Internal Contradictions of the Multicultural Utopia

Steyn Online ^ | November 4, 2019 | Mark Steyn

[rightwingintelligentsia]

A few thoughts on the passing scene to start the week:

~Nine years ago I was interviewed on Danish TV by one of the country's most eminent media bigshots, Kurt Strand. I well remember the look of astonishment on his face when I gave my assessment of Malmö, the first Christian city in what was then Denmark and now on course to be the first Muslim city in Sweden. I in turn was astonished that he appeared to be entirely unaware of what was happening just a half-hour train ride across the Øresund Sound from where we were sitting:

Just shy of a decade on, thanks to the invaluable Gatestone Institute, I learn the following:

"Since 2015, 32 people have been shot dead in 30 separate acts in Malmö's latest murder wave. Our survey of the murders shows that more than 120 young men are linked to them in different ways", according to a recent series of reports about gang violence in the Swedish mainstream newspaper, Sydsvenskan.

That might not sound a lot to some of our readers, but Sweden was until recently a very peaceful society: In 2006 there were eight gun murders in the entire country; by 2017 that total was up to 43. And, as the Malmö statistics suggest, those murders are concentrated in certain, ahem, southern cities with certain, ah, distinctive demographic features. For example, a third of all murdered women in Sweden are the victims of "honor" killings. The majority of convicted rapists are of foreign birth - and, in the case of rape where the victim does not know her attacker, the proportion rises to over eighty per cent.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Remember someone one said there are certain things you aren’t allowed to say?

I think this is a good example. In our politically correct world, we aren’t allowed to talk of Muslim terrorism or Muslim crime , problems with Muslims migration to other countries.

[The Toll]

I wonder who it was that delivered all of these lovely new citizens to the former Europe.

[samtheman]

What liberals don’t want to admit or understand.

It’s so depressing.

[ClearCase_guy]

The Left is at war with Truth.
The Left opposes Reality.

If you do that, you do not get a Utopia.
You get a very, very bad Reality. And that’s the Truth.

[Billthedrill]

"The most crime-prone population sub-group is native-born to two foreign-born parents."

That last will be used to argue that the problem is not "immigrants" but "native-born Swedes", and that therefore the fault lies, as usual, with the host country.

That it was, but there's a sting in it - if they're born there, they're Swedes and aren't going anywhere. This is the upshot of a deliberate and very successful attempt to force a demographic change that can't be undone. Anyone who thought this was a high-minded social experiment was impossibly naive and anyone who still thinks so is impossibly stupid.

[bert]

London has a Paki mayor and is going to hell