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By Bruce Bawer ~
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“…as the tumult in Stockholm not only continued but kept spreading to more and more neighborhoods and then to other Swedish cities,
the media in that country, by and large, kept pretending that it was all about things like unemployment and social marginality, all of which were supposedly aggravated by Swedish racism….
Of all the reports I looked at, the one that most effectively epitomized the asinine, mendacious approach of the Western media to this latest nightmare was a piece from Reuters ….the Reuters piece was headlined Sweden riots expose ugly side of no, not of European immigration policies or Islam, of course, but of the Nordic model.….
Those accusations seem dubious, to say the least, given that
the Stockholm
police, far from treating the citys delinquents with the aggression they
deserved, seemed determined not to hurt or offend them in the slightest.
…one strongly suspects, because of Swedish authorities manifest terror of
doing anything that might open them up to charges of insensitivity, let
alone brutality and… racism. …….immigrants to Sweden get welfare, access to the educational system
up
to university level access to public transport, libraries, healthcare .And still
they feel that they need to riot. Carlqvist….called the riots the work of
immigrants who dont like Sweden and dont want to integrate, but whove
settled in the country because they know that Sweden will give them money for
nothing.….Journalists should strive not to exacerbate xenophobia,
she pronounced, acknowledging that we opt out of stories and events that can be
easily put to xenophobic purposes. We do not quote everything we hear and do not
tell about everything we see. What can one say about someone whos so proudly
honest about systematically lying?The most stirring piece I ran across… was an
editorial in Saturdays
Jyllands-Posten.
(Thats the Danish daily… famous for printing the
Muhammed cartoons in 2005 and for standing up to the ensuing turmoil and death
threats.) Headlined The Swedish Lie, the editorial underscored the fact that
the goons in Stockholm arent just youths as the euphemism-loving Swedish
media would have it but Muslim bullies, products of a Middle Eastern culture
of violence, who are turning their aggression on other peoples property and
the public order in what is clearly a demonstration of power.The editors noted that for years, self-congratulatory members of the Swedish
elite have contrasted their country favorably with Denmark, which they smeared
as racist for its relatively open immigration debate; the self-delusionary
implication was always that Sweden by virtue of its, well, virtue was immune
to the conflicts, clashes, criminality, welfare fraud, so-called honor killing,
innumerable assaults on women, [and] waves of violence that plagued the rest of
Western Europe.But in fact, the ruthless macho culture from which these
perpetrators spring knows no national boundaries, and thrives especially on
situations in which it meets with no significant opposition. And its precisely
this as the editors of Jyllands–Posten sagely, devastatingly,
and eloquently pointed out that makes Sweden, more than other nations, a
paradise for the masked men of violence, who, under the cover of night and the
medias complaints of police violence, can see their will realized and, house by
house, month by month, gang by gang, show whos boss, while Sweden sleeps. Its
time, the editors urged, for Sweden to wake up.
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