The Antichristian Phenomenon
Sverigedemokraterna did it again
Posted by: LeaT in SocioPolitical, tags: chrisitanity, idiocy, Islam, phobia, politics, Religion, swedenSwedish political right extremist party Sverigedemokraterna (Sweden Democrats) have managed to give rise to more controversy more than gaining power among the voters. Their leader, Jimmie Åkesson, published a very controversial debate article yesterday in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet (The Evening Paper) where he makes various claims about Muslims being the new threat to the Swedish welfare system.
You can read the article on this site both as a Swedish extract and with a Google translation.
It is clear that Åkesson use sweeping statements and hyperboles, such as claiming that Europe will have the highest rape statistics in the world, and that Muslim men will be overrepresented. This is nothing new and basically just fear-mongering, the truth remains that most rapes today are done by white middle-class men no one would expect to be rapists, and neither do they, hence the as usual complete denial. A lot of men who are white and belong to the middle-class are never convicted simply because the judges believed them more, only for the pure reasons that they were white middle-class men. We do not perceive them of being capable of raping, even when there is overwhelming evidence presented. The reason why is simply of what Åkesson just expressed; we rather believe in the dark ambusher coming from an Arab country, spying on lone women at night hiding in a bush near a parkway, just ready to attack.
I live in a pretty Muslim-dense part of my town, and there is a local store that sell Halal meat. I can’t really say it bothered me more than I think it is unethical to drain an animal of blood while it is still alive, as I consider it a form of animal cruelty. Neither have I never felt unsafe when walking alone at night in my area. A lot of children’s families live here, the worst thing I usually experience are teenagers who drive around with their vespas in the middle of the night. I have also yet to meet a person who was clearly mean to me. All of the people I’ve spoken to are nice, such as the guy who sits at the counter in the previously mentioned store that sell Halal meat.
Instead of actually explaining how he would like to proceed to solve the issues with identitiy crisis among second- and third generation immigrants, Åkesson retorts to fear-mongering tactics. What’s worse is the huge support SD have started to gain among the general population, so obviously it is working. I wish people were less blind and could actually see that Åkesson offers NOTHING to solve the problem, he just makes statement after statement of what is wrong. That is not a solution, just empty promises. So what is Åkesson going to do once he get to power? Kick out all immigrants from Sweden? That is obviously not going to work, no matter how you look at it. One reason is that the Swedish birthrate is too low.
I should add that sually any identity to the grandparents’ country is lost at the third generation as they become completely immersed within their “host” country, so I am not sure what kind of statistics Åkesson took part of, but it’s very contradictory to what I’ve learnt as an anthropology student. So I don’t see why Åkesson is quite worried. Yes, angsty teenagers in the surburbs are a problem, but they aren’t angsty because they are Muslims, they are angsty because the politicians do nothing to improve their situation and ultimately the become marginalized from society! One would expect our politicians to learn that it doesn’t work to dump immigrants on one dense place. Philipe Burgois’ book In Search of Respect is a perfect example of what will happen in Sweden in the future if we don’t try to spend money to improve the situation.
Lastly, there are a lot of claims made about what is Swedish, but Åkesson nor anyone from SD never offer any form of explanation of what they mean what being Swedish is. Am I Swedish for having a Swedish name and a Swedish personal number and for considering myself part Swedish? Or am I too, an evil immigrant here to poison the country and the so called Swedish culture because of my Korean heritage? I do not deny my Korean heritage and I consider myself just as much Korean as I consider myself Swedish. I just so happened to have a Swedish name that people mention me as and to speak Swedish fluently. It should be said that my Korean name is actually a part of my whole name, only the surname is left out for reasons I don’t know, but I think it was inconvenient for my parents to name me Fridh Kim or any variant of it, since they were married and it would be troublesome legally I suppose.
If there is anything that worries me right now when it comes to Swedish politics it’s if SD would get into the parliament. I am very worried over what will happen with the current Swedish democracy and freedom of speech. I do not deny Åkesson’s right to voice his opinions, but I do deny him the right to get into the Swedish parliament and I will actively do so by refusing to vote for him and his party. Any person who only argues for the right for his own freedom of speech and his own social rights only fool himself if he claims to support a democratic society where everybody is equal.
I do agree with Åkesson that our current immigration is a huge issue and that we have yet to learn how to manage to deal with all the angsty teenagers living in the suburbs. Clearly what our politicans are currently doing isn’t working, but this also includes Åkesson and his SD! I admit that one of the reasons why I want to become a scientist within the anthropological field is so I can go out in the field and actually gather FACTS so maybe they’ll start doing something USEFUL and TANGIBLE. I do want to be able to influence our politicians on a greater scale than what I am currently able of just being a normal citizen with an opinion.
It should also be noted that SD got strong Christian roots (hahahahahahaha!), as if I’d ever cast my vote for such a retarded party that make claims of how dangerous Islam is and that the Koran is so dogmatic and then come running making such weak claims that “but at least we got the NT who make claims about turning the other cheek!”. Yeah, right, like that’s exactly what you are doing Åkesson? Like referring to the NT ever stopped Christianity from still oppressing our society and still does here in the West. Cherrypicking, cherrypicking. Of course, Åkesson wouldn’t define his homophobia as much as oppressing, just that the Bible says so and therefore it is right. Now, maybe Åkesson should start looking at himself first and the claims he and his party make regarding domatism, then maybe they got the right to critize Islam properly.
Such fucking idiocy. I wish people could actually see that Åkesson is just a big fucking hypocrite and if I could, I would smother him where he stands with my soceress’ fire ball. In fact, I wish we could tear down our whole current political system and abdicate all our active politicians. They are very good at talking and avoiding questions, very bad at actually making the changes they always claim they are aiming for.
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:24 pm - Edit
The right wing populist political parties are becoming a trend in Europe. We've got the PVV (party for freedom) with Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, Belgium has their Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) and the UK has the BNP (British Nationalists Party) with Nick Griffin and partly the UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party) with "Malcolm Pearson, Baron Pearson of Rannoch". I'm sure other countries have the same problems. There's even an international organization, Euronat, combining all of these right wing populists parties. It's a disgrace, this short after the war. It seems people easily forget lessons learned. History seems to be doomed to repeat itself, once again.
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:15 am - Edit
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
March 23rd, 2010 at 8:37 pm - Edit
Wish the Sverigedemokraterna good luck in the coming election!
http://sverigedemokraterna.de/
April 18th, 2010 at 6:13 pm - Edit
What's right-wing about Sverigedemokraterna? Among a lot of bad-smelling opinions, they want a stronger state and a stronger welfare system, traditionally a typical left-wing trait.. Populism, authoritarianism and anti-democracy is nothing you place on a right-left scale. One of the problems with this kind of populistic parties is that they get supporters from the whole political spectrum.
April 18th, 2010 at 6:18 pm - Edit
I totally agree. Racism has little to do with race anymore, it's all about intolerance and prejudice, something SD expresses in abundance. By that definition, SD is nothing but a racist party.
April 19th, 2010 at 5:04 pm - Edit
Glad to hear there are some sane Swedes around, still! I am anticipating how this year's election will turn out, and not necessarily in a good way.
April 19th, 2010 at 5:12 pm - Edit
There are discussions going on what there can be done with the current established parties to prevent SD from gaining more power, and one argument was that they must clarify where they stand on the right-left scale. I do think the parties have done that to a certain degree, Demokraterna have privatized quite some and now I sincerely regret I voted on them. But I was young and stupid back then and hadn't developed my resent towards capitalism when I did. It looks like Socialdemokraterna will get my vote this year if I don't vote on the Pirate Party. At least PP are far more serious in their approach and attempt to discuss other questions than copyright. I also like their solutions regarding the copyright issue. I have yet to see an actual solution from SD more than stopping all current immigration and adoption. Because adoption is really the most dangerous thing, since adopted children usually adapt to the same cultural identity as their parents (like I did).
August 14th, 2010 at 3:40 pm - Edit
If by "sane", you mean "politically correct pussie" then yes, we have LOTS.
Get your heads out of your arses and look around you, Swedish government has fucked up for 30 years when it comes to integration and supporting foreigners. That's why things look the way they do today. It's like saying to a Muslim: "Can you take off your shoes in my house? I don't want it to get dirty." to which the Muslim replies "No, in my house – I can walk around with my shoes all I want. Allah is not bothered."
WELL ALLAH DOESNT FUCKING LIVE IN SWEDEN, YOU COME HERE – YOU RESPECT OUR TRADITIONS AND BLEND IN.
What Muslims have done now is to merge with a highway going 30. You have to adapt your speed in order to fit in and keep the country running. Sadly, ours stopped growing in the 70's. The only thing we have now is Köttbullar and Spotify.
Thank fuck I live in California now.
September 19th, 2010 at 2:33 pm - Edit
What is truth is that at the rhythm that the events are happening the Swedish welfare system won´t last much more generations because:
-They will be so many people living from welfare that it will be unsustainable.
-Because the Swedes will vote to don´t pay higher taxes if they see that as a group they don´t get something in return and they are given to foreigners.
If the Swedish or world capital elites wanted you to remove the welfate system and place a neoliberal or whatever predating capitalist scheme in your country how do you think that they would convince you to do that? making the welfare unsustainible of course, from a foreigner point of view is what I´m thinking, why is all that improductive people living of wellfare allowed by the goverenment? why they still bring more if they haven´t a job for them? why an inmigrant is still receieving welfare after refusing to give his hand to a woman in a job interview? why all the media did publish that new? was to make angry the Swedish taxpayer and create opinion against having a welfare system?
With no doubt for me it was so shocking that you the Swedes give as much without asking something in return (almost all of my Hogskolespåret friends are living from welfare except me and a few more that we live from our savings), it´s good to help, OK, but don´t be foolish, I´ve been young and thought in that way, the world is marvelous, we all should be friends but if one work hard and have have his benefits/savings he can´t share with the lazy because sooner than later he will run in debt, they should be some limits.
I´ve seen this in Spain, politically correct media said that inmigrants they came because we need it, they shown statistics showing that it was a newborn hole in the graph for some ages and uncontrolled inmigration was supposed to help to pay the pensions, what we had was worker rights cutoff, strong dumping in low qualification jobs and when the housing bubble did explote an official growing 20% unemployment rate, unnoficial one claims to be higher. It was not the inmigrants fault, of course, they were people that came to improve their situation, it was our politicians fault to don´t prevent that (actually they were aligned with, promoting and denying the housing bubble but that gives for pages), now loads of our inmigrants are unemployed because they were doing low-qualified jobs, the state is sustaining the welfare people via a dramatic increase of the National Debt, very good for the predating banking system, very bad for the average Spanish.
So take care with political parties that like the current fiduciary banking system that needs to create an exponetial debt curve to be maintained, take care with the Euro (in Spain was catastrophic) and to join the NATO.
I still want to see a democratic party (not radical comunist) that is against the fiduciary money scheme and the control of private owned corporations (banks) over a national currency, until then for me what we have is a George Orwell´s 1984 like scheme, correct thinking programming since you are child, controlled and private owned media all different opinions but INSIDE some limits and dumb society that blames the inmigrants when they should blame their leaders.
September 22nd, 2010 at 10:25 pm - Edit
I completely agree with you that we should not blame our immigrants, we should blame our leaders for leading lousy politics. It's not the immigrants' fault that we accept them, dump them in the suburbs and then fail to integrate them. And they hope for a better life here, without persecution and death threats.
For me, the most ideal and utopian solution is to change our financial system. The problem isn't so much whether a nation-state can financially sustain itself, the problem is that our financial system to begin with is faulty. In hunter-gatherer societies no one is bothered over whether they will become bankrupt, because there is no economy to talk about more than the possible trade between other tribes. Even then, what they do trade is not general-purpose money, but they might sell their knives for someone's pig. And the societies are completely self-sustained, and there is usually never any serious lack of food, even during times when food is scarce.
By the way, socialism does not necessarily lead to fascism. Communism is not fascism, I am sure db0 can tell you plenty about the difference between Marxism, communism and the fake communism that we see in North Korea. Just because some communist regimes call themselves communist it does not necessarily make them communist. They are all fascist under the guise of communism.
I do not agree with the European Union (I feel a lot of decisions are taken just to be enforced upon the member states regardless of their actual individual positions on the matter, just look at FRA and a lot of the laws are very questionable when it comes to for example animal rights, ecological issues and health), and well… If you are a pacifist like me, the existence of NATO is just asking for troubles. I am not denying the need for an army, but an army should not be the first option when there is a world conflict.
October 27th, 2010 at 10:41 pm - Edit
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May 9th, 2011 at 5:02 pm - Edit
while it is true that not all immigrates are bad and some are well integrated, this however, is not the case with African or Muslim immigrants in most cases. The fact is, is that 80% of rapes are committed by muslim or african immigrants as it is acceptable in their culture to treat women like insects. Sweden does not nor ever has needed immigrants. The fact is, is that 76% of all muslim and african immigrants are on social benefit, therefore they are costing the state money and not paying into the social safety net. A low birth rate can also be combated through financial incentives. For example maybe a 100k sek bonus for the third child as well as a lower tax rate and taxing the childless. While some people may call my comments racist the statistics speak for themselves. The vast majority of immigrants in my opinion should be deported, by military force if necessary. Otherwise in 20 years ethnic Swedes will become a minority in 20 years and be forced to live under sharia law. This will lead to war without a doubt. Before immigration there was very little crime in Sweden now the amount of rape is comparable to some african countries. In fact the amount of rape in Sweden is 6x the European average, this was not the case before large scale non western immigration. From these data what can one conclude? How has muslim and african immigration been beneficial to Sweden? How is Sweden better off now than it was when it was a homogenous nation? If there is data to support this then lets see it
May 12th, 2011 at 9:33 pm - Edit
Source, please? On the contrary, in such a traditional Muslim society as the Bedouin society, it is not considered acceptable to beat or rape women, as it not considered an honorful action.
Wrong again. Due to Sweden's demographics with a high strata of highly educated people who are not willing to take trash jobs and low birth rate, labor immigration is very important to keep the society going.
Source, please? And I want to see a report or similar from Socialstyrelsen.
Your statmenet is ridiculous. Some people are for example unable to have children on their own, should they be taxed? Some people have children but are unable to care for them, should they still receive tax money? Furthermore, your tax system doesn't solve your claims about the "high" costs of unemployed migrants since you replace one high-cost system with another.
Also, did you ever consider that this tax system would equally benefit Muslims who have achieved Swedish citizenship? No, of course you didn't.
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Define an ethnic Swede.
lol, "before" immigration? If you didn't know, the Swedish state is literarily built by immigration. Dutch, Germans, Irish, English, Finns and Norwegians have all travelled to Sweden and helped build Sweden as it is today. Don't be a fool.
Source? Also, consider that people may be better at reporting rape today than 30 years ago with it was considered more of a social stigma. This will make it look like there is an increase in the rape rate even though there is not, just that the rate of reports have increased.
Sorry to break your bubble, but again, Sweden has never been as homogenous as you'd like to think. Or did you forget about the Sami, the Jews and the Gypsies among other minority groups?
June 3rd, 2011 at 11:09 am - Edit
I think that many things of what SD stand for are right, but at the immigration point they are too bad.
I mean they are sending out a wrong message. Yes we have a high immigration in Sweden as do almost every European country, but they send out the wrong message that they are against Muslims. I think that SD should be better at saying they want to lower the immigration number and not to throw out them. And they can't throw out people who are already Swedish citizens, nor European-citizen.
Too bad they focus too much on the immigration point and not the other things they stand for.
If what I heard is true, then what they want is to lower the number of immigration and make those who come into Sweden feel more Swedish. Of course this could be propaganda and I'm glad I noticed before it was too late. But I hope that they just lower the number and don't cast them out. I think that they have a very good ideology, but they need to lower their focus on just Muslims, all though that is why they get votes.
June 7th, 2011 at 12:05 pm - Edit
I honestly don't agree with you. SD got horrible values and are terribly conservative in all areas. They prefer the nuclear family with women staying home and men working, they consider homosexuals to be "sick" and so on. The only difference to SD and KD is that SD focuses on immigration as an issue, whereas KD as a whole tries to promote conservative Christian values. SD are just an ounce worse in my book because SD politics do not solve ANYTHING. At least KD tries to make no such claims, either you are a conservative Christian and agree with them or you don't. All of their suggestions to solve immigration try to solve the symptom, never the underlying cause.
You see, the problem isn't migration per se, nor the amount of asylum seekers. The amount of migrants Sweden received over the past years have drastically decreased. The problem is that migrants find it very hard to make a living and not everyone can start their own pizza restaurant or run their own shop. Furthermore, migrants are dumped to live in the same areas with very poor living space and poor social security. The problem is ergo how the government deals with migration – i.e. people become unhappy with their life situation and that's when it goes bad.
Add to the general media attention only focusing on "migration gone bad", and people will automatically get a flawed perception. What about all those migrants who work very hard for their citizenship and really pull their weight? We never heard about those stories, only those who fail because media never pays attention to when things actually work since that is the norm – it is expected to work.
Lastly, I'm not a nationalist, I don't believe in nor support nationalist values. I find the whole idea of a national Sweden pointless because Sweden is already so culturally diverse even if you remove all migrants from outside Europe that saying that something is typically Swedish becomes kind of pointless – because you are doing just that, stereotyping. Swedish families celebrate Christmas their own ways, not all celebrate Easter and so on. Nationalism only works if you believe in and support those values presented but it's just a general blindfold to create a sense of unity with the state. What says that a Muslim cannot support Swedish values? Many Muslims find for example Midsummer celebrations very exotic because it's so different from anything they experienced (and honestly, how silly can it not be when grown men and women jump around the maypole singing "Små grodorna"?).
September 3rd, 2011 at 3:58 am - Edit
"no matter how you look at it. One reason is that the Swedish birthrate is too low. "
Well dumbass, can you also be a little more specific, and mention that it was the very ideology that YOU represent and stand for, the liberalism and Marxism, that has been responsible for the perpetuation and creation of the very conditions that HAVE enabled these abysmal low Swedish (and other native, white European as well) birth rate in the first place? Who else, but the Godless and immoral self-loathing European leftists, have created and popularized hostile attitudes towards having large families (amongst native Europeans), and have turned abortion of white babies into a form of a casual contraceptive? Because I know that nothing makes a European liberal roll their eyes and cringe than a white couple with 19 children =)
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"I honestly don't agree with you. SD got horrible values and are terribly conservative in all areas. They prefer the nuclear family with women staying home and men working"
Well, this is certainly what the Third Worlders believe in. No wonder why non-European nations' populations are skyrocketing. Maybe you can try and lecture the Arab and African men why it's not right for them to have their own women barefoot and pregnant all the time, even though they've already given birth to 10 kids each?