February 10, 2010
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I don not know why any country accepts extremists or criminals of any color into their country. Equally why would or how could any country deport citizens.
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Why is being against Islamic extremism and extremists of any kind called racism here. Many extremists are white .. They come in all colors ..
Sorry mate you are quite right about good and bad immigrants, I'm an immigrant myself.
However for the sake of my children if I have to choose between a right-wing policies and this reckless immigration policy with is bring all sort of rubbish in, I'll take my chances with the right...
I wish a world free of racism especially the type that leads to murdur!!
"It wasn't long time ago when a BNP(British national party) was suggesting to sink the boats..."
Crossing territorial waters without permission is an aggression and can be considered an act of war. BPN suggestion is valid and effective.
"This is murdur!"
I think you mean murder... Anyway it's not, is protection of international borders. Unfortunately many coming from distant lands don't understand what LAW means.
BTW, paste your comments into a word processor before clicking "Submit." That way, you may not be first, but you may not look so illiterate.
According to your logic recent Americans who mistakenly entered Iranian territory should be killed!! It's funny how you can't comprehend the differece between systematic crossing of border by a state and refugees!! Nobody will start a war with a ruined old boat!
Whether it is written as "murdur" or "murder" it doesn't reduce it's vile consequence that you apparently like to make fun of it.
Many coming from distant lands should be sunk to death for not understanding?!! Considering your support for BNP and far-right activists, I can understand your points!
So from now on, anyone who misspell is an illiterate!! How about killing me for that? Should illiterete people be killed too? Who are next? Muslims, handycaps, Jews,...?!!
"If they were refugees most Northern African countries are classified as safe..."
Are you kidding? who is going to swim from south Europe back to Africa with a life vest?!
Something needs to be done to stop them? I agree but not with drowning them in the sea!! It's funny how these refugees are once accepted in Europe and then harassed, insulted, murdured,...If they are really undesirible, they should be denied entry to Europe or be sent back to their home country.
Immigration has been a key issue for success in US, Canada, Australia in recent decades. Why? Because they select who to come to their country rather than letting all refugees in with all their real or fake stories and refusing all other qualified immigrants. Unfortunately Europe and Sweden immigration policy is based on the latter.
Another problem in Sweden is lack of law enforcement. They don't act when some immigrants break the laws and then they complain about the whole immigrants!!
The immigration policies into Europe were made by an overzealously liberal left. Now that large problems are coming from it, a more moderate centre are moving to change it. Is there a problem with that? And on your last note, are you seriously blaming Sweden's police on immigrant's crime? Sweden used to have an adequate police force before the giant influx of non-Swedish immigrants came in. What does that say?
How do I read the 106 remaining words from @Leprehcaun?
The link takes me to a error page.
It's not my fault that Hitler and Nazis have so much in common with these far right activists, is it?
And yes I'm seriously blame current soft action of Police against criminals. This is far-right tactics. They just don't push for more policing action against crimilan immigrants to have a justification for their overall dissatisfactions against immigrants!! Finally it's sad that you and these far-rights are unable to comperehend the difference between criminals and immigrants, immigrants and refugees!!
They should not have to put more money into a previously sufficient police force to handle immigrant's crimes. The immigrants are the problem in that case, not the police. What you're saying is absurd.
What you say has no logical base. So you believe you shouldn't supply more water, electricty,... when your population increase? As population increases, policing services should increase too.
Btw, it's not just about immigrants or refugees. Swedish police is already very weak in the first place. It was lat year that my friend and his German friend rented an apartment from a Swedish woman for 8000kr per month. They signed a contract and paid the rent for a month but when they went to enter the apartment, the key couldn't match the apartment's door. They complained to police but police told them and it is not that much moneh and it isn't worth investigating especially since they don't have enough staff!!
2nd population increase that happen naturaly is easier to cope with then tens of thousands of people in a short time. also the western cultur avg. is 2.5 childeren per family where the islam cultur is more like 7 or 8 per family. but i guess that can be profitable when you sell your daughters to the highest bidder.
That's your opinion about immigrants and it's valuable but it is proven otherwise. Sweden is victim of mishandling immigration policies. Some other countries have had good example of how to use immigrants. Untill Jan 2009 it was impossible for you to hire a qualifed nurse,...from outside Europe but it has alwasy been very easy to become an asylum in Sweden.
Islam culture?! Please stop these nonsenses. I only have one sister. All of my aunts and uncles have either two or one children so we're below European average and whilst Muslim!! Even my grandparents only had 4 children. I think there are some strange paranoias about Islam and Muslim among many people.
When exactly Swedes asked an INDIAN guy to decide over their future? Why don't you go to fix problems in INDIA?
Have you studied at school that immigrants are not necessarily refugees or Muslim?
"Upon questioning, the uncle told the police that he killed his 'niece to cleanse his family's honour,' the source added."
How did she sully that honor? By being raped.
And you wonder where we get "strange paranoias about islam"
Abduction and Forced Islamization of Christian Coptic Girls Continues in Egypt
Two Iranian women arrested for converting to Christianity
Muslims behead four ex-Muslim Christian orphanage workers in Somalia
AND YOU WONDER
"The number of rape charges in Sweden has tripled in just above twenty years. Rape cases involving children under the age of 15 are six - 6 - times as common today as they were a generation ago. Most other kinds of violent crime have rapidly increased, too."
"In Oslo, Norway, immigrants were involved in two out of three rape charges in 2001. The numbers in Denmark were the same, and even higher in the city of Copenhagen with three out of four rape charges."
Something tells me police would be needed at a greater rate than the normal amount required by ethnic Swedes to deal with these immigrant groups. The best part is those immigrant groups have a negative GDP and can not fund the police you claim they require.
that is a website that explains some of it.
@Brugge
@Eurostan
It's funny how you stick to your examples of some criminal Muslims to satisfy your racist attitude against all Muslims and Arabs. Shall I make a lot of examples of those Frtizels or latest one in Gemran court that a Nazi German killed a Muslim?!!
Please Stop Fascism and Nazism against Muslims. You know better than me that Muslims are not angles. They commit crime like others but picking these example and generalization to condemn/humiliate/assult and finally kill them is method of faschists and Nazists. You have been born 60 years late!!
Apparently you guys are not from Sweden except one who has nealy become Swedish but he has forgotten to leave his facism home. SWEDEN is a country overwhelmingly free of fashcim. Leave it as it is!
Just tell me this. What was the ethnicity of those who killed millions of people around the world? Then we can conclude we all can be criminal or well-behaving person regardless of our ethnic background.
Finally Swedes or any native country can decide who should get in their country but you can't make racist accusations to prove your decision.
And finally you cannot expect a huge contibution from refugees. They mostly come back from decades of wars and clashes without education or experience. They need to be educated first.
re 'some of the other people who are supporting this party' - one problem may be that none of the other 'major' parties has the 'right' (ooops!) policies regarding e.g. the corrupt, monolithic and (at least incipiently) fascist European Union. Necessity makes strange bedfellows...
@Leprechaun. Sverige Demokraterna are not nazis. No one is talking about extermination so get your facts straight. But the problem is that Sweden (all of Europe for that matter) has too big of a Muslim population and in a few decades, we will become minority on our own country. But that is the problem, censorship, no freedom of speech. Swedes must speak out, otherwise this country will become a muslim nation in time. The problem is everyone just talks with one another, but that is it.
De flesta svenskar har ingen stake.
Allt de gör är att tala med varandra, men inget mer.
Vissa vågar säga sin mening, men det behövs mer.
De flesta svenskar don't support SD!
There is nothing wrong in tightening immigration policies an denying people from entring a foreign country.
The wrong thing is accsuing other races of being worse than our race.
The wrong thing is spread of LIES AND PROPAGANDA against specific ethnic to make other people hate minorties!!! This is exactly what far-right groups are doing. I and my whole extended family have less children per family in comparison to my Swedish friends whilst we're Muslim.In Islam it's forbidden to make damage other people's property, to kill them,... so why some do? Because they are criminal.
In my home, America, 20 million immigrants, many "illegal," are the mainstay of our "grunt labor" workforce. Their children, history shows, will become professionals, business people, and creatives, often extraordinary. They keep American society vigorous.
A spider web of rules ensnare Swedes, inhibiting innovation and expression. If immigrants, usually the smartest and most adaptive among their former countrymen, challenge these oppressive rules and customs, it just might be a good thing.
Sweden must remain an international leader respected for its defense of human rights at home as well as abroad, rather than a bunch of scared kids afraid of their shadows and the world. The vast majority of Swedes won't have it any other way.
I am of mixed race and both sides of my family) can see the problems for Europe as a WHOLE that mass immigration has brought about.
We should aid countries in time of need & provide a safe haven for those who are at risk BUT throwing so many different cultures together is going to cause problems at some point.
On arrival in the UK my grandparents were spat at, ridiculed, had bananas thrown at them and when searching for a home read signs saying "No Irish, No Dogs, No Blacks". Today this is unacceptable, rightly so, and European countries and societies now bend over backwards to accomodate immigrants of all shapes,sizes, colours and nationalities.
Immigration overall is handled appallingly and its repercussions will only increase until something is done.
It's not about questioning immigration it's about what you see in above posts from Nutcracker,Eurostan,Playmaker,Norum... It's about systematic lie and propaganda to humiliate certain ethnics with certain beliefs. To do so, they pick up examples of criminals from that certain ethnic and start to generalize. It's about suggesting to drown illegal refugees instead of refusing them peacefully... This is exactly what Nazis were doing about Jews. I don't know when we decide to learn from the past !!!!!!!!
"What Does Muslim Immigration Cost Europe?" 2006 http://chromatism.net/fjordman/fjordmanfiles.htm
Iraniboy: Statistics of Moslem crime & practices are mirrored in all European countries (Britain, France, Italy, Spain, all of Scandinavia, Greece, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, etc)Islam's doctrines, practices, history and followers are the problem. Western civilization is not a suicide pact and is infinitely superior to Islam. Re your comment #35: Long before the Nazis, Moslems were taught they were superior to all other peoples:
Koran 3:85 "You are the noblest community ever raised up for mankind.
Hadith Bukhari 6:60:80 Narrated Abu Huraira: "The verse, 'You (the Muslims) are the best of people ever raised up for mankind' means, the best of peoples for the people, as you bring them with chains on their necks, till they embrace Islam."
You're also part of this far-right propaganda campaign against ethnic minorties and Muslims. Btw, your link about Quran is true. Koran is also right. 1400 years ago, Muslims were noble among other tribe. In Europe people were eating each other in 1400 year ago.
You and your ilk want to dictate other people how to live. Islam is personal way of life. But fascists don't like to accept any other way of life except what they prefer!
it is not propaganda if you use the quran and statements from elected leaders like hammas, irans president, and many many immans. just search on you tube. i wish all religion was banned from the public eye. islam is not a choice for a lot of people they have to are be killed, honor killed, or be jobless, pay a higher taxs. islam is a political party not a religion.
Nutcracker certainly doesn't have his American facts straight. Most of the 20 million immigrants here are legal. None have been implicated in terrorism. Terrorists arrested since 9/11 -- a mere handful -- have been citizens or legal residents, most Christian. Also..
1. There is no welfare in the US anymore.
2. "La Raza" to American Hispanics means "community," as in "related by blood."
3. American Muslims are noted for their hyper-patriotism
4. Drug wars on the border are run by drug lords in Mexico fighting over a willing American market that provides them with guns.
Such ignorance.
The value of immigrants and guest workers (like me) is that add variety. America doesn't favor assimilation, a false goal. We value diversity. And most Swedes do to.
It wasn't long time a ago that Bosnian Muslims were slaughtered for their race and religion. It was 60 years ago that Jews were slaughtered for their religion and race. Of course race and religion are different but for fascists and racists, they split in hairs because each religion mostly represent a different race. Hitler killed 6 million JEWS. Serbs KILLED Bosian MUSLIMS.
It's propaganda and immoral to mis-translate, misquote,...
It's fascism to tell people how to leave based on your method and to ban Islam,...
Hoe many Muslim terrorists have been arrested so far? How many have been conficted? 100? 1000? 10'000? Let's assume 10'000. There are more than 1 billion Muslims living in this world. It measn 0.001% of Muslims are either arrested or convited for terrorism at most! So what the heck you and your ilk keep telling others about terrorism and Islam? Fine there are 1 billion news,websites,... in CNN and Faux News about Islamic terrorism but in real world it is far less than 0.001% of Muslims. If you hate Muslims it's OK but stop spreading LIES about them. Accept the facts and figuers.
Countries become more polarised when the wealth gap opens up. This is where your attention should be focused.
@johnnytango- you asked if there was an occupying force in the US we would have to fight them even if they are there to help? did you just not go to your history lessons in school? if you remember France came to help us in the revolution. then england help us fight france. both these countries had armed forces in the US to help & guess what THEY DID HELP. the US was occupying england and france and many other countries in WW 1,2 we were there to help & we did. how about that.
Terrorist do not were a uniform to id themselves as combatants. they go after public places on purpose insted of military targets.
@iraniboy- one huge difference is all most all nations execept islamic nations let you live how you want. you can come to sweden and be a proud muslims and preach in the streets, but can me and my wife go to your country & make out in the street. she is a infidel so does she have to cover her hair
You said "banning immigration is the asnwer for the most part". So why don't you pack your bag and leave Sweden? You just got your citizenship last month and now you lecture others not to come to Sweden? It's hypocrisy!
@ Palymaker, Eurostan,...Whilst your at it I draw your attention to a festival that is going to be held very soon. You can find lots of people with your ideas there. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bnp-festival-rallying-point-for-neonazis-1772242.html
Iraq? Afghanistan? Bosnia?...
Despite this there zillions of articles, news, websites about this 0.001% of Muslims but there are ver few of them who talk about the rest of 99.99% Muslims. Does it tell you something about a unjust and suspecious war against Muslims like what happened against Jews in 1950s? If you're not part of this LIE Propaganda war, at least understand it.
Facts and statistics? He is just referring us to Ultra-Islamophobic and fascist websites. His other sentences are irrelavant Arabic names and some twaddles. BUT I ACCEPTED his statistic because even if we acceot his statictic that 0.001% stands. You don't need to know so much math to understand my number. Just google the number of Muslims or see it in wiki, there are more than a billion Muslims in this world. Then devide it to the number of Muslim terrorists times 100. It gives you that percentage.
@johnnytango
I haven't studied that much about 911 but the problem is even if we accept it as we have heard, we can't see why Muslims are being humiliated for their 0.001% of propsed criminals. In US number of criminals are worse than this. 99.99% are just victims. Millions of deaths in Iraq, Afghanistan and Bosnia,...
on a second note i said "most of the problem" i am a swede so i belong. my wife is a typical swede with blond hair blue eyes, and we have a 4mo. son who is now a duel citizen like me. i love it here and do as swedes eat köttbullar with keptchup and recycle. i merge with the cultur not fight it some immigration is ok but must be selected carefully
so you mean ten times of this are involved? Like in 911, 10'000 were invloved? Ok I accept. So now you're talking about 0.01% of Muslims. How about other 99.99% of Muslims? Please accept that medias and these far-right groups are not showing the mainstream Muslims. Why? To fulfill their agenda.
You had a good reason to become a immigrant and finaly a Swede. But I didn't see a note neither from you nor from fa-rights that in exceptional cases like you immigration is acceptable.
Hate of religion as a(maybe bad) way of life, has had a huge impact on humanity in recent century. Considering Bosnia and WW2, it has led to deadliest clashes among people. Are the majority of Germans ready to kill Jews anymore? Not at all!! So what happened in 1950s? It started with a political movement and then they started to induce hatred among German about Jews,...
about the US having a hand in everything come on. but if you have to pick a way of life or a world leader who do you want.
Russia?
China?
or the evil USA?