February 13, 2012
Published: 22 May 09 11:56 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/19598/20090522/
Nearly half of the predominantly Iraqi-refugees residing in Vännäs in northern Sweden have decided to permanently move out of the area after being terrorized by what police called “a lynch mob” in early May.
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Fin means anyhting from sweet to proper. When someone says, Du är så fin it's quite a compliment.
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and since the police in SE are meant only to be beautiful the next level of law enforcement is people take it into their own hands..
Simple, it happened in NY during the 80 and it's starting here now..
Ignoring, widespread alcohol abuse, pill popping, sucide level, unsociable, jealousy of each other, two faced, materialistic to the extreme, abuse within marriage and relationships widespread and dillusional about how great the country is.
Kooritze is a tough on sweden, the whole world is guilty of most of that, except for the unsociable part.
Thanks for drawing our attention to the typos. They have since been corrected.
Cheers.
David Landes
The Local
*happened with 'boat people' many years back*
I conclude that I can't take anything I read at face value, particularly when source data is nonexistent. Puffin, is there an article in Swedish that you have read?
your response is commensurate with the expected professionalism already mentioned,thank you.But at the risk of seeming petty-"the may 9th incident resulted in several windows and many frightened refugees" several windows...hmm anyway they say third times a charm.
yours "Green Swede"
"Taking Revenge" is not a sign of wise community and immigrants did not deserve any amount of response, simply due to their ignorance about laws in Sweden. It is good to see this community welcoming back their immigrant friends.
you can have you're ' e,but then again i ain't editing a major online newspaper, is I?
girl issue is the main cause of dispute of gujarat riots in india where thousands of muslims are killed in riots.
where ever muslims are there this kind of riots are very common. police have lot of work to controll these muslims.
muslims proved that they are controvercial in sweden also.
there is no problem with other immigrants from vietnam or thailand or china. in recent weeks there are lot of controversies about these muslims in sweden from southern malmo to north umeå.
"We all cried and screamed. We spent the whole night lying in the hall and held each other tightly." --- I knew it! The police are in on it!!! They refused to even show up when they got the 112 call!
Sorry this article was very poorly written and had too much sensationalism. 30 to 50 young fascist skin heads attacking every single immigrant family in the building!!!
Get more facts before creating perceived racial problems, where there really may be no problems, by sensationalizing an event!
left a broken windows,a 16 yr old glass cut face.
what if that glass hit an eye? sliced the throat?
does it make sence to live in an unsafe enviroment because one wasn't safe at home?
May be these type of victims should reseek assylum from migrations verket to live in another town.
Those few Swedes who are critical of Iraqi and Afgani 'refugees' will not be so
When they know how many billions Sweden will make out of reconstruction contracts, telecom, selling Trucks, and weapons (bofors, gripen etc etc)
Ever wonder why Sweden imports oil from the ME than from Norway.
Because it is cheap .... Cheaper than for some of these 'Third world' countries
Swedish people are racist at a generally higher level than other countries I have visited. I mean for crying out loud... you called chocolate coconut balls n*gger balls up until very recently. That just shows a level of ignorance like no other. Sweden really needs to feel the shame they deserve when it comes to their genophobia.
As far as I can remember Sweden has the most number of passports out of the country per capita in the world... imagine if other countries started to shut their border to you racists. Try making it through winter after winter when you can't fly off to thailand.
there is a serious problem with muslims in india.
almost every school with muslims have same problem like above.
there's even quote in the article of one of the youths of the area who said something like, "the guy who hit her deserves this reaction, but not the collective of the immigrant families"
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/world/europe/28terror.html?_r=1
and Sweden is in Europe...
What can we expect for the future?
They're called negroballs. Sorry if this offends you.
Ignorance? You sure you're using the right word?
Why? We love sex.
Are you Bosnian, by any chance?
now' i wonder if racism is really prejudice due to race(colour) ...i would appreciate hearing your thought.
is it correct to deal with issues of race,culture religion as one??
you are perfectly correct. we read one news in thelocal that one women has 7 children. they grow up very fast.they are humble until they get swedish passport.
once they get swedish passport they will show their power united, want to build mosque. mosque is the good place where they can organize EVERYTHING. if anything happened to the mosque it will became international news.
DO NOT GIVE MILK TO SNAKE.
Think of the time when in few years 50% of the world youth would be Muslims
Radical ones are always a problem ...
About the incidents in India it happens in the North where there is deep distrust but not in the south, where people (generally) leave their religion at home.
It is important not to allow sharia laws or even burqa in schools .... atleast the younger generation should be bound less by religion
Religiousness is the same as racism and nationalism ..... Looks like you need a little bit of all to be considered a 'Good citizen' and too much of any will make one a radical.
http://islamicterrorism.wordpress.com/
you can read a lot . those incidents are not europe . but europe also having same problems now.
You talk about these violent Muslims taking over Sweden and not respecting the Swedish law, but think the behaviour displayed by this group of thugs is justifiable...
Talk about double standards...
I wonder what happened in your lives that makes you so distrustful and scared of anyone that's just not like you. So much so, that you can no longer see the wood for the trees.
http://frontpagemagazine.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30675
I don't care what ideologies or theories sociologists are coming up. I am talking of practical experience. The real world, not on the paper.
I used to feel admiration for Sweden until I learned that you swedes began the same thing that began in France in 1981 where we took an unlimited year by year supply of muslims until we couldn't walk safely on the street of the big cities. Really, if even the swedes do not understand basic facts, who will in this world ? what'll be left ? Norway ? don't think so.
The muslims thrive on demography. Not on work. Not on being able citizens of their country of adoption. They just make lots of kids, live in welfare and wait until they'll be numerous enough to dominate the region.
An Israeli sports team couldn't even play in Sweden recently without having the muslims minorities throw a fit. Reminds me of 1939 Germany. Muslims are oriental nazis.
After a certain threshold the native population can't take it anymore. Be it the British, the Italians, the Greeks, the French, we've all seen the true face of Islam. You've yet to experience its oriental pleasures, 7. Sweden is like a virgin asking for a rape.
A part of the problem is with the administration itself, to make sure things like Sharia or Burqa does not become mainstream just to be PC.
I like to try to be respectful of everyone. In the case of Islam and Christianity/Western Civiliization existing side by side, I have to say that Christianity/WC loses.
Either that or hostility will surely result. The Islamic goal is to take over completely. Where we have seen that take place, the rights of non-Islamic peoples cease to exist.
My vision of multiculturalism, is that everyone ought to have a place on our planet where they can live as they choose, within reason, some vile human cultures being the exception.
Thus the Islamic people have a place to live as they choose. Christians should have a place like that too. I pretty much hold that even some racial boundaries remain somewhat constant. I don’t think the white populace should be allowed to flood Mexico and take over. On the other hand, I don’t think the citizens of Mexico should be able to flood into the U.S. and take over.
White Christians have as much right as any other ethnic group to exist as a majority in some nations.
So what I am really advocating, is not something to so much put limits on other peoples, as to protect the rights of all peoples.
Do we wish to come to a place in time some 25 to 50 years from now, when white northern European decedents will not have majority self-rule status in any existing nation on the earth?
That’s where we are headed. I don’t have animosity toward any race, but I do think mine should also be able to continue. That’ why I stand up and object to where things are headed. It’s not out of hate of others. I honestly love others. It’s out of love for my own kind.
They deserve a place for self-rule. We deserve a place for self-rule. That's not hate. It's not racism. It's not bigotry. It's also not idealistic pollyanna non-achievable BS.
In the times of caliph's when the ME was comparatively modern and wealthy
Many poets could insult their religious leaders or rulers and get away with it. Sadly societies as a whole are no longer liberal as they once used to be.
Even Afganistan before the Taleban had pubs, bars and night clubs but now probably will have none in the open.
i mean for all and any of you who have a real connection to sweden and are on here to post about things related to sweden, or of interest to those of us with a relationship to sweden, the hatred-spewing monotony of repetitious prophesying is so obvious "canned" i.e. generic for any "anti-muslim" message.
this article and this situation occurred in sweden. and the reasons pertain to circumstances in sweden with a swedish flair.
so many of the trite "words of wisdom" echo the same dull message of "or else you'll end up like us in ________(fill in blank)...well, if things are so bad wherever they are they really ought to devote their time an energy to solving the problems where they are rather than "warning" swedes for some inevitable doom they've failed to avoid themselves.
or even worse, they try to hold sweden up to some last stop frontier land which could be their salvation or the last refuge of the great white hope *yawn*
i'd just ignore most of the crap being posted of late, but i'm rather disturbed by readers believing this crap is generaged by either swedes or people who have a clue about sweden.
*sighs
But I am in no way defending extremist Islamic ideals either.
And Hitlers Nazi party was not extreme leftist. Idiot.
Kosovo?
Turkey?