The Daily Mail starts with it’s reporters description of male immigrants dealing drugs and harrassing Swedish women in the area around the main railway station in Stockholm.
Stockholm station is, remember, where a disturbing event happened a few weeks ago. According to Left-wing Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, there was a violent, unprovoked rampage by a masked mob of neo-Nazis and football hooligans who were targeting migrants, including north African street children. Aftonbladet’s reports, based on police information, made newspaper and TV headlines around the world.
It followed another tragic event which also seized international attention. A 22-year-old woman social worker had been murdered at a home for underage migrant boys near the country’s second city of Gothenburg. She was said to have been knifed by a 15-year-old Somalian migrant, who has since appeared in court charged with her killing.
The murder put ultra-liberal Sweden’s controversial open-door policy under scrutiny. It boosted the popularity of both the Right-wing Sweden Democrats party (SD), which wants to stop the flow of migrants, and also the middle of the road Moderates’ Party, which is campaigning for a temporary break on arrivals.
Sweden has accepted about one in seven of all the migrants entering Europe. . . A huge number – 33,000 last year – were unaccompanied minors. They are attracted by Sweden’s fast-tracked asylum decisions and free housing for under-18s, as well as a government promise that those permitted to stay (and the majority are) can later bring in their brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers.
The Swedish were told in Aftonbladet’s report that anti-migrant leaflets declaring ‘Enough Now’ were handed out by the Stockholm mob. The newspaper posted online a video of men in dark clothes milling about in the station as evidence of the riot.
(But) Stockholm Police confirmed to the Mail this week that since the ‘neo-Nazi’ station disturbance, no migrants – underage or otherwise – have reported any assaults on them that evening.
This raises the disturbing question as to whether the anti-migrant rampage ever took place in the way described. A local newspaper said in the aftermath that the video showed nothing more than police chasing away the leaflet distributors. The footage has no images of child refugees – and the only sign of violence appears to involve a policeman waving a baton.
For their part, the police say that a handful of the apparent protagonists were interviewed over various offences, including drunken disorder, an assault on a policeman with a bottle, and the possession of a knuckle-duster.
…at Stockholm’s sombre station, I ask Ghanian Mustapha what he has heard of the mob attack on migrants, in particular the child refugees who mill about during the day and sleep in the nearby St Clare’s churchyard at night.
‘I know what goes on here,’ he said with certainty. ‘None of them, young or old, have mentioned being attacked or hurt by any gang of Swedish men.’
What is worrying is that if the Stockholm station story has been blown out of proportion, it could have artificially fuelled pro-migrant sentiment and made ordinary Swedes less ready to voice their worries about mass migration.
Fears of a cover-up have been fuelled by an investigation published by a flourishing online Swedish news outlet Nyheter Idag, showing that Swedish authorities hid from the public sexual assaults by immigrant gangs on scores of teenage girls at a popular Stockholm music festival both last year and in 2014.The Swedish police and a national newspaper were accused of hiding the truth deliberately because the perpetrators were migrants.
Astonishingly, Stockholm police chief Peter Agren – in charge of the 2014 festival – admitted later: ‘Sometimes we dare not tell how it is because we think it plays into the hands of the Sweden Democrats.’
A group of security guards in the south-eastern city of Kalmar last week claimed a ‘riot’ and attack on a police officer involving migrants outside an Irish bar was covered up. A local newspaper which interviewed the security men was, apparently, asked by police to remove a quote from one of the guards which read: ‘We need to be talking about what’s happening … it’s not about racism.’ For their part, the police said they did not consider the bar brouhaha last Sunday night newsworthy.
Sweden’s recent story of migration dates back to 1975 when the national parliament decided that the country should become multi-cultural. At the time, the population stood at eight million – virtually all indigenous Swedes – and they had a proud history of offering help to outsiders. The immigration policy was pursued relentlessly by the ruling Left-wing Social Democrats for the next four decades.
Those who criticised the radical plan were condemned as racist in what has become the EU’s citadel of political correctness. By last year, 16 per cent of Sweden’s population was foreign-born – many of them from Muslim countries. As the migration crisis has escalated, any citizen who questioned whether the country could afford such largesse and expressed concerns about its changing culture has been accused of bigotry.
Fed up with the mainstream Press (for example, the Aftonbladet newspaper has even warned that reporting offensive migrants’ behaviour is bowing to Right-wing extremism), Swedes have turned to social media and independent internet sites where they believe information is unbiased and where they have their own say. Every week they post thousands of comments on what was, until recently, the taboo topic of migration. Their comments accuse the Government of turning a blind eye as the police fight a losing battle against street crime and assaults in migrant hostels.
Swedish voters’ growing concern is clear. If there was an election tomorrow, polls suggest that the Eurosceptic Sweden Democrats would get nearly one in five votes. From small roots, it is now the third-largest party in the parliament. Support for the architects of mass immigration, the ruling Social Democrats, is at its lowest for 50 years.
As one seasoned Swedish journalist explained to me this week in Stockholm: ‘The other parties to the Left say Sweden Democrats is racist to try to put off Swedish voters from supporting them. ‘In reality, the party is conservative, equivalent to the Republicans in America.’
An indication of the Sweden Democrats’ stance came last autumn when it distributed leaflets on the Greek islands where thousands of migrants wait to travel to mainland Europe. ‘Our previously safe country is not safe any more,’ the leaflets warned: ‘Sweden now has the second highest number of rapes in the world, after Lesotho in Africa.’
No-go areas have sprung up in cities where, unless police units have a back-up team to guard them, it is dangerous to attend crime scenes because Molotov cocktails are hurled at them by migrants, according to one senior inspector this week.
And there have been a spate of swimming pool attacks reported across the country, apparently by young male migrants overcome by the sight of female bathers.
This week it emerged that an all-girl bikini-clad group of vigilantes is now monitoring the swimming baths at Kalmar, which has 36,000 residents, but where 34 migrant hostels have opened. They want to stop women being molested by young foreign men who it has been reported have grabbed their breasts and genitals in the pool or near changing rooms.
Siri Bernhardsson, a 24-year-old assistant nurse who is a member of ‘Groping Guards’ vigilantes, said: ‘Swimming pools have become prime hunting grounds for gangs of men looking to prey on vulnerable women. ‘Loads of women here say they have been touched. We are tired of men thinking they can come to Sweden and molest women. We want to teach these boys how to behave and be left in peace to swim without being felt up. It happens in train stations and in swimming pools. This should not be the case in 2016 in Sweden.’
I recently received an email from a 37-year-old engineer and father of a seven-year-old girl. . . he described himself as a ‘Swedish family man who is ill at ease’. He and his family live near Gothenburg, an area that has taken in more migrants, particularly underage men, than almost anywhere else in Sweden. Last autumn, thousands of under-18s were arriving there every month.
The familiar image of people coming here is of young men, young men and young men,’ he wrote. ‘Where are all the women?
‘In January, there were reports of sexual abuse of young girls during the Stockholm festival. One of the most famous Swedish newspapers is accused of covering up what happened…The police, and also a number of journalists, have since admitted they got management orders to scale down reports on criminal activities involving non-Swedish people.
‘When is our mainstream media going to report what actually happens regarding the sexual abuse by boys and men of certain cultures here in Sweden? How is Sweden to prevent this male perpetuated behaviour tearing our girls apart? We have discovered only recently that murders, rape and abuse are happening in migrant hostels. Stockholm and Gothenburg are tormented by criminal gangs, while sexual abuse of young girls is occurring in public swimming pools.
‘The Left-wing has fooled almost all politicians and journalists to view themselves as racists or bad people if they do not say what is politically correct on migration. Sweden is in a terrible situation.’
He ended his letter with the sad words: ‘I have a seven-year-old daughter. What will the future be like for her? I am frightened for my child, and scared for Sweden.’
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One Response
My advice to that worried Swedish dad with the 7 year old daughter? First and foremost: join and support and vote for the Swedish Democrats, with a view to *halting* all further Muslim immigration and removing all Muslims who openly breach Swedish law and morality. Second: he and others like him *must* seek out ex-Muslims like Mona Walters and inform themselves about Islam. They must read, quickly, ex-Muslim Sam Solomon’s book “Al Hijra: The Islamic Doctrine of Immigration’ (and get key passages translated into Swedish, from English); that book ought to be in every major European language, ASAP. Ditto, Mark Durie’s “Which God?” and “The Third Choice”. And then they will be equipped to lobby, unceasingly, their politicians and religious leaders and journalists. Third: sign up himself, his wife and his daughter for self-defence classes; preferably in company with like-minded neighbours. And if they live where pets are permitted, acquire two dogs. Join a dog-owners’ group and walk the neighbourhood together. Fourth: defy despair and have at least two more children, preferably three more. Teach those kids how to defend themselves. People like this young dad are going to have to find the strength to rebuild Sweden from the ground up… in the teeth of the Islamic invasion. He has a daughter to fight for; I hope he can muster the will and the vision to fight, at every level.