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Sweden’s election: What’s at stake?

The rise of far-right parties, gang violence and a strict immigration policy are among the main concerns for Swedish voters, who head to the polls on Sunday.

Sweden heads to the polls on September 11 in an election that could see a once-shunned far-right populist party make significant inroads, and with the help of right-wing opposition parties, even dislodge the ruling left-wing Social Democrats from power.

“I’m quite concerned about the rise of the far-right parties in this election,” said Nathalie Johansson, 35, an IT consultant based in Stockholm.

“Six months back, if you asked me what my main concern about the upcoming election was, I would have said it is how governments plan to address climate change. But right now, the far right’s power is worrying many of us,” she told DW.

by Blazingcatfur•September 11, 2022September 10, 2022•0•Sweden

Will Sweden finally vote for the far-Right?

An orgy of gang crime could swing the election

Last week, Sweden’s far-Right Sverigedemokraterna party published a slick campaign video, a sort of closing argument before this Sunday’s election. “Swedes,” Jimmie Åkesson, the party leader, said, “are not a people who burn cars — we are a people who build cars.”

The messaging had a familiar ring to it: politicians, Åkesson reiterated, had for too long been allowed to make Sweden “uglier, poorer and more dangerous”. It was time to take the power back. “Sweden will be good again,” was the title of the video. Not quite “make Sweden great again”, but close enough.

by Blazingcatfur•September 11, 2022September 10, 2022•0•Sweden

Sweden’s radical right comes in from the cold to threaten the old order

The Swedish party’s mission statement makes glowing references to Benjamin Disraeli and his vision of One Nation conservatism.

Most of its policies, from the deportation of foreign criminals to mandatory language exams for immigrants who wish to settle, would hardly look out of place in a more modern Tory manifesto.

Its leader, usually dressed in a blazer and slightly hipsterish spectacles, is earnest, plausible and softly spoken, less Roderick Spode than a minor character from a Richard Curtis film.

by Blazingcatfur•September 10, 2022September 9, 2022•0•"far right", Sweden

Swedish Police in Decline

… The daily newspaper Aftonbladet has the details on what the deteriorating quality looks like. One police student tried to fill up the police car by adding gasoline where the windshield exhaust fluid goes. A recent graduate of the police academy, while on patrol with a more experienced officer, got so scared by a tense situation that the young officer took shelter in the police car and locked the doors.

by Blazingcatfur•September 10, 2022September 9, 2022•0•Sweden, Sweden - a nation commits suicide

Violent Crime Rocks Sweden Ahead of Elections

Sweden will hold general elections on September 11, 2022. At the same time, the country is rocked by a wave of violent crime that is unprecedented in modern Scandinavian history.

For the first time, crime tops the list of voters’ most important concerns in the run-up to the elections. “It’s going to be a very unique type of Swedish election with a very unusual issue at the top of the agenda,” Henrik Ekengren Oscarsson, professor of political science at Gothenburg University, told newspaper Dagens Nyheter. Forty-one percent of those surveyed said that law and order are the most important issues in society, as well as the most important political issues.

by Blazingcatfur•August 25, 2022August 25, 2022•0•Sweden, Sweden - a nation commits suicide

The day Sweden will be Islamic – Now Sweden fears being replaced by immigration.

Like a drunkard in the morning, Sweden wakes up to the sad reality.

Swedish Prime Minister (1946-69) Tage Erlander in 1967 declared in response to the racial riots in the slums of Los Angeles that “we Swedes live in such an infinitely happier situation. The population in our country is homogeneous, not only in terms of race, but also in many other aspects ”.

In 1975 the country introduced multiculturalism with Social Democratic Prime Minister Olof Palme rejecting assimilation in favor of policies that encouraged minorities to maintain separate identities. It was part of the famous “freedom” of the Swedes, free to do and undo everything, from the family to the nation.

by Blazingcatfur•August 21, 2022August 20, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Sweden, Sweden - a nation commits suicide

Who are ‘terrorists’ Turkey wants from Sweden and Finland?

Nato has formally launched the process to bring Sweden and Finland into its military alliance. But a key condition for Nato member Turkey is the handover of more than 70 people described by its president as terrorists.

The leaders of the two Nordic nations say they are taking the issue seriously, but ultimately extradition is up to the courts not politicians. So who does Turkey want and could they ever be deported to Ankara?

by Blazingcatfur•July 5, 2022July 5, 2022•0•Finland, NATO, Sweden, Turkey

Action Movie Legend Dolph Lundgren Decries Sweden‘s Rape Rates

Swedish action film star Dolph Lundgren has decried the number of rapes taking place in his home country, claiming the country cannot protect women from being raped.

1980’s action film legend Lundgren made his comments this week on his Instagram page saying, “Sadly, my home country Sweden still cannot protect their women from rape.”

by Blazingcatfur•June 26, 2022June 26, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Sweden

The Only Rape Where the Left Says Victim-Blaming Is Okay

Swedish officials are warning Ukrainian women living in refugee centers not to dress in a way that might provoke men from “other cultures” — code for Muslim migrants, who, in Sweden, are mostly of the Somali variety — who reside in the same refugee center.

by Blazingcatfur•June 19, 2022June 19, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Sweden

Daughter of ISIS Woman Accused of Aiding Child Rape Arrested

The daughter of a Swedish Islamic State woman accused of aiding child rape and human trafficking in Syria was arrested in Denmark while trying to bring a four-year-old girl to Qatar.

The daughter of Swedish Islamic State extremist Camilla Olofsson and deceased al-Qaeda terrorist Mohamed Moumous was arrested in Kastrup in Copenhagen where she intended to board a flight with a four-year-old girl and take her to Qatar, despite the girl’s mother not approving of the trip.

by Blazingcatfur•June 3, 2022June 3, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Sweden

Why shootings are on the increase in Sweden’s suburbs

“Our kids are actually dying – and it’s weekly. Mother after mother, after mother is burying their kids,” the heartbreaking words I heard from Maritha, a mother whose son Marley was shot dead on the streets of Stockholm.

Maritha spends her time campaigning to end gun crime, whilst her son’s killer is yet to face justice.

When I travelled to Stockholm for my On Assignment report, Maritha would be the first person to tell me the primary factor driving Sweden’s rising gun crime murders was segregation, but she would not be last.

The headlines about serious youth violence and gang crime bring to mind cities such as London, New York and Sao Paulo.

by Blazingcatfur•May 30, 2022May 30, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Sweden

Swedish would-be ISIS fighters jailed after recruitment sting

Two Swedish brothers have been sentenced to jail for eight months after their efforts to join ISIS unravelled when their recruiter was revealed as an undercover intelligence officer.

The men, who have not been identified, were arrested in February at Gothenburg-Landvetter Airport as they tried to leave Sweden to join the combat ranks of the terrorist group.

Prosecutors produced 200 pages of messages passed to them by an unidentified foreign intelligence agency, which revealed how the pair were seeking a fighting role with ISIS.

Brooklyn man convicted of backing ISIS by recruiting members, smuggling guns

Mirsad Kandic, 40, was found guilty of conspiracy and providing material support to ISIS Tuesday after a three-week trial in Brooklyn federal court. He faces up to life in prison at his sentencing on Nov. 9.

Kandic is responsible for recruiting thousands of Westerners to fight in Syria and the Middle East, including Australian teenager and suicide bomber Jake Bilardi, who killed himself, more than 30 Iraqi soldiers and a policeman in Ramadi, Iraq, on March 11, 2015, officials allege.

France charges 18-yr-old over ISIS attack plot: Judicial source

French authorities have charged an 18-year-old man on suspicion of planning an imminent terror attack with a knife in the name of ISIS extremists, a judicial source said on Wednesday.

Initial investigations indicated that he planned to carry out a terror attack “in the name of ISIS, to which he had pledged allegiance,” said the source, who asked not to be named.

by Blazingcatfur•May 27, 2022May 26, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Sweden

Why has Erdoğan doubled down on threat to veto Nordic Nato bids?

After initial hesitation about the seriousness of Turkey’s objections, its president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has doubled down on his threat to veto Finland’s and Sweden’s applications for membership of Nato, saying there is no point in either country sending delegations to Ankara to persuade him otherwise.

On Wednesday, he also extended his demands from the two he outlined on Monday to 10, leading to claims that he is using blackmail.

by Blazingcatfur•May 19, 2022May 19, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia", Finland, NATO, Sweden, Turkey

Sweden: Imams Conducting Muslim ‘Pleasure Marriages‘ with Prostitutes

Prostitutes and undercover journalists in Sweden have claimed that Shia imams have charged Muslims for “weddings” with prostitutes as a means to circumvent Islamic rules on sex before marriage.

Imams across the country are said to have conducted sham “pleasure marriages” to allow Muslims to engage in sexual activity with prostitutes and then ended the marriages after the sexual activity was completed.

by Blazingcatfur•May 17, 2022May 16, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Sweden

Turkey objects as Sweden, Finland seek NATO membership

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden on Monday decided to join neighboring Finland in seeking NATO membership, ending more than two centuries of military nonalignment in a historic shift prompted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The move drew strong objections from Turkey, a key NATO member who declared the two nations should not be allowed to join because they have been too lax in taking action against Kurdish militants. Countries can only join NATO if all current members agree.

by Blazingcatfur•May 16, 2022May 16, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia", Erdogan, Finland, Kurds and Kurdistan, NATO, Sweden, Turkey