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Another great piece from the extraordinary European essayist Fjordman:
I decided to write this essay following the riots in Malmö this weekend. Malmö is Sweden's third largest city and by far the worst city in Scandinavia when it comes to Muslim aggression. I read recently that an Arab girl interviewed in Malmö said that she liked it so much there, it felt almost like an Arab city. Native Swedes have been moving away from the city for years, turned into refugees in their own country by Jihad, not too different from the non-Muslims in some regions of the Philippines, southern Thailand or Kashmir in India, or for that matter, Christian Serbs in Kosovo.Sweden was presented during the Cold War as a middle way between capitalism and Communism. When this model of a society collapses – and it will collapse, under the combined forces of Islamic Jihad, the European Union, Multiculturalism and ideological overstretch – it is thus not just the Swedish state that will collapse but the symbol of Sweden, the showcase of an entire ideological world view. I wrote two years ago that if the trend isn't stopped, the Swedish nation will simply cease to exist in any meaningful way during the first half of this century. The country that gave us Bergman, ABBA and Volvo could become known as the Bosnia of northern Europe, and the "Swedish model" will be one of warning against ideological madness, not one of admiration. I still fear I was right in that assessment.
Jonathan Friedman, an American living outside Malmö, mentions that the so-called Integration Act of 1997 proclaimed that "Sweden is a Multicultural society." Notes to the Act also stated that "Since a large group of people have their origins in another country, the Swedish population lacks a common history. The relationship to Sweden and the support given to the fundamental values of society thus carry greater significance for integration than a common historical origin."
Native Swedes have thus been reduced to just another ethnic group in Sweden, with no more claim to the country than the Kurds or the Somalis who arrived there last Thursday. The political authorities of the country have erased their own people's history and culture.
Jens Orback, Minister for Democracy, Metropolitan Affairs, Integration and Gender Equality from the Social Democratic Party said during a debate in Swedish radio in 2004 that "We must be open and tolerant towards Islam and Muslims because when we become a minority, they will be so towards us."
This is a government that knows perfectly well that their people will become a minority in their own country, yet is doing nothing to stop this. On the contrary. Pierre Schori, Minister for immigration, during a parliamentary debate in 1997 said that: "Racism and xenophobia should be banned and chased [away]," and that one should not accept "excuses, such as that there were flaws in the immigration and refugee policies."
In other words: It should be viewed as a crime for the native population not to assist in wiping themselves out.
Orback's attitude is what follows once you declare that culture is irrelevant. Our culture, even though we try to forget it, is steeped in a Judeo-Christian morality based on the Golden Rule of reciprocity: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." (Luke 6:31)Muslims, on the other hand, are steeped in an Islamic tradition based on Muslim supremacy. Muslims view lack of force as a sign of weakness, and they despise weakness, which is precisely why Adolf Hitler stated his admiration for Islam, and thought it would be a better match for Nazism than Christianity, with its childish notions of compassion.
A Swedish man was nearly killed for the crime of wearing clothes with his own national flag while Sweden was participating in the 2006 football World Cup. Some "Multicultural youths" found this to be an intolerable provocation, and the 24-year-old man was run down by a car in Malmö, where Muhammad is becoming the most common name for newborn boys.
Feriz and Pajtim, members of Gangsta Albanian Thug Unit in Malmö, explain how they mug people downtown. They target a lone victim. "We surround him and beat and kick him until he no longer fights back," Feriz said. "You are always many more people than your victims. Cowardly?" "I have heard that from many, but I disagree. The whole point is that they're not supposed to have a chance." They didn't express any sympathy for their victims. "If they get injured, they just have themselves to blame for being weak," said Pajtim and shrugged.
The wave of robberies the city of Malmö has witnessed is part of a "war against the Swedes." This is the explanation given by young robbers from immigrant background in interviews with Petra Åkesson. "When we are in the city and robbing we are waging a war, waging a war against the Swedes." This argument was repeated several times. "Power for me means that the Swedes shall look at me, lie down on the ground and kiss my feet." The boys explain, laughingly, that "there is a thrilling sensation in your body when you're robbing, you feel satisfied and happy, it feels as if you've succeeded, it simply feels good." "We rob every single day, as often as we want to, whenever we want to. The Swedes don't do anything, they just give us the stuff. They're so wimpy."
"Exit Folkhemssverige – Ensamhällsmodells sönderfall" (Exit the People's Home of Sweden - The Downfall of a Model of Society) is a book from 2005 about immigration and the Swedish welfare state model dubbed "the people's home," written by Jonathan Friedman, Ingrid Björkman, Jan Elfverson and Åke Wedin. According to them, the Swedish Multicultural elites see themselves first of all as citizens of the world. In order to emphasize and accentuate diversity, everything Swedish is deliberately disparaged. Opposition to this policy is considered a form of racism:
"The dominant ideology in Sweden, which has been made dominant by powerful methods of silencing and repression, is a totalitarian ideology, where the elites oppose the national aspect of the nation state. The problem is that the ethnic group that are described as Swedes implicitly are considered to be nationalists, and thereby are viewed as racists."
The authors fear that the handling of the immigration policies has seriously eroded democracy because the citizens lose their loyalty towards a state they no longer consider their own. "Instead of increasing the active participation of citizens, the government has placed clear restrictions on freedom of thought, freedom of speech and freedom of congregation."
Mona Sahlin has held various posts in Social Democratic cabinets, among others as Minister for Democracy, Integration and Gender Equality. Sahlin has said that many Swedes are envious of immigrants because they, unlike the Swedes, have a culture, a history, something which ties them together. Notice how Swedish authorities first formally state that Swedes don't have a history or a culture, and then proceed to lament the fact that Swedes don't have a history or a culture. A neat trick.
Sahlin has also stated that: "If two equally qualified persons apply for a job at a workplace with few immigrants, the one called Muhammad should get the job. (…) It should be considered an asset to have an ethnic background different from the Swedish one." In 2004, she was quoted as saying that "A concerted effort that aims at educating Swedes that immigrants are a blessing to their country must be pursued," stressing that her compatriots must accept that the new society is Multicultural. "Like it or not, this is the new
Sweden."Mona Sahlin was elected leader of the Social Democratic Party, as thus a future contender for the post of Swedish Prime Minister, in 2007.
Why does the government dispense with the social contract and attack its own people like this? Well, for starters, because it can. Sweden is currently arguably the most politically repressive and totalitarian country in the Western world. It also has the highest tax rates. That could be a coincidence, but I'm not sure that it is. The state has become so large and powerful that is has become an autonomous organism with a will of its own. The people are there to serve the state, not vice versa. And because state power penetrates every single corner of society, including the media, there are no places left to mount a defense if the state decides to attack you.
It has been said jokingly that while other countries are states with armies, Pakistan is an army with a state. Likewise, it could be argued that Sweden started out being a nation with a bureaucracy and ended up being a bureaucracy with a nation. In fact, the bureaucracy formally abolished the very nation it was supposed to serve. Its representatives are no longer leaders of a people, but caretakers preoccupied only with advancing their own careers through oiling and upholding, if possible expanding, the bureaucratic machinery.
Swedes pay the highest tax rates of any (supposedly) free nation, and for this they get flawed social security, non-existent physical security and a state apparatus dedicated to their destruction.
Anna Ekelund in the newspaper Aftonbladet writes that: "We are a people who allow ourselves to be insulted by the government on a daily basis. We are not expected to be capable of thinking for ourselves, of deciding what we will read, or managing our own money. (…) Swedes are as co-dependent as an alcoholic's wife. Yet we do not hurry to the ballot box to remove the prevailing systems. Not because we don't want to but because too many of us have painted ourselves into their corners."
Moreover, Swedes are keenly aware of the fact that their country is viewed by many outsiders as a "model society." Sweden is a deeply ideological state dedicated to imposing a certain world view on its citizens, and because the state is ideological, dissenters are quite literally treated as enemies of the state.
In the book The New Totalitarians, the British historian Roland Huntford in the early 1970s pointed out that it was easier to establish the Fascist model of the corporate state in Sweden than in Mussolini's Italy for cultural reasons, since Sweden had a centralized bureaucracy whereas Italians are skeptical of state authority. Put simply: Swedes have tended to trust their bureaucrats, which no Italian in his right mind would ever do.
According to him, "The Swedes have a horror of controversy as something unpleasant, inefficient and vaguely immoral. They require for peace of mind, not confrontation, but consensus. Consensus guides everything: private conversation, intellectual life and the running of the State."
The then Minister of Education, Mr. Ingvar Carlsson, defined the purpose of schooling: "It is to produce a well adjusted, good member of society. It teaches people to respect the consensus, and not to sabotage it" He also on one occasion said that "School is the spearhead of Socialism." Mr. Carlsson was Swedish Prime Minister as late as 1996.
Mr. Carlsson's mentor in the Social Democratic Party and predecessor as Swedish Prime Minister (1969 to 1986), Mr. Olof Palme, openly flaunted his disregard, if not contempt for, Western civilization: "The Renaissance so-called? Western culture? What does it mean to us?" Under the watchful eye of the Labor movement, Swedish education has for decades mounted deliberate attacks on Western culture, making it look suspect.
According to Mr. Huntford, "When the Swedes change ideas, they do it to the full, leaving no room for criticism or reservation. The country lacks intellectual defences; anything new will conquer without resistance being offered." The consensus "assumes that technological advancement is the sole path to happiness, and the Gross National Product the only measure of national success. It also assumes that the good of the collective at all times must take precedence over the good of the individual. It prescribes that the fundamentals of Swedish society must never be questioned or discussed."
This is how Mrs Maj Bossom-Nordboe, then departmental chief of at the Directorate of Schools, expressed it: "It's useless to build up individuality, because unless people learned to adapt themselves to society, they would be unhappy. Liberty is not emphasized. Instead, we talk about the freedom to give up freedom. The accent is on the social function of children, and I will not deny that we emphasize the collective."
Roland Huntford ended his book with a warning that this system of soft-totalitarianism could be exported to other countries. He has been proven right since:
"The Swedes have demonstrated how present techniques can be applied in ideal conditions. Sweden is a control experiment on an isolated and sterilized subject. Pioneers in the new totalitarianism, the Swedes are a warning of what probably lies in store for the rest of us, unless we take care to resist control and centralization, and unless we remember that politics are not to be delegated, but are the concern of the individual. The new totalitarians, dealing in persuasion and manipulation, must be more efficient than the old, who depended upon force."
Following the September 2006 elections, Fredrik Reinfeldt became Prime Minister of Sweden, presiding over a center-right coalition government. This is, in my view, positive. Sweden has been described by some as a "one-party state," since the Social Democrats have been in power for 65 of the last 74 years. However, the differences between the left-wing and the right-wing in Sweden are not always that big.
The last time these parties were in power, under the leadership of PM Carl Bildt from
1991 to 94, they presided over massive immigration, and have not been vocal in their opposition to the Multicultural policies since. The new Foreign Minister Bildt as a UN Commissioner to the Balkans called for recognizing Islam as a part of European culture.PM Reinfeldt has stated that the original Swedish culture was merely barbarism: "It can sometimes be good to humbly remind of the fact that a great deal of what constitutes Sweden has been created in [a process of] evolution, exactly because we have been open to accept other people and experiences."
Reinfeldt said this following a visit to an area called Ronna in Södertälje, near Stockholm. One year earlier a police station in Södertälje was hit by shots from an automatic weapon following a major confrontation between immigrant youths and police. The trouble in Ronna started after a Swedish girl had been called a "whore" and reacted to this. Ethnologist Maria Bäckman, in her study "Whiteness and gender," has followed a group of Swedish girls in the immigrant suburb of Rinkeby outside Stockholm. Bäckman relates that several of the blond Swedish girls stated that they had dyed their hair to avoid sexual harassment.
I have called Sweden a soft-totalitarian country, but I am sometimes not so sure about the "soft" part. Opinion polls have revealed that two out of three Swedes doubt whether Islam can be combined with Swedish society, and a very significant proportion of the population have for years wanted more limitations on immigration. Yet not one party represented in Parliament is genuinely critical of the Multicultural society.
Is it just a coincidence that the one country on the European continent that has avoided war for the longest period of time, Sweden, is also arguably the one Western nation where Political Correctness has reached the worst heights? Maybe the prolonged period of peace has created an environment where layers of ideological nonsense have been allowed to pile up for generations without stop. I don't know what Sweden will look like a generation from now, but I'm pretty sure it won't be viewed as a model society. And if the absence of war is one of the causes of its current weakness, I fear that is a problem that will soon be cured.
Some more background information on the situation in Sweden, and the city of Malmö in particular:
Sweden's Unholy Alliance, by Nima Sanandaji
For several years the Christian wing of the Social Democratic party, called The Brotherhood, has been working with the influential Muslim leader Mahmoud Aldebe, president of Sweden's Muslim Association. Already in 1999, Aldebe went on radio proposing that sharia be introduced in Sweden. In addition, Aldebe has in a letter to the Swedish minister of Justice in 2003 involved himself in a heated debate regarding an incident of honor-related murder where a Kurdish girl was murdered by her two uncles, shot several times in the head. Aldebe forcefully defended the perpetrators. Aldebe sees the entire debate regarding honor-related murders as an attack against the Islamic religion After the last election in 2002, Sweden's Muslim Association sent a letter to the re-elected Social Democratic Prime Minister Göran Persson, congratulating him and hoping that Persson would work for implementing some of the demands of the Association in the future.
In the spring of 2006, Sweden's largest Muslim organisation demanded in a letter, signed by its leader Mahmoud Aldebe, that Sweden introduce separate laws for Muslims. The proposals included allowing imams into state (public) schools to give Muslim children separate lessons in Islam and their parents' native languages, separate family laws for
Muslims, regulating marriage and divorce. This to "demonstrate "Islam's right to exist in Sweden" and to "heighten the status of and respect towards Muslims." Sweden's Equality Minister Jens Orback called the proposals "completely unacceptable" and rejected them, but Muslims are growing in numbers and will no doubt try again. The New York Times and Sweden: The Dark Side of Paradise.High unemployment in Sweden will be tackled by creating more public sector jobs, even if that means breaking the government's spending limits. That was the message from Göran Persson, Swedish Prime Minister. The jobs will be targeted mainly at young people and the long-term unemployed. They will be given jobs in government agencies. Proposals that were highlighted included using the long-term unemployed to "help old people to hang curtains."
More immigrants should be allowed into Sweden in order to safeguard the welfare system. That's the view of Pär Nuder, Sweden's Finance Minister. However, in reality estimates indicate that immigration costs Sweden at least 40 to 50 billion Swedish kroner every year, probably several hundred billions. An estimated cost of immigration of 225 billion Swedish kroner in 2004 would equal 17.5% of Sweden's tax income that year, a heavy burden in a country where the overall tax burden between 1990 and 2005 on average was 61%.
The official explanation given by Swedish authorities to the sharp increase in rapes is that much of it is a "technical" increase due to the fact that more victims of rape now report this crime to the police. There is not a hint of evidence for this explanation. On the contrary, intimidation of people reporting any kind of crime to the police has rapidly worsened in Sweden during the same time period. Threats against witnesses in Swedish court cases quadrupled between 2000 and 2003 alone. Street violence of all kinds is soaring on a national level. Private security companies are in great demand in major Swedish cities, as a serious lack of police to combat rising crime has made many citizens tired of being robbed. At the same time, the underfunded and undermanned Swedish police officers feel "unmotivated" to fight crime, according to a study made by researcher Stefan Holgersson.
Christopher Caldwell has written several articles about the topic, including one in the New York Times in February 2006 called "Islam on the Outskirts of the Welfare State." Visting the Stockholm immigrant suburb of Rinkeby, Caldwell asked whether something like the French riots of the fall of 2005, with burning cars and rampaging gangs, could happen in Sweden. "Absolutely," said one lanky boy near the window. "People burn cars here all the time. Not because they're angry — because they think it's fun."
During the Jihad riots in France in the fall of 2005, Sweden's Social Democratic Prime Minister Göran Persson criticized the way the French government handled the unrest in the country. "It feels like a very hard and confrontational approach." Persson also rejected the idea of more local police as a "first step" in Sweden. "I don't believe that's the way we would choose in Sweden. To start sending out signals about strengthening the police is to break with the political line we have chosen to follow," he said. Meanwhile, as their authorities have largely abandoned their third largest city to creeping anarchy, there is open talk among the native Swedes still remaining in Malmö of forming vigilante groups, armed with baseball bats and concern for their children's safety.
Muslim Violence — Crime or Jihad?
A group of teenage girls have been accused of a wave of vicious attacks against old women in Stockholm. The girls, aged 17 and 18, have been remanded in custody for attacking the women in Tensta and Rinkeby, suburbs of the capital. In one of the muggings, a 78-year old woman was pushed to the ground and kicked where she lay. The girls worked in groups and wore veils during the attacks, making it harder for the police to identify them.
Rival gangs of 10-year-olds trade death threats
Rival gangs of 10-year-olds in the town of Söderhamn have threatened to wipe each other out. One of the gangs is made up of Swedes and the other of immigrants. "They call in reinforcements when things start to heat up," police spokesman Lasse Melin said. In his opinion the indigenous Swedish children have been influenced by racist sentiments in their homes. "Children don't become racists if they haven't learned it from their parents," said Melin.
Record immigration to Sweden in 2006
Immigration to Sweden in 2006 reached its highest level since records began. At the same time emigration also soared to a level not seen in over 100 years. The last time a higher number of people emigrated from Sweden was in 1892.
While Sweden Slept, by Bruce Bawer
To quote Jonathan Friedman, a New Yorker who teaches social anthropology at the University of Lund, "no debate about immigration policies is possible" because Sweden's "political class," which controls public debate, simply avoids the topic. Recently, the city of Stockholm carried out a survey of ninth-grade boys in the predominantly Muslim suburb of Rinkeby. The survey showed that in the last year, 17% of the boys had forced someone to have sex, 31% had hurt someone so badly that the victim required medical care, and 24% had committed burglary or broken into a car. Sensational statistics — but in all of Sweden, they appear to have been published only in a daily newssheet that is distributed free on the subways.
Muslim Rape Epidemic in Sweden and Norway - Authorities Look the Other Way
There was a doubling of the number of reported rapes in 2004, following what was already a decade of steadily increasing numbers of sexual crimes. - I think that's great news, says Anna Gustafsson, head of the Domestic Violence Unit at the Malmö Police. She suggests that the increase is due to the fact that women who otherwise wouldn't press charges for rape now choose to contact the police.
Immigrant Rape Wave in SwedenThe number of rape charges in Sweden has quadrupled in just above twenty years. "It is not as wrong raping a Swedish girl as raping an Arab girl," says Hamid. "The Swedish girl gets a lot of help afterwards, and she had probably fucked before, anyway. But the Arab girl will get problems with her family. For her, being raped is a source of shame. It is far too easy to get a Swedish whore…… girl, I mean;" says Hamid, and laughs over his own choice of words. "I don't have too much respect for Swedish girls. I guess you can say they get fucked to pieces."
Is Swedish Democracy Collapsing?
According to some estimates, the rapidly growing immigrant population may turn Malmö into a Muslim majority city within about ten years. Native Swedes are leaving the city in droves, as crime is rampant and the police publicly admit they don't control all parts of the city. There are now gangs in Malmö specialized in assaulting old people visiting the graves of relatives.
All-Arabic Preschool Classes in Swedish City
Malmö has now taken another step towards its Islamization: Starting from the fall of 2005, the district of Hyllie will begin education in Arabic only for groups of immigrant preschool children.
Sweden: The Country that Sacrifices its Children, and Celebrates
Two local politicians in Malmö have proposed a ban on the use of languages other than Swedish in school classrooms. "In Malmö we have a very unique situation: we are close to the point where a majority of pupils have a foreign background," Widman explains. Some schools in Malmö have as few as 5 percent ethnic Swedes in their classrooms.
A high school teacher in Malmö who discovered that about a dozen Arab students were laughing and shouting "Allahu Akbar!" while watching a DVD of infidel hostages being beheaded in Iraq. The headmaster didn't think the incident was such a big deal. At least 139 schools in Sweden suffered arson attacks during 2002. In Malmö, three schools were put on fire during one night. Björn Vinberg from the fire department in Kroksbäck in the Malmö area says it's humiliating and degrading to put out fires again and again in the same immigrant areas, with school kids laughing at them and lighting a new one just afterwards. His colleagues have been to the same place no less than twenty times, all totally unnecessary.
"Youths" clash with police in Malmö
The troubles started when police received a call from a member of the public alleging that they had been threatened. While police officers investigated, youths gathered and started throwing stones and eggs at police. When the fire brigade arrived to extinguish a fire in a warehouse, the stone-throwing youths turned on fire officers. "Because of this and because the situation is tense in the area, the emergency services will from now on wait for the police before entering the area," the emergency services said. The Rosengård estate is known for suffering from high levels of unemployment, and for having the highest concentration of immigrant communities of any area in Sweden.
Posted by Robert at April 18, 2007 1:51 PM
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Please, please, please… can JihadWatch hire some translators?
It needs to appear in all the major European languages…..including Swedish.
Daniel Pipes can do it, Ali Sina can do it, why not you?
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at April 18, 2007 2:17 PM
Yes. Translations are essential. But it is a function of either
1) intelligent volunteers who are not merely native speakers but practiced at the art and craft of translation who might volunteer to translate some of the most important items but necessarily would be limited in what they could do
and
2) money to pay translators to render the English into French, Italian, Spanish, German, Russian, and then into the languages that would be most relevant for a particular article. In the case of the Fjordman article, obviously the first priority would be Swedish, then the other Scandinavian languages, then German, and so on.
If it were a piece on Magdi Allam, Italian would be most important.
If about the Berbers and the need to make them more aware of Islam as a vehicle for Arab imperialism, French would be most important.
If about the Iranians ditto, then Farsi.
If the the subject is Da'wa and demographic coquest, then every single European language -- and others as well.
And not only European languages, but Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Korean.
2) money to pay for professional-quality translations of some texts.
I have believed for years that this is important, critical, indispensable. But I don't know how to raise the money. I have failed miserably. Any ideas? Send them to me via Robert. I know translators I would choose for at least four of the European languages, vetted for for absolute fidelity to the text, but intelligent and clever fidelity, so that in the new language some of the play of the original will come through. But these are professionals. It is their full-time job. They need to be paid.
Posted by: Hugh at April 18, 2007 2:29 PM
They rape our women, burn our cities, rob and kill our people. Why does Sweden want to be multi-cultural? They had a great country with great people, why change things? I don't get it, what is wrong with Europe these days. Kick the Muslims out, before Europe goes up in flames!
Posted by: Isamisevil at April 18, 2007 2:30 PM
If all this is true - Sweden goes first as far as I can see. Sweden will be the lesson for the rest of Western civilization. The idea that native people could be complicit in erasing their pasts & culture astounds me.
at April 18, 2007 2:30 PM
That's too bad for Sweden. It was a good country. I was there in 1986. Stopped by a road side restaurant on my way to Skultuna, and when I walked in, two things stood out. The Dukes of Hazzard were playing on the TV, and the man behind the counter was an arab. I thought to myself, this is strange. Here I am in the backwater of Sweden, and the first storekeeper I run into, is an arab. Little did I know that there was nothing ironic about that.
Ya, that's bad about ABBA, too. I liked ABBA.
Voulez-Vous will now be Allah Akbar
Waterloo, will now be Malmo
Dancing Queen will now be Fleeing Queen
When all is Said and Done will now be When Allah's Will is Done.
Fernando will now be Mohammad
and
The Winner Takes It All will stay the same.
and IKEA? Swedish for Common Sense? Then all I can say is that there is no IKEA in Sweden.
Posted by: jihadwatcher at April 18, 2007 2:37 PM
The Swedes have seen this is coming a long time; if they don't mind their country going down the toilet, neither do I. I wouldn't lift a finger to help them when they start fleeing. In fact, they really shouldn't be allowed to leave. They will only infect other countries with their self-hatred.
Posted by: Seymour Paine at April 18, 2007 2:44 PM
Why are Sweden’s elites so determined to destroy their own country?
“a man's worst enemies will be the members of his own family” Matthew 10:36
The PC, Multi-cultural twaddle they espouse is a form of preening, narcisstic self-love, nothing more.
at April 18, 2007 2:56 PM
The Swedes have seen this is coming a long time; if they don't mind their country going down the toilet, neither do I.
Immediatly what comes to mind is the saying you can't help someone who won't help themselves.
I guess they will go on voting in politicians who will give away Sweden and continue to hate America...
Posted by: adobe at April 18, 2007 3:32 PM
Superb piece, as usual.
I wonder if the situation is similar in Norway, Sweden's neighbor.
Posted by: US_infidel at April 18, 2007 3:35 PM
Isamisevil
Nobody chooses to become multicultural it just happens.
I don't remember anyone voting on it. Nobody asked me my opinion.
One day you open up a textbook and it says we're a multicultural nation, and just like that it becomes fact. No one challeges it, or even defines it.
Someone simply prints a textbook, and suddenly your entire culture and identity is erased. It's never taught to the next generation and your country becomes simply a geographical area on a map and nothing more.
Posted by: GuitarBob at April 18, 2007 3:43 PM
If any of you are interested you can see what it is like to be a policeman patrolling in Malmø now. Steen a Danish Blogger has some photos, he also had a link to a video but that has stopped working and it has only been up a couple of hours. I wouldn't put it past the Swedish thought police as it is on a Swedish server. Anyway here is the link to Steen Blogg just scroll down until you see the pictures
http://dansk-svensk.blogspot.com/
By the way go easy on the Swedes there are very many Swedes feel the same as you, and you would understand that if you read the Swedish Boggs and as for not letting the Swedes into your country, more fool you The Swedes WORK and they sure as hell wont be RAPING your daughters
at April 18, 2007 3:50 PM
Maybe if we put Swedes on the endangered species list the liberals would show some interest in protecting their natural habitat.
or maybe that only works for rabbits and polar bears?
Posted by: GuitarBob at April 18, 2007 3:54 PM
Seymour Paine
hey now what country in it's right mind would turn down a bunch of hot Scandinavian women? That kind of immigration can only benefit a country.
Posted by: GuitarBob at April 18, 2007 4:03 PM
@Odyessus:
Getting it translated should be relatively easy - $50 or so at babelfish can get a professional translation. Sure, it wouldn't be as poetic as the original, but it should be accurate.
I think the bigger problem would be getting it printed and disseminated, assuming the thought police are in control of printed media.
Posted by: Godefroi at April 18, 2007 4:38 PM
I don't want spineless Swedes immigrating to the US either. If they are not willing to stand up and fight for their own country what use would they be here?
Posted by: Roxane at April 18, 2007 4:56 PM
The sad fact is that a disaster of cataclysmic proportions is required if ever Europe, and by extension the remaining Western countries, is ever to 'get' the message, that is, give up denial and see reality in all its ugliness.
I most certainly do not wish any harm upon you non-dhimmi Swedes reading this, but I believe it is either going to be this wake-up call happening somewhere, or we are all going so far down the path of demographic offsetting of the balance that in a few years we will be far beyond the point of no return (which we may well be by now, anyway).
The multicultural tower of Babylon must collapse somewhere in Europe, or we will all suffer the same fate a little further down the line. That is the grim reality of the situation. It should 'preferably' (I am aware of the cynicism of this term) happen in one of the cesspools of suicidal multiculturalism such as Sweden, Britain or France.
Once denial becomes history we can begin facing up to the task at hand. What I am outlining here is therefore not some kind of loony apocalyptic scenario, a 'cleansing', it is merely the signal that the next chapter can begin, at long last.
Posted by: anti-uffe at April 18, 2007 5:40 PM
Roxanne posted: I don't want spineless Swedes immigrating to the US either. If they are not willing to stand up and fight for their own country what use would they be here?
Maybe the Swedes can emmigrate to Minessota.
Posted by: DP111 at April 18, 2007 6:02 PM
It does seem a bit of a tragedy that Jihad Watch is not regularly translated into the major European languages.
Posted by: traeh at April 18, 2007 6:03 PM
But Robert's books are widely translated, correct?
Posted by: traeh at April 18, 2007 6:04 PM
It's very easy to be harsh on those in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe as their socialist utopias collapse under the Islamic threat, very easy to be smug. Can we guarantee that the U.S., Canada or even Australia will not be facing the same problems as Sweden in five years? Ten years? Fifteen?
I would like to see suggestions for solutions to this problem- as other posters have said, there are people in Sweden (as well as in Britain and elsewhere) that don't agree with the actions of their government and society. What recourse do these people have? What can be done to sway public opinion and give Sweden (and Britain, etc.) back to the natives? What can be done to stop the creation of Eurabia?
That's the next essay I'd like to see from Fjordman.
Posted by: s at April 18, 2007 6:30 PM
“I don't want spineless Swedes immigrating to the US either. If they are not willing to stand up and fight for their own country what use would they be here?”
Hold on, isn’t America full of people whose ancestors fled there to avoid fighting for themselves in their own country?. [Please don’t take this as anti-American. The immigrants probably faced insurmountable odds in old Europe – but present-day Americans didn’t just spring up from the soil, did they?]
at April 18, 2007 6:47 PM
There is many of us in Sweden, that is fighting islam all the time.
In my blog - even if it is in Swedish - you will find a lot of links to swedish people that blogs about - and fight against islam on a daily basis.
Most of the things that Fjordman writes about is already in my blog - in Swedish. But I am very happy, that he writes about it in english, for the world to read.
http://imittsverige.blogspot.com/
And as long as people don´t write here, or in other places with their own, REAL name - I would say that we dont fight hard enough, none of us...
Please, keep an opend mind and don´t judge everyone in a country, for what our politicians have done to Sweden.
Now, we - finally - has one political party that fights against islam and it´s growing all the time.
Maybe it´s too late, we don´t know - but att least we are fighting now. Using our own,real namnes and our faces uncovered.
/FS
at April 18, 2007 6:56 PM
Hold on, isn’t America full of people whose ancestors fled there to avoid fighting for themselves in their own country?.
Modern Europeans have no problem publicly expressing their anti-American and anti-Isreal feelings. If they hate America, then why should they come to America? Let them live with the consequences of getting into bed with Islam.Perhaps living under Islam will make Swedes and other Europeans realize who their friends really are.
Posted by: Roxane at April 18, 2007 7:39 PM
Three things need to happen soon:
1) Sweden needs a political movement to combat this threat. If, as it seems, the so-called right-wing conservative Govt is merely made up of liberals in business suits, then Swedes need to come together to defend themselves, their nation and their culture. This is war that is being declared on Sweden and the Swedish people, by a political elite so twisted that it sees as the enemy its own people and their values, rather than the hateful and bigoted ideology being voiced quite openly by Sweden's Islamic "invaders".
2) Swedes around the world need to be told what is happening in their country. How many of the tens of thousands of Swedes living overseas know about the riots in Malmo, or the Muslim rape epidemic, or the warped pronouncements of their country's so-called "leaders"? Get these stories onto every Swedish-interest website that you can -in both Swedish and English.
3) The key to this situation is money - namely, the huge sums in tax revenue being extorted from hard-working Swedes to fund their liberal elite's multicultural wet dreams.
It is tax money that funds the welfare payments to Muslim immigrants. It is tax money that pays for Arabic-language lessons for pre-schoolers. And it is tax money that keeps Sweden's vast, stinking, morally bankrupt bureaucracy in power.
There needs to be a national mass movement, a coming-together of Swedes who will refuse to pay their taxes until this situation is reversed. It will then be up to the politicians to decide what they want to spend their dwindling revenues on - healthcare and policing, or immigrant welfare cheques?
I've never been to Sweden, but I've been struck by the openess and decency of almost every Swede that I have encountered. Forget these idiots on here who say "it's the Swedes' own fault". ALL of us who care about freedom need to do whatever we can to help.
Today Sweden. Tomorrow, the UK? The day after, the US? Canada? Don't be too harsh on the Swedes -they are a kind, trusting people whose trust has been abused. They are the victims here, betrayed by their own elites. Which of us truthfully believes that our own Govts would never sell us out? When a politician tells you that he has your best interests at heart, and you believe him, then at least one of you is hopelessly deluded...
Posted by: Matamoros at April 18, 2007 7:56 PM
Roxane: I know a lot of people in my country, Sweden and in Denmark , and all of them is Israel- and USA-friendly.
You cannot judge everyone in a country, for what a some politicians and media has been doing/saying.
Radical islam is a common enemy.
We can fight each other, or we can fight islam side by side.
Just take your pick...
:-)
/FS
at April 18, 2007 7:58 PM
Sweden may be the sacrificial model of:
How-Not-To-Confront-The-Islamic-Infil-traitor.
Remember the Malmo!
(Also a lost battle. Initially...)
Posted by: profitsbeard at April 18, 2007 8:01 PM
@s @Matamoros
About Canada: well, read this
and this
Sikh Agenda for the Canadian Government
BC premier (!) said he's okay with Khalistan idea. Huh?
Posted by: vn at April 18, 2007 8:19 PM
Malmo is a coastal city..declare martial law..send in the Kustjagarna(see below)..pack the animals onto ships and transport them to the muslim hellhole of their choice..
http://www.specialoperations.com/Foreign/Sweden/Gallery3.htm
Kustjägarna (KJ) - (Coastal Rangers): Coastal Rangers are the naval equivalent of the Swedish Army’s Airborne Rangers. Coastal Rangers conduct LRRP missions along the Swedish coastline; execute amphibious raids against high value targets; counter attacks by enemy naval SOF units; and acting as shock troops during amphibious assault operations. The Coastal Rangers are an offensive unit unlike the other Swedish units in the national defense. The Swedish archipelago is a very easy target for enemy bases and stuff like that, so the Coastal Rangers is specially trained to "throw the enemy back in the sea". They use Combat boat 90 to make a violent landing at the shore to retake the island from the enemy, the are supported by heavy machineguns, Carl Gustaf Recoilless rifle, anti-tank/anti-material rocket assist 84mm and Mk 19 grenade launcher (fires 5-6 40mm grenades/sec). If they don't use the combat boats they can use Klepper kayaks or helicopters.
They are highly trained close combat soldiers and they are also trained to board ships, raid buildings and perform sabotage against enemy installations. They mainly use the same weapons as all Swedish units. Glock 17 9mm, Ak5 (modified FN FNC), Ak5b (sniper version), Ak5c (with m/203 grenade launcher), Ksp58b 7.62mm (FN MAG), Ksp m/90 5,56mm (FN Minimi), Heavy machine gun 12,7mm (FN version of the Browning M2), Grg m/48 (Carl Gustaf Recoilless rifle, anti-tank/anti-material rocket assist 84mm) and GSP (Sako Mk 19 40mm grenade launcher). The Coastal Rangers are trained at Amf 1 (formerly known as KA 1).
at April 18, 2007 8:54 PM
plenty of other units available to lend a hand:
http://www.specialoperations.com/Foreign/Sweden/default.html
Posted by: Madduck at April 18, 2007 9:06 PM
military coup d etat..
Posted by: Madduck at April 18, 2007 9:10 PM
From Fjordman's article: Fmr. Minister of Education Ingvar Carlsson said that the purpose of schooling is to teach people to respect the consensus.
It appears from the article, though, that in Sweden the consensus is whatever the almighty bureaucracy says it is, & not the actual will of the people. This sort of thinking is entirely reminiscent of the methods totalitarian governments have employed over the years to keep their populations in line.
BTW, I say let the Swedes emigrate to the U.S. Especially the Swedish Bikini Team.
Posted by: sheik yer booty at April 18, 2007 11:45 PM
Stateside, there are really two wars defining our times, related because they feed off the same fuel. The first is the Islam’s war on us. The second is the War on Wealth. The fuel is the surpluses created by actions of previous generations which proceed on inertia today. America’s tax burden is only ~25% of GDP but we’re all drifting down the same river.
Islam in the West survives on our surpluses. But it will eventually eat through those surpluses and when they are gone, our compassion will be too. Islam won’t win because we have better ideas.
The War on Wealth feeds off of those same surpluses. Modern communications and the realities of democracy and demographics are accelerating the process. 53% of Americans receive significant income from the Federal government while 5% of the population (10% of taxpayers) pay 67% of the bill. Universal healthcare is the next step and it won’t stop there. Now that California is fixing health care and global warming, it is thinking about a bill to give parents $1000 per year per child, paid for by the general budget. Excellence in the West (limited to the financial sense of the word) will eventually lose. Senator Coburn estimates that the US has already made $70 trillion of unfunded promises.
But those who excel financially in 2007 are largely mobile, and when they are targeted by confiscatory taxes, in a game they will clearly see, will move to welcoming low-tax jurisdictions. Land prices in many Caribbean and Central American locations have tripled in the last two years. When the money runs out back home, compassion and Islam in the West will disappear and we’ll be lucky to keep our freedom. Things will be back to equilibrium, it will just be a meaner place and we’ll owe the Asians a lot of money.
at April 19, 2007 12:04 AM
Roxanne posted: I don't want spineless Swedes immigrating to the US either. If they are not willing to stand up and fight for their own country what use would they be here?
Roxanne and others.....
Then why aren't all of us Americans standing hand in hand on our southern border protecting it from the invaders to the south? Why aren't we spitting in GWB's face when he calls those who do "vigilantes"?
How come illegal alien invaders got hundreds of thousands to march in the streets, but only a few citizens bother to show up to counterprotest?
Oh, and NO ICE AGENTS bother to show up either.
How come we bend over as another 15,000 Saudi students and 25,000 Muslim "refugees" are brought into our country?
I've said it before and I'll keep saying it..we're only a few years behind Europe unless more people get off their behinds and get busy!
Posted by: treehugger
at April 19, 2007 12:58 AM
As for Sweden's supposedly right wing government, it's a joke, and will lose the next election.
Posted by: EliasAlucard
Do you have a nationally known viable alternative in Sweden?
Holland and Denmark seem to be getting there. So it's up to the people to vote for them.
Neither the USA nor Germany really has a viable anti-islamic party we can vote for.
The BNP in Britain is the best for them even if it's a bit "rough aound the edges" in certain ways.
Desperate times..
PS. Norway really seems GONE.
Posted by: Allahfanculo at April 19, 2007 3:50 AM
"Modern Europeans have no problem publicly expressing their anti-American and anti-Isreal feelings. "
I understand if some Americans are offended by the prevalent anti-americanism in the European media.
However, they should note that European media provides a distorted view of the American political landscape. There is also a tendency to demonize Christian Right and religious Conservatives.
When I go around the bookstore, the American political books that are translated are mostly written by Michael Moore or Noam Chomsky. So even if you want to enhance your worldview the available options in your own language are limited.
Europeans haven't invented their antiamericanism by themselves but they are constantly fed by leftist American political thought.
In reality Europeans are more conservative than the media portrays them to be. However, the number of Christians who take their religion seriously is significantly smaller at this side of the pond.
What I'm saying is that the Americans shouldn't believe that the leftist nonsense that European media spout on a regular basis accurately reflects the public opinion.
Posted by: Saatanan Islam at April 19, 2007 4:31 AM
Sweden seems to have a mildly conservative party at the moment, unable to quell the trouble in Malmo.
What political party is capable of offering Sweden real hope?
at April 19, 2007 6:08 AM
Maybe, if Sweden is the country that sacrifices its children and celebrates, it is indeed getting what it more than richly desrves. God sicced the Israelites on the Canaanites of old for the same thing; then sicced the Mesopotamians on the Israelites for the same thing.
However, it seems that the cop who said "children learn racism from their parents" got it wrong. My guess is that some of the native Swedish kids got preyed upon one too many itmes by the Muslim immigrant kids and developed their racism on their own as a defense mechanism. But, speaking as a slightly "off-white" American, my Shcadenfreude is tickled to hear of Sweden's problems in this regard: I grew up reading the lectures of Oh-so-enlightened Yurrupeens scolding us for our racism, and the Svenskers were among the worst of the lot.
Posted by: Kepha at April 19, 2007 7:11 AM
Ummm...no.
Kill them to save us (your way)...kill them to save them (Islamist way)...not much difference there.
Wrong either way.
Posted by: Godefroi at April 19, 2007 10:04 AM
I often argue that Muslims who advocate Jihad should be charged with incitement to murder.
So “ Fightback” please bear this in mind when coming out with statements like your last posting.
You can call for self- defence or for Swedes to take back their own country.
But your last statement was more than a little extreme.
at April 19, 2007 10:09 AM
“Modern Europeans have no problem publicly expressing their anti-American and anti-Isreal feelings. If they hate America, then why should they come to America?”
This so sweeping as to be meaningless. You are talking as if ALL Swedes, and even all Europeans, are anti-American and anti-Israel. This is usually known as racism – tarring everyone of a certain race or nationality with the same brush. Maybe a new word should be coined – continentism, to describe the tendency to think everyone in a particular continent is infected with the ruling orthodoxies espoused by the ruling parties on that continent. Note also the easy transition from “expressing anti-American feelings” (which is probably how you would describe criticism of America) to “hating America” – it don’t follow. You should listen to some our Scandinavian friends on this site, including Fjordman, who I believe is Scandinavian.
at April 19, 2007 11:34 AM
Odyessus:
We have tha Sweden democrates or Sverigedemokraterna. www.sverigedemokraterna.se
It´s the only party that is really working against islamization in Sweden.
More and more people starts to give us ( I am in that party, of cause) their votes.
In the elections 2006, we got 22% of all votes in one little city close to Malmö, Landskrona. And I am sure that the many muslims, that lives in that city, didnt vote for us. ;-)
/FS
at April 19, 2007 11:38 AM
"It's actually the Swedes' fault for being so damn blind and voting for the socialdemocrats. They've chosen these idiot politicians."
I'm surprised an American doesn't see the irony in this, after the Democrats' recent poll triumph in the U.S. Are we then to make the same deductions about Americans, who have "chosen these idiot politicians", as you are so freely doing with the Swedes?
Posted by: JFGR at April 19, 2007 11:45 AM
I understand if some Americans are offended by the prevalent anti-americanism in the European media.
Interesting you should mention this, O'Reilly had a segment about the "cowardice" of the European media on his show last night. He talked about the media coverage in Europe of Cho Seung-Hui a Korean immigrant, non-citizen and maniac who slaughtered students at Virginia Tech and how this incident is being used to bash America and our so-called gun culture. He contrasted the self righteous response of the European media to "Cho" with the lack of response to a typical Jihad video that was posted on the internet that was too graphic to show on American television. The Jihad video showed the execution of 12 Iraqi policemen.The men were shot in the head and one was beheaded with a Jihadi dancing around with the severed head.O'Reilly said this type of Muslim atrocity warrants not a peep in the European press yet America is bashed over Cho who's not even an American citizen.
Its not just the media in Europe.Europeans will take to the streets by the thousands to bash the President of the US, America and Israel. When are we going to see similar demonstrations against the President of Iran, against Iran and the so-called Palestinians? How about marches in support of America and Isreal?
Posted by: Roxane at April 19, 2007 12:35 PM
“Its not just the media in Europe.Europeans will take to the streets by the thousands to bash the President of the US, America and Israel. When are we going to see similar demonstrations against the President of Iran, against Iran and the so-called Palestinians?”
They also take to the streets to bash their own PM in Britain. Funny, though, that all those terrible dhimmi Brits voted Tony Blair back in a few years ago, AFTER he had led Britain with America to join the war in Iraq, and after the large anti-Bush/Blair demonstration in 2003. Marching and demonstrating are largely a pastime of the left in Europe, as, I suspect they are, in America too. You just cannot deduce from those demonstrations that most Europeans are anti-American. And have we seen “demonstrations against the President of Iran, against Iran and the so-called Palestinians” in the U.S.?
at April 19, 2007 1:30 PM
O'Reilly attributed the response to "Cho" vs the response to the Jihadi video to rampant anti-Americanism in Europe and the "cowardice" of the European media. His American ex-Military guest came to the same conclusion.By cowardice I think they ment that the European media sees no penalty for insulting America and the American people. While they fear retaliation from Muslims.
As for demonstrations in America. A recent survey showed that American support has increased for Israel and that Americans "disproportionately" support Israel over the so-called Palestinians.Even Muslims know that the majority of Americans and the American government backs Israel. What do surveys of Europeans show in regard to Israel? What do surveys of Europeans show in regard to the United States? As for the British government they and the Australians have been the strongest allies of the United States in the war on terror.
Posted by: Roxane at April 19, 2007 2:23 PM
Good Night Europe:
http://sheikyermami.com/2007/04/20/good-night-europe/
Posted by: sheik yer'mami at April 19, 2007 10:45 PM
"Hold on, isn’t America full of people whose ancestors fled there to avoid fighting for themselves in their own country?. [Please don’t take this as anti-American. The immigrants probably faced insurmountable odds in old Europe – but present-day Americans didn’t just spring up from the soil, did they?]"
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Thing is the basic overview of it all, is that the "peasants" in Europe had been disarmed in teh Old Countries-and were abused by the Overlords" - that means both the church and State.
The only religion allowed was christianity - no pagans, no jews.
So they had no power and nowhere to go-but suffer and die - until the New World was discovered.
And that is why the laws were drawn up allowing ther right to bear arms.
I don't have a gun - but I stand by the 2nd Amendment. But whatever it takes to take a stance against gov. oppression. A fork, a broom, a leg from a chair.
I think the U.S. is really the last stance for the world.
It's time to draw a line in the sand.
Posted by: allat at April 19, 2007 10:53 PM
"How come illegal alien invaders got hundreds of thousands to march in the streets, but only a few citizens bother to show up to counterprotest?"
Because the gov. isn't allowing the border people to interfere.
Because our best and brightest is being sent to the Front - and leaving a vaccuum here.
So while the war is going on, and we're being distracted, right here in this country the aliens are coming in to fill the vaccuum.
Because the military and national guards are being sent away, leaving us defenseless. And now, the UN is even asking large cities to "donate" policemen to be sen to the Front.
You can't have it both ways. You can't have a war someplace else and also have a defensive force in the U.S.
Take your pick.
We don't even have enough U.S. citizens loyal to this country because the State has encouraged drastic birth control in all ways for the last 30 yrs. Little did we imagine the danger of it.
And when you look at immigrations, the State has allowed entry more to the Asian poor, and undercut the middle class European immigration, to make up the quota.
And this has gone on in Europe as well.
So when one puts too and two together, in re. to the governments in EUR. and here, allowing it - starting from 30 yrs back - certainly they ha their Think Tanks - and knew Exactly what was going to happen (we "commoners" didnt).
We had a developing middle class - advancing - and high tech. And disease was being eradicated before that.
Figure out, then - why the governments allof a sudden - wnet into multi-culturalism?
God forbid that you should come up with a conspiracy theory?
Let's see you make sense of it.
Posted by: allat at April 20, 2007 12:33 AM
allat:
"Thing is the basic overview of it all, is that the "peasants" in Europe had been disarmed in teh Old Countries-and were abused by the Overlords" - that means both the church and State.
The only religion allowed was christianity - no pagans, no jews.
So they had no power and nowhere to go-but suffer and die - until the New World was discovered."
The level of misinformation from posters on JW's comments pages is starting to rival Wikipedia.
First we had the BNP represented as an organisation that welcomes Jews and all things Jewish, and now emigrants to the early New World comprising pagans and Jews escaping Christian intolerance in old Europe.
Sorry to burst your fantasy, allat, but the overwhelming majority of emigrants to the New World colonies in the period to which you refer WERE Christians - many of them extreme religionists who disagreed with the doctrines of the established Church.
Among English emigrants at the time, the prime example are the Puritans, whose intolerance of the diversity of religious belief and rejection of what they saw as the "pagan" Roman Catholic ritualism of high church Anglicanism put them at odds with the Church of England. It was this which led them to create a new religious community, based on their beliefs, in 17th Century New England.
As for your claims of them being powerless and "suffering and dying", two of the most famous of England's Puritans are Oliver Cromwell and Matthew Hopkins, the self-appointed Witchfinder General, who are more known for the suffering and dying that they inflicted on others.
Posted by: Matamoros at April 20, 2007 8:05 AM
For those (many of you) so inclined, please join me in adding the need of JW for $$$ to hire translators to your daily prayers! Perhaps we should be praying for an angel to fund the project entirely.
Hugh, have you inquired at the Center for the Study of Political Islam and/or the 910 Forum? Perhaps putting a link on the many blogs that include Jihadwatch on their blogrolls would work...and contacting all the organizations on the JW blogroll to see if they would post a note.
Littlegreenfootballs, Michelle Malkin, Bridgette Gabrielle, have many readers every day. Organizations such as UAC, Joe Kaufmann's group, etc. come to mind as well.
Would Robert be able to mention the desire to hire translators on his radio and TV interviews? How about putting little fundraising thermometers for each desired language on the website and make it a "competition"? Readers could direct native speakers to the site to spur them on to donate.
Posted by: eve_anne_gelical at April 20, 2007 8:46 AM
"This so sweeping as to be meaningless. You are talking as if ALL Swedes, and even all Europeans, are anti-American and anti-Israel. This is usually known as racism – tarring everyone of a certain race or nationality with the same brush. Maybe a new word should be coined ..."
What ever you call it, it is not racism. There is no Swedish race nor a European race. You can call it bigotry, prejudiced, stereotyping or many things else but it is absolutely not racism (unless you subscribe to Marxism). And yes, it is so sweeping as to be meaningless.
at April 23, 2007 7:41 PM
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