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Swedens violent reality is undoing a peaceful self-image [POLITICO]

https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-bombings-grenade-atta...
Spruce Arrogant Boltzmann
  04/17/18
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Stimulating yarmulke
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aphrodisiac mustard range
  04/17/18
Reminder: democrats think we don't have enough of those peop...
transparent stirring menage patrolman
  04/17/18
how random.
Red Station
  04/17/18
Zero sympathy for those who roll over and take it.
violent national
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Heady Slap-happy Corner Dingle Berry
  04/17/18
tldr. did they expressly call out muslim immigration as the...
insane becky
  04/17/18
"since crime is intimately linked to the country's fail...
Floppy home
  04/17/18
execute all libs now or we all die together soon
insane becky
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Salmon fragrant gaping
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judgmental theater death wish
  04/18/18
“If only they’d teach them to love the lutefisk!”
lime bisexual selfie spot
  04/18/18
guy who lives in a first world country here, sup
bronze comical hall
  04/17/18
never foarget: Trump falsely said Sweden was having problems...
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Salmon fragrant gaping
  04/17/18
Libs?
beady-eyed chartreuse son of senegal hairy legs
  04/17/18
theyre probably formulating a response as we speak
insane becky
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Deranged parlour
  04/17/18
>> Gang-related gun murders, now mainly a phenomenon a...
Misunderstood Dead Site Liquid Oxygen
  04/18/18
PART | AND | PARCEL
Razzmatazz stain coldplay fan
  04/18/18
I'm confused -- did Sweden perhaps relax its gun laws? Is th...
Misunderstood Dead Site Liquid Oxygen
  04/18/18
trumps racism is infecting even the most advanced and enligh...
Grizzly alcoholic church
  04/18/18
P A R T & A R C E L
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Exhilarant locus
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Rebellious Orchestra Pit Weed Whacker
  04/18/18
In response, the Swedish government has launched an internat...
dun jap
  04/18/18
Good poast moniker synergy Also lol at Bildts argument: Wel...
green adventurous trust fund stag film
  04/18/18
"swedish conditions"
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  04/18/18
“In March, Labor Market Minister Ylva Johansson appeared on ...
lime bisexual selfie spot
  04/18/18
libs?
Misunderstood Dead Site Liquid Oxygen
  04/18/18
jfc libs are you ever not done here
Razzmatazz stain coldplay fan
  04/18/18
shaking my damn head!
sadistic public bath
  04/18/18
Indefensible
Ocher Feces
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judgmental theater death wish
  04/18/18
Innocent mistake
Razzle University
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Lol
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Jesus christ
aromatic casino
  04/19/18
LOL
Indigo appetizing mood
  04/18/18
When did POLITICO get so woke?
Exhilarant locus
  04/18/18
https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/04/18/tucker-carlson...
Spruce Arrogant Boltzmann
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Date: April 17th, 2018 9:35 PM
Author: Spruce Arrogant Boltzmann

https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-bombings-grenade-attacks-violent-reality-undoing-peaceful-self-image-law-and-order/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3952317&forum_id=2#35863851)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 9:36 PM
Author: Stimulating yarmulke

lol

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Date: April 17th, 2018 10:58 PM
Author: aphrodisiac mustard range



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Date: April 17th, 2018 9:41 PM
Author: transparent stirring menage patrolman

Reminder: democrats think we don't have enough of those people here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3952317&forum_id=2#35863923)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 9:42 PM
Author: Red Station

how random.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3952317&forum_id=2#35863931)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 9:42 PM
Author: violent national

Zero sympathy for those who roll over and take it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3952317&forum_id=2#35863940)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 9:44 PM
Author: Heady Slap-happy Corner Dingle Berry



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Date: April 17th, 2018 9:48 PM
Author: insane becky

tldr. did they expressly call out muslim immigration as the cause?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3952317&forum_id=2#35863992)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 9:55 PM
Author: Floppy home

"since crime is intimately linked to the country's failure to integrate its immigrants"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3952317&forum_id=2#35864045)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 10:00 PM
Author: insane becky

execute all libs now or we all die together soon

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3952317&forum_id=2#35864089)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 10:53 PM
Author: Salmon fragrant gaping



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Date: April 18th, 2018 10:16 AM
Author: judgmental theater death wish



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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:08 AM
Author: lime bisexual selfie spot

“If only they’d teach them to love the lutefisk!”

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Date: April 17th, 2018 9:57 PM
Author: bronze comical hall

guy who lives in a first world country here, sup

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3952317&forum_id=2#35864059)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 10:35 PM
Author: frisky trailer park

never foarget: Trump falsely said Sweden was having problems with immigration. Trump was widely mocked for that.

http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2017/feb/22/carl-bildt/former-swedish-pm-says-more-murders-florida-where-/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3952317&forum_id=2#35864389)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 10:53 PM
Author: Salmon fragrant gaping



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Date: April 17th, 2018 10:54 PM
Author: beady-eyed chartreuse son of senegal hairy legs

Libs?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3952317&forum_id=2#35864537)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 10:56 PM
Author: insane becky

theyre probably formulating a response as we speak

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3952317&forum_id=2#35864561)



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Date: April 17th, 2018 10:56 PM
Author: Deranged parlour



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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:06 AM
Author: Misunderstood Dead Site Liquid Oxygen

>> Gang-related gun murders, now mainly a phenomenon among men with immigrant backgrounds in the country’s parallel societies, increased from 4 per year in the early 1990s to around 40 last year. Because of this, Sweden has gone from being a low-crime country to having homicide rates significantly above the Western European average. Social unrest, with car torchings, attacks on first responders and even riots, is a recurring phenomenon.

Shootings in the country have become so common that they don’t make top headlines anymore, unless they are spectacular or lead to fatalities. News of attacks are quickly replaced with headlines about sports events and celebrities, as readers have become desensitized to the violence. A generation ago, bombings against the police and riots were extremely rare events. Today, reading about such incidents is considered part of daily life.

The rising levels of violence have not gone unnoticed by Sweden’s Scandinavian neighbors. Norwegians commonly use the phrase “Swedish conditions” to describe crime and social unrest. The view from Denmark was made clear when former President of NATO and Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in an interview on Swedish TV: “I often use Sweden as a deterring example.” <<

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3952317&forum_id=2#35866118)



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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:08 AM
Author: Razzmatazz stain coldplay fan

PART | AND | PARCEL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3952317&forum_id=2#35866122)



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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:08 AM
Author: Misunderstood Dead Site Liquid Oxygen

I'm confused -- did Sweden perhaps relax its gun laws? Is there any other possible explanation??

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3952317&forum_id=2#35866125)



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Date: April 18th, 2018 10:00 AM
Author: Grizzly alcoholic church

trumps racism is infecting even the most advanced and enlightened european paradises

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3952317&forum_id=2#35866414)



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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:09 AM
Author: Hateful orchid property

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Date: April 18th, 2018 10:30 AM
Author: Exhilarant locus



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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:10 AM
Author: Rebellious Orchestra Pit Weed Whacker



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Date: April 18th, 2018 10:07 AM
Author: dun jap

In response, the Swedish government has launched an international campaign for “the image of Sweden” playing down the rise in crime, both in its media strategy and through tax-funded PR campaigns. During a visit to the White House in March, Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Löfven admitted that his country has problems with crime and specifically shootings, but denied the existence of no-go zones. Sweden’s education minister, Gustav Fridolin, traveled to Hungary last week with the same message.

But the reality is different for those on the ground: The head of the paramedics’ union Ambulansförbundet, Gordon Grattidge, and his predecessor Henrik Johansson recently told me in an interview that some neighborhoods are definitely no-go for ambulance drivers — at least without police protection.

Swedish police officers stand guard around an office building after an explosion on January 21, 2018 in the Rosengard district in Malmo | John Nilsson/AFP via Getty Images

Swedes are not prone to grandiose manifestations of national pride, but the notion of a “Swedish Model” — that the country has much to teach the world — is a vital part of the national self image.

Since crime is intimately linked to the country’s failure to integrate its immigrants, the rise in violence is a sensitive subject. When the Swedish government and opposition refer to the country as a “humanitarian superpower” because it opened its doors to more immigrants per capita during the migrant crisis than any other EU country, they mean it. This has resulted in some impressive contortions.

In March, Labor Market Minister Ylva Johansson appeared on the BBC, where she claimed that the number of reported rapes and sexual harassment cases “is going down and going down and going down.” In fact, the opposite is true, which Johansson later admitted in an apology.

Similarly, in an op-ed for the Washington Post, former Prime Minister Carl Bildt described the country’s immigration policy as a success story. He did not elaborate on violent crime. After repeated attacks against Jewish institutions in December — including the firebombing of a synagogue in Gothenburg — Bildt took to the same paper to claim that anti-Semitism is not a major problem in Sweden.

“Historically, in Sweden it was the Catholics that were seen as the dangerous threat that had to be fought and restricted,” Bildt claimed, seemingly unaware that the laws he cited also applied to Jews. Intermarriage was illegal and hostility was based on ideas of Jews as racially inferior. Bildt’s attempt to relativize current anti-Semitism with odd and inaccurate historical arguments reflects how nervously Swedish elites react to negative headlines about their country.

Another spectacular example is an official government website on “Facts about migration, integration and crime in Sweden,” which alleges to debunk myths about the country. One “false claim” listed by the government is that “Not long ago, Sweden saw its first Islamic terrorist attack.”

This is surprising, since the Uzbek jihadist Rakhmat Akilov has pleaded guilty to the truck ramming that killed five people in Stockholm last April and swore allegiance to the Islamic State prior to the attack. Akilov, who is currently standing trial, has proudly repeated his support for ISIS and stated that his motive was to kill Swedish citizens. He also had documented contacts with international jihadis.

“They make it sound as if violence is out of control” — Stefan Sintéus, Malmö’s chief of police

The government’s excuse for denying the Islamic terrorist attack in Sweden is that no Islamic group has officially claimed responsibility. Given the importance these days of fighting fake news, the Swedish government’s tampering with politically inconvenient facts looks particularly irresponsible.

Sometimes it takes an outsider to put things in perspective. A recent piece by Bojan Pancevski in London’s Sunday Times put a spotlight on immigration and violent crime. The article caused a scandal in Sweden and was widely seen as part of the reason why the British and Canadian foreign ministries issued travel advice about the country, citing gang crime and explosions. “They make it sound as if violence is out of control,” said Stefan Sintéus, Malmö’s chief of police.

It didn’t seem to occur to the police chief that both the travel advice and the article could reflect the same underlying reality. After all, only a few days earlier, a police station in Malmö was rocked by a hand grenade attack. Earlier the same month, a police car in the city was destroyed in an explosion.

Officials may be resigned to the situation. But in a Western European country in peacetime, it is reasonable to view such levels of violence as out of control.

Paulina Neuding is the editor-in-chief of the online magazine Kvartal.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3952317&forum_id=2#35866444)



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Date: April 18th, 2018 10:30 AM
Author: green adventurous trust fund stag film

Good poast moniker synergy

Also lol at Bildts argument: Well, we aren’t anti semites because we hated Catholics too

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3952317&forum_id=2#35866541)



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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:19 PM
Author: mint parlor fat ankles

"swedish conditions"

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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:12 AM
Author: lime bisexual selfie spot

“In March, Labor Market Minister Ylva Johansson appeared on the BBC, where she claimed that the number of reported rapes and sexual harassment cases “is going down and going down and going down.” In fact, the opposite is true, which Johansson later admitted in an apology.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3952317&forum_id=2#35866144)



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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:13 AM
Author: Misunderstood Dead Site Liquid Oxygen

libs?

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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:14 AM
Author: Razzmatazz stain coldplay fan

jfc libs are you ever not done here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3952317&forum_id=2#35866151)



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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:15 AM
Author: sadistic public bath

shaking my damn head!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3952317&forum_id=2#35866157)



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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:58 AM
Author: Ocher Feces

Indefensible

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Date: April 18th, 2018 10:17 AM
Author: judgmental theater death wish



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Date: April 18th, 2018 10:18 AM
Author: Razzle University

Innocent mistake

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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:22 PM
Author: unholy personal credit line church building

Lol

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Date: April 19th, 2018 2:30 PM
Author: aromatic casino

Jesus christ

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Date: April 18th, 2018 10:16 AM
Author: Indigo appetizing mood

LOL

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Date: April 18th, 2018 10:20 AM
Author: Exhilarant locus

When did POLITICO get so woke?

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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:16 PM
Author: Spruce Arrogant Boltzmann

https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/04/18/tucker-carlson-tonight-guest-muslim-immigrants-you-cant-take-mohammed-stick-blond-wig-him-and-turn/219993

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3952317&forum_id=2#35870870)