish journalist Ingrid Carlqvist told RT.

“The problem is not from the Swedish government or from the Swedish people,” the editor in chief of Dispatch International said. “The last 20 years or so, we have seen so many immigrants coming to Sweden that really don’t like Sweden. They do not want to integrate, they do not want to live in [Swedish] society: Working, paying taxes and so on.”

“The people come here now because they know that Sweden will give them money for nothing. They don’t have to work, they don’t have to pay taxes – they can just stay here and get a lot of money. That is really a problem,” Carlqvist added.

“The police could do so much, [instead] they have told the public that they mean to do as little as possible. But they could go there and use water cannons, they could not let people out onto the streets at night. There are so many things they could do within the law – but they don’t do it,” she said.

Young Muslims who enjoy tolerance, social institutions and welfare while living in Sweden nevertheless refuse to integrate into the West, Gerolf Annemans told RT. Annemans is the parliamentary leader of Vlaams Belang (‘Flemish Interest’), a Belgian far-right nationalist political party.

ainitfunny said:

THIS IS WHAT HIGH CAPACITY MAGAZINES ARE DESIGNED TO DEAL WITH AND WHY THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY NEEDED.
We will NOT allow a "RWANDA STYLE" MACHETE SLAUGHTER OF UNARMED WHITE PEOPLE BY OUR "GUESTS," those we have given asylum and refuge !

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AMEN!!! Aintitfunny, my thoughts exactly.

Men, women, children, elderly and even babies were hacked to death, even those taking refuge in churches. The churches will filled with hacked apart unarmed people.

Rwanda 1994 800,000 Deaths

Beginning on April 6, 1994, and for the next hundred days, up to 800,000 Tutsis were killed by Hutu militia using clubs and machetes, with as many as 10,000 killed each day.

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It made me sick to my stomach that the whole world KNEW the slaughter that was going on DAILY, for a HUNDRED DAYS, and DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO STOP IT.
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/rwanda.htm

CoachTankersly2: RT @cutiepi2u: PATRIOTS DEFENDING THEIR COUNTRY! Swedish nationalists reportedly battling Muslim rioters http://t.co/rurbdtTIzB #sweden #tcot #Islam #BRTT
Saturday, May 25, 2013 8:07:18 PM

Swedish nationalists reportedly battling Muslim rioters

Following an announcement by the Stockholm chief of police that they were not going to fight the rioters, nationalists in Sweden began organizing patrols. Muslim immigrants, largely Somalians, have been rioting and setting fires since Sunday night.

Reports are being posted online that large numbers of young Swedish men are now patrolling Stockholm and battling with the Muslim rioters.

The Swedish media states that a large number of police mobilized to prevent “50 right-wing extremists” from patrolling the streets of Tumba, a suburb of Stockholm.

http://topconservativenews.com/2013/05/swedish-nationalists-reportedly-battling-muslim-rioters/

Some of the comments:

Andrew Sooter • 21 hours ago

if the police aren't going to protect the citizens then someone has to. let the nationalist defend themselves and protect their homes



Avatar
Lawl Wut • 16 hours ago

Wait... So the police won't mobilize to stop the rioters, but they will mobilize to stop people who are trying to stop the rioters?

What in the hell is wrong with that country!! Let it burn. Even if these people tried to defend their town, they are only a tiny tiny minority. I bet the vast majority of Swedes are ok with the rioting, or they say they are out of fear of being called a racist.

I'm not even white, but come on MAN THE F*CK UP they are immigrants burning down your capitol.



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IanSankey • 13 hours ago

so - it's fine for muslims to riot and destroy... but as soon as the locals try to defend themselves they're stopped by the police? *** facepalm *** - no wonder islamists are laughing at us.
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crusader2010 • 15 hours ago

That's because The Swedish police are cowards, the world already knows this.

Artur from Poland • 13 hours ago

It is so funny. Police were not going to fight the rioters but were fight the people who protect your city. European political correctness destroy European culture and goverments will be only watching. What you do when in 2020-2030 Netherlands will be muslim?

Read the rest for yourself............

mzkitty said:

CoachTankersly2: RT @cutiepi2u: PATRIOTS DEFENDING THEIR COUNTRY! Swedish nationalists reportedly battling Muslim rioters http://t.co/rurbdtTIzB #sweden #tcot #Islam #BRTT
Saturday, May 25, 2013 8:07:18 PM

Swedish nationalists reportedly battling Muslim rioters

Following an announcement by the Stockholm chief of police that they were not going to fight the rioters, nationalists in Sweden began organizing patrols. Muslim immigrants, largely Somalians, have been rioting and setting fires since Sunday night.

Reports are being posted online that large numbers of young Swedish men are now patrolling Stockholm and battling with the Muslim rioters.

The Swedish media states that a large number of police mobilized to prevent “50 right-wing extremists” from patrolling the streets of Tumba, a suburb of Stockholm.

http://topconservativenews.com/2013/05/swedish-nationalists-reportedly-battling-muslim-rioters/

Some of the comments:

Andrew Sooter • 21 hours ago

if the police aren't going to protect the citizens then someone has to. let the nationalist defend themselves and protect their homes



Avatar
Lawl Wut • 16 hours ago

Wait... So the police won't mobilize to stop the rioters, but they will mobilize to stop people who are trying to stop the rioters?

What in the hell is wrong with that country!! Let it burn. Even if these people tried to defend their town, they are only a tiny tiny minority. I bet the vast majority of Swedes are ok with the rioting, or they say they are out of fear of being called a racist.

I'm not even white, but come on MAN THE F*CK UP they are immigrants burning down your capitol.



Avatar
IanSankey • 13 hours ago

so - it's fine for muslims to riot and destroy... but as soon as the locals try to defend themselves they're stopped by the police? *** facepalm *** - no wonder islamists are laughing at us.
61

crusader2010 • 15 hours ago

That's because The Swedish police are cowards, the world already knows this.

Artur from Poland • 13 hours ago

It is so funny. Police were not going to fight the rioters but were fight the people who protect your city. European political correctness destroy European culture and goverments will be only watching. What you do when in 2020-2030 Netherlands will be muslim?

Read the rest for yourself............

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Kill the cops first.......

ShirazJetha: #Stockholm #riots leave #Sweden's dreams of perfect society up in smoke. http://t.co/PvYWeL17eb
Saturday, May 25, 2013 9:22:28 PM

Stockholm riots leave Sweden's dreams of perfect society up in smoke

A week of disturbances in Sweden's capital has tested the Scandinavian nation's reputation for tolerance

Like the millions of other ordinary Swedes whom he now sees himself as one of, Mohammed Abbas fears his dream society is now under threat. When he first arrived in Stockholm as refugee from Iran in 1994, the vast Husby council estate where he settled was a mixture of locals and foreigners, a melting pot for what was supposed to be a harmonious, multi-racial paradise.

Two decades on, though, "white flight" has left only one in five of Husby's flats occupied by ethnic Swedes, and many of their immigrant replacements do not seem to share his view that a new life in Sweden is a dream come true. Last week, the neighbourhood erupted into rioting, sparking some of the fiercest urban unrest that Sweden has seen in decades, and a new debate about the success of racial integration.

"In the old days, the neighbourhood was more Swedish and life felt like a dream, but now there are just too many foreigners, and a new generation that has grown up here with just their own culture," he said, gesturing towards the hooded youths milling around in Husby's pedestrianised shopping precinct.

"Also, in Sweden you cannot hit your children to discipline them, and this is a problem for foreign parents. The kids can feel they can cause whatever trouble they want, and the police don't even arrest any of them most of the time."

This weekend, after six consecutive nights of rioting, Mr Mohammed was not the only one questioning the Swedish social model's preference for the carrot over the stick. Many Swedes were left asking why a country that prides itself on a generous welfare state, liberal social attitudes and a welcoming attitude towards immigrants should ever have race riots in the first place.

Long, continued here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ns-dreams-of-perfect-society-up-in-smoke.html

ViolenceAWhites: Muslim immigrant blames #Stockholm riot on the fact that Sweden won't let parents hit their children. So why aren't native Swedes rioting?
Saturday, May 25, 2013 8:47:06 PM

blondadreads: RT @b9AcE: According to major newspaper Expressen, the police have used tear gas in #Jordbro, south of #Stockholm. #SthlmRiots
Saturday, May 25, 2013 8:38:48 PM

spur_dahlin: RT @Rene75205: Coming to the USA after they are done with Europe #stockholm #sweden http://t.co/dUFUGr7Rpt
Saturday, May 25, 2013 9:49:54 PM

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Where in the world did you dig this up from?

Ragnarok this cartoon is from my local paper and Glen McCoy is from my home town.

www.bnd.com

His political cartoons are always in the speak out section getting slammed by the Left due to McCoy right of center views.

He is such a hoot imo!

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Police Hunt for Sweden Rioters After Violent Week
STOCKHOLM May 26, 2013 (AP)

Swedish police say they are looking for perpetrators involved in the weeklong riots in Stockholm suburbs that have resulted in some 220 reported crimes.

Summing up a week of violence and destruction, police spokesman Kjell Lindgren says around 60 people have been detained, suspected of various crimes, although most of them have been released awaiting charges.

He says the police investigation shows both organized rioters, seasoned criminals and young teenagers have been involved in burning cars, smashing windows and throwing rocks at police in the low-income, predominantly immigrant areas of the Swedish capital.

The unrest in the Stockholm suburbs, which has now largely subsided, was sparked by perceived police brutality after officers shot and killed a knife-wielding man who had locked himself in his apartment.

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Unrest flares across Sweden's suburbs
By Richard Orange
5:30 AM Monday May 27, 2013

Week-long riots causing bewilderment and dismay in one of Europe's most immigrant-friendly nations.

The pace of the neighbourhood watch suddenly picks up. "Here's the fire we've been waiting for," grins Samiy, an Iraqi in a bulky jacket.

It's 2.30am and Samiy, along with dozens of others from local Islamic groups and community organisations, has spent the night patrolling the streets of Husby, Stockholm's centre of riots.

Soon there's an acrid stench of burning plastic, and flickers become visible around the footbridge that the group is now jogging towards. A dumper truck on the road below is burning as a crowd of young men look on. Most claim to be watchmen.

But as soon as a fire engine arrives, 10 or more rush to the bridge and begin pelting a firefighter who runs up.

"It's enough. It's enough," cries Jamil Hakim, from a group called Safe Husby. "Two nights was fun. But it's enough. It's not fun any more."

The crowd turns to see a phalanx of police in full riot gear marching up a ramp to the bridge, protected by a wall of transparent shields. Immediately, the stone throwers - most barely more than children - sprint into the darkness, while Hakim confronts the police. "Get lost! Please, just disappear," he says.

By yesterday, the usually calm Swedish capital had been rocked by a week of disorder, with up to 200 cars set ablaze, fires in schools, police stations and restaurants, and about a dozen police officers injured. Police estimate more than 300 young people have been directly involved, of whom 30 have been arrested.

What began in Husby last Monday has spread to more than a dozen of the city's other suburbs. And on Saturday, while police reported a quieter night in the capital, fires and stone-throwing were also reported in Uppsala, Sodertalje, and even further afield in Linkoping and Orebro, in central Sweden.

The morning after the truck-burning, however, Husby seems idyllic.

There's a busy vegetable stall in the main square and a group of elderly men sipping beer in the sun. The rows of seven-storey blocks, built in the 1960s and 1970s as part of Sweden's "million homes" project, are all freshly painted, the gardens and playgrounds well-tended.

Outside the new library, which opened last month, another ethnically Swedish handyman is busy painting. "This place behind me, they've just spent 40 million kronor [$7.5 million] on it," he grumbles. "They don't talk about that when they talk to the TV. These people, they should integrate in this society and just try a little bit more to be like Swedish citizens."

This is a sentiment shared by many in a country that arguably has the world's most generous asylum policies. Sweden has taken in more than 11,000 refugees from Syria since 2012, more per head than any other European country. It has absorbed more than 100,000 Iraqis and 40,000 Somalis over the past two decades. About 1.8 million of its 9.5 million people are first- or second-generation immigrants.

"This is one of the countries that treats immigrants the best," says Mohammed Hassan, a Bangladeshi studying in Husby's new library, who previously lived in Brick Lane in east London. "It's much, much better than any other European country in which I've travelled."

So it has come as a shock for many Swedes to discover the scale of resentment. It's not hard to find it. Aleks, whose parents came from Kosovo, says: "I hate the police. I hate the cops. I think setting fire to cars in the neighbourhood should stop, but I don't think throwing rocks at the cops should stop."

The trigger for the riots - police shooting dead a 69-year-old Portuguese man called Lenine Relvas-Martins - has been dismissed as an excuse. But his neighbours are still incensed.

"They had a bastard-load of police here. You would have thought there was a huge group of terrorists, not a man with a little knife," complains Milos, 73, Relvas-Martins' neighbour since 1984.

"If he was Swedish they never would have shot him. I'm sure about that."

Martins had been brandishing a knife on his balcony, angry after a confrontation with local youths. Police then broke into his house and shot him in front of his Finnish wife. They say she was at risk. She denies it.

The police then inflamed the situation last Monday, reportedly calling young people causing a disturbance "monkeys" and "negroes".

"The politicians are thinking the wrong way. They want to help people, but you never help people when you put 30,000 to 50,000 in one place," complains the man painting at the library.

Camila Salazar, who works for Fryshuset, a Stockholm youth organisation, says: "For a lot of people who live in segregated areas, the only Swedes they meet are social workers or police officers. It's amazing how many have never had a Swedish friend."

A third of the 2500 white, ethnic Swedes who lived in Husby 10 years ago have left. "My children say: 'Why don't you leave there? All the Swedish have gone,"' complains Milos. "There's only three Swedish families left in this whole block."

Inequality has also grown faster in Sweden over the past decade than in any other developed country, according to think-tank the OECD, which puts the blame partly on tax cuts paid for by reductions in welfare spending.

According to official statistics, more than 10 per cent of those aged 25 to 55 in Husby are unemployed, compared with 3.5 per cent in Stockholm as a whole. Esmail Jamshidi, a 23-year-old medical student born and educated in Husby, says young people don't lack opportunities.

"It's a very recent development, this ghetto mentality," he says.

The older generation of immigrants seems as puzzled by the anger as Swedes. Ali, the owner of Cafe Unic, a Persian cafe in Husby's main square, says he tried living in America but came back. "I love this country. I mean it," he says. "I'm telling my kids every day to remember that you are born here, in Sweden.

- Observer
By Richard Orange

Sweden's riots raise questions about inequality
Sweden braced for more violence
Stockholm police brace for more unrest
Youths torch restaurant, cars in Sweden riots

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Stockholm residents are tired of rioting that has spread to other towns (Video)

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May 26, 2013
By: Edith Allen

Stockholm residents are tired of rioting that started seven days ago and has spread to other towns. The riots started on May 19 after police killed a 69-year-old Portuguese immigrant in the southern suburb of Husby. Observers quickly noticed that the rioters were from all kinds of neighborhoods and ethnic groups. It was clear that Europe's "dream society" was experiencing the same type of widespread unrest that occurred in London in 2011. Mats Lofven is the Chief Commissioner of the Stockholm police. He claimed that three types of individuals were involved in the riots: local youth, known criminals and a small group of violent extreme-leftist “professional activists. According to a May 26 Bloomberg Businessweek article, others view the rioting through a less conservative political lens. They saw rioting by disaffected and unemployed immigrant youth, opportunistic criminals and extremists from both the right and left. They see the riots as the obvious outcomes of racial tensions, high unemployment and income inequality in the poorer suburbs where immigrants live.

According to a May 26 BBC News article, rioting continued for Sunday night as about 20 cars were burned. Rioters also vandalized a school and a store during the second Sunday night of unrest. Thirty-two people were arrested and charged with acts of “social unrest.” Even though the violence seems to have lessened a little, police have called in reinforcements.

The rioting has spread to other towns. Police dodged rocks in Vaarberg, south of Stockholm. A group of 25 rioters set fire to a school and three cars in Orebro. An empty building was set ablaze in Sodertalje and arsonists set fires in Linkoping.

It is easy to say that Sweden needs to do more to integrate a large population of refugees and immigrants. The nation is a long way from getting disaffected youth to do well in school, stay out of the streets and gain social acceptance as dark skinned, poor people. There is more going on with these riots, however. The rioters may be citizens from prosperous communities or they may be immigrants who live in poor, ghettoized suburbs. Sweden's dream of helping people escape their war torn nations of origin will have to take some new directions. Sweden's own disaffected youth are another matter that requires attention.

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Stockholm residents are tired of rioting that has spread to other towns (Video)

Top News
May 26, 2013
By: Edith Allen

Stockholm residents are tired of rioting that started seven days ago and has spread to other towns. The riots started on May 19 after police killed a 69-year-old Portuguese immigrant in the southern suburb of Husby. Observers quickly noticed that the rioters were from all kinds of neighborhoods and ethnic groups. It was clear that Europe's "dream society" was experiencing the same type of widespread unrest that occurred in London in 2011. Mats Lofven is the Chief Commissioner of the Stockholm police. He claimed that three types of individuals were involved in the riots: local youth, known criminals and a small group of violent extreme-leftist “professional activists. According to a May 26 Bloomberg Businessweek article, others view the rioting through a less conservative political lens. They saw rioting by disaffected and unemployed immigrant youth, opportunistic criminals and extremists from both the right and left. They see the riots as the obvious outcomes of racial tensions, high unemployment and income inequality in the poorer suburbs where immigrants live.

According to a May 26 BBC News article, rioting continued for Sunday night as about 20 cars were burned. Rioters also vandalized a school and a store during the second Sunday night of unrest. Thirty-two people were arrested and charged with acts of “social unrest.” Even though the violence seems to have lessened a little, police have called in reinforcements.

The rioting has spread to other towns. Police dodged rocks in Vaarberg, south of Stockholm. A group of 25 rioters set fire to a school and three cars in Orebro. An empty building was set ablaze in Sodertalje and arsonists set fires in Linkoping.

It is easy to say that Sweden needs to do more to integrate a large population of refugees and immigrants. The nation is a long way from getting disaffected youth to do well in school, stay out of the streets and gain social acceptance as dark skinned, poor people. There is more going on with these riots, however. The rioters may be citizens from prosperous communities or they may be immigrants who live in poor, ghettoized suburbs. Sweden's dream of helping people escape their war torn nations of origin will have to take some new directions. Sweden's own disaffected youth are another matter that requires attention.

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This article reminds me of the "progressive" ad where "Flo" is trying to cuddle or pet a badger - the badger does NOT like to be "cuddled" but you know Flo, she is determined.
Sweden has brought in what appears to be the dregs from other countries to "try" to give them a chance for what Sweden considers a better life - unfortunately, the dregs do not like Sweden's culture and are GOING TO CHANGE IT NO MATTER WHAT.
Sweden, wake up, you are committing suicide.
Or . . . have you already?

Okay Stockholm, not Stockton California.... I need new reading glasses.

In Rwanda.........a spirit of carnage run amok............anywhere in the world Muslims cannot tolerate/integrate it's against the very religious spirit which enthralls them....to them it's do or die...and they care not why you resist.............

Islam is not compatible with liberty......never has been and never will be.........

it's encroaching every day.............from traitorous colleges, corporations, DeeCee and all it's affiliates...............NEVER SURRENDER YOUR RIGHTS TO SELF DEFENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!