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Sweden: From "Humanitarian Superpower" to Failed State


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Sweden: From "Humanitarian Superpower" to Failed State

by Ingrid Carlqvist and Lars Hedegaard  •  January 16, 2015 at 5:00 am
Sweden's "December Agreement" may be fairly described as a soft coup d'état; it has paved the way for Sweden's demise. Six of the eight political parties in parliament have simply decided to exclude from the parliamentary process the only party to oppose mass immigration and defend Swedish culture. The new system may also be described as a consensual dictatorship.
The price tag for immigration is possibly 110 billion Swedish kroner (close to $14 billion) per year. That is a lot of money in a country with 10 million inhabitants. The politicians, however, keep insisting that immigration from third-word countries is an economic boon. Nor is it discussed in the media. Anyone even daring to mention that there may be a problem is labeled a "racist," a "fascist," or a "xenophobe."
One may safely predict that Sweden's goose will be cooked well before the December Agreement runs out in 2022. Its days as a free and democratic welfare state will be over. A population of perhaps eight million Swedes cannot accommodate and pay for perhaps four million such immigrants in eight years. It is as if the U.S. were to accept 150 million.
Participants in Sweden's Asylstafetten (Asylum Relay) 2013 marched for 34 days from Malmö to Stockholm, to demand their government enact a "humane refugee policy," with more support and protection for refugees.
As Europe braces itself for new terror attacks, its political establishments face a choice: Will they finally start listening to their citizens' growing concerns over Muslim mass immigration and the spread of political Islam, or will they dig in and try to perpetuate decades of failed multicultural policies?
Sweden, perhaps leading the way, seems to have chosen the latter. As part of the country's so-called December Agreement, six of the eight political parties represented in parliament (Riksdagen) have simply decided to exclude the Sweden Democrats [SD] -- the only party to oppose mass immigration and defend Swedish culture -- from the parliamentary process.

Are British Salafists Gaming the System?

by Samuel Westrop  •  January 16, 2015 at 4:00 am
Claystone, however, is no ordinary think-tank. It is run by an imam who says that Osama bin Laden was a "martyr" who would enter paradise, and describes Jews as "apes and pigs" and "enemies of God."
One of the more important ways to fight extremism -- and isolate those who radicalize young Muslims -- is to stop providing extremist groups with public funding and the cloak of political and academic legitimacy.
Britain's radical Salafist preacher Haitham Al-Haddad, who describes Jews as "apes and pigs" and "enemies of God. (Image source: Islam21C video screenshot)
On January 6, British MP Yasmin Qureshi hosted the launch in the House of Commons of a report by the lobby group Claystone. The report, entitled, "Rethinking Radicalization and Extremism," argues that "extremist ideology" is not the root cause of terrorism, yet it posits that proposed government legislation to limit freedom of expression (for extremists) is expected to galvanize recruits to terrorist causes.
Claystone has received a great deal of press in the past few months. In November 2013, the British media widely reported the release of another Claystone study, which claimed that Muslim charities were subject to unjust scrutiny because of suspicions they were "involved in radicalisation and extremism." The study, which was featured on both the front page and editorial section of The Times, relied exclusively on Claystone's report. The Times described Claystone as "a London-based think-tank specializing in Muslim issues."

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