As Sweden goes…
…so goes the rest of Western Europe?
There have been 187 bomb attacks this year. In just 1 week in August, there were three major bombings. Much of the violence is concentrated in Malmo which experienced 58 bombings in 2017.
Malmo has a sizable immigrant and Muslim population. And it’s a center of gang violence.
Swedish authorities and its media rarely discuss or name the perpetrators, but the latest shooting left Jaffar Ibrahim, a 15-year-old boy, dead. Jaffar was shot in a Malmo pizzeria and had been part of a family of Syrian refugees who migrated to Sweden in 2016. Services for him were held in a mosque…
But Muslim gang violence in Sweden isn’t just its problem anymore.
Bombings took off in Copenhagen with explosions outside a police station and a tax office over the summer. The targets were political and the bombs weren’t fireworks or hand grenades, but commercial explosives used for demolitions. The suspects turned out to be criminals who had entered from Sweden.
The violence was probably related to gang wars involving the Brothas, Loyal to Familia and other splinter gangs. Despite the gang names, the actual gang members have names like Osman and Omar…
Much more at the link.
How is Sweden dealing with it? Mostly by making excuses for it, in order to sooth the native Swedish population:
The main components of Islamic militias, like the ones that tore apart Syria and Libya, were gangs. Islamist forces like these are often made up of gangs with grandiose names. The Copenhagen gangs are still associated with international gangs and use their names, but eventually they will go Islamic.
And then it won’t be the Hells Angels anymore. It’ll be the Islamic State of something or other.
That’s a reality that Swedish authorities are deliberately ignoring.
A government site insists that immigrants are no more likely to be criminals than anyone else. “In a study from 2013, researchers at Stockholm University showed that the main difference in terms of criminal activity between immigrants and others in the population in Sweden was due to differences in the socioeconomic conditions in which they grew up,” it argues.
As if Swedes, including the researchers of Stockholm University, are only refraining from picking up AK-47s and throwing hand grenades because of their socioeconomic conditions. The moment they lose their lucrative research grants, they too will be setting off bombs and fighting over the drug trade.
But nonsense like this sounds reassuring because it suggests that the solution to Islamic violence is social welfare. That’s a comforting message for socialists for whom social welfare is the answer to everything.
And, as the author also points out, Bernie Sanders wants to make us more like Sweden.
Two weeks ago, in the town of Hallsberg, four African migrants (from Eritrea) were charged with the brutal rape of a thirteen-year-old Swedish girl. These incidents are happening with distressing frequency, but Swedish judges seldom impose harsh sentences or elect to have the criminals deported; yet, of course, anyone who questions the wisdom of massive, uncontrolled immigration from the Third World is a racist or a bigot or a xenophobe, i.e. a very bad person.
considering that the Kingdom of Sweden collaborated with Hitler by providing desperately needed iron ore ( til near the end of the war) in exchange for Jewish death camp dental gold, I have little sympathy.
The Danes are instituting some “temporary” border controls to reduce the bombings in Copenhagen due to the Muslim killers that Sweden is harboring.
The Swedish gov’t refuses to be honest about the rapes and bombings by Muslims and immigrants.
The movie The Square — https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4995790/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 — was nominated for an Academy Award, Best Foreign, two years ago. It tells a lot of the current Swedish situation and has to do so a little obliquely, at times. But the director likes to make viewers uncomfortable so there is a lot in there. Not for everyone by any means and 2.5 hours long.
Maybe a little Viking needs to be done. But they would be and are branded “Far Right Wing” to discount them. Wonder if more of the population of native Swedes
joined in what would happen?
There are some people who are just so jaded and neurotic that they cannot imagine that the culture in which they grew up, is any more deserving of respect than they, in their own personal worthlessness, are.
Frontpage magazine, recalls some famous precursor incidents revealing the road ahead:
It’s obviously not the mere cultural kit – pots and pans and Volvos and wool sweaters, abstracted from the population, which they despise. It is themselves – as they secretly know and fear themselves to be – and everyone else around them. These neurotics are like suicide bombers waiting to attack their cousins, or the miscreant who opens the gates to the barbarians during the night.
They even revel in the word “subversion, as if by these acts they have partaken of a sacrament.
Of course, there has to be a certain amount of enervation and moral exhaustion in the civil population already for them to get away with it. There has to be a certain prevalent masochism in the general population, a feeling that they need to be punished or they are not good.
My own personal opinion is that the hedonistic egotism of a swath of “successful” America, or Sweden, or wherever in the West, leaves these “elites” with issues they attempt to work out through what would be called displacement, if they accepted the idea of personal responsibility. But they don’t accept it – intellectually, at least.
So on the one hand, they know themselves guilty of living ultimately and personally pernicious lives; on the other they don’t want to accept guilt on such a “trivial” life-way level. So in order to resolve the “conflict” they will punish themselves in the manner of any good responsibility-shifting collectivist; by making the “lower orders” suffer the most, and reserving to themselves the consoling shiver of penitential satisfaction at a job of self-sacrificial work well done.
It’s strange we have gotten to this place. But by degrees, and through the worshipful educational fetishizing of weakness and non-judgmentalism, and the normalizing of mental disease, we have finally arrived there: to Nowhere.
Denmark is no longer allowing free passage over the bridges from Sweden. The Danes are tougher than the Swedes.
Sweden is going through some tough times (no one seems to know just why this is happening, of course) and is doing its best to combat the puzzling upsurge in violence with all the weapons in its impressive arsenal:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/swedish-police-respond-shocking-rising-crime-levels-inviting-gang-leaders-pizza
With such extraordinary troubleshooting capabilities they should have the problem licked in no time…
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/11/17/sweden-populists-top-poll-as-leftist-govt-struggles-with-gang-violence/
Happened to read this piece this morning:
“Abandoning Malmö to Its Criminals”
https://quillette.com/2019/11/15/abandoning-malmo-to-its-criminals/
Malmo seems to be ground zero for the worst of the violence. The police in the article admit that the city is out of control and they can’t cover it.
The most interesting aspect of the article was the inability of the author, who is a Malmo resident and clearly alarmed by the state of affairs, to get specific:
Though many of the bombings and homicides go unsolved, they are known to be the work of warring criminal gangs that are predominantly based in the country’s immigrant neighborhoods.
Well, that clears that up.
One commenter remarked:
As a citizen in one of Sweden’s neighbouring countries, I follow Swedish news every day. One concern which seems to be pretty special for Sweden is what is called “Sverigebilden,” a term that can be translated as the “Image of Sweden. … this, in Sweden, is an obsession. Both the Swedish establishment and the population at large seem conspicuously obsessed with how Sweden (or individual towns, as in this article) might be viewed from the outside. Upholding an imagined favourable self-image often comes across as more important than taking a realistic look at problems in society and acting upon them. This juvenile narcissism is thus not just laughable, but also self-desctructive, in that ignoring or explaining away the actual problems only serves to worsen them. In fact, this obsession with image – this narcissism, strangely combined with a noticeable inferiority complex – can be said to lie behind much of Sweden’s self-destructive path in the past 50 years to become a “humanistic super power.”
I’ve run into this observation before.
Things have improved… when i pointed it out, it was pish toshed and they were using hand grenades.. now they are using more improvized better made explosive…
isnt progress wonderful?
however… the feminist groups invited them in, with rainbow posters too
and they do stand guard preventing action.. and the men are not defending them
they made sure that no one could talk or protest about it, even putting men in jail who thought it a bad idea
from sweden
https://www.government.se/government-policy/a-feminist-government/
[narcissists will not take responsibility for their actions]
NY TIMES
This is why they are a Rape Capital and Bombing capital of the world!!!
You go Grrrrrls!!!
After Inviting Muslims in, Swedish Feminists Are Pushed Out
its a better world they made than the oppressive one their husbands and fellow citizens who oppressed them made for them…
Why not try “Teens” it works in the US when people do things..
i guess this kind of appeasement will make it better:
Swedish Feminists Urge Fairness in Migrant Sexual Assaults
Want an effective foreign policy? Make it feminist
Forget Ukip, why the hell has Europe voted in a feminist party
[so if ya want to know whats happening also on the continent]
Sweden’s Sexual Assault Crisis Presents a Feminist Paradox
Safety for whom? Exploring femonationalism and care-racism
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Heck i didnt know that you get word soup with your popcorn in sweden?
Pass the popcorn!!!
Nothing to do but play my lyre and fiddle away the time..
the time to act was when things were not a big problem
there really is nothing to do but watch the show…
and its hard to be sympathetic to people who attacked you for existing
and broke rules, used the state against the people and proselytizing broken homes
sit and laugh at it… maybe there IS cosmic justice after all..
and France is catching up to the feminist Sweden!
Six-Year-Old Prostitutes in No-Go Zone
i will guess their men wont protect them either…
why fight for people who started hating you before you were born?
I’ve run into this observation before.
It’s the burden of J. J. Rousseau’s Emile.
Thus far, the disorder in Sweden and Germany has triggered some visible resistance from all of 15% of the population. Each is a nation of capons, and there’s not much to be done about it. Sven and Hans, you are the weakest links. Goodbye.
In 2017 our Swedish friends sold their Stockholm apartment and moved permanently to their country home about 90 minutes northwest of the city. They couldn’t stand what was going on in the city they loved.
It is sad fbecause we have enjoyed over the past 25 years visiting them every 3 years in Stockholm which IMO is a lovely city now over run by muslim scum. Not very PC, but that is the truth. Now we’ll get together every other year at our lakefront summer cabin in northern Minnesota.
I assumed the Muslim grooming operations in the UK would have led to some pretty ugly scenes as outraged British men took the law into their own hands for the sexual violation of white girls.
I’m not sure how good such vigilantism would have been, but I found the utter lack of it shocking. Then, much worse, British law and the media protected the groomers.
All totally unforeseen and unforeseeable, no?
“2030 – that’s when we take over…” – a popular t-shirt slogan worn by Muslim youth in Malmo, Sweden
Inculcated guilt over generations by the Left, that implies that ancestral racial guilt can only be expunged through cultural suicide has made Western Europe ripe for conquest.
Speaking of societal collapse … I have some good countervailing news for some of the guys here who are hunters, and who have remarked on keeping only conventional outdoor recreation type firearms.
“Henry Repeating Arms” yeah the company that made (goofy, in my former opinion) updated copies of historical firearms like the old Yellow-boys, for I don’t know who or what market segment, now has an apparently astounding accuracy (1 MOA or even better) box magazine fed lever action in .223, 6.5 Creedmoor, and .308.
With the problems legal Remington is facing, and the near wrecking of Marlin by the Remington acquisition, it will be good news for hunters here to know that Henry has produced what looks to be a real groundbreaking lever rifle in terms of cartridges and accuracy. The Browning BLR has gotten bad reviews of late, the Remington Marlins have horrible reviews, the Savage 99 is long gone, and I have no idea of what became of the Winchester 1895 … but this, unlike the awful-reviewed Mossberg 464, looks like a real winner … and in those cartridges most likely to be available almost no matter what. No need to monkey around with special tip spritzers that won’t possibly detonate in a tube magazine.
Maybe they will come out with a .17HMR; and Neo can get herself one for mouse elimination …
Inculcated guilt over generations by the Left, that implies that ancestral racial guilt can only be expunged through cultural suicide has made Western Europe ripe for conquest.
Geoffrey Britain: I find it hard to disagree.
It seems Europe in general suffers, to a lesser degree, of the Swedish desire mentioned above to be a “humanistic superpower” over cultural survival.
The women – or a critical enough mass of them – of their own culture apparently despise Swedish men: despite having made them, with the Swedish males’ own active cooperation, into just what they wished for; dithering weaklings.
Now this points out to me the destructive absurdity of this fictive notion of community and “community values” which are used to stake solidarity claims on all “members” of “the community” by progressives. Some number of people get it into their heads, reasonably or not given their individual natures, that they would be better off dead; or at least radically transformed from what they are, into something else. And then they “sell” it to their compatriots on the basis of an incoherent but apparently emotionally irresistibly notion of “we”. Yeah, so, “Let’s all kill ourselves together in the name of civility”, imply the eunuchs and the clinical depressives and the childless sagging faced drones leading the public square discussions.
As others have pointed out, it’s amazing how many European countries are led by those who have no personal familial stake in the future.
Re the comments from DNW and others regarding the cultural death-wish so widespread in the Euro-American world: many years ago I realized that this was going on, and started trying to point it out, and to understand it. And James Burnham was onto it in the early ’60s. I still have not explained to my own satisfaction its causes. It remains somewhat mysterious to me. But Rene Girard’s analysis of it as a specifically post-Christian syndrome comes closest.
Artfldgr on November 18, 2019 at 3:54 pm said:
“the French government technically labels [a No Go Zone] a Sensitive Urban Zone.”
Ha! Or are those residents being insensitive to some of their fellow countrymen?
DNW,
I have a Winchester 1894 chambered for 357/38, its 2 MOA at 100 yards with 357s. Good enough for me. However my Mauser 48s are 1.5 and 2 MOA at 400 yards, more than good enough for me. BTW, bought the Mausers for $79 each way back when. I was so impressed with their accuracy I bought what I needed to reload 8MM. Nothing like 192 grains to give some people who did something a bad day.
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Not Sweden, to be sure. Perhaps not too distantly related nevertheless.
You’d probably have to look long and hard to find a better example of mealy-mouthed, realty refusing bureaucratic BS terminology than “Sensitive Urban Zone” for foci of anti-Western/French/Christian violence; Muslim “no-go” geographic areas where the French state has given up on enforcing its sovereignty.
That’s pretty good. Even considering the reduction of any flinch factor due to the pistol cartridge. And many of us, looking at the muzzle energy of the .357 through a 5 inch barrel, have considered how useful it would be in a 20 or 22 inch one for medium game. “Plus the cost, boss.”
I had forgotten about the Mitchells and at first thought you made a typo for the Hungarian ’43 or the Kar 98.
The ones I have seen are beautiful as wall hangers; but I had never head anyone describe what kind of results they had gotten from one that had really tried to dial in. The result you describe ant one quarter MOA is phenomenal. At 400 yards it should be 4 to 6 inches minimum.
Of course they do have what I would think of as a relatively heavy barrel and good from the factory bedding or at least recoil lugs … so.
Nonetheless, I’m impressed.
OK .. so what’s the deal with the edit function, now? Whaaaa !!!!
But Rene Girard’s analysis of it as a specifically post-Christian syndrome comes closest.
Mac: I would be curious for you to say more. I’ve taken a few runs at Girard and never got the appeal. Girard’s thinking seems to me a kind of psychoanalysis — based on an interesting metaphor but how could one really know and how would one test it?
Sounds pretty ifffy to me, yet some people take Girard quite seriously.
Mauser 48s are from the former Yugoslavia. After WW2 they produced around a million rifles and put them in storage. They shortened the barrel by 4″ and devevoped a smoother bold from the 98. With a scope they are a very good sniper’s rifle.I had to clean the cosmoline from them, and when I inspected the chrome lined barrels I was pleased to see beautiful rifling. Glad I bought them.
I am a fan of the 357 in a revoler or a carbine. More powerful revovler cartridges exist, but the 357 has enough power for me.
huxley, on November 18, 2019 at 4:45 pm: +1
huxley: I don’t think I could say much in a blog comment that would be helpful as far as understanding Girard’s thought is concerned. That’s in large part because I don’t think I have a good enough grasp of it. It’s complex and I find it kind of slippery. A couple of years ago when I was curious about him, knowledgeable people recommended I See Satan Fall Like Lightning as a good place to start. That’s the only book of his that I’ve read.
I was not entirely sold on several aspects of his thinking, which is a combination of theology, literary criticism, and psychology/anthropology. But I did think his account of the mechanism by which being a victim is considered a virtue in post-Christian society to be very insightful.
I just picked up the book and here’s a passage I marked, about our knowledge of the scapegoating mechanism (a big topic in the book): “…we turn our knowledge into a weapon, a means not only of perpetuating old conflicts but of raising them to a new level of cunning…. In short, we integrate the central concern of Judaism and Christianity into our systems of self-defense. Instead of criticizing ourselves, we use our knowledge in bad faith, turning it against others. Indeed, we practice a hunt for scapegoats to the second degree, a hunt for hunters of scapegoats. Our society’s obligatory compassion authorizes new forms of cruelty.”
Around the time of the Kavanaugh hearings I started a blog post looking at the thing through a Girardian lens, but didn’t finish it. I think I’ll look at it again.
Mac: Thanks for giving it a shot. That’s basically what I understand about Girard.
It still seems odd to me — like focusing on Ahab’s obsession with the White Whale in Moby Dick as the key insight for understanding humanity. It’s certainly a human aspect and Melville was good to bring it to our attention, but how far can we run with that ball?
Furthermore, speaking as a sorta-Christian, I ask whether Girard’s scapegoat story does justice to Christ. For me Christ is about love and our real connection to God even beyond death.
*Something* overcame the early Christians. They moved boldly into the world proclaiming, “He is risen!” Not “At last we understand the scapegoating mechanism.”
As one goes, so go we all.
Where We Go One We Go All
Sounds kinda like the Space Marines.
You can read interpretations by fallible humans or you can get the info directly, or as directly as feasible, from Source.
https://youtu.be/aXcMlGWmSPw
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRMhFDWh1N0KU97vsEAR01Tiq60Qt_C66
“2030 – that’s when we take over…” – a popular t-shirt slogan worn by Muslim youth in Malmo, Sweden
2021, that is when the Divine Fleet descends, aka the Host of Heaven.
huxley: I don’t think Girard is trying to evangelize. He’s more about the anthropological mechanism of Christianity, the way it works and its effects within a culture.
Here is a blog post I wrote right after reading the one book, two years ago. I haven’t read any other Girard since then so this still represents my view of him.
https://www.lightondarkwater.com/2017/12/sunday-night-journal-december-10-2017.html
Mac: I don’t think Girard is trying to evangelize either. He offers a way to explain the anthropological mechanism of Christianity, but it’s still only an explanation and one that may not be true or only partially true.
Freudianism is another beautiful explanation which seduced several generations of bright people but has come to a dead end, though it remains a lucrative career for psychoanalysts who can find clients.
Girardianism strikes me like Freudianism as another big theory — fresh creative work to be sure — that supplies some insights, but it’s still only a theory and one that I happen to distrust off the bat. Real anthropologists need to shore up Girard with substantial research before I get more serious.
Re: Christianity, Girardianism seems woefully underpowered to explain the explosion that was Christianity in the first century and in some ways continues to the present day. Do mimesis and scapegoating really explain the lives of the saints and the countless numbers of people who claim to have been transformed by Christianity?
Anyway. Nice blog entry. I hope you continue to comment here.
“The Danes are tougher than the Swedes….”
Speaking of Denmark….
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15037/denmark-shootings-gang-violence
Just to make sure that things are clear: it’s The Narrative uber alles:
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/11/19/sweden-pm-claims-no-link-between-rising-gang-crime-mass-migration/
It gets worse. The Prime Minister of Sweden is a lapsed union steward who once worked in the manufacturing sector, not an Obama-type. The country’s political culture is just hopeless. About 15% of the population votes for the naiotnalist party (who, of course, are derided as ‘neo-nazis’).
I don’t have anything against Sweden. Sweden First and America First, are both all kinds of wrong.
As well as Germany First.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1978/07/war-and-peace-and-dutch-potatoes?lang=eng
If only humanity could learn to use compassion and peace as weapons instead of hate and fear, they wouldn’t need a yeshua to save them from themselves.