Sweden is loaded with problems. A reader wrote Jonah Goldberg at the Corner :
- Police no-go areas (for the few police they have);
- An atrophied military (soon to be about 5000 troops);
- Cities that will soon be Muslim majority;
- Under-reported rise in violent crime (robbery, rape) by immigrants who admit to being “at war” with the Swedish state and who claim to derive personal pleasure humiliating the “wimpy” Swedes;
- Jihadism openly preached and excused by Swedish elites;
- Politicians who stump for votes in Pakistan where many Swedish “citizens” spend much of their time;
- An all-but-open immigration policy that apparently costs the state a vast fortune;
- An aggressive anti-nationalism that forbids students from displaying the Swedish flag at school;
- Hamas members officially welcomed;
- Violent leftist and “anti-racist” groups who intimidate people daring to question the assumptions of Swedish multiculturalism and immigration;
- And, of course, an official anti-Israeli position that veers into anti-Semitism.
Fjordsman tells the story. It's a long article, full of detail and all the more valuable for the same. One brief quote:
While their political elites insist that immigration is “good for the economy,” Scandinavians are in reality funding their own colonization. Although the cost of welfare is significant, it pales in comparison to the price paid through rapidly declining social harmony and increasing insecurity caused by Muslim immigration. Some of the increase in insecurity is due to the rise of mafia groups and organized crime, but most is mainly due to terror threats and intimidation of critics of Islam and Muslim immigration.
The article cries out to be read en toto. Anyone interested in Sweden, or Europe in general, must read it. See also Fjordsman's earlier article.