February 14, 2012
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More than ten cars were set alight in a series of arson attacks across Malmö on Sunday night. Police were unable to confirm on Monday whether the attacks were linked.
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Don't get me wrong, in my opinion Sweden is a far better country than the UK or Ireland to live in, by far.
However Sweden needs to round up its politicians, police, prosecutors and judges, put them in a mental institution, then replace them with people who can actually do there job.
You wrote that "It has more to do with level of education rather than IQ or nationality"
I agree and this why some communities should push wohman to get good educations and jobs indstead of dressing them with niqab while being on welfare....
P.S. By the way, I am aware that the car burnings are not directly related to religion unrest. I'm only commenting what other have posted here before, like @Greg in Canada, @DreEstwd etc.
christian africans, christian Lebanese and Syrians, buddhists, jews, druse, hindu, gypsies, pagan, tao etc are perfectly capable of adjusting to the Catholic/Protestant european way of life. And by the way, there is no religion that is not in a conflict with Islam SOMEWHERE in the world. Because the essence of Islam is not to adjust yourself to others, but to make others like yourself. There is always a favourable point in heaven if one converts an infidel. There are also favourable points for acting if the infidel is too stubborn.
Governments talk about integration etc etc, but never put enough money into the right resources to deal with the core issues. And then muppets like you make stupid comments. Do you know that probably 90% of crime is down to Swedes!? Does that mean that we shouldn't trust Swedish people in general? Of course not!
If it weren't for immigrants, idiots like you would have to do the jobs that you deem beneath you like office cleaning, etc. You tend to hear about the Eastern block people who have gone abroad for work and they work harder and better than the locals while providing a professional job at less cost.
In essence, Sweden didn't invest in the structure to deal with the high number of immigrants that it kindly granted asyslum to. Add to that mismanagement and you will get trouble. If it couldn't afford it to do the job properly, Sweden should have reduced the number until it could cope. Furthermore, they have to monitor work applications to ensure that discrimnation is minimal. It's difficult enough to get a job when you're a white westerner, but if you're from Iraq etc, life becomes even tougher.
This is all a result of a very law birth rate in Europe and the need to maintain services to aging population. If "Western" "values" in Western Europe will disappear one day - it is not because of Muslims moving in. They are just filling a void - that they did not create.
How ironic it is that the survival of the fittest is dependent upon birth rate at the end of the day. - That means that the religious high birth rate will out survive the Darwinian Atheist (assuming they have a very low birthrate).
And to Europe I must say : Enjoy!
Islam. The religion of Peace!
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But it's true that the few childs that we can see in Toronto are a lot more from family coming from superstituous countries (you know, where they want to stay because it's so enjoyable to live there).
I can even tell you that in few years from now, Toronto will change its name for New Islamabad.
Enjoy!
Seems that the wiser Swedes already see the writing on the wall and think that Sharia law is not so far away.
A leading Swedish politician said so much recently,recommending that any Swedes not leaving should be kind to the immigrants in the hope that the kindness is repaid when the day of judgement comes around.
As for Sharia law in Sweden...that is sensationalist garbage.
44,908 in year 06 to 07,...1% of the population,...highest in 100 years.
Soon Swedes could all be gone,...however I believe immigration is about double that rate at least, so maybe my last comment is not so far off the mark.
see also Swedish Chronology
As far as Sharia law is concerned, most Muslim countries don't have it (many countries have a form of sharia law that governs only internal family issues). Majority of Muslims would say that sharia law is best law but when it comes to voting for it, majority will keep silent.
Islamic culture is just stronger.......
Also, how do Swedes equate diversity with the overwhelming number of immigrants coming from a very small cross-section of the world?
Enjoy money and diversity!
"The reason why Christians and Jews fit better than Muslims is because they have had much more time to adjust "
No, because in essence Judaism is not missionary and a basis for Christianity is peace. While both are opposite for Islam.
Besides, they had 13 centuries to adjust. How slow one has to be, not to adjust to values of not not considering a woman as a lower being, not spreading your religion with constant violence, not beating your children, not allow judicial system to cut off hands and allow killing of your own daughter. Seriously? How much longer do they need to adjust?
see this link for comparison of both documents:
http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/Ohmyrus30816.htm
Sharia law puts a lot of restrictions on both men and women. Signing of that statement is equivalent to a Muslim country saying "Islam is the only true religion". It is almost undisputed that if anyone steals (except few cases in which he is forgiven (e.g. if he steals food or anything else to survive, etc)) his hand should be cut off, even then very few Muslim countries implement this law. It has been almost 20 years, and still most countries have not tried to put full fledged Sharia law in practice. The declaration they signed simply said that Sharia law was best law, if it had mentioned what Sharia law required them to do, there would have been many countries that would have abstained from signing. Another way of looking at it is most Islamic countries are not following "Cairo Declaration".
@Uncle
Muslims also claim that "Islam is a religion of peace" just like all other religions. Islam does not say that women are lower than men, it says that they are different than men so they have to lead different lives (primary purpose of man is to provide for his family and woman to take care of children and house). Women had more right in Muslim world (could inherit, earn, keep property, divorce their husband) compared to Europe during first 10 or so centuries of Islam, i admit that even though Europe was late in granting them rights, it has surpassed Islam. I find it strange that lot more (almost 4 or 5 times) women convert to Islam compared to men. I doubt that any popular organization in Islamic world is spreading Islam with violence. Don't blame what small minority of Muslims do especially stuff which is illegal in Muslim countries. Just like no one blames Christianity because 1/4th of South Africa's male children think that it is fun to gang rape, or that more than 20% of women have been raped at least once in their life. Africa is only place where Christians are living in conditions comparable to that of some Muslim countries. In those countries crimes are high, rapes and wars are common, women don't have rights. When you compare African christian countries with African Muslim countries, the differences are minor compared to differences with European countries.
I was not talking about mainstream Christians or Jews in last post, i was only talking about their Holy Books (they are filled with stories or laws that no one can even suggest to be introduced in any developed country). here are few examples (you can find many similar orders or permissions by GOD to kill people in the book of peaceful Christianity):
1)Buying slaves
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?searc...amp;version=31;
2)GOD instructs to kill anyone who worships a different god
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?searc...amp;version=31;
3)Few more rules about slavery and selling of daughter
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?searc...amp;version=31;
4)Burning of daughter
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?searc...amp;version=31;
5)Smashing babies to rocks
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?searc...amp;version=31;
Even if you look at Catholic church (although it has reformed a lot), it still opposes birth control, homosexual relations, premarital sex, women can't hold top positions and many more things that are against western culture. Similarly some Jews follow laws like, Sabbath, no premarital sex, homosexuality is not allowed, no pork, etc.
Majority of Christians and Jews rejected most barbaric ideas only in last few centuries. I find it fascinating when people claim that Christianity or Judaism have nothing in common with Islam. Islam is just a newer version of older two religions. Anyway it is not the fault of Europeans that Muslims are living in the past.
As far as this issue is concerned, i blame Swedish authorities (in addition to immigrants who did this) because they did not filter immigrants properly, they should not accept more immigrants than they can handle. They should try much more harder to integrate them in Swedish society or at least put them to some work. Keep in mind that people who cause problems like this are usually among the poorer immigrants. Those immigrants who have decent jobs or are leading decent lives are lot less likely (maybe even less likely than average swede) to commit any crime.
Bukhari 6:60:79 "So the Prophet (Mohamed) ordered the two adulterers to be stoned to death...I saw her companion (male adulterer) bowing over her so as to protect her from the stones." Small wonder Moslems never want to talk about Mohamed.
At the time I said, " Our politicians are litteraly letting the Trojan Horse inside our gates." With regards to immigration policy.
Not only is the horse comfortably inside the gate, but the enemy has easily disembarked and surrounds us all.
The west is screwed.
Honor Killing (killing of a family member or the other person involved by family members) has nothing to do with Sharia (it also happens in few non-Muslim countries by non-Muslims e.g. India (Hindus), South America), it is illegal in most countries (although some of these countries have lenient punishments). Sharia law does punish people for adultery (punishment range from lashes to stoning depending on country) but it is very difficult to prove adultery, normally 4 witnesses are required.
You mentioned stoning, i would just like to clarify few things. I do not know the source of the incidence that you mentioned, If source was very reliable then all Muslim countries in which adultery is crime and handled by Sharia law would have stoning as its punishment.
Another thing, the image of Muhammad that people in West have is extremely different from what Muslims have. The stories that Muslims (majority) read or hear while growing up are close to a perfect person, honest, truthful, forgiving, fair, non-violent (almost all battles he fought, he was under attack), keeps his word, works side by side other people, against cruelty to animals or plants, gives a lot of importance to education, etc.
The reason why I dislike all three monotheistic religions is because they share the same flaws. Thick books, in which most things are open to interpretation, one can draw multiple meanings if one wants to. It is more important for all 3 religions to believe in their version of GOD than being a good person.
Here are some examples from NT (just to show that NT (much better than OT) is still not free from violence or unreasonable laws):
1)Kill my enemies
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?searc...amp;version=31;
2)Beating slaves
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?searc...amp;version=49;
3)Don't think about any woman sexually AND divorce for any reason other than adultery is not allowed
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?searc...amp;version=31;
4)Something for gays
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?searc...amp;version=31;
5)Women should be submissive to their master (husband)
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?searc...amp;version=31;
6)as the church submits to Christ, wives should submit to their husbands in everything
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?searc...amp;version=31;
7)Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?searc...amp;version=31;
Not being missionary and forcing laws on anybody is a significant difference that should be acknowledged. Furthermore, Jews are maybe 12-13 million in the whole world and when it comes to Sweden, the Jewish population is now roughly 18,000 - with a very low birth rate - a negligible minority (compared to Muslim Swedes are around 250,000-500,000).
It is just that 98% of terrorists in the world are actually taking it literally. You should sit on islamist sites and convince them what Mohammad "actually meant". Don't lose your head.
not all muslims are behaving out of religious motives we must look at hte wider picture the social and economic and demographic conditions
one important example is that we forget that the neighbour finland just few miles away has an old minortity of muslims since the days of russian occupation why didnot the finnish colmplain as the swedish do now .THINK
this ISLAMOPHOBOIA is not helping anybody but the bad truth that the western civilization just always needs an enemy
when muslims were occupying spain the wetsern scholars went there to learn from the muslim scientists like bin rushd then later started the western renaissence when are we look to civilization as a human one not eastern or WESTERN
Besides this only proves that there is no ISLAMOPHOBIA in the west when the Muslims are not practicing PYROMANIA. Namely Muslims are actually DOING something in order to get this dislike and to offload everything on unreasonable phobias is becoming harder and harder.
As well as blaming the socio-economic situation, when comparing muslims to the poor hindu and buddhists.
Get out a map of the world
Put a red pin in every location where there is a conflict or "hotspot"
Now take out the pins where Muslims living next to someone else is not a factor
What are you holding? North Korea?
"The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness."
In all 'hotspots' or 'conflicts' you see US' presence even in North Korea, I can not draw a conclusion however,
Who are the drivers (financial supporters) of child traffic and pornography, drug traffic and mafia?? who are doing collective, race killings and rapes in Africa??
simply making a general statement is hard..
Islamic culture is just stronger
Islamic culture is only stronger because the West has been guilted into weakness. They'll awaken, kick these self loathing progressive types out of office and remember just how it was they got to the top of the food chain.
Hopefully it won't be too late and hopefully too many American boys won't die to save Europe's bacon from the fire. Again.
Nice. A quote about fear from the people who rely on terror as a political tool. I guess you'd know, you guys wrote the book.
The U.S. is in North Korea? Really?
Who are the drivers of the narcotics and slave trade? Again - islamists. The situation in Africa, when it isn't being exacerbated by muslims, is due to tribal conflict. You can't justify clinging to a medieval culture by pointing to a neolithic one that is worse.
" I guess you'd know, you guys wrote the book."
well the quote is from a journalst (Dorothy Thompson) a Anti-nazi writer, she was against terror! firing cars is not a terror, terror would be a big disaster if it happens in Sweden but terrorists i hope never succeed here.
this is a conflict. if Sweden likes diversity the conflict is inevitable. situation in EU is exacerbated by social systems since they have raised up expectations. there could be just a little fear if these conflicts turn into terror..
When I was in Sweden 3 years ago I saw lots of Arabs/Persians/Muslims. Whenever and wherever I saw them they were usually in groups of other Arabs/Persians/Muslims.
We also visited Helsinki, Finland. In Finland there were fewer obvious immigrants, but there were some. There were more Indians(subcontinent) and Asians. More often when you saw them in groups, they were with Finns.