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[VIDEO] When it comes to the media and dead children, some children are more equal than others

April 12, 2017 by Bookworm 9 Comments

Two British journalists speak bluntly about the fact that our media is forcing us to care more about the enemy’s dead children than about our own.

Swedish Ebba Akerlund illustrative of dead children terrorism and the media

Ebba Akerlund, victim of the terrorist attack in Stockholm

Paul Joseph Watson, who should have a bigger, better, less conspiracy-oriented venue than Alex Jones’ InfoWars, has published his most recent video, this time about what’s happening in Sweden. I agree with him completely on every point. The Swedes have self-righteously, condescendingly, and superciliously cultivated dangerous people and I don’t have much sympathy for them. They are living proof of Darwinism in action when it comes to nations too arrogant to have any sense of self-preservation.

Except . . . except that I’m terribly sorry about Ebba Akerlund, the little girl who died. The sad reality of evil people and their evil actions is that children are always the most vulnerable. I’ve talked about this before in the context of just wars against tyranny, such as the war against Nazi Germany (we definitely killed children with our bombs) or the hypothetical children who would inevitably die if we were to engage in a just war against ISIS. (By the way, I’m not advocating a direct war against ISIS. The Middle East is a morass that sucks everyone in. I’m speaking in hypothetical terms.)

The MSM would have you believe that it cares about children but it doesn’t, not really. I’ve always known this at a sort of subliminal level. Paul Joseph Watson, at 2:15 in the following video, puts his finger on the actual fact that proves that, to the MSM, not all children are equal. The dead children that have worth are those that advance a political cause (always a Leftist one). The rest? Meh.

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Filed Under: Media matters, Muslim violence, Sweden Tagged With: Ebba Akerlund, ISIS, Media Bias, Muslim violence, Paul Joseph Watson, Stockholm, Sweden

The Bookworm Beat 6/2/16 — the quick round-up edition and open thread

June 2, 2016 by Bookworm 3 Comments

Woman-writing-300x265I’m doing actual legal work today, but I want to clear my spindle before it gets completely out of control. Here goes, a quick, down-and-dirty round-up:

President Trump? Scott Adams has pretty much nailed everything that’s happened so far in this election, at least when it comes to Trump’s tactics and trajectory. Watch him on Bill Maher’s show explaining precisely why he thinks Trump will win, and win big. He also says not to worry: Trump will not be a crazy, war-mad, racist, irrational president — although Hillary could be a problem if elected because she’s a walking alcohol cabinet and drug pharmacopeia.

ACLU Director mugged by reality and other bathroom musings. When Maya Dillard Smith, interim director of the Georgia chapter of the ACLU, went into a public bathroom with her daughters, only to have the girls frightened by some manly looking so-called women, she summarily quit the ACLU, went public with the reason she quit, and was roundly and soundly ignored by America’s mainstream media.

Incidentally, I asked two boys who are in high school if they think the Obama directive will result in boys who are not transgender taking advantage of its broad language and visiting girl’s bathrooms and locker rooms. Both boys instantly answered “No! No one would ever do that.” Then they said, “The girls would chase them out.” Then, after a moment’s cogitation, they proceeded to name all the “weird,” “goofy” boys they knew who would, in fact, probably take advantage of the opportunity to see teen girls naked or nearly so.

And while I’m on the subject, people concerned by the ongoing sexual assaults against Muslim women in refugee camps have a radical solution for the problem: separate bathrooms for men and women. No, I’m not kidding. The Lefties on my real-me Facebook page, the same ones championing Obama’s transgender diktats, are thrilled about this idea. We truly are a culture that’s moved beyond parody.

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Filed Under: Barack Obama, Bureaucracy, Communism, Donald Trump, Germany, Hillary Clinton, Islam, Military, Muslim violence, Open Threads, Sweden, Vietnam Tagged With: ACLU, Barack Obama, Germany, Hillary Clinton, Maya Dillard Smith, Muslim Inbreeding, Muslim Refugees, Muslim violence, Stonehenge, Sweden, Transgender Bathrooms, Vietnam

The Bookworm Beat 3/23/16 — the “catching up” edition and open thread

March 23, 2016 by Bookworm 7 Comments

Woman-writing-300x265Bush didn’t, Obama wouldn’t, but the next president should: Call into the Oval Office the leaders of Muslim communities throughout America to say, “Because of the First Amendment, the fact that you and the people in your community practice Islam is irrelevant to us in America. Your faith is your business. What is relevant to me as leader of this nation is whether you support America or not. When all of you leave this office, you need to carry a single message to your communities: ‘You are either supportive of America or working to undermine America. If you’re in the latter category, you are on notice here and now that my administration will use every constitutional means available to track you, capture you, prosecute you, and imprison or deport you.’ End of story. Thank you for coming. Goodbye.”

Having got that off my chest, I’m about to engage in a speed round-up, because I’ve got about 40 articles — really good articles — to share with you.

A Cruz convert explains why.  The most interesting point is that Trump started with something no other Republican has had since Reagan — vast name recognition.

Slowly catching on to the fact that Trump is the Republican Obama.  I’ve been saying from Day 1 that Trump is a white Obama.  He promises hope and change by using government power to shape America to his will.  And let me say, that is my sole problem with Trump:  That he’s all about big government, precisely as Obama is.  I find that unacceptable.  Jonathan Tobin is another one who’s finally figured out the whole Obama  Doppelgänger thing.

Trump is a special interest candidate.  And that special interest is Donald Trump.

Is the media sitting on big Trump stories?  Ted Cruz thinks that there are some horrible stories to be told about Trump, which wouldn’t surprise me given his sordid personal life and . . . ah . . . colorful business life.  Once Trump is the candidate, says Cruz, the media will “suddenly” discover stories that make Trump unelectable.  I think Cruz is right because we all know the media, don’t we?

Trump’s enemy list makes me like him.  George Soros has given money to 187 different special interest groups that are attacking Trump.  (To be honest, a lot of them are attacking Cruz too. Indeed, on Sunday, I heard a New Yorker news hour on NPR during which the speakers agreed that Cruz is the more dangerous of the two leading Republican candidates because he actually believes in the Constitution.) In other words, here’s a list of 187 Soros-funded organizations that try to destroy anything conservative.

Will Trump win the nomination?  Scott Elliott, an extremely astute election watcher and a man with a history of accurate election predictions, is not a Trump fan.  He’s therefore created the “Stop-Trump-O-Meter,” which tracks the outcomes of state primaries and projects the outcome at the convention.  Even if you’re a Trump fan, you’ll like Scott’s meter, because, if you ignore the name, it tells in a clear way where the candidates stand in the Republican primary.

If you destroy the polite people, you create room for the impolite ones.  Glenn Reynolds points out that the GOP, RINOS, and the Leftist media establishment did everything possible to destroy the happy, tidy, law-abiding Tea Party.  Now they’re horrified that destroying the Tea Party left rage in its place.

USA Today editors question Hillary’s fitness for office.  USA Today, in its quest to be “America’s newspaper,” the one read in more hotel lobbies than any other paper, is careful about taking strong partisan stands.  That’s why it’s impressive that the editors see Hillary’s penchant for secrecy, and the security-evading steps she took in pursuit of her paranoia, as a serious impediment to the presidency.

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Filed Under: Activism, Anti-Americanism, Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Conservative ideology, Constitution, Corruption, Cuba, Democrats, Education, Elections, Feminism, Freedom, George Soros, Germany, Germany, Government, Hillary Clinton, Hollywood, Identity politics, Islam, Islamic State/ISIS, Jews, Jihad, Judges, Media matters, Military, Muslim violence, National Security, personal responsibility, Political correctness, Presidential elections, Self-reliance, Sex, Sweden, Tea Parties, Ted Cruz, United Nations, Women Tagged With: Antisemitism, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Caliphate, Carla Hayden, Coen Brothers, Donald Trump, EBay, Education, George Clooney, George Soros, Gerard Butler, Germany, Harlan Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Human Rights, Islamists, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Library of Congress, London is Falling, Military, Obama Atlantic Interview, Pierre Omidyar, Radical Islam, Rape, Rape Culture, Sharia, Student Activism, Supreme Court, Sweden, Tea Party, Ted Cruz, U.N., United Nations, Zionism

Sexual assault and harassment — the multicultural edition

January 12, 2016 by Bookworm 18 Comments

Victim of Muslim rapeA friend sent me an interesting link about sexual harassment in the National Park Service:

A new report by a federal watchdog outlines a history of harassment on river trips through Grand Canyon National Park in which male park employees allegedly propositioned female colleagues for sex, touched them inappropriately and made lewd comments.

The report obtained by The Associated Press comes after 13 current and former Grand Canyon employees filed a complaint in September 2014 saying women had been abused over 15 years. It was released Tuesday by the Department of the Interior’s Office of Inspector General.

About a dozen people have faced disciplinary action for sexual misconduct since 2003, ranging from a written reprimand to termination. But investigators say those actions are inconsistent, and many alleged incidents go unreported or aren’t properly vetted by supervisors.

It makes for interesting reading, in that it flies in the face of the sparkling clean and wholesome image the NPS has always had.  I mean, Smokey the Bear and all….

My friend had a different, and even better point, to make though when he sent me the article:  “This story has merit only because the attackers weren’t Muslim.”

Sadly, my friend is right (he usually is).  In Sweden, official institutions have rigorously downplayed or ignored rape.  At the Gatestone Institute’s website, Ingrid Carlqvist regularly documents the crimes the Swedish media ignores. Her latest post has reports that ought to strike fear into the heart of every Swedish woman, and these are just a month’s worth of stories. Here are two examples:

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Filed Under: Germany, Islam, Muslim violence, Norway, Sweden Tagged With: Cologne Sexual Assaults, Muslim Rape Culture, National Park Service, Rape, Sexual Harassment, Sweden Rape Capital

[VIDEO] Rape culture — Pat Condell on 21st century Sweden

November 8, 2015 by Bookworm 1 Comment

Pat Condell doesn’t hide the truth about the strong correlation between Third World Muslim men and rape:

Filed Under: Sweden Tagged With: Islam, Pat Condell, Rape, Sweden

The Bookworm Beat 10-14-15 — the hot quick links edition, and open thread

October 14, 2015 by Bookworm 5 Comments

Woman-writing-300x265So much to share with you, and so many demands on my time. I’ll make it quick, tantalizing you with short links to wonderful things:

We know the other media outlets are hostile to Israel, but is it possible that Fox News is also turning on Israel? CAMERA has caught it doing exactly the same thing as CNN or the BBC — blaming Israel, the only pluralist, democratic, modern, humanitarian country in the region for the ferocious, malignant, blindly hate-filled upsurge in terrorism unleashed against ordinary Israelis. (As you know, a Saudi owns a significant share in Fox TV. Israel’s friends have long been concerned that this might affect Fox’s objectivity with regard to Israel. I’m not saying that this ownership explains Fox’s slip-ups, though. I just note the ownership in passing.)

Here’s the deal:  When Fox News and John Kerry are agreed about something, you know that (a) Fox is in error and (b) there’s the possibility that something is very, very, very wrong over at Fox.

For those who like stories about dystopian futures, Richard Fernandez has a humdinger, imagining the year 2030 in a world lost to Obama’s foreign policies.

Just this past weekend, a national conference for teachers and administrators convened in Baltimore to discuss what’s really wrong with America’s education system. If you thought they were focusing on fatherless families, union depredations on school districts and students, and meaningless, politically correct education, you thought wrong. It’s you — you, the white person over there, hiding in the corner — who is what’s wrong with education. Zombie explains what’s going on, but you’d have to be crazy or a Leftist really to understand the dynamic.

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Filed Under: Anti-Semitism, Australia, Christians, Conservative ideology, Israel, Media matters, Presidential elections, Second Amendment, Sweden, Ted Cruz Tagged With: Antisemitism, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, Fox News, Israel, Marco Rubio, Media Bias, Newt Gringrich, Obama Doctrine, Pope Francis, Ted Cruz

The Bookworm Beat 5-2-15 — the “I’ve got things to say, dammit!” edition and open thread

May 2, 2015 by Bookworm 6 Comments

Woman writingI spend so much of my life starting things, but never finishing them. Part of that is my core inefficiency and part of it is the fact that, although it goes sorely against my nature, my life is lived in the service of others. Even worse, those others aren’t interested in my having time to blog. Shame on them! They’ve been fed now, though, and should be pacified for a while. 😉

The registration form doesn’t require proof of life either

Everybody who’s surprised to learn that the Obama administration is trying to block any state efforts to require immigrants to prove citizenship when registering to vote, please raise your hands. Those with their hands raised, how have you managed to remain so naive after six Obama years?

A short rant about American blacks

Watching how the Democrats (led by whites, fueled by blacks) have destroyed cities across America, with special attention given to the destruction of America’s black communities, I have a rant:

“Fine, we, the white collective, screwed you. We screwed you 200 years ago, and 100 years ago, and 50 years, and last week. We seem incapable of not screwing you. So why do you keep looking to us for help? Look to yourselves. Fix your own communities because, according to you, whatever we touch, we turn to dross. The fact is, you can’t grow up until you cut the apron strings, especially because, by your own definition, your white American Mommy is toxic.”

Of course, once one says that, rather than the black community pulling itself up by its own bootstraps, all that happens is a renewed press for reparations.  But still, the reality in communities is exactly the same as it is when you sit in the therapist’s office and he intones (usually to your irritation), “Only you can help yourself.  You have to want to change.”

Good news: Arab young people are becoming surprisingly pro-Israel

During Operation Protective Edge last year, several pro-Israel Facebook groups started posting pictures of people’s hands (no faces). In one hand was a passport, with the cover showing the country of origin; on the other hand, the inked words “I support you Israel,” or something similar. An amazing number of those passports were from Muslim countries. The following article, therefore, wasn’t completely surprising, but it did make me smile:

It all began as a personal project by a young Israeli Arab who lives in northern Israel. He wanted to use social networking to convince other Israeli Arabs that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are not some “army of evil” and that its soldiers are not as bloodthirsty as they tend to be portrayed in Arab propaganda films. He soon learned, however, that in the digital age, there is no end to surprises. Instead of messages and responses from the Israeli Arab audience he was targeting, he began receiving messages of peace and love from young Arab men and women from across the Arab world.

Read the rest here. George Dubya may have been right about the yearning for freedom within the Muslim world — especially as they see ISIS’s depredations.

Socialism hasn’t served Scandinavia well

I’ve told you before about my polite remainders to a Scandinavian friend that his belief that his is a successful socialist country is a delusion. The money for socialism has come from American defense during the Cold War (“We’ll pay for your military so that you can socialize your medicine.”), while the Scandinavian collective (“Ja, ja! We agree about everything.”) means that they haven’t had to rely on the coercion that is the real socialist deal in governance. The end of the Cold War, combined with the influx of uncooperative Muslims into Scandinavian countries, is revealing what a big fake Scandinavian “socialism” always was.

It turns out that there’s a book expanding on what I’ve gathered just using a few news stories, some glowing PBS documentaries about Scandinavian wonders, a short visit to the Scandinavian countries, and some common sense: Michael Booth’s The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia. This is definitely a book I have to read.

A review at Reason gives you a taste of why I’ll like it — and a taste of how much worse the Scandinavian reality is than I ever realized:

The book, which has just been published in the U.S., is especially powerful in its dissection of the culturally corrosive effects of Scandinavia’s expansive state power, which seems to “smother its people’s motivation, ambition, and spirit.”

A full fifth of Danish adults don’t work and live exclusively on public benefits. Norwegian media is so deeply dull that one of its most popular television shows ever is—this is for real—a seven-hour real-time feed from a camera mounted on a train traversing mountains. Booth calls the prevailing Swedish political norms “benign totalitarianism.”

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In other cultures, you have “tall poppy syndrome,” where if a reality star makes a record or buys a Lamborghini, they’ll get pilloried in the media. The difference in Scandinavia is that tall poppy syndrome applies to everyone all the time. So if you show naked ambition or arrogance, you will get cut down to size. “Don’t think you are that special, don’t show off, don’t boast.” No one wears a suit and tie in parliament. It’s extraordinary.

If you want an incredibly equal, socially cohesive society, you definitely lose something by way of individuality, eccentricity, diversity. Often I’m asked, “Could the Nordic template be applied to Britain or America?” And the answer is no. You can’t just hope that people will suddenly become conformist and driven by equality. It doesn’t work that way.

Media brings about its worst fear — guns for self-defense

The media, in its efforts to have Americans join its anti-gun fervor, has been plugging stories for several years telling people about America’s gun violence epidemic. Rather than making Americans insist that we ban guns, however, the opposite happened: more and more Americans decided to arm themselves. I think we call this a Massive Media Fail.

Free speech for me (if I’m antisemitic), but not for thee (if you’re pro-Israel) at Connecticut College

Professor Andrew Pessin, at Connecticut College, was branded a racist for daring to support Israel — with all the attendant stalking and harassment that comes with that label:

Professor Pessin is the latest casualty of what might be described as a “killer bee swarm” on the local and global internet. It took only one student, Lamiya Khandaker, who defamed Pessin in a student newspaper, to launch a university-wide and global campaign against Pessin defending last summer’s military campaign against the terrorist group Hamas by the Israeli government.

Pessin has been fighting a campaign to brand him as racist for his support of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge in summer 2014, based on a remark posted to Facebook in which he compared Hamas to ““a rabid pit bull is chained in a cage, regularly making mass efforts to escape.”

Khandaker’s use of certain key words and concepts regarding Pessin—“I feel unsafe as a Muslim;” there is “subtle institutional racism;” Pessin is a “racist” because he allegedly compared Palestinians to “rabid pit bulls”—all functioned as zeitgeist signals to a previously conditioned mob and they lit out after him.

Pessin began receiving hate mail and death threats following her allegations, and wasforced to take a medical leave due to the level of stress this incident placed on him.

In point of fact, and contrary to what Khandaker alleged, Pessin was referring to the terrorist Hamas leadership when he made the “pit bull” comment, not to Palestinian people.

You can sign the petition here (which is still stuck at a little fewer than 10,000 signatures).

Sexism rears its ugly head in attacks on female hunters

David Reeder noticed something interesting — the animal rights/anti-gun crowd is sexist, very, very sexist (language warning):

You can think what you want about hunting, that’s your prerogative. But when you conflate hunting with poaching, when your disapproval translates into misogyny, vile torrents of profanity and threats of violence, that just proves what many people think already: you’re a pretentious asshole. It certainly doesn’t do much for your credibility or strength of your argument either, but why let a little rational discourse get in the way of your most recent excuse to be outraged?

Here’s an idea! As long as you (and by you I mean any of the many thousands of people wishing hunters ill) are engaging in such smarmy tomfuckery, why don’t you go ahead and be even more outraged when it’s a pretty girl perpetrating such wanton carnage. It’s bad enough when a Mossy Oak-clad quinquagenarian harvests an animal, but God forbid it’s a hawt white girl with bewbs posing next to that hapless, slaughtered beast. She should be reviled publicly — in fact, let’s revoke her right to vote and stick her back in front of the stove while we’re at it.

Bloodthirsty sluts.

I’m not a fan of trophy hunting. It makes no sense to me to kill something if you’re not going to eat it. Having said that, it’s legal in many places and useful in many others, culling animals that would otherwise upset the balance in the ecosystem. And God knows, if I were going to attack it, I wouldn’t do so on sexist grounds.

More tomorrow….

Filed Under: African-Americans, Denmark, Elections, Islam, Norway, Second Amendment, Sex, Sweden Tagged With: Andrew Pessin, Arab Youth Pro-Israel, Big Game Hunting, Free speech, Scandinavian Socialism, Second Amendment, Self Defense, Sexism, Voter fraud

Hey, Sweden! How’s that open immigration and PC-multiculturalism working out in your faux-socialist land?

February 18, 2015 by Bookworm 15 Comments

swedish-rape-victimI was cruel to a young Swede the other day when, without being at all rude, I told him unpleasant, unnerving truths about his country. First, I told him that his country never really had socialized medicine. Instead, it had “paid for by America” medicine. During the Cold War, Sweden was able to put aside a nation’s first obligation to its citizens, which is to defend it against foreign enemies, when America took on that role. With the money freed from defense, Sweden could have pretend socialized medicine.

The second thing I told him is that Sweden never had real socialism. (Yes, I’m sure this is a shocker to many of you, because Sweden is considered the ultimate socialist success story.) The reality, though, is that Sweden never truly had an all-powerful central government. That anomaly is due to something sui generis about the Scandinavian countries: In the years after WWII these countries were small, racially homogeneous, and comprised of citizens all of whose minds had the identical values. This meant that Sweden’s socialism was more of a societal collaboration. It never needed the strong arm necessary for socialization in countries lacking any one of those specific and unique factors.

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Filed Under: Multiculturalism, Muslim violence, Socialism, Sweden Tagged With: Multiculturalism, Muslim violence, Rape, Socialism, Socialized Medicine, Sweden

The New York Times ignores the reasons why Swedes might be turning against immigrants

January 4, 2015 by Bookworm 11 Comments

Aftermath of a Muslim riot near Stockholm

Aftermath of a Muslim riot near Stockholm

The New York Times ran an article the other day noting that there’s been a big change in Sweden, in that increasing numbers of ordinary Swedes are turning against the countries famously relaxed immigration policy.  I’ll let the Times explain:

Opposition to the rising numbers is growing. The far-right, anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats had their best showing ever — nearly 13 percent of votes — in elections in September.

The entry of the Sweden Democrats to parliament in 2010 had already opened the door for a previously unthinkable discussion about turning back the country’s policy of taking in foreigners on humanitarian grounds and granting them access to the country’s generous welfare system.

In an ordinary world, anybody reading the above paragraph would, of course, wonder why the famously welcoming Swedes are suddenly becoming hostile to immigration.  I’m sorry, but not surprised, to say that the New York Times is not writing for an ordinary world.  It’s writing for its Progressive readers who don’t want to hear bad things about immigrants, especially politically correct Muslim immigrants.

That’s presumably why virtually the entire article focuses on the immigrants’ suffering, with only some vague allusions to the problems their presence creates:

As Khalif Samantar knelt for afternoon prayers at the Eskilstuna Islamic Dawa Center on Christmas Day, he sensed a growing heat and a low, rushing sound coming from a nearby hallway. He focused his mind on the ritual, only to realize seconds later that someone was shouting, “The mosque is on fire!”

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“We left our country as refugees. We were not looking for food or benefits, we were looking for somewhere to feel safe,” said Abdirahman Farah Warsame, the imam at the mosque where the fire occurred on Christmas Day. He is originally from Somalia. “Now that is gone. We have a feeling that society is turning against us.”

After having made clear where its sympathies lie (with the poor, peaceful, dispossessed Muslim immigrants), the article points out how nasty Europe is becoming, whining about money problems and inchoate fears:

Indeed, the relentless stream of migrants to Europe — propelled by the war in Syria and turmoil across the Middle East and the Horn of Africa — has combined with economic troubles and rising fear of Islamic radicalism to fuel a backlash against immigrants, directed most viciously at Muslims.

After having read the above paragraph, I, unlike the average Times reader, started wondering “When will the Times start explaining the reasons behind — or, at least, the reasons people give for — “a backlash against immigrants, directed most viciously at Muslims.” Let me save you the problem of reading the article:  The Times doesn’t explain the reasons.

Instead, as you can confirm yourself, there are “debates,” “resentments” and “suspicions” about Muslim immigration, although the Times reader never discovers the contents of those debates, or the reasons behind resentments and suspicions. Instead, we learn that

  • Swedes gathered to show solidarity with Muslims;
  • Sweden was third only to Germany and France in the number of asylum seekers in 2012;
  • Sweden is getting a boatload of Syrians;
  • Swedes have always kept their immigrants out of the mainstream “but that the success of the Sweden Democrats has made racism more socially acceptable;”
  • Sweden’s parliament entered into there was some sort of “last-minute deal” that saved the government from the racist Swedish Democrat attack [more on that later];
  • the Islamic Association of Sweden (their CAIR) is unhappy about rising protests, including women having their hijabs snatched off; that
  • mosques are getting vandalized; and
  • Muslim immigrants are family oriented people who just want peace and are having a hard time sleeping.

Indeed, the only inkling one gets about what might be disturbing the Swedes’ tranquility is this single paragraph:

The party’s growth has occurred despite the fact that roughly a fifth of Sweden’s 9.6 million people were born abroad or to immigrant parents in Sweden. Most immigrants here have access to education, but government figures show a disproportionate unemployment rate for them, more than twice the national rate of about 8 percent. The disparity helped fuel riots in immigrant neighborhoods outside Stockholm in 2013.

Let me say right away that I’m not condoning mosque burnings or hijab snatching. I’m a big supporter of the rule of law, but here’s the little secret the Times tries so hard to hide:  The rule of law is precisely what 13% of Sweden’s citizens stood for when they used the ballot box to elect representatives who would slow (not halt, but slow) the seemingly endless influx of Islamic immigrants and the rate of handouts given to those immigrants.

Of course, the traditional powers that be in Europe — the hard right and hard left — can’t have a moderate middle that’s hostile to a third world takeover. Thus, when the Swedish Democrats flexed their muscles in parliament by refusing to approve a budget unless their concerns about slowing immigration and welfare were met, thereby forcing a snap election that would undoubtedly have worked to the Swedish Democrats’ favor, the hard left and hard right entered into a sleazy backroom deal to vote on budgets through 2018 so as to shut the Swedish Democrats (and the voters) out of government.  (I’ll explain in a few paragraphs why, even though I’m disgusted by this anti-democratic behavior, I can’t weep too many tears for the Swedish Democrat party.)

And now back to the original point, which is to wonder what the New York Times wasn’t saying when it wrote about Swedes’ growing animosity to Muslim immigrants.  The secret lies in the Times’ throwaway line about immigrant resentment leading to “riots” outside Stockholm. Muslims are rioting? Who would have guessed that!

So, here’s a little information about those Swedish immigrants that the New York Times didn’t think was part of “all the news that’s fit to print”:

1. Already back in the early years of this century, Fjordman was writing about the fact that the rape rate is skyrocketing in Sweden. When I mention this to Progressives, they immediately say that it’s because Sweden (pretty much like every American college campus) defines rape so broadly that just looking cross-eyed at a woman is rape. These same Progressives have nothing to say, though, when I point out that “In Sweden only around 3-4% of all rapes are committed by natives who make up 85% of the entire population. The rest are by immigrants – Muslim immigrants.” Even Progressives aren’t foolish enough to pretend that the same Muslims who brutally rape women all over the world suddenly, when they get to Sweden, stop their violent physical rapes and just start looking at women cross-eyed.

2. Even when they’re not rioting, Muslim neighborhoods have become so dangerous that they are now “no-go” zones for Swedens’ police and firefighters. There are now 55 Muslim enclaves in which criminals rule supreme. You only need to look at Malmo, which is about 25% Muslim and incredibly violent, to see the future of things to come.

3. Significant numbers of Swedens’ mosques aren’t the sunny ecumenical spots described in the New York Times article. They are, instead, hotbeds of radicalized Islam, of the type that doesn’t just provide moral support for ISIS, but that actually goes off and fights for it.

In other words, those Swedes casting their lot in with the Swedish Democrats aren’t just being petty people moved only by their pocket books — although it would be reasonable for them to start resenting the vast demands the immigrants make on the system. After all, the only reason socialism worked in Sweden in the first place was that it was such a small, politically and culturally homogeneous county that everyone cheerily contributed to the classic Marxist plan of “from each according to his ability; to each according to his needs.” The Muslims, however, don’t buy into that cooperative socialism, which is driving the system closer to collapse.

Nope, what’s bugging those cheerful, law-abiding Swedes is that they’ve nurtured a violent viper at their breasts, a viper that rapes their women, makes their shiny, clean cities dirty, destroys their communities, and emasculates law enforcement. No wonder 13% of them suddenly signed on to the Swedish Democrats.

Still, as I noted above, I’m not weeping too many tears for the Swedish Democrats, despite the fact that a dirty backroom deal locked them out of the political process.  Even as the Muslims, who make up about 5% of the population, commit depredations against the Swedes, the Swedish Democrats are turning against the Jews, who make up only .2% of the population and have no history of violence or disruption whatsoever. It’s things like this, incidentally, that make me completely understand my friend’s belief that the Europeans are Amalekites and deserve no pity as their continent swirls down the drain of history.

And just a couple of wrap ups:

  1. My 2013 impression of Stockholm, based upon the admittedly very small experience of having spent just a few hours there; and
  2. Two Pat Condell videos:

Filed Under: Immigration, Islam, Media matters, Muslim violence, Sweden Tagged With: Immigration in Sweden, Media Bias, Muslims, New York Times, Sweden, Swedish Welfare State

The Bookworm Beat 12/6/14 — Saturday sweep-up edition, and Open Thread

December 6, 2014 by Bookworm 9 Comments

Woman writingA cold has been making the rounds in my neighborhood and it finally caught up with me. I don’t feel particularly ill, but I feel congested and quite desperately sleepy. I had a great deal to do today, and mostly managed to re-read Agatha Christie’s Mrs. McGinty’s Dead, which wasn’t too taxing (and, thankfully, I’d forgotten whodunnit). I’ve now roused myself enough to clean the kitchen, do the laundry, and share with you a few browser tabs I still have open from yesterday:

The all-around best post about the Rolling Stone’s journalistic malpractice

I’ve shouted my opinion about Rolling Stone’s UVA rape story from the treetops (“It didn’t happen that way!”), and I’ve linked to several posts that agreed with me, only they did so more thoroughly, more elegantly and, most importantly, from more prominent platforms than mine.  These combined voices forced Rolling Stone to admit to gross journalistic malpractice.

Of all these bully-pulpit loud voices on the subject, my favorite is Jonah Goldberg. Writing before Rolling Stone walked back its story, Jonah Goldberg had this to say:

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Filed Under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Islamic State/ISIS, Israel, Media matters, Open Threads, Sweden Tagged With: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Chris Hughes, Christmas, Eric Garner, Hillary Clinton, Israel, Muslims, Rolling Stone, Sanctions, Sweden, Swedish Democrats, Target, The New Republic, University of Virginia, UVA Rape

[VIDEO] Pat Condell explains Sweden, which has reduced itself to being a full Dhimmi nation

November 3, 2014 by Bookworm 6 Comments

(Hat tip: JohnC)

Filed Under: Free speech, Immigration, Islam, Sweden

Swedish Muslims increasingly radicalized — despite Sweden’s pandering

October 31, 2014 by Bookworm 8 Comments

Aftermath of a Muslim riot near Stockholm

Aftermath of a Muslim riot near Stockholm

Despite’s the Swedish government’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state (“We Swedes love Islam!”), not to mention Sweden’s amazingly generous welfare benefits, Sweden’s Muslims are checking out of the country. That’s the good news. The bad news? They’re heading to Syria and Iraq to fight on behalf of the most radical Islamists:

Friday, September 26, I attended the customary Friday prayers in a mosque in Norrköping. It’s a pretty small mosque with room for a hundred people. It’s usually so crowded that it stands shoulder to shoulder with their Muslim brothers when performing their prayer.

This day was different. I looked around while I listened to the Khutba (Friday sermon). There were 50 people in the prayer room, most older men. I turned to my Afghan friend next to me and whispered, “It’s almost just you and me who are younger here. It seems that the younger has stopped going to the mosque, it feels so empty. “My friend looked at me and said: “But do you not?” “You know what” I wondered. “Most have gone to Syria and Iraq for jihad. They have joined the IS. ”

The word IS sent shivers down the spine. I could not concentrate or focus at Friday prayers. The thought that I stood there, in the mosque, Friday after Friday, side by side with men who may now play football with people’s heads, made ​​me nauseous. After this day, I no longer take part in Friday prayers, I pray at home instead.

It’s almost four years since I came to Sweden to seek asylum and thus protection. What I have learned in the mosque made ​​me seriously concerned about my own safety and the Swedes. I managed to escape from drug barons and brutally murdering the Taliban, but from what I heard this Friday in the mosque only half full, I do not know anymore how safe I can feel in this country.

What happens when these warriors coming back here? Men who participated in the most cruel and brutal assaults on other people, the civilians in Iraq and Syria. Should they carry out holy war, jihad, also in Sweden? I see it as an entirely feasible reality. How to prepare Sweden before that?

I was even more worried when I spoke a few days later with a man I met at the gym in Norrköping. He told me that jihadists, members of the ICE, now coming to Sweden as asylum seekers. I wondered what they would have to gain from it. He replied: “When the time comes, they will rise up and call to jihad here, too. Zulmay, you must understand that the IS is not a joke, they are real. They send so-called ‘sleeping cells’ into the country and is based on the way up their readiness. ”

I was unfortunately not very surprised by what I heard, although it was also shocking. Due to the poor management of asylum, where one does not do enough thorough investigations and inspections of the individuals who come here and apply for asylum, the extremists to enter the country.

It is, to my knowledge, not a single issue of the Swedish border police to persons with residence or citizenship in Sweden when departing from, or arriving at, Swedish airports. No single one of my asylum immigrant friends and acquaintances has ever said that they had to answer some questions at the departure or entry. This is true, as I understand, not only in Sweden but throughout Europe. I myself was smuggled and can say from personal experience that it is far too easy for traffickers and other criminals to evade airport security in Europe.

Reform aspirational! Make detailed and serious background checks on those seeking the privilege and right that it is to be granted asylum or protection. And ask questions on the boundaries of those who pass in and out of the country. The answers can be very important for all of us, for me as a refugee in the country and for my new compatriots, the Swedes.

(Funnily enough, although the article above ends with a note that it’s translated from the English, I could only find the Swedish version, so the above English-language text comes courtesy of Google translate. I apologize for any mistakes Google translate made, although it looks pretty nice to me.)

These are people who are attracted to the strong horse — and right now, that horse is the flood of radical Islam throughout the Middle East. I’d like to think that these Swedish Muslims, and others from around the world who are flocking to battle, are making it easier for us to pick the Islamists off (e.g., more fish crowding the barrel that’s about to be shot up) but, looking at Obama’s passivity, I think they’re right — they’re heading for the strong horse and making it stronger.

Moreover, to the extent Sweden thinks it can inoculate itself against the crocodile by recognizing a Palestinian state . . . well, all I can say is that Churchill will inevitably be proven right: “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”

Incidentally, in the same news cycle, Swedish police have announced that there are 55 “no go” zones the country, because they have become too dangerous for any emergency services, whether policemen, firemen, or ambulance crews. The news reports make no mention of Islam, but I’m quite busy reading between the lines.

Filed Under: Islam, Islamic State/ISIS, Muslim violence, Sweden Tagged With: ISIS, Radical Islam, Sweden

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