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Malmø update. From the Swedish Sydsvenskan, with thanks to Ali Dashti, who summarizes the article thusly: The ruling Swedish Socialist party is planning a proposal in which the city of Malmø will start preschool classes where all the education given is in Arabic. The idea is that once immigrant children learn the language of their parents, it will become easier for them to learn Swedish later. The idea has already met strong criticism from the Conservative party Moderaterna, who claim that such a move would increase segregation, not diminish it. Indeed it would, as we have learned with bilingual education...

The welfare - perhaps even the lives - of five Swedish children is being sacrificed on the altar of political expediency. Swedish mother Elizabeth Krantz's five children were kidnapped from Sweden back in June 2004 by her estranged Palestinian husband Ismail Nowajah. The children - Adam, Amina, Zakarias, Miriam and Sara - range in age from six to sixteen. They were taken to the Gaza Strip against their will and in contravention of Swedish law, and have since been incarcerated in separate locations. Their mother, from a small town outside Gothenburg on Sweden's west coast, has official custody of the...