Posted by
AJH on Thursday, March 12, 2009 2:16:03 PM
CBN News has a disturbing report on the background of radical Muslims (and others) in Sweden. The “growing Muslim influence” in Malmö, Sweden has transformed the southernmost tip of the country.
I am writing about this because I happened across video of the punks on the streets causing havoc, all because some Israelis were playing tennis nearby, in a closed-off stadium due to the threats of violence.
“Jews cannot walk the streets” and the number of rapes has tripled in 20 years. And, yet, the multiculturalists refuse to heed the warnings.
Malmö has been so accommodating toward immigrant Muslims that a local Muslim politician, Adly Abu Hajar, has declared that "The best Islamic state is Sweden!"
A few years ago, the left-leaning Guardian of London declared Sweden the most successful society the world has ever known.
Don't ask Malmö's Jews to give the city the same glowing assessment. Jews who dare walk the streets wearing their yarmulkes risk being beaten up.
“It's true. Jews cannot walk the streets of Malmö and show that they're Jews,” Danish journalist Lars Hedegaard admitted.
Hedegaard lives in Copenhagen, where he was a columnist for one of Denmark's largest newspapers. He says pro-Israel demonstrations in Malmö, have been met with rocks, bottles and pipe bombs from Arabs and Leftists.
On Saturday when Israel played Sweden in a Davis cup tennis match in Malmö, an estimated 6,000 Leftists, Arabs, Muslims and anarchists protested the Israeli presence in the city, and hundreds attacked police. Almost no fans were allowed inside to watch the tennis series, because authorities feared disruptions or possible violence against the Israeli team.
Massive immigration has made Malmö today one quarter Muslim, and stands to transform it into a Muslim majority city within just a few decades. One of the most popular baby names is not Sven, but Mohammed.
But despite Malmö's usually placid appearance, this experiment in multiculturalism has not gone well. In the Rosengaard section of Malmö, a housing project made up primarily of immigrants, fire and emergency workers will no longer enter without police protection.
Unemployment in Rosengaard is reported to be 70 percent. An immigrant-fueled crime wave affects one of every three Malmö families each year.
"I was there for demonstration; a pro-Israeli demonstration with about 400 or 500 people," Hedegaard told CBN News. "Jews and non-Jews, and I came over to cover it. The police allowed, I'd say a hundred Palestinians or Arabs to shout and threaten and throw bombs and rockets at us. A homemade bomb landed about ten yards from me, and went off with a big bang. And now of course, I thought the police were going to jump these guys, get them out of the way. They didn't. They just let them stand there."
Swede Ted Ekeroth helped film the Arab-Left counter-demonstrations. He saw Arabs throwing rocks at a 90-year-old holocaust survivor.
"I filmed the police chief and asked him why are they not reacting to this," Ekeroth said. "Why are they not doing anything? And he simply answered, 'It's their right according to the Swedish constitution.' We apparently did not have the same right, because we were forced out of there. Our manifestation for Israel is always peaceful, and theirs is always the quite opposite -- Death, hate and killing of Jews. They come and they shout different slogans," he continued. "It can be everything from Arabic slogans inciting killing of Jews to in Swedish and Danish, 'Kill the Jews.'”