Malmoe (Malmö) is Sweden’s third biggest city in the very south of Sweden. The Jews in Malmoe are about 700 people and they have been living there for over a 100 years. They now sound the alarm that they are being harassed by the muslims. The children’s day nursery is surrounded by surveillance cameras and the entrances are bombproof. A Jewish youth was threatened with being halal slaughtered. The Muslim population in Malmoe amounts to about 45 000, and in the whole province of Skåne, where Malmoe is situated, is inhabited by almost 100 000 Muslims.
Malmoe’s mayor, Ilmar Reepalu, thinks that the Jews of Malmoe in some way are to blame themselves that they are harassed. “They ought to more obviously have dissociated themselves from Israel’s politics towards Palestine.
He states that not only the politicians are responsible for the situation of the jews in Malmoe. Jewish individuals and the community also have a possibility to influence how the world around regards them.
“I would wish that the Jewish community dissociated themselves from Israel’s violations of the civilian population in Gaza. Instead, they choose to take part in a demonstration in the Stortorget Square, which can give the wrong signals”, Reepalu says in the interview in the Skanska Dagbladet.
If the Muslims of Malmoe would be harassed, does then Reepalu think that the Muslim themselves are to be blamed to some extent, since they haven’t more apparently dissociated themselves from Muslim terror (in any place in the world)? No, he is not saying that (luckily enough), but why should then Swedish Jews who have lived for generation in Sweden be forced have a certain point of view regarding Israel’s politics?
More from the interview in the article:
“Did you consider stating publicly that Malmoe doesn’t accept anti-Semitism. Or is that controversial?” the reporter asks.
“We do neither accept Zionism or anti-Semitism. They represent extremes that position themselves over other groups and stand for the opinion that that other groups are inferior”, Reepalu answers.
It is interesting how Reepalu, when asked about anti-Semitism, feels forced to include Zionism in the discussion. When the subject of the interview is harassed Jews och bullied Jewish children, he cannot keep to the subject. On the contrary he unconditionally has to implicate the Muslims.
“Children of Jewish origin shall of course not be pestered. It is neither okay that the imam in a mosque is being shot at,” Reepalu says.
It is of course NOT okay that an imam is being shot at. But when did this happen? What reveals Reepalu’s standpoint most is his compulsive inability to keep to the subject and his will to insert another subject matter. He thinks that harassed Jews is not much to grumble about. The situation among other groups is much more important to him.
Israel has created a dilemma, according to Reepalu. But a new piece of information is that Israel is completely alone in the conflict and is fighting itself and that the other participants in the conflict have no responsibility whatsoever. But Reepalu! It takes two to tango.
Let’s suppose that Israel has created the conflict. Shall the responsibility for the conflict in Malmoe be put on Israel? Isn’t Swedes able to be responsible for their own cities?
Here is a link to the debate on this subject on Newsmill (in Swedish, though).
Isn’t it odd how the pursuit of muliticulturalism and tolerance produces division, hatred, and violence? Such is the wonder of relativism.
Well, if you don’t know where you are going, it’s not surprising that you end up somewhere else.
The UK has permitted itself to become an incubator for terrorism. It looks like Sweden is heading down the same road.
There’s nothing odd about it at all. The problem is the mixing of alien cultures and multiculturalism itself.
I’ve often wondered why multiculturalism has been fostered in Western countries only. Why was it needed, what is its purpose and who is responsible? What are the arguments for it? Its clear that multiculturalism isn’t working so why was it pushed on us without our consent and what were the reasons given?
One explanation here in Sweden is that we need to increase the working force since all the people who will soon be retired (those born in the 1940s) are so many and the number of descendants are fewer. But now theories have come that contradict this statement. And the financial crisis reduced the jobs. Unemployment is now almost 10% in Sweden, and most immigrants are living on social allowances. Recent statistics have shown that it takes 7-10 years until an immigrant can start supporting himself. That’s a very long time for the Swedish tax payers to support immigrants. By the way, multiculturalism has become the new religion i Western Europe. I don’t know what has happened to the minds of the politicians.
Thanks for bringing this issue to light in your blog. But is anyone in Sweden publicly criticizing or questioning Mayor Ilmar Reepalu’s statements? Is anyone in the country beginning to grasp the serious threat posed by muslims to the country’s democratic principles and ideals?
I share your blog with a number of persons as a warning to them of what might happen in our country and what is already happening in yours.
Keep up the work.
There has been a vivid discussion on this subject on the Internet. But I haven’t seen anything in the newpapers (apart from the very inteview that was printed in that newspaper) and nothing on TV. This is simply a sign of the political correctness that is prevailing. The links to newsmill.se shows the actual debate. This is also a sign that the newspapers time probably is up. This week there were big headlines on the fact that most of the biggest newpapers run at a loss. The biggest morning newpaper, the Dagens Nyheter, will dismiss over a 100 persons. By the way, what country are you from?
No more mosques in Sweden! Immediate immigration freeze.
http://northfieldpatriot.blogspot.com/
Here is another interesting international link to this issue:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/01/jews-flee-sweden.html
Keep up the good work!
Jews and Palestinians have lived in what is now Israel for over 2000 years, The Jews and probably others weredecimated there but not wiped out by the Persians, Greeks, and Romans until the 15 century when the Turkish Empire gained control with thousands of Jews iving there.. Since then Jews increased their land holdings legally . Now
There are at least one and one half billion followers of Islam world wide now and probably less than 15 million Jews . with less than 5 million living in Israel.
The nation of Israel was created by the UN in 1948, Immediately Syria, Jordan and Egypt attacked it to drive it into the sea. They could not win and since then over 4 critical attacks have been made by these Arab nations each time the Arabs lost more of Palestine to the Israelis. That’s how Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza..
Israel now has millions of citizens of Jewish amd Islamic faiths and also Druze and Bedouins’ who all can vote in the only democratic nation in the Near East.
There is no such thing as a Palestinian. This is a fiction invented by Yasser Arafat. Those people are Arabs just like all the other Arabs around them. Most were originally Jordanians or Egyptians, based on the territories annexed by Israel after the 1967 war in an effort to reclaim their past lands.
The name Palestine itself was originally concocted by the Romans to rename the lands they took over from the Greeks (who took it over from the Persians at the time of Alexander the Great).
We United States dwellers are called Americans and we call dwellers in Palestine Palestinian. ….that is just colloquial sense.They could actually also be Zorastrians, druze or other small sects besides Shiites or Sunnis or Wahabi’s.
Sweden very graciously opened its’ borders to victims of oppressive countries. It should not now complain even if the situation is not pleasant for them now . Every natiohas its internal opposition , Living in a democratic society is the price we pay for liberty of thought.
Found this on the Vlad Tepes blog –
Startling espression from your link:
“The problems of Malmö as a European capital of hatred had been known to experts for four years at least.”
Why have we, the Swedish people (not living in the Malmö area), been informed as late as this?
I think you know why. The left’s suppression of the truth as a means to promoting their real agenda.
My mother is full swede and for the first time in my life I have no desire to refer to me as part of that heritage. The food is great but that is where it all stops for me. I find the Swedes to be absolutely despicable people with their heads in the sand and insane politicians like the mayor of Malmo. They are obviously anti semitic like the majority of the world and have no basis for holding their heads up high and being proud. Sending aid to Gaza is like sending aid to the mafia as the Swedes are now doing.
@Darell:Swedish are proud and why shouldnt they?If you think that all the world is against you..its simply paranoia.
It wasnt “Sweden” that send a ship to Gaza.It was your Muslim friends in Turkey.?How many years didnt you cooperate with the Islamist Erdogan?Didnt they buy some planes lately(and alot of weapons before) to use against the Kurds?Even after what happened in Gaza?
Who in the world is for the Jews and the State of Israel? Not even the U.S. government lately. Have you heard the statements of our Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lately? Did you see how our President treated Netanyahu on his visit? What do you mean paranoia? That is reality. They have no support in the world. There is only support for Muslims and excuses for their terrorist activities. “Remember the Crusades???” is the chant by Muslims and their enablers with no consideration of the actual history of that time and the actual promotion of violence in the Koran toward all others including apostates. This is the kind of religion and people that Swedes now support, not the Jews and Israel. It is sad because I believe that the Swedes and Norwegians actually hid the Jews from the Nazis during WWII. And now they could care less about them. By the way, the Muslims supported the Nazis.
As regards Turkey, the government has now decided to turn against its founder Ataturk and go headlong down the path of an Islamist government with all its Shiria rules and regulations. They have become anti Israel and anti the West. The United States government supported Turkey when their government was being more or less secular. The U.S. supports and works with other countries for self interest just like any other country. I am sorry for the Kurds. I believe strongly that they should have their own country. But just because the U.S. sells weaponry to other countries does not mean that the U.S. government supports that country’s every use of the weapons.