DrZoidberg
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Derec said:Parts of Malmö (which is overall over 1/5 Islamic) look more like Mosul or Mogadishu than they look like a proper Swedish city.
It's the city I live in. I haven't been in Mosul or Mogadishu. But if they're anything like Malmö, sign me up and I'm moving there. This place is cold.
I don't even know what 1/5 Islamic means. Is it Arabs that is referred to? Malmö has 15% immigrants from the Middle-East/Balcans. All pretty recent.
To understand the problems of Malmö you've got to look at the history of the city. It's a small city with two main industries, military and the Kockums ship yard. The shipyard closed in 1999 and the military regiments attached to the city have been dismantled (because of the end of the cold war) and were all gone around the same time.
With all those empty houses in the the end of the 90'ies the Swedish government thought this is an excellent city to put all the refugees in. The predictable result was a bunch of immigrants, who didn't know the language, who also didn't have jobs. This is still a problem. But it's constantly improving. The disappearing of the city's two main industries was a huge blow to the city.
Not really the immigrants fault. When people are unemployed and restless they often do stupid things. This problem area is very much a self-inflicted wound made by short sighted politicians.
To fix this problem they built the Öresunds bridge. Copenhagen has a shortage of housing (so therefore not enough people) and plenty of jobs. Malmö has a surplus of people and not enough jobs. Which has worked wonders. Malmö is quite a decent city now. I live in Malmö and work in Copenhagen. But the identity checks on the bridge is fucking it up. It adds 1-3 hours a day for commuters. So this is slowly killing this inter-city integration. Stupid. Let's hope they remove the identity checks soon, before it gets really bad in Malmö again.
I also live in one of the rougher areas. Kirseberg. I've mostly got immigrants as neighbours. It's fine. I have no problems with it and I feel safe at night. When I'm out partying in Malmö city centre I always walk drunk home. Nothing bad has ever happened to me.
Edit: Checked the statistics closer. 38% of Malmö's population are immigrants. 17% (of the total Malmö population) are from Africa, the Middle-East or Asia. So plenty of immigrants in that number who aren't from traditionally Muslim countries. Most of the Malmö immigrants are Americans or EU citizens.
Sweden doesn't register people based on religion. We have a law against doing that. So there's no official statistics. But there are unofficial statistics collected.
Did a little bit more digging. The sociologist Åke Sander has studied Muslim immigrants to Sweden in particular. His statistic is about 4.9% in Sweden as a whole. Pew research backs that number up. Sander claims that only 15% of second generation Muslim immigrants to Sweden stay Islamic. The rest leave the faith. He also claims that Sweden is a magnet for "Muslims" who come to Sweden because of it's atheistic reputation and has moved here because they want to get away from Islam. These people might still register as Muslims for family reasons. But are atheists. Same goes for atheistic second generation Muslims who stay in the faith for purely practical reasons. Both of these groups are hard to measure statistically.
http://lir.gu.se/om-oss/personal?userId=xsanak
So we have even less to worry about than I previously thought.
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