Well, Pamela, Sweden really is f*cked up. In fact, Sweden is burning (1).

These problems that Sweden and the rest of Europe have with their Muslim immigrant populations have carried over in America, inspiring fear here. In the past few decades America has absorbed tens of millions of immigrants without having the country go into a shit snit, until now. But our Mexican immigrants do not pose the same problems as Muslim immigrants:

Brussels Journal, Immigration: Will America Escape the European Experience?

The truth is that as we let in increasing numbers from communities that do not share the same cultural premises as the American mainstream, the chance for conflict increases proportionately. We need only look to Europe to see the grim results of an alien cultural bloc transplanted into the heart of a society at odds with the values and mores of the immigrants’ homelands. Islam and the tribal ethic together, placed into the post-Christian context of a socialist Europe, have given us insurrections in France and Belgium, the ritual slaughter of public figures in the Netherlands, rush-hour massacres in London and Madrid, 9/11 killers from Germany, and dire threats to Danes everywhere. The list goes on.

Now, Europe is not an exact parallel to the American experience: Muslim immigrants there, especially in Germany, have long been something of a helot class, unable to aspire to mere citizenship. If America has escaped the worst of the European experience, it is partly a factor of numbers, and partly a factor of the drive to Americanization.

But what about all the reports in America about the high crime rate of illegal immigrants and the high number of illegals in gangs?

Falsehoods and lies. Here are the facts straight from the FBI:

During the past ten years of the greatest number of illegal immigrants (11 million), is also the same period of time that violent crimes in all categories has seen marked declines. Serious violent crimes included are homicide, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. The graph shows all violent crimes committed against against two groups: blacks and whites. See US Dept of Justice

As for gang membership, there are about 1 million gang members nationwide (2) of which at most 60% are illegals. see USA TODAY. This turns out to be less than 1 in 20 are gang members. If we change our immigration policy to allow more immigrants in legally this number would go down since one of the reasons for joining a gang is the lack of opportunities offered illegal residents.

So although the Muslim uprising throughout Europe has spooked Americans into an agitated, xenophobic state, our politicians, with a lot more economic data at their disposal, see that it would be national suicide to try to arrest all employers who use illegal immigrants or to try to deport 11 million people.

Neither are practical. Studies show that they are coming anyway. We can either do it the easy way or the hard way. As I showed in my previous post Let all 100 million Mexicans come to America:

Building walls or using law enforcement or repressive measures, or stronger unilateral steps won't work to adequately regulate the flow of migratory labor between both countries. From Center for Immigration Studies

Of course, we should not permit criminals, diseased, insane, or Muslims in, under any circumstances. The first three because of obvious reasons and the latter because they cannot accept American culture. For all the Aztec rhetoric, in the end, when Mexicans have been in America for a few years, they celebrate our holidays, accept the American way of life, and become Americans. Muslims cannot and will not.

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Related readings:

Sweden: Muslim schools seek Saudi funding

While Saudis persecute Christians at home and then lie about it, Muslims in Sweden are seeking their oil billions to help fund their schools. And with their money, of course, comes their curriculum. "Muslim schools seek funding from Saudi 'fundamentalists,'" from Sweden's The Local, with thanks to all who sent this in:
The Swedish Radio programme 'Kaliber' reported on Sunday that "almost all" Islamic schools and congregations in Sweden have contacted potential sponsors in Saudi Arabia.
Many of these Saudi foundations ask for influence in return. However, an expert thinks the chances are slight that violent organisations will gain a foothold in Sweden's muslim communities. (Jihad Watch)

Yeah, right.

democracy frontline, 28 Apr 2006, Sweden’s Muslims want separate laws

Sweden’s largest Muslim organisation, representing 70.000 of Swedens 470.000 muslims (of a population of 9.000.000) wants separate laws.

Among these for example divorces approved by imams, education for Muslim children in Arab language, Islam and Islamic culture taught in public schools, permission for imams to work as teachers, separate swimming in schools for girls and boys. Work-free hours on Fridays.

Separate days for men and women in public swimming-pools and gymnastics places.

The muslims say:

"The biggest problem in integration is that second-generation children and youth does not feel well in everyday life. This is caused by negative Swedish cultural influence, which has affected the youth.”

By negative Swedish cultural influence, do Muslims mean notions of liberty, freedom, and respect for human life?

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ENDNOTES

(1):

Brussels Journal, People Worry About Islam, Its Leaders About Islamophobia

Sweden has a 25% real unemployment rate. What happens if or when the Swedish welfare state collapses? Isn’t it likely that this will trigger a flood of “welfare tourists” to neighboring countries such as Norway? This question hasn’t even been asked, much less debated, by a single political leader in this country. The number of rape charges in Sweden has quadrupled in a generation, parallel with Muslim immigration. Resident aliens from Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia dominate the group of rape suspects. Lawyer Ann Christine Hjelm found that 85 per cent of the convicted rapists in one court were born on foreign soil or of foreign parents. In a new Sociological survey, the wave of robberies the city of Malmö has witnessed during this past year is part of a “war against Swedes.” This is the explanation given by young robbers with immigrant background. “When we are in the city and robbing, we are waging a war, waging a war against the Swedes.” This argument was repeated several times. “Power for me means that Swedes shall look at me, lie down on the ground and kiss my feet.” The boys explain, laughingly, that “there is a thrilling sensation in your body when you’re robbing, you feel satisfied and happy, it feels as if you’ve succeeded, it simply feels good.” “It’s so easy to rob Swedes, so easy.” “We rob every single day, as much as we want to, whenever we want to.”

A high school teacher in Malmö discovered that about a dozen Arab students were laughing and shouting “Allahu Akbar!” while watching a DVD of infidel hostages being beheaded in Iraq. The headmaster didn’t think the incident was such a big deal. At least 139 schools in Sweden suffered arson attacks during 2002 alone. Björn Vinberg from the fire department in Kroksbäck in the Malmö area says it’s humiliating and degrading to put out fires again and again in the same immigrant areas, with school kids laughing at them and lighting a new one straightaway. His colleagues have been to the same place no less than twenty times, all totally unnecessarily. One of the schools in Malmö recently closed down an entire section because of rampant violence, something unheard of in Sweden only a generation ago.

(2):

USA Today, U.S. gang membership may be higher than reported

The surprising lack of cooperation by police agencies means the Justice Department's estimate of more than 700,000 gang members nationwide could be too low by at least 200,000, said Patrick Word, vice chairman of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Gang Investigators Network, a group that helps collect data for the Justice Department.

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