And the saints came to camp in Malmo

Sweden has a massive crime problem. The reason is hardly surprising

America isn't the only nation dealing with a violent crime problem that's plaguing cities and rural communities. In Sweden, things have become so bad other European nations are now reportedly looking at them "with horror." Shootings have skyrocketed, giving Sweden the dishonorable distinction of having the highest per-capita number of fatal shootings among 22 European nations. 

But that's not the worst of it.

Bombings have become a frequent occurrence over the last several years—nearly 500, in fact, since 2018. 

What could be the root cause of these troubles? Sweden took in more immigrants per capita during the 2015 migration wave than any other country, many from countries like Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. The result, as Swedish writer and editor Paulina Neuding explains, has been disastrous. 

It may be shocking for Americans to learn that in Sweden—the land of IKEA, Spotify and Greta Thunberg—all of this is going on. Perhaps the reason you don’t know about it is because of the uncomfortable reality of how we got here.

Among shooting suspects, 85 percent are first- or second-generation immigrants, according to the newspaper Dagens Nyheter, as immigrant neighborhoods have become hotbeds for gang crime. National Police Commissioner Anders Thornberg has described the violence as “an entirely different kind of brutality than we’ve seen before” and his deputy, Mats Löfving, says that 40 criminal clans now operate throughout the country. Spreading fear are “humiliation robberies,” targeting children and youth, in which victims are subjected to degrading treatment by assailants, such as being urinated upon. Just this week, four men were sentenced for robbing, beating and urinating on an 18-year-old, who was also filmed by his tormentors. 

All of which is why, for the first time ever, crime emerged as a top priorityamong voters ahead of this past weekend’s general election. Swedes made their concerns plain on Sunday, when they awarded the country’s most strident anti-immigration party more than 20 percent of the vote. (Common Sense)

I’ve been mentioning this in posts for several years now, but the problem has been decades in the making. My best friend is Swedish, and when he’d return to his homeland during school vacations in the late 60s, all he’d hear about his his adopted country was that it was a racist oppressor of the blacks, blah blah blah. After college and business school, he took a job with a Swedish/American company and moved back to Sweden for a two-year stint in corporate headquarters from around, if memory serves, 1975-1977 or 1978. He told me that those same friends who’d berated him a decade before were now saying things about the new “Swedes” that made even him blush. Why? Sweden had opened its borders to Gypsies, who flooded the country, kept their customs, and stayed in slums of their own making, living on welfare and crime. In short, they were not the traditional hard-working towheads who, like Americans of yore, considered accepting welfare, while not making an effort to get off it as soon as possible, a shameful act of laziness.

Flash forward thirty years, and you had this:

Wired, January 17, 2017: How Muslim immigration made Malmo Sweeden crime capital of the country

Scores of Swedes took the streets of Malmo, a southern city in Sweden, on Monday to protest an epidemic of violence that has taken the lives of far too many young people. The last victim was 16-year-old Ahmed Obaid. He was killed last Thursday after an unidentified gunman unleashed a salvo of bullets.

“Our kids should sleep well, play at play parks, feel safe,” Housam Abbas, the victim’s cousin, said, according to the Local.

Malmo, this once quiet city, is now overrun with violence. The culture of fear is so palpable that parents are no longer comfortable sending their children out to play.

“You have to look over your shoulder when you go out at night now. I don’t let my little brother go out at night any more,” said one high school student at Monday’s protest in front of city hall. “I hope that the politicians actually view this as a serious problem and start to solve this in Malmö.”

After being handed a list of measures to curb the violence in the city, Justice and Migration Minister Morgan Johansson stated in a matter-of-fact tone: “We have to get rid of the weapons, we need tighter punishment so that those who are held for serious gun crime can be arrested immediately and not just be released a few days later.”

What Johansson failed to mention, however, was the fact that the bulk of the violence stems from one community.

The Muslim immigrant community has a crime problem. It’s a truism that Swedish (and European) politicians have denied in bold-faced lies and assurances to the public.

Malmo, like Molenbeek, its sister city in Belgium, has become a breeding ground for criminals.

Thousands of Muslim immigrants have fled their war-torn homes in the Middle East to settle in quaint European cities filled with naïve and welcoming townspeople.

This has been true in France, England, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, and Sweden.

Since the great migration into Europe, crime, largely committed by migrants, has gone up manifold, leaving many to reassess their naïveté about hosting duties.

Here in America, our problem lies not so much with the 2 million illegal aliens we let across our border every year, though that can’t help, but the elimination of two-parent black families, and the almost six decades of welfare “reform” that has resulted in generations of illiterates, a drug culture and lawlessness. But the effect is the same: our cities are being destroyed from within.