torsdag 23 december 2010

The priorities of Mr. Carl Bildt

The foreign secretary of Sweden, Mr. Carl Bildt is closing down a number of embassies due to decreased funding to the foreign ministry. Mr. Bildt prioritizes the embassy in Burkina Faso over the embassies in Ireland and Luxembourg. Before Mr. Bildt was appointed foreign secretary, he was on the board of directors of Lundin Oil AB between 2000 and 2006 , the company is part of the Lundin Group of companies. Lundin Oil has been criticized by NGOs and the UN for it's involvement in oil extraction in Sudan where government troops committed atrocities against civilians when securing areas of interest to the company.

Swedish exports to Burkina Faso amounted to 66.8 million SEK in 2008, during the first six months of 2009, Swedish exports amounted to merely 26.7 million, this is a 30% drop of exports compared with the previous period in 2008. No figures are available for 2009 and 2010. Meanwhile Sweden's export total to Ireland in 2009 was 4.5 billion. The Swedish exports to Ireland also increased by 7% during the first six months in 2010 compared with the same period in 2009. This in spite of Ireland's financial problems.

Besides a few minor development projects Sweden does not seem to have any other interests to protect in Burkina Faso. Of course a Canadian company belonging to the Lundin Group, NGEx Resources, is active in the country but surely that could not have affected Mr. Bildt's decision making?

According to the Irish National Tourism Development Authority Swedish visitors to Ireland in 2009 amounted to 59 000. I have not been able to find any visitor statistics on the number of Swedish visitors to Burkina Faso, but let's just say it is not a well known charter destination for Swedish tourists.

Is Carl Bildt's planned closure of the Swedish embassy in Ireland really in the best interest of the Swedish voters and tax payers? And has the foreign secretary cut all his ties with the Lundin Group?


söndag 12 december 2010

Cherry popper - How will the aftermath of Sweden's first suicide bombing play out?

There is a first for everything, the first time you have sex, your first reefer, your first hangover. If you liked the sensation, you want to experience it again. If you didn't, you take precautions so as to not having to experience whatever it was that caused you discomfort again. For instance, if you like sex but not STDs, you put on a condom.

Speaking of firsts, as nation Sweden just had it's suicide bombing-cherry popped. Yesterday we experienced our first serious terrorist attack in many years and our first Islamist suicide attack ever. A suicide bomber targeting civilians blew himself up in central Stockholm. Fortunately the bomber only managed to set off one of the pipe bombs in his suicide vest and thus only managed to kill himself while slightly wounding two others.

A car filled with propane tanks was also set alight nearby. The Swedish right-wing blog Politiskt Inkorrekt identifies the car's owner as Taimour Abdulwahab from Tranås, Sweden. An email containing threats in Arabic and Swedish against Swedish civilians in general and Lars Vilks in particular was reportedly received by the Swedish Security Police ten minutes before the attack.

Based upon my previous experience (my suicide bombing cherry was popped quite some time ago) with the aftermath of Islamist terror attacks, I predict the following reaction within Sweden's Muslim community:

a) Outright support for the attack.

b) Denial, people will claim that the attack was carried out by the CIA or the Jews.

c) Condemnation.

Many Muslims will privately condemn the attack but will not be willing to do so openly since attacks such as these are considered as an act of Jihad by many Muslims, and Jihad is a basic tenet of Islam. Others will condemn the attacks in discussions with non-Muslims, or say that the CIA or Mossad were behind them, while privately supporting them.

Swedish politicians, who, with the exception of the Sweden Democrats, steadfastly refuse to see the increasing number of Muslims in Sweden as a problem, will try to trivialize the attack and quite possibly try to link the attack to "islamophobia". Or will our elected officials surprise me by taking the necessary precautions?







söndag 12 april 2009

Davis Cup in Malmö-The aftermath

As a result of the Sweden-Israel Davis Cup Tie in Malmö being closed to the public by the local authorities, the city is now banned from hosting Davis Cup ties for five years. The Swedish Tennis Federation will also have to pay a fine. Since the closing of the tie to the public was decided by the local authorities, one would have thought that they would have the common courtesy to also fork up the bill, but no dice.

Malmö's strong man, Ilmar Reepalu, of course refuses as he seems bent on embarrassing Malmö even more in the eyes of the civilized world, or maybe it is part a scheme to attract more Islamists to come and settle in the city which already has a 32% Muslim population. He will be OK with that as long as they vote for him.

Saudi childbride not newsworthy in Sweden

CNN reports that a Saudi sharia judge refused to annul the marriage of a Saudi child bride who was married off by her debt ridden father in lieu of payment. As of the 13th of April, 2009 this news article ranked as number 6 among the top reads on CNN International's website. I first read it on the 12th.

Due to it's popularity this piece of news should be something that most news media in Sweden would like to report on, but when you look at the top Swedish news websites you will not find a single word. One can't help but wonder if The Fourth Estate prioritizes religious sensitivities over their actual job. As a Swedish tax payer I help financing traditional media who get subsidies from the government. It is in public interest that we have a diverse press, or so the reasoning goes. A diverse press that is politically correct to a fault it appears.

lördag 7 mars 2009

The rioting continues in Malmö

Media in other parts of the world have now picked up on the rioting in Malmö. Verdens Gang in Norway,Euronews,Fox News,BBC, and Danish Jyllandsposten have news articles about the subject. Unfortunately none of the above articles contain any in depth analysis explaining why the rioting occurs in Malmö. That's a shame.

Back in the 60s Malmö was a leading center for shipbuilding. The city was growing rapidly with immigration from southern Europe and other parts of Sweden providing recruits for the city's rapidly growing work force. But as competition from shipyards in Japan and Korea became too stiff, the shipbuilders were forced to lay off most of the workers although not before the national government squandered billions on a hairbrained scheme which consisted of buying the dockyards industrial output. Needless to say this was a costly disaster.

As unemployment rose, the city's population actually shrunk, although it still remained Sweden's third largest. Since there were no jobs, apartments were easily available, especially in outlying areas like Rosengård which originally had been designed to house dockyard workers. Instead the cheap housing in Rosengård now attracted immigrants from the Middle East claiming refugee status.

As it turned out these new immigrants were not as willing to integrate into Swedish society as the ones that preceded them, instead they preferred to recreate a piece of the Middle East in Scania, complete with basement mosques preaching wahabism and moral guardians cautioning women to wear the abaya.

Why was this allowed to happen? One of the main reasons was the consensus that any debate regarding problems caused by immigration equaled racism. Another cause was the willingness of the Swedish government to provide generous benefits to jobless immigrants. Generous benefits meant that the poorly educated newcomers lacked the motivation to move where they could actually find the low-paying jobs that they were qualified for. Another problem was the fact that most of the immigrants from the Middle East also lacked the skills needed to succeed in a workplace where the industrial worker was replaced by the knowledge worker. Generous immigration laws combined with generous benefits helped create a Muslim underclass in Malmö, which by far and large voted for the social democrats that paid them their allowance.

The fact is that, due to the symbiotic relationship described above, the demonstrations and the rioting have the tacit support of the leftist dominated municipal authorities who as usual are trying to curry favor with the city's ever-growing Muslim population. Citing security concerns they closed the Davis Cup tie to the public even though local police said they were perfectly capable of maintaining order.

Now that Malmö has broken off diplomatic relations with Israel, can we also expect sharia laws any time soon? Is it not time that we ban ungodly activities such as sex ed, pubs, the teaching of Darwinism and allowing women to leave their houses without a close male relative escorting them? And don't forget music, that is bad too, the only sound that should be heard is the muezzin calling the faithful to prayer.

Rioting in Malmö

An unholy alliance of Muslims, Nazis and Anarchists is at the time of writing trying to stop a Davis Cup tie between Sweden and Israel in Malmö. Defeatist dhimmi politicians have already closed the game to the public but this is not enough to appease the extremists who want to stop the sporting event from taking place at all.

It seems as if the police is managing to hold the mob back, but it is not unreasonable to assume that the rioters will turn to softer targets such as the Jewish cemetery in Malmö, Jewish owned businesses, or symbols of "imperialism" such as McDonalds instead.

torsdag 5 mars 2009

And so it begins....

The city of Malmö looks set for a weekend of rioting and protests as Sweden's Davis Cup team is getting ready to play Israel in a tie. The local authorities has already closed the sports event to the public but this is not enough to satisfy Islamists, Nazis and Leftists who want to stop the tie altogether. The Local has an article in English about the protests.

The Leftist group AFA, the unofficial armed wing of the reformed Swedish Communists and the Green Party, is the main driving force behind the protests together with Islamist immigrants and second generation immigrants from the city's large Muslim Arab community. The Swedish government should feel embarrassed for letting extremists have their way but will probably just try to ignore or gloss over any rioting.