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OPINION: Our immigrant takeover of Sweden is progressing nicely

Richard Orange
Richard Orange - richard.orange@thelocal.com
OPINION: Our immigrant takeover of Sweden is progressing nicely
The Sweden Democrats have helpfully supplied us with a map of where we should concentrate our future efforts (the arrows are our own addition). Photo: Screenshot/OpenStreetMap. Graphic: The Local

A recently published migration map seeks to alert the indigenous Swedish population to their ongoing replacement by immigrants. Richard Orange – a replacer in the media sector – reports that the typical native nonetheless remains unaware of the full extent of progress made.

Migrationskartan, as the culturally nationalistic Sweden Democrats party has named its graphic, illustrates with clarity the regions of the country where we are now effectively in control.

As the party's MEP Charlie Weimers declared in a statement accompanying the release of the map, our numbers have doubled over the past 25 years and we now constitute 20 percent of the populace. 

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Weimers also claimed that the map shows that Sweden is "undergoing a dramatic change and that the population is being replaced."

In order to chart how well our replacement of the Swedish population is going, here is a status report.

Where have our efforts been most successful so far?

Our takeover of the capital is, as the map makes clear, near completion, with replacers (according to the Sweden Democrats' absolutely reasonable and totally defensible definition of "being born abroad or having at least one foreign-born parent"), now constituting a majority in 11 out of 26 municipalities in Stockholm Region.

These include Solna, home to the prestigious Karolinska Institutet medical university and the Haga Palace, and Sundbyberg, home to the Migration Agency. 

The map reveals the pincer movement through which we have attained a majority in the two most northeasterly municipalities, Haparanda and Övertorneå, using replacers from neighbouring Finland, and through which we have attained a majority in Malmö, the southernmost city. 

It also reveals the disappointing progress made in Gothenburg, the second city, where replacers remain marginally outnumbered by the indigenous population.

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Political infiltration far advanced 

Thankfully, the map only illustrates geographical and demographic changes and as such has not alerted the population to the extent to which we have infiltrated institutions.

Starting with the ministers, we now control climate policy through Romina Pourmokhtari (Persian-born parents), cultural policy through Parisa Liljestrand (born in Iran to Kurdish parents), education through Simona Mohamsson (born in Germany to Lebanese/Israeli Arab parents) and aid and trade through Benjamin Dousa (Turkish father).

Three out of eight political parties are currently led by replacers: the Christian Democrats by Ebba Busch (half-Norwegian); the Liberals by Simona Mohamsson; and the Left Party by Nooshi Dadgostar (Iranian parents).

Jimmie Åkesson, Simona Mohamsson, Ebba Busch and Ulf Kristersson.

Two of the four party leaders in this picture (and the leaders of three of Sweden's eight parties) would count towards the Sweden Democrats' 'migration map' statistics. Photo: Caisa Rasmussen/TT

Two of the lead contenders to be the next leader of the largest party, the Social Democrats ‒ Lawen Redar (Iranian parents) and Teresa Carvalho (Portuguese father) ‒ are replacers, as are a number of their high-ranking politicians ‒ former defence minister Peter Hultqvist (Finnish mother), former social security minister Ardalan Shekarabi (born in the UK) and former schools minister Ibrahim Baylan (born in Turkey).

Within the Sweden Democrats party itself, we have several replacers in position - Richard Jomshof (Finnish father) and Dennis Dioukarev (Russian parents). Kent Ekeroth, a Sweden Democrat councillor and former MP, has a Kazakhstani mother. 

We've also successfully infiltrated much of the Swedish welfare state, with many of our members working in roles in healthcare, elderly care and schooling.

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Cultural dominance

In the cultural sphere, we have also made much progress.

Loreen, the two-time winner of the Eurovision Song Contest so beloved of Swedes, has Moroccan parents. In fact, up until 2024 when Sweden gave up entirely and opted to send Norwegian and Finnish entries to Eurovision, fully half of the previous ten entries had been replacers.

We also make up one-quarter of ABBA (Anni-Frid Lyngstad, born in Norway), and supplied Sweden with one of its most famous singers and poets, Cornelis Vreeswijk (Dutch).

In film, our numbers include Joel Kinnaman (American father), Bianca Kronlöf (Finnish and Swedish-Finnish parents), Rebecca Ferguson (British mother) and Noomi Rapace (Spanish father). Actor Fares Fares is one of us (born in Lebanon), as are his brothers, film director and video game designer Josef Fares and pastry chef Roy Fares.

Speaking of food, we can also count celebrity chefs Zeina Mourtada (born in Sierra Leone) and Camilla Hamid (Egyptian and Moroccan parents) among us.

We also have a hold on Christmas through Ernst Kirchsteiger, the television presenter who has long maintained his central position in traditional festive preparations (Austrian-Polish).

fredrik lindström and kristian luuk, presenters of på spåret.

As far as the Sweden Democrats are concerned, Kristian Luuk (right), presenter of iconic Swedish TV show På Spåret, is partly responsible for "replacing the Swedish population". Photo: Björn Larsson Rosvall/TT

Some of Sweden's most popular TV presenters are among our number, including Kristian Luuk (Estonian parents), Tareq Taylor (British-Palestinian parents), John Taylor (British), Clara Henry (British-Irish father), Keyyo (born in Russia), Arantxa Alvarez (Chilean parents), Christopher O'Regan (Irish father), Ahmed Berhan (Eritrean parents) and Farah Abadi (Palestinian parents).

We've also infiltrated comedy, with David Batra (Indian father), Jesper Rönndahl (Danish mother), Nour El-Refai (born in Lebanon), Evelyn Mok (born in Sweden to Chinese parents), Petrina Solange (born in Angola), Kaeli Abdi (Somali parents) and Özz Nûjen (Kurdish, born in Turkey), to name a few.

The CEO of Swedish radio, Cilla Benkö, is another immigrant by the Sweden Democrats' definition (father born in Hungary), as is the editor-in-chief of Dagens Nyheter Peter Wolodarski (father born in Poland), not to mention almost the entire staff of The Local.

Let's not forget sport, where Sweden's most famous football player Zlatan Ibrahimovic is one of us (Bosniak father, Croatian mother), as is striker Alexander Isak (Eritrean parents). We have also successfully supplied Sweden with two trainers for the Sweden men's football team (British Graham Potter and Danish Jon Dahl Thomasson) and can count legendary pole-vaulter, Mondo Duplantis (born in USA) among us.

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Royalty a beachhead

Years before the "decades of irresponsible migration policy" to which the Sweden Democrats attribute our success, we had already established a preparatory beachhead at the highest level of the Swedish state. 

Princess Madeleine's marriage to the British-American financier Christopher O'Neill was only the latest in a series of operations aimed at infiltrating the royalty. 

King Carl Gustaf, Queen Silvia and Crown Princess Victoria.

King Carl Gustaf, Queen Silvia and Crown Princess Victoria are all immigrants replacing the Swedish population, if the Sweden Democrats are to be believed. Photo: Pontus Lundahl/TT

The marriage of her father, King Carl XVI Gustav to Queen Silvia (born to German and Brazilian parents), long ago ensured that the heir to the throne, Crown Princess Victoria, is a replacer by the Sweden Democrats' definition, as are her siblings Prince Carl Philip and Madeleine.

Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustav is, of course, himself a replacer (born to a British-German mother). 

The infiltration of Swedish royalty goes back further still, however.

That can be traced all the way back to 1818 and the founding of the current royal line by Karl XIV Johan (born Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte in Pau, southern France). He, perhaps, is the original replacer. 

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Anonymous
It's "Somali," not "Somalian" (The latter is used as a low-key slur, much like fascists and other right-wingers in the U.S. call the Democratic Party the "Democrat" Party.).
Tom
Great article wittily shedding light on the bizzare and hapless "take-over" scare tactics from the SD. While the audience here (except for some of the grumps) can see the irony I do also hope that others can as well.
Gizella
Haha, great! No need for further comments.
Mike
Good Job everyone! I hope Charlie spoke with his friend Ludvig Aspling about his and his wife contribution to our takeover plan.
Anonymous
I get the irony here, but I wonder if an article like this is just so darn smart that it fails to actually inspire us to all get along. The truth is when one person rises, we all rise. Can we focus on the many conscientious, loving “native” Swedes that are doing good work - helping relatively new members of society integrate? Whatever we focus on we get more of. Being extremely witty, by pointing the finger at how stupid the Swedish Democrats are being with their attack on “others” only empowers them.

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