> Jihad and the Collapse of the Swedish Model

> By Fjordman

> Created 2007-04-19 19:27

> 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 - En samhällsmodells 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 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.