An Intro to ‘One Week in Sweden’
John R. Houk, Editor
Essay by Fjordman
Posted on November 21, 2017
I try to keep tabs on one of my favorite essayists Fjordman.
Fjordman doesn’t get a lot of play in the USA I am guessing because he is from
Norway/EU and is often denounced in Europe as being a Right-Wing Islamophobe.
An accusation that can get you thrown in jail by European Leftist Multicultural
government elites under crazy hate-speech laws.
In case you haven’t read Fjordman essays very often, you
should be aware that Fjordman is a pseudonymous pen name that he used for years
to protect his anonymity. Anonymity was important because of the crazy Muslim
Supremacists dominating European violence who enjoy killing non-Muslims for
criticizing Islam.
Pretty much everyone who knows about Fjordman today knows
his real name of Peder Jensen. He was exposed because the loony
Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik leaned
on twisted interpretation of Fjordman’s essays trying to inspire cultural violence against
Muslims by killing Norwegian youths. Since Breivik seemed to base
most of his twisted thoughts on Fjordman (other
notable Counterjihadists were in his manifesto) essays, the Norwegian
police arrested Fjordman as if he was some kind of Breivik co-conspirator. Although
completely exonerated, Fjordman’s legal name became public knowledge – exposing
him to crazy Muslims.
This happened to Fjordman circa 2011. Fortunately he is
still writing essays. The essay you are about to read demonstrates the correlation
between Muslim refugees/immigrants in Sweden erupting in huge pockets of
violence against Swedish non-Muslims. This is important to Americans, because
the Dem Party wants to continue bringing in Muslims who do not have any
inclination of assimilating into American culture of Religious Liberty and the
Liberty guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.
JRH 11/21/17
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One Week in Sweden
By Fjordman
November 12, 2017 4:30 am
o In Sweden, car-burnings are not major news anymore; they have
become a part of daily life. Cars are torched in Swedish towns on a regular
basis.
o Between January and September 2017, Sweden experienced 6000
car-burnings. That equals roughly 22 car fires per day. Schools and other
buildings are sometimes targeted by arsonists as well.
o
Meanwhile, a report
claims that Swedish students and other citizens have been pushed to the back of
the public-housing queue. The authorities thus sometimes prioritize
recently-arrived asylum seekers and immigrants over the country's native population.
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If you search for crime, you
can find it in any society. Sadly, in Sweden today, you do not have to search
very hard. A casual look at newspapers on any random day will be filled with
stories about armed robberies, sexual assaults, rapes, public gang shootings
and perhaps explosives in restaurants. This crime wave is no longer merely
confined to the major cities. Many smaller towns and some rural communities are
now affected as well.
In some Swedish
municipalities, harassment and violent threats have become major issues even at
public libraries. In the town of Trelleborg,
in the autumn of 2017, a gang of 30-50 youths effectively occupied the local
library. One mother, who asked that her name not be used, explained that she is
now scared to visit the library with her children. The last time she went,
visitors were harassed by a loud, aggressive youth gang. When a guard asked the
gang-members to leave, they surrounded him. The local police say that they are
aware of this problem, but that they do not have sufficient staff to patrol the
library every day.
In October 2017, an
81-year-old Swedish woman in the town of Mölndal was
harassed and threatened by some youths while walking her dog. A few boys around
the age of 12 walked in front of her and blew cigarette smoke in her face; one
of them threatened to attack her dog and her. Then he spat her in her face. The
woman now says that she is afraid to go out. The local police confirm that
elderly people are harassed in similar ways. In a separate incident, some
youths stole a loaf of bread from another woman in her 80s.
On the evening of October 29,
2017, a car was torched in the Muslim-dominated district of Rosengård in
Malmö. On October 30,
another car was torched in the same area. The local daily Sydsvenskan mentioned
these incidents with just a couple of sentences. Why? Because car-burnings have
become a part of daily life. They are not major news anymore. Cars are torched
in Swedish towns on a regular basis.
Between January and
September 2017, Sweden
experienced 6000 car-burnings. That equals roughly 22 car-burnings per day.
(Insurance companies estimate that about half of these incidents are attempts
at insurance fraud.) Schools and other buildings have been targeted by
arsonists, as well.
Cars
burn in the Stockholm suburb of Husby during a riot on May 20, 2013. (Image source: Telefonkiosk/Wikimedia Commons)
The police in parts of Sweden
have also experienced, in recent years, a rising number of violent attacks.
Police vehicles and stations have been targeted; sometimes even policemen in
the privacy of their homes.
On October 29, 2017, a stone
was thrown through the front door of the police station in the small town
of Kinna. A
police station in Dalbo, Växjö
had several windows smashed with stones and was shot at with fireworks. The
local police chief commented that
the police earlier experienced vandalism against their cars, too. A police
station at Vännäs in
northern Sweden was hit by a rock a day earlier.
On October 29, a police patrol
in the town of Linköping was
ambushed by people throwing rocks at them. One policeman was injured, struck in
the face by a stone.
On October 18, a police
station in the southern city of Helsingborg was
hit by an explosion. No one was injured, but a large part of the building, as
well as the windows on the building opposite, were damaged by the blast.
"This is very serious. An attack on the police is not just an attack
against society, but on everyone's safety," said Sweden's National Police
Commissioner, Dan Eliasson.
On October 28, in the middle
of the night, someone fired roughly 20 bullets into the private home of a
police officer in Västerås.
The policeman and his family were asleep at the time. The shots went
straight through the house and into the neighbor's house. According to the
regional police chief Carin Götblad, only luck prevented anyone from being hit.
Despite many such
incidents, Johanna Skinnari,
a researcher at the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention, claims that
it is not possible to determine whether or not attacks on the police are
becoming more common. She did add, however, that "ordinary threats and
harassment" are on the rise. Her research, she explained, found that these
attacks tend to reinforce the "intimidation capital" of the
perpetrators, "to show they're tough and not afraid of the police."
A Swedish policewoman described how
criminals have published photographs of her, her husband and her 2-year-old
son, whom they threatened to murder. She said that similar stories about police
officers in Sweden are now common. Some policemen have begun checking for bombs
under their cars before starting them. As one violent criminal told the
Swedish police: "You are no longer hunting us. We are hunting you. We will
hunt you and your families."
Swedes pay some of the
world's highest taxes. Despite this burden, parts of the country suffer from a
chronic lack of police resources. Many crimes go unsolved. Witnesses are
sometimes afraid of
talking to the police. At other times, the police lack the capacity to
investigate even serious crimes such as murder or
rape.
Being a policeman is not an
attractive job in Sweden today. The risks are high; the salary is
low. The majority of
Swedish police officers -- an alarming 58% -- are considering finding a
different profession.
The police warn that
foreign criminals view
Sweden as a most attractive country. If you steal something, the chances of
being caught are almost zero. If you should be sentenced for a crime, you might
spend only a short time in a comfortable prison. A lot of weapons are
illegally circulating among criminal gangs, from pistols to hand grenades.
A journalist, Ivar Arpi,
commented that parts of the country are no longer under the control of the
state. At many train stations,
libraries and hospitals, threatening and harassing the staff have become a
daily routine. In troubled areas, shops are forced to close: thanks to rampant
crime, they can no longer buy insurance. Throwing stones at the police or
rescue service personnel is now "normal." The use of hand grenades in
attacks in Sweden is
now comparable to regions of Mexico in
which drug cartels operate.
The Gothenburg regional
daily Göteborgs-Posten argues that
a "low-intensity war" is currently being waged against the Swedish
police. This situation exists, the newspaper notes, although the Swedish
economy is still strong. What happens to these tensions if the economy suffers
a downturn?
PO Hellqvist, who has worked for 30 years at the Swedish Security
Service (Säpo), sounded an alarm on a "power struggle" between
Swedish authorities and criminal gangs in certain areas. He says he is
concerned about the growth of parallel societies, complete with their own
"morality police," partly cut off from, and often hostile to, the
rest of society. Such communities have historically been a breeding ground for
terrorism. Hellqvist adds he is even more worried about people who become
radicalized locally than about ISIS jihadists returning from the Middle East.
The local radicals, he notes, are more numerous.
Three employees of Sweden's
public broadcasting station SVT were
convicted of human trafficking after they smuggled a Syrian migrant into Sweden
in 2014. They will not, however, lose their jobs because
of this. At the same time, another Syrian Muslim
migrant was being arrested in Germany; he is suspected of plotting a
mass-murder terrorist attack.
Kjell-Olof Feldt, who served
as a powerful Minister of Finance during most of the 1980s, was widely
respected as an honest and competent minister (even though some of his fellow
Social Democrats thought his economic policies too "right-wing"). In
October 2017, the now-retired Feldt gave an interview to
a Swedish newspaper in which he expressed concerns about the future of his own
party, as well as about the future of Sweden. Feldt says that the way the
established political parties have handled immigration has weakened trust in
politicians. He described the current immigration policies in Sweden as a
"ticking bomb".
When asked what politicians can do to solve these problems, Feldt replied:
"I do not know. I think hardly anyone knows." Current political
leaders, in his view, are simply trying to keep a lid on the situation and
stifle debate.
Meanwhile, a report claims
that Swedish students and other citizens have been pushed to the back of the
public-housing queue. Municipalities across Sweden suffer from a housing
shortage. The authorities, it seems, have sometimes been prioritizing
recently-arrived asylum seekers and
immigrants over the country's native population. The Swedish government is
looking to house 100,000 more immigrants in 2018.
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Fjordman, a Norwegian historian, is an expert on Europe, Islam and
multiculturalism.
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