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'Integration a fiasco': Gothenburg official
www.thelocal.se ^ | 12/10/2010 | TT/The Local/vt

Posted on 12/10/2010 2:31:30 AM PST by WesternCulture

Gothenburg municipal officials described Sweden's integration policy as a "fiasco" to the US embassy, according to a document published by WikiLeaks.

Justice minister caught in WikiLeaks 'net wars' (9 Dec 10) Two Swedes jailed for plotting Somalia attacks (8 Dec 10) Reinfeldt keen on housework: US embassy (7 Dec 10) Prior to a 2008 visit to Gothenburg by officials from the US embassy in Stockholm, Bill Werngren, head of the city secretariat's information group and now Gothenburg's election director and the husband of municipal executive board chairwoman Anneli Hulten, made contact with the embassy, according to newspaper Göteborgs-Tidningen (GT) on Friday.

He sent the embassy a series of articles from newspaper Göteborgs-Posten (GP) published in 2007 about the integration challenges in and isolation experienced by the city's Somali community.

He wrote in a memo that the situation in Gothenburg reminded him of the phrase, "Houston, we have a problem."

He also described the articles as "interesting and quite horrible reading" and welcomed the visit as a vehicle for engaging community leaders in dialogue.

Moderate Party member Abdirisak Waberi, who was elected to the Riksdag in September 2010, was invited to meetings with US embassy staff in his role as the principal of the Römosse school, a publicly funded, privately managed free school in the Gothenburg neighbourhood of Gårdsten.

According to the cable, Waberi was pessimistic about the situation for fellow Somali-Swedes.

“Those who have immigrated to Sweden ‘will never feel like Swedes’ which created a sense of alienation,” reads the report of the meeting.

The US Embassy later sent a report to Washington about its conclusions regarding its visit to Gothenburg.

"The discontent immigrant community leaders expressed at the discrimination faced by Muslim job seekers was matched by the frustration of city officials who, in the words of one official, feel that 30 years of programmes aimed at integrating Muslim immigrants 'have not worked,'" the leaked cable stated.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: europe; gothenburg; multiculturalism; sweden; wikileaks
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1 posted on 12/10/2010 2:31:36 AM PST by WesternCulture
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To: WesternCulture
Gothenburg, second largest city in Sweden and home of Volvo is a great place to live.

I've done so for most of my 41 years in life.

There are no world famed monuments in Gothenburg and I wouldn't exactly call it a very beautiful place, but there are plenty of well paid jobs and honest, hard working people in this dynamic little city.

But like in so many other parts of the West, the PC experiment of multiculturalism has failed over here too - some Muslims behave and are productive citizens who abide the law, but they are the Muslims who are Muslim in name only, people who don't wish to have anything to do with the sickening ideology of Mohammad. They eat pork and drink alcohol just like we do. The rest of them don't wish to perform labor, educate themselves and especially they don't wish to integrate with Swedish “infidel” culture.

Why?

What has my nation done to them?

We have rescued them from the Hell that places like Somalia are and they don't wish to make an effort to function in our society.

I'm tired of Islam.

They too should be..

2 posted on 12/10/2010 2:34:24 AM PST by WesternCulture
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To: WesternCulture

When the inevitable ****-storm arrives in Europe, the elite ruling class which has created the situation will not be there to participate, they’ll be on resort islands. European people should be arming themselves by whatever means. Closest source and best prices for the kinds of things you need is Russia.


3 posted on 12/10/2010 2:43:57 AM PST by wendy1946
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To: Charles Henrickson

Swedish Ping.


4 posted on 12/10/2010 2:58:57 AM PST by UncleHambone ("Laughter is America's most important export." - Walt Disney)
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To: WesternCulture
There are no world famed monuments in Gothenburg

Liseberg Park is renowned as the Jewel of the Baltic! ...even if it's not exactly on the Baltic.

5 posted on 12/10/2010 3:08:17 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Socialists are to economics what circle squarers are to math; undaunted by reason or derision.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

“Liseberg Park is renowned as the Jewel of the Baltic!”

- :):):)


6 posted on 12/10/2010 4:15:01 AM PST by WesternCulture
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To: wendy1946

“Closest source and best prices for the kinds of things you need is Russia.”

- We don’t need anything from Russia.

Personally, I don’t hate Russians, hate their leaders though.

I bet even a very tiny country like, say Finland, could conquer them in war.

Wait, that already happened..

Whenever you encounter Communism, act like tiny Finland did

seven decades ago.

“A people of honor, dedicated to the principles of democracy”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwQmwbQttkY


7 posted on 12/10/2010 4:30:50 AM PST by WesternCulture
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To: WesternCulture

Third world immigration + Multiculturalism + Feminism/Abortion = Total social and economic collapse.


8 posted on 12/10/2010 4:39:42 AM PST by WilliamHouston
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To: WesternCulture

Integrating civilized people will work. Integrating savages will fail.


9 posted on 12/10/2010 4:57:38 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Liberalism is against human nature. Practicing liberalism is detrimental to your mental stability.)
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To: WilliamHouston

“Third world immigration + Multiculturalism + Feminism/Abortion = Total social and economic collapse”

- Yes and no.

Western Civilization today is at risk. We are challenged from everywhere - especially from within.

BUT, it has always been like this.

As long as there are men and women like the good people that visit this forum from time to time, true freedom stands a chance.

The World is a pretty dark place, yes, but whenever you resist this darkness and barbarism and do what your heart instructs you to, you suddenly become invulnerable and heroic like a Viking swinging around a newly sharpened sword or a bold American patriot serving under George Washington.

There is evil.

But it could be defeated.


10 posted on 12/10/2010 5:44:18 AM PST by WesternCulture
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To: WesternCulture

More and more....those who want to execute Julian Assange...are beginning to look like a bunch of bedwetting Liberal Globalists.

Many of us already know that Islamics will not intergrate into Western communities. When a leader of a major city in one of the most liberal nations on the planet realize this....its news.

Seems all these WikiLeaks are making Liberals, Commies, Free Traders, Globalists...and the combination of the aforementioned...making them quite nervous


11 posted on 12/10/2010 6:48:23 AM PST by UCFRoadWarrior (National Security begins at the Border)
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To: WesternCulture

If there is a sewer drain on this planet, it surely must be Somalia. We should have made that country a sea of glass after the “Black Hawk Down” incident. That country and it’s people offer no redeeming qualities whatsoever.


12 posted on 12/10/2010 6:52:29 AM PST by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

- We shouldn’t execute Assange, but it ought to be realized he has committed an attack against the security of several nations.

I say let him face a court and explain to all of us what his intentions actually are.


13 posted on 12/10/2010 7:05:52 AM PST by WesternCulture
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To: WesternCulture
“Closest source and best prices for the kinds of things you need is Russia.”

- We don’t need anything from Russia.

Actually, you do. I mean, the Swedish government might manufacture rifles and what not, but they aren't going to sell them to YOU and there is the further consideration that if Swedish rifles work as well as Swedish cars, the shooter would probably be in as much danger as the shootee. Russian weapons work.

14 posted on 12/10/2010 7:07:38 AM PST by wendy1946
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To: Republic of Texas
“That country and it’s people offer no redeeming qualities whatsoever”.

- I feel the same way you do.

But one thing we can not do is turning our backs on the concept of human dignity.

We Westerners should aid Somalia, but not through allowing her people to isolate themselves from humanity in the concrete urban slums of cities like Oslo, Malmö and Stockholm.

They should return to their home soil and forget everything they ever knew about a guy called Mohammad.

15 posted on 12/10/2010 7:17:14 AM PST by WesternCulture
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To: wendy1946

“Russian weapons work.”

- They sure do.

I like lots of things about Russia and I hope Sweden and Russia one day will become brothers.

But what happened back when Stalin was in charge is hard to forget (even though I wasn’t born then).

If Russia wishes to cooperate with Western Europe it can, but I sincerely wonder if Russia ever will trust Europe again and vice versa.

Perhaps that day will come. In the meantime, let’s fight Iran.


16 posted on 12/10/2010 7:25:15 AM PST by WesternCulture
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To: 1234; A knight without armor; AIM-54; Allan; american colleen; AndyPH; anguish; AzSteven; ...
Ping to the Swedish Ping List.
17 posted on 12/10/2010 7:35:14 AM PST by Charles Henrickson (Swedish Ping List master)
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To: WesternCulture

They’ve proven that they will never do that. Their only dream is to drag the civilized world into the sewer. We cannot allow that to happen, by any means necessary.


18 posted on 12/10/2010 7:49:44 AM PST by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: WesternCulture
There was an opportunity to make an ally out of Russia sitting there in 1990 and SlicKKK KKKlintler and the NWO types utterly blew it.

Other than that the thing I was trying to mention is that when you ordinary Swedes get around to cleaning up Malmo and the one or two other problems after the elites have all left for Bimini or where-ever, you'll need to have the tools to do that already stashed and the first place I'd suggest you go looking for that sort of thing is this. The good news is that they'd just as soon sell that stuff to you as to anybody else.

19 posted on 12/10/2010 7:59:47 AM PST by wendy1946
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To: wendy1946
“There was an opportunity to make an ally out of Russia sitting there in 1990 and SlicKKK KKKlintler and the NWO types utterly blew it.”

- There's a point to what you're saying but I honestly think you're sounding overly optimistic.

“Other than that the thing I was trying to mention is that when you ordinary Swedes get around to cleaning up Malmo and the one or two other problems”.

- I for one agree there is a problem down in Malmö, but please understand that Fox News, in their famous “documentary” about Malmö, managed to confuse Malmö per se with a certain Muslim Malmö neighborhood by the name of Rosengård, a part of Malmö considered to be the worst Muslim slum of all Scandinavia.

There no longer is hope for Detroit, but for places like Malmö I'd say there is.

Malmö will not continue to develop in the direction it presently is.

It's not in our Nordic veins sitting around waiting for someone else to take care of our own problems.

If you're attacked by the Pope, Stalin or some other fool, do what Gustavus Adolphus and Mannerheim did!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILRHUI4f_2Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKgQbXBs-_c&feature=related

Concerning the situation in Malmö, judge for yourself (just choose “Malmö”):

http://www.hitta.se/LargeMap.aspx?start

20 posted on 12/10/2010 8:59:56 AM PST by WesternCulture
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