Refugee centers in Sweden are being burned to the ground in what appears to be a statement against the significant number of refugees the country has allowed in. The multiple arsons have all been at facilities which house or are slated to house immigrants.
[>100K immigrants are expected to arrive there in 2015. Sweden's current total population is estimated to be 9.8M]
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Sweden has long had a reputation for being hospitable to asylum seekers, apparently up 'till now. It seems there is a backlash growing against the sizable Middle Eastern community of refugees that have made their way to Sweden in recent years. There are even a number of areas (55) where police, fire, and EMT service is not readily available due to Muslim "gangs" who are terrorizing their neighborhoods. The gangs run things there, not the civil authorities.
The Swedish EMT union (?) has even declared that they would not respond to calls to those areas unless they were provided "military grade" equipment and protection. [NOTE: That was in 2014. I'm not sure if that situation still persists today.]
Here is the real world we face: Refugees are welcomed in, given all the advantages of their host countries social welfare system, yet are not being assimilated into the mainstream of society. They remain isolated and often unemployed, leading to social unrest. This is common in much of Europe, and has led to the rise of many nationalistic, anti-immigrant political parties.
Just opening your doors out of the kindness of your heart, then walking away while patting yourself on the back is just asking for trouble. Without having a long term top-to-bottom plan to assimilate new immigrants, including having at least a reasonable hope of jobs available for them when they get here, is just moving problems from one place to another.
In a perverse way, this kind-yet-not-well-thought-out gesture is actually playing right into the hands of terrorist groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda. Masses of poor, isolated, and unemployed youth are fertile recruiting grounds for evil doers. It's happening every day!
"Yeah, but that's over there, and we're here. No problem, right? Right?"
"Yeah, but that's over there, and we're here. No problem, right? Right?"
It's a crazy, dangerous "damned if we do, damned if we don't" world we live in. Just sayin'.
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You ought to just change the name of your blog to "I Hate Muslims." Which, really, I get that already.
ReplyDeleteAny time a bunch of poor people are crammed together there's going to be problems. Just look at inner-cities like Detroit. And most of them are Christians.
Sheesh! What is wrong with you?? Please tell me what is wrong with my commentary? Bringing in immigrants, then leaving them essentially on their own, is almost doomed to fail. Without a plan to assimilate them, how can they long-term thrive? Get a grip, friend.
DeleteScott, pay no attention to certain people, they prefer name calling and taking the holier than thou high ground rather than attempting to analyze a situation. They are simply the reverse of the Rush L's of the world only seeing one side of an issue.
DeleteAnyone that calls Ben Carson a moron is not a reasonable person, and is also quite clearly a racist.
Immigrants are seldom the problem in the societies they relocate to. The problem is their children, who don't feel connected to their new home and develop a romanticized vision of the place from which their parents fled.
ReplyDeleteMakes sense....but if the first generation immigrants are not assimilated and are chronically unemployed (read: poor) how can that NOT be a problem? And wouldn't that add to the second generation being restless?
ReplyDeleteOK - why haven't I heard anything about a civil war in Sweden? Can you give me a link to the source where you read about the refugee centers being burned down?
ReplyDeleteI'll try finding it again. It was one of those "other stories I might find of interest" links on...CNN or USA Today or ? I think the term "civil war" was a bit too much.
Delete"Refugee consensus crumbling in Sweden". Reuters, Oct 20, 2015
DeleteGermany is having similar problems. There ARE enough jobs and the refugees want to work and earn their own way, but the problem is they are legally restricted for the first months/years and can't do anything and the is the problem of not knowing whether they will be allowed to stay. Many companies want to put them to work in their companies but there is always the unknown fact of whether they may get sent back to their former country, plus they must learn the language which most actually try to do.
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