Violent Muslim Riots Continue for Sixth Straight Day in Sweden, Spreading Beyond Capital
Ah, yes, the gap between rich and poor, that old canard is being dusted off and trotted out to avoid the M issue. "Often young people with immigrant backgrounds - who are poorly educated, cannot find work and feel pushed to the edge of society." There are thousands of non-Muslim immigrants and working class poor who are not burning down the country screaming allahu akbar even though many of them live in the exact same neighborhoods and have the same levels of income.
"Some seven years of centre-right rule, however, have chipped away at benefits"
Blaming the right. Enormous welfare benefits attract this invader --
but the media says that the overburdened taxpayer should pay more jizya
to these "masked youths [who] vandalise
schools, libraries and police stations, setting cars alight and hurling
stones at police and firefighters." The AFP writes "the rioting -- set off earlier this month by the police shooting of a 69-year-old man" and neglects to mention that the man charged them with a machete (think London beheading).
Swedish politicians (as well as the media) are trying to make light of it. "The acute thing is to ensure that these neighborhoods get back to normal everyday life,” Erik Ullenhag, Sweden’s integration minister. It will never be normal again, Mr. Ullenhag. Snap out of it.
VIDEO: Stockholm Riot Continues, May 23, 2013 9:34pm Rinkeby
Sweden riots spread beyond Stockholm AFP (thanks to Lookmann)
Police reinforcements were deployed to Stockholm on Friday to help quell unrest as rioting continued for a sixth straight night, spreading beyond the Swedish capital.
A nearly week-long spate of rioting spread outside Stockholm on Friday but authorities said police reinforcements sent to the Swedish capital had reduced the violence there, even though dozens of youths set cars and a recycling station ablaze.
The rioting - set off earlier this month by the police shooting of a 69-year-old man - continued for a sixth night in mainly poor immigrant areas in Stockholm.
In a country with a reputation for openness, tolerance and a model welfare state, the rioting has exposed a fault-line between a well-off majority and a minority - often young people with immigrant backgrounds - who are poorly educated, cannot find work and feel pushed to the edge of society.
“It is a bit calmer. Of course, there are still fires,” said Towe Hagg, a police spokeswoman in Stockholm.
But in Orebro, a town in central Sweden, some 25 masked youths set fire to three cars, a school and tried to torch a police station, police said. An old empty building was set alight in the town of Sodertalje, less than an hour’s drive from the capital.
Sweden riots over 'bleak prospects' for youth
Pupils at a primary school in the Stockholm suburb of Kista - an information-technology hub that is home to the likes of telecoms equipment maker Ericsson and the Swedish office of Microsoft - arrived on Friday to find the inside of the small red wooden building had been burned out.
“In the short run, the acute thing is to ensure that these neighborhoods get back to normal everyday life,” Erik Ullenhag, Sweden’s integration minister, told Reuters. “In the long run we need to create positive spirals in these neighborhoods.”
The police said they had called in backup from the cities of Malmo and Gothenburg. Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt held an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the crisis.
Masked youths
The spree of destruction has seen masked youths vandalise schools, libraries and police stations, setting cars alight and hurling stones at police and firefighters.
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