While the incident with masked men did occur the content is not entirely accurate. Several Moroccans come to Sweden to play the system by claiming they are under age. They are not forced to live in the Streets. The Swedish government gives them priority as they are claiming to be underage. They run away. Just like Roma children who appear in England, they run away from care homes to the streets to make money often we find for gang bosses. In Sweden including the person accused of murdering a care worker their ages are suspect.
In Morocco there are several street gangs which make money from stealing and crimes. Sweden is a soft target The article also failed to mention interviews with Swedish officials wherein they had lost control of the crime wave in Stokholm Station where women were groped and robbed during 28 January 2015. Just like Germany (Cologne) the media was first leaked through minority media and the British Media. Morocco is getting aid from various European countries which is why Germany has threatened to stop financial assistance as that country is refusing to take back rejected migrants. There again why should Morocco take back the criminals it is glad to get rid of if they were accepted in into Europe?
Even though the Middle East and North Africa have low literacy rates and have economic problems, there are also quite a few who are highly educated and proficient in engineering, IT English and medicine. These people just like most of the Arabs are sophisticated along with most who are not educated. There again if Europe is also obsessed with hovering them up from their own countries, that will perpetuate the existing brain drain. Due to the gullibility of Sweden's government it takes anyone without checking them in itself is a security risk.
Let's get the things straight here. There is an unconfirmed rumour that Morocco (maybe the government itself) are dealing with their street kid problem by sending them to Sweden. But let's assume for the sake of argument that this is true. This is cruel on many levels since Sweden won't accept these kids. They will all get sent back. They don't qualify as refugees in any way. This is just Morocco shirking responsibility.
BTW, the article that went viral on Moroccan kids invading the Swedish train station is just made up. I live in the city and pass through it minimum twice a day. There's not a trace of it here. And Sweden is fucking cold right now. This is not the time of year to loiter in. Just last week we had -20 degrees Celsius in the streets. That'll freeze your nuts off if you stand still for any length of time. I suspect that the one cop who talked to SVT (the source of this viral piece) said it to get attention to what Morocco is doing. But rather than hating Morocco for it, people immediately just went racist. Which I suspect wasn't the original plan.
It should also be mentioned that this (if true) seems to be used as a political bargaining chip to strong arm Sweden into supporting Morocco in it's conflict surrounding Western Sahara. Morocco won't take these children/boys (it's just boys) back unless Sweden... who the fuck knows what Morocco wants. So far Sweden has done everything Morocco has asked for yet they won't take the children back. I'm pretty sure these kids understand what's happening and that they're just used as a tool of political pressure by Morocco. That's not going to make them want to behave, now is it. Let's never forget these are children and are doing what children always have done... misbehave. And now when Swedish resources are stretched thin regarding the refugees, the added Moroccan street kids are not helping.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Sahara_conflict
The right wing fanatics didn't improve anything and at least the article is correct if it says that these buffoons hit out at anything they could which didn't look Swedish. This is also predictable.
The sad thing is that these aren't right with fanatics. The reports I've read is that these are just well meaning (but stupid) ordinary people who have been shocked by all the (made up) reports. Who are frustrated and angry about it. No, it's not predictable. Because it's so extreme. I don't think anybody saw this coming. This is way off the deep end. This mirrors exactly what happened in the 20'ies and 30'ies when Nazis managed to terrify ordinary people into violence against minorities. Also based on nothing but lies.
As for the statistics, one can no longer trust the presentations from the government controlled media in Sweden where in the face of growing crime from a section of migrants both who have been in Sweden for a while and those who newly come in.
1. That's crazy talk
2. Obviously wrong if you care to do a little research. The official statistics are an excellent mirror of what is going on.
3. So if you don't trust the official statistics any longer who are you going to chose to trust? You're not going to make the fallacy of "argument from ignorance" are you?
4. Sweden does have government financed media but they aren't actually controlled by the government. The Swedish government has gone to great lengths to make sure the state financed media is in every way independent from any form of political pressure. They've even put in place an also independent judiciary (KU) to oversee that both the government doesn't try any funny business and that the state financed media aren't taking bribes.
I think what you are reacting to is the fact that Swedish official statistics and state controlled media aren't as upset and angry as they should be if international reporting was correct. Which assumes that international reporting is correct.
The Ethnic backgrounds of the accused are excluded in the press (at least some of the time) and some sentences are light. Sweden as you know was the first country to abolish censorship but that does not exclude the introduction of self censorship of the press in collusion with the government. Incidents preceding those in Cologne were not given coverage by the media. Again these come out in the minority press or foreign media.
I have no idea wtf you are talking about. If there's any censorship of the press I have no clue what you're talking about. We have dozens of racist blogs operating quite openly writing nothing but lies. The fact that those are allowed to stay in business I think proves you wrong.
It is a logical fallacy to assume that taking in 150,000 or so people in a year just by the fact that they arrive that there will be no proportional consequence in terms of crime (most of which would be petty). While Sweden claims it is deporting half of them and over a period of a few years, (no doubt many will find safe houses and melt into the background). Then if Sweden experiences what Germany did, Morocco, Algeria, Bangladesh and Pakistan will delay or refuse in taking back such migrants. Based on the experience of Britain it is likely to be more costly to deport illegals than to keep them. Those who play the system no doubt expect that Sweden may grant them an amnesty. Then (per the UK experience) deportees simply re enter the country again.
This is an excellent point. Sweden has yet to experience what happened in Cologne. As has any other city except Cologne on this one day. I'm not saying this to minimise what happened. It is very serious. But some sense of proportion is in order. It hasn't happened here yet.
I suspect it's a question of social re-enforcement. A man in a social context where such behaviour isn't re-enforced will stop doing it. I suspect the public European outcry over what happened in Cologne has already had the desired effect.
Sweden has at least started to toughen up its border checks which have already resulted in a reduction of people coming in. These are the very checks that should have been applied in the first place.
I don't agree. All increased border checks do is make it more valuable to steal identity papers. If anything it only acts to complicate the asylum process. We filter out honest people to the benefit of thieves. I fail to see how that is to the best interest of Sweden?
The refugee processing system is absurdly rigorous and complex. For any country. It's just layers and layers and layers of hoops to jump through to make it as difficult as possible. The fact that anybody manages to make it through the system is evidence of that:
1) There's a hell of a lot of refugees
2) Most refugees are decent people
