19. Breivik’s Norway

The Carlyle Club tries to fathom the motives of an ethno-nationalist terrorist and political mass-murderer — and when we’re done talking about Nelson Mandela, we’ll discuss Anders Breivik.

Table of Contents

  1. On Political Murder
  2. Norway: Includes
    1. The Breivik Manifesto
    2. Grorud Valley Blues
      1. “Difficult to Be Ethnic Norwegian Here”
      2. “Everything You Have Learned in School Is Wrong”
      3. “Enriching Linguistic Diversity”
  3. Sweden: Includes
    1. The Riot Act
    2. Community Service
  4. France: Some fascinating footage.
  5. Recommended Reading
  6. Letters to the Editor

On Political Murder

On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik, an ethnic Norwegian, bombed a government building in Oslo, killing eight and injuring over two hundred, before travelling to the island of Utøya, where he shot and killed a further sixty-nine and injured over a hundred more, mostly teenagers, at a summer camp of the youth wing of the socialist Labour Party.

In a lengthy manifesto, Breivik denounced the colonization of Europe (Issue 5) and accused the Labour Party of “promoting multiculturalism and endangering Norway’s identity” (Issue 2).

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Breivik surrendered to police on Utøya

“At the time,” Jonathan Freedland writes (The Guardian, 2013),

there was no shortage of voices on the right rushing to denounce what Breivik had done, before suggesting he was voicing a widely felt sentiment, adding that perhaps a frank conversation about the excesses of diversity and the alienating effects of globalisation and migration was overdue. As I wrote at the time: “To listen to it, you’d think Breivik had simply wanted to start a debate, that he’d perhaps written a provocative pamphlet for Demos, rather than committed an act of murderous cruelty.”

Some shook their heads ruefully, sadly noting that they had long warned such violence would be the result of the headlong rush to a multicultural, rainbow-hued future.

Liberal and left opinion knew what it thought of such talk. It was wrong to accord Breivik’s warped beliefs such a respectful hearing. Airing his ideas this way was to reward his massacre, surely providing an incentive for others to repeat the slaughter. His actions should be treated as murder, plain and simple. To respond by debating his grievances was to cede him, and violence itself, too much power.

Freedland concurs: “Breivik’s views on Islam did not deserve a hearing by the right.”

Yes, any occasion is a good occasion not to have that “frank conversation about the excesses of diversity and the alienating effects of globalisation and migration.” Bombings, beheadings, elections, epidemics, the vernal equinox, the Witches’ Sabbath, after a large meal, while operating heavy machinery, before going swimming — all of these are appropriate times not to question the merits of the Western world’s “headlong rush to a multicultural, rainbow-hued” (but mostly brown) “future.”

Don’t worry: if there is ever an appropriate time to have that conversation, the left will let us know. Until then, keep your racist mouth shut, you racist fascist.

Yet when the killer’s cause is the matter of western intervention in Muslim countries, it seems some left voices find their previous fastidiousness has deserted them.

No kidding. It’s almost as if progressives don’t really believe that “debating grievances” will “cede violence itself too much power,” or even that political violence is always wrong, in much the same way that they don’t really believe in “free speech” (what if it’s hate speech?) or “equality” (what if we can get more than our fair share?) or “anti-racism” (what if we accidentally help white people?) or “science” (what if it’s racist science that doesn’t support our ideology?).

A truly cynical observer might even suggest that, to the progressives (perhaps unlike their traditionalist foes), those high-minded concepts were always, from the start, nothing more than words — words to be used as weapons against their political opponents when, and only when, other weapons (Breivik’s bombs and bullets, for example) were deemed less effective than the pen.

I champion civil liberty as the best of the non-violent means of building the power on which workers’ rule must be based. If I aid the reactionaries to get free speech now and then, […] it is only because those liberties help to create a more hospitable atmosphere for working class liberties. […]

When that power of the working class is once achieved, as it has been only in the Soviet Union, I am for maintaining it by any means whatever. Dictatorship is the obvious means in a world of enemies, at home and abroad.

Roger Nash Baldwin, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) founder, 1934

So what has this to do with Breivik and his inexcusable, counterproductive actions?

Today, as Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela — a “flawed saint,” according to some, but a saint nonetheless, revered by hundreds of millions around the globe — lies dying in a South African hospital at the age of 94, it is essential to revisit what Mencius Moldbug wrote in the wake of Breivik’s terrorist attack (‘Right-wing terrorism as folk activism,’ links in original).

I won’t waste time condemning Anders Behring Breivik for being a political murderer. Our society, right or left, has no standing whatsoever for condemning political murder. Che murdered over twice as many of his political enemies. He’s a hero to millions.

No one who condones Che, Stalin, Mao, or any other leftist murderer, has any right to ask anyone else to dissociate himself from a rightist who didn’t even make triple digits. ABB is a terrorist. Nelson Mandela is a terrorist. Nelson Mandela is the most revered living political figure on our beautiful blue planet. Besides just killing people with bombs, here’s the sort of thing “armed struggle” meant to St. Mandela:

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“Necklacing”

Moldbug continues (link in original):

On the record, I note, St. Mandela “opposed” the ANC necklacing of “traitors.” No — possessed of infinite reserves of human compassion, this living symbol of man’s global unity favored a far milder punishment. He just wanted to cut off their noses. Do you need a picture of that, too?

(I note that, as of 2008, Mandela is off the US terror watch list (BBC) and can visit any time he likes, without even getting the secretary of state to write him a permission slip. Condoleezza Rice called the whole matter “rather embarrassing.” I quite agree.)

Ultimately, Moldbug writes, we can say this:

Anders Behring Breivik made war on communist Norway, just as Max Manus made war on fascist Norway, just as Osama bin Laden made war on imperial America, just as Nelson Mandela made war on apartheid South Africa. Terrorism is the normal mode of warfare in our delightful post-WWII utopia. That is, it is the most common way to use force to achieve political objectives. Condemning terrorism, as such, is in every case retarded. You are simply condemning the 20th century. Fine, but where does this leave you?

Where indeed. Of course, you should read the whole thing (and Moldbug’s follow-up, ‘The indisputable humanity of Anders Behring Breivik’).

In the meantime, the ever-practical Carlyle Club will assemble, for your viewing pleasure, a handful of choice anecdotes from the New Europe, and the New Norway in particular — a New Norway of diversity and globalization and mass migration (always in and never out, for some strange reason); a New Norway barreling headfirst and blindfolded into a multicultural, rainbow-hued future.

Welcome to Breivik’s Norway.

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It’s not hypocrisy. It’s just the left.

Norway

I can’t think of a better place to start than Breivik’s own manifesto; specifically, the interesting parts (“which are naturally the parts everyone is ignoring” — Moldbug), in which Breivik interviews himself about his own life story. (A rhetorical device, not a sign of mental illness.)

“How would you describe yourself as a person?” He asks.

I consider myself to be a laid back type and quite tolerant on most issues.

Due to the fact that I have been exposed to decades of multicultural indoctrination I feel a need to emphasise that I am not in fact a racist and never have been.

My Godmother […], Amelia Jimenez and her husband, came to Norway as political refugees from Chile. […] Our two families have been very close throughout my childhood and youth. I’ve had several non-Norwegian and Muslim friends. I spent a lot of time with Onor, a Turk, Jonathan an Eritrean, Raol and Natalie from Chile, Arsalan Ahmad Sohail, Faizal and Wazim from Pakistan. I’ve had dozens of non-Norwegian friends during my younger years, Bashir from Somalia, Pablo from Chile, Odd Erling — adopted from Columbia, Lene — adopted from India have been good friends and a couple of them still are today.

“Why did you have so many non-ethnic Norwegian friends?”

I remember that pride and certain moral codices/principles have always been very important to me. As a result, individuals with these traits appealed to me. If I ever got in to trouble I expected my friends to back me up 100 percent without submitting or running away, as I would for them. Very few ethnic Norwegians shared these principles. They would either “sissy out,” allow themselves to be subdued or run away when facing a threat. […]

The majority of people who shared these principles of pride were the Muslim youths and the occasional skinhead. However, even back then, the Muslims outnumbered the skinheads twenty to one. Being a skinhead was never an option for me. Their dress codes and taste of music was unappealing and I thought they were too extreme. I hated rock then and I still do.

“Violent Muslim gangs in European cities are not exactly a new phenomenon. We hear about indigenous European youths getting harassed, beaten, raped and robbed quite often. Tell us about your experiences during your ‘vulnerable years’ (14–18) growing up in the urban multicultural streets of Oslo.” (Breivik was born in 1979, so his “vulnerable years” would have been circa 1993–1997.)

Since I was 12 years old I was into the hip-hop movement. For several years I was one of the most notable “hip-hop’ers” from Oslo’s West side. It was a lot easier to “gain respect and credibility” in Oslo West because of the demographic factors. Oslo West was the “privileged and predominantly native side” of Oslo with very few immigrants in contrast to the East side which was less peaceful. Graffiti and break dance was an important part of our life at that point. […] The fact that hundreds of kids our own age all over Oslo West and even Oslo East looked up to us was one of the driving forces I guess. At that time it felt very rewarding to us. If you wanted girls and respect then it was all about the hip hop community at that time. […]

Everyone didn’t approve though. The government had a no-tolerance attitude towards graffiti and removed 90% of our “creations” within 48 hours. I remember it was an unofficial war between the hip-hop community and the government and Oslo Sporveier, our public subway company. […] The hip-hop movement In Norway had its climax around that time, in 92–93. The community was very “politically correct” in nature with close ties to the extreme left groups like SOS Racism (an extreme left wing movement) and Blitz (a violent left wing extremist movement). […]

I remember my friends at that time; Jon Trygve, Richard and Arsalan, we did everything together. In fact, it was my Muslim friend who sparked my interest for Christianity, Islam and politics in general. We had countless discussions relating to culture, geo-politics etc. At the time, I couldn’t understand why he loathed Norway and my culture so much. He simply despised it and I was unable to truly comprehend why at the time. The school curriculum was a joke, as all we learned about Islam was that it was the religion of peace, often spread by merchants. However, this was one of the primary reasons why I started to appreciate my own religion and culture to a larger degree and why I wanted to seek alternative sources which could explain more. I remember during the first Gulf war, he used to cheer loudly whenever a scud missile was launched against the Americans. I was completely ignorant at the time and apolitical but his total lack of respect for my culture (and Western culture in general) actually sparked my interest and passion for it. Thanks to him I gradually developed a passion for my own cultural identity. This was apparently very annoying for him, as I was unwilling to convert to Islam. Instead, I suggested he convert to Christianity and embrace our norms and culture.

We used to hang out with GSV crew, or B-Gjengen as they are popularly called today, a Muslim Pakistani gang, quite violent even back then. “Gang alliances” was a part of our everyday life at that point and assured that you avoided threats and harassment. Alliances with the right people guaranteed safe passage everywhere without the risk of being subdued and robbed (Jizya), beaten or harassed. […] Even at that time, the Muslim gangs were very dominant in Oslo East and in inner city Oslo. They even arranged “raids” in Oslo West occasionally, subduing the native youths (kuffars) and collecting Jizya from them (in the form of cell phones, cash, sunglasses etc.). I remember they systematically harassed, robbed and beat ethnic Norwegian youngsters who were unfortunate enough to not have the right affiliations. Muslim youths called the ethnic Norwegians “poteter” (potatoes, a derogatory term used by Muslims to describe ethnic Norwegians). These people occasionally raped the so-called “potato whores.” In Oslo, as an ethnic Norwegian youth aged 14–18 you were restricted if you didn’t have affiliations to the Muslim gangs. Your travel was restricted to your own neighbourhoods in Oslo West and certain central points in the city. Unless you had Muslim contacts you could easily be subject to harassment, beatings and robbery. Our alliances with the Muslim gangs were strictly seen as a necessity for us, at least for me. We, however, due to our alliances had the freedom of movement. As a result of our alliances we were allowed to have a relaxing and secure position on the West side of Oslo among our age group. Think of it as being local “warlords” for certain “kuffar areas”, which were regulated by the only dominant force, Muslim gangs collaberating with anarcho-Marxist networks.

Many of these groups claim to be tolerant and anti-fascist, but yet, I have never met anyone as hypocritical, racist and fascist as the people whom I used to call friends and allies. The media glorifies them while they wreak havoc across the city, rob and plunder. Yet, any attempts their victims do to consolidate are harshly condemned by all aspects of the cultural establishment as racism and Nazism. I have witnessed the double standards and hypocrisy with my own eyes, it is hard to ignore. I was one of the protected “potatoes,” having friends and allies in the Jihadi-racist gangs. […]

I gradually became appalled by the mentality, actions and hypocrisy of what he calls the “Marxist-Jihadi youth” movement of Oslo disguised under more socially acceptable brands such as: “SOS Racism”, “Youth Against Racism,” Blitz who literally hijacked segments of the hiphop movement and used it as a front for recruitment.

I have personally heard of and witnessed hundreds of Jihadi-racist attacks, more than 90% of them aimed at helpless Norwegian youth (who themselves are brought up to be “suicidally” tolerant and therefore are completely unprepared mentally for attacks such as these). This happens while the Marxist networks in the hiphop movement and the cultural establishment silently and indirectly condone it. There is absolutely no political will to ensure that justice is served on behalf of these victims. I remember at one point thinking; “This system makes me sick.”

“Did you ever contribute to the Muslim atrocities against the indigenous during this period?”

I saw the “security alliances” in a strictly pragmatical way. They were a necessary evil at that time. During these years I heard of hundreds of cases where ethnic Norwegians were harassed, robbed and beaten by Muslim gangs. This type of behaviour was in fact acts of racism or even based on religious motives (Jihadi behaviour), although I failed to see that connection then due to lack of knowledge about Islam; I saw the practical manifestations and I didn’t like it at all. The only thing you could do was to take the necessary precautions, create alliances or be subdued by them. If you made any attempt to create a “Norwegian gang” you would be instantly labelled as a Nazi and face the wrath of everyone, in addition to the Muslim gangs. They, however, were allowed to do anything while being indirectly cheered by society. So in other words, we were trapped between the “wood and the bark.” This is still the case in all Western European major cities. They are allowed to consolidate, while we are not.

I never took part in any of their activities and I never participated in any Blitz demonstrations either. To me, that would have been too hypocritical seeing that the Muslim gangs and their “racist/Jihadi” behaviour was tolerated by the police, media and the violent left wing extremists (ANTIFA) like “Blitz” and “SOS Racism.” I left the hiphop community and the gangs when I was 16 and never looked back.

“What was your relationship with the so-called neo-Nazis, skinheads and right-wing people at that time?”

Being so-called neo-Nazi, skinhead or right-wing in general meant that you were into metal rock. I hated metal rock and I hate it even today. I knew a few guys from my age group growing up, Edward, Nils and 5 others. They attended the same school as us and a couple of them were uniformed skinheads at this time. I know they never really believed in the National Socialist ideology, they were more anti-immigrant and wanted to state a point rather than anything else. I had known them vaguely for several years but I didn’t have a lot in common with them. Most people at my school had a good relationship with them, myself included. They didn’t cause any problems, weren’t violent and respected the rules, unlike us. The exception was Arsalan who had a clash with Edward at one time. Arsalan was one of the very few Pakistanis at my school.

As for the right wing community at that time, it was simple. They loved metal and we loved hip-hop. Being into the very small right wing community or the larger mainstream rock community meant Goth girls and hard rock. I disliked both. The big irony was that they, Edward and his friends, were a lot more “normal” than us during this period. They were peaceful while we were violent. They followed the law and rules while we broke the law and ignored the rules again and again. At the same time, the hip-hop community was cheered by the media, praised as the pinnacle of tolerance among the new generation, while THEY were condemned for their political views, systematically harassed and beaten by non-white gangs, extremist Marxist gangs (Blitz etc) and the police. It’s quite ironic and shameful. […]

The lefties/hip-hop movement, including the Pakistani gangs and other minority gangs — in cooperation with SOS Racism and Blitz — were notoriously and systematically violent, even racist and discriminating towards ethnic Norwegian youths and anti-immigrant individuals. They abused drugs and many were involved in criminal activity, yet cheered by the media because of their “tolerance” and so called “anti-racist” attitude.

Intolerance, racism and acts of Jihad were tolerated against native Norwegians as the perpetrators were categorised as victims by default (as minorities). They were seldom punished properly.

I remember the occasional crackdowns on right-wing youth movements during this period. The police raided them several times, called their parents and invested a lot of resources on squashing the right-wing movement all over Norway. Blitz and other extreme left, SOS Racism and the hip-hop community, on the other hand received public funding. The Blitz house, a building they had occupied a few decades earlier, was subsidised and under protection by the government in Oslo and still is even today. They are often referred to as the “storm troops” of the Norwegian Labour Party. The government subsidy of the apartment block were Blitz resides equates to more than 3 million USD per year alone. The violent Marxist group “SOS Racism” receives 2–3 million NOK annually. It’s disgusting.

Anyway, at this time I was 16 years old. I had been somewhat political aware for 2–3 years already and I had grown to be a passive “anti-racist” but against non-Western immigration. However, the fact that I opposed non-Western immigration automatically meant that I had become a “racist” according to the definitions of the “politically correct elites” and the leftists. I therefore kept this to myself.

When my friendship with Arsalan, Jon Trygve and Richard ended, I pursued and further developed a friendship with my old friends Marius and Christen who lived in my neighbourhood. They were to become my new core of close friends. I also befriended myself with a predominantly “ethnic Norwegian” gang from Tåsen in Oslo. […] This new “alliance” was also quite useful to create “security” for the rest of our “vulnerable years.”

I remember once when a gang of Moroccans came to Tåsen (a predominantly ethnic Norwegian area in the northern part of Oslo) and tried to rob a couple of ethnic local youths. The Moroccan gang was well known for being notoriously violent, having robbed and beaten hundreds of ethnic Norwegian youths all over Oslo. We were at a party at that time. As we heard of the incident we rallied around twenty guys and found the Moroccans near the subway station. We made a deal with them telling them to never come back for their so-called “Jizya raids.” They never showed their face on Tåsen again as far as I know. Muslim gangs respect people who respect themselves which is why they have no respect for people who are not prepared to use violence.

As time went by and we started high school at around 17–18, the situation changed drastically. The need for security decreased considerably during this period (mostly because we kept to certain areas). Individuals affiliated with the Muslim gangs were academically weak and were basically “left behind” or they selected practical professional studies like mechanics courses or carpentry. Very few of them had the grades to enter any quality schools in Oslo West. In this regard the need for security vanished and a type of academic segregation occurred.

In retrospect, it’s easy to understand why ethnic Norwegians are fleeing Muslim areas. No one likes to be “subdued” — live in fear, being harassed, beaten and robbed. The Muslim ghettofication process has been ongoing the last thirty years and it will continue until there is close to 100 percent concentrated Muslim areas in Oslo (the same tendency we see in Paris, London and other large Western European cities). When I was around 15–16 there was only one or two schools where the majority was non-ethnic Norwegian. Now, fifteen years later, there are around fifty schools on the East side of Oslo where the majority of students are non-natives and primarily Muslim.

It’s a miracle how I managed to successfully pass through my “vulnerable years” without being subdued by Muslim gangs even once. I know that there are hundreds, even thousands of incidents per year (I have personally witnessed around 50 incidents) where ethnic Norwegian youths ranging 14–18 are harassed, beaten, raped and robbed and it’s getting worse every year. I really don’t envy the new generations and the challenges that are facing them regarding Muslim subjugation.

If ethnic Norwegian youth or other non-Muslims attempt to create gangs of their own (for protection purposes), they are immediately labelled as racists and Nazis. At the same time numerous Muslim gangs commit thousands of racist acts each year against ethnic Norwegians and it’s either hushed down, ignored and therefore tolerated.

The last twenty years more than 100–200 ethnic Norwegians have been killed by Muslims, a majority by racist or religious/Jihadi motives. Yet, the press are systematically ignoring this and they attempt to link every single incident to non-relevant motives like for example the influence of narcotics/alcohol or blame the accused Muslim of being “psychologically unstable.” Norwegian media refuse to face the truth of the matter which is that most of these incidents are religiously and/or racially motivated.

The only incident I can remember where a racist native has killed a non-white was the murder of Benjamin Hermansen, who at the age of fifteen years was murdered in Holmlia, in Oslo, Norway. The death was racially motivated. The murder mobilised large parts of the Norwegian population. Throughout the entire country, marches were organised to protest against the murder, with nearly 40,000 people participating in Oslo. The Benjamin Prize was established as a Norwegian prize to counter racism in 2002. The prize is awarded to a school that actively works against racism and discrimination.

Could this have happened if the victim was native and the aggressors were Muslims? No, not in a million years! Our politicians are terrified of offending the Muslim community in any way.

Also, more than 80 percent of our parliamentarians have never experienced Muslim gangs with all its ugly manifestations. A great majority of them haven’t even been raised in Oslo or any large European city with small but dominant Muslim minorities. They usually move to Oslo as adults and settle in the non-Muslim areas of the city. Our parliamentarians and media are completely unplugged from reality, they don’t know what’s going on or they don’t want to know. On the other hand, the new generations that have experienced this development the last two decades are all urban, young individuals under 30–35 years. I’m quite sure the majority of them now vote for the Progress Party, Norway’s only anti-immigration party. Several statistics indicate that indigenous Europeans in Muslim dominated areas oppose mass Muslim immigration.

Oslo used to be a peaceful city. Thanks to the Norwegian cultural Marxist/multiculturalist regime they have transformed my beloved city into a broken city, a bunkered society, a multiculturalist shit-hole where no one is safe anymore, to use blunt language.

The following is an overview of experiences I have had during my youth in Oslo. I’ve “only” experienced 8 assaults, attempted robberies and multiple threats. I’ve never actually been severely ravaged, robbed or beaten by Muslims (a broken nose is the worst thing that occurred) but I know more than twenty people who have. I know at least two girls that have been raped by Muslims and I am familiar with two more cases in my broader network (one gang rape). One girl though was cut badly in the face by Muslims. As such, I guess I should feel lucky or privileged. I live in Oslo West far away from the nearest Muslim enclave as more or less all of them are localised on Oslo East. There is little difference in their level of aggressiveness among the various Muslim groups, regardless if they are from Pakistan, Iraq, Turkey, Morocco or Albania. I do, however, acknowledge that only a small proportion of Muslims are so called “Jihadi youth” but this argument is defeated by the mere fact that the same thing can be said about the Taliban in Pakistan. The Taliban only makes out 1–3% of the population, yet they have caused a civil war. It is apparent that dhimmitude and a bunkered society is the new reality as long as Islam (and individual Muslims) are allowed to move freely in our societies. Our major cities will remain “broken” as long as multiculturalism is allowed to be the prevalent ideology, as long as cultural Marxists are allowed to set the agenda.

There follows Breivik’s “overview of experiences,” and further comments on “dhimmitude” in major western-European cities.

None of which justifies political murder, and I can say that precisely because I am so utterly reactionary. I do not believe in political murder (or voting, for that matter), for it leads not towards order.

It does, however, form part of that frank (or even forthright) conversation we’re not supposed to ever have about the excesses of diversity and the alienating effects of globalization and migration — a conversation, I might add, that could lead to the formulation of more productive solutions both to the problems of Breivik and to the problem of Breiviks.

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Grorud Valley

Grorud Valley Blues

Gates of Vienna is your source for counter-jihad news and opinion. In particular, Norwegian correspondents ‘Vikverjer’ and ‘The Observer,’ with their English translations of Norwegian newspaper articles, provide us foreigners invaluable glimpses into the New Norway’s “multicultural, rainbow-hued future.”

Consider the fate of the Grorud Valley (or Groruddalen, an eastern district of Oslo), captured in three recent articles.

“Difficult to Be Ethnic Norwegian Here”

Vikverjer translates ‘“It is difficult to be ethnic Norwegian here”’ (Aftenposten, March 2011):

Patrick Åserud has had enough of pressure about salami-free food, blond-hate and horrible language skills.

“I will not let my children grow up here. I do not dare to.”

He has made up his mind. After spending his whole life in Grorud Valley, the developments of the past year have frightened Patrick Åserud into leaving. […]

He is moving from a local area he thinks is on its way to falling apart due to the heavy weight of failed integration.

Worrying stories

“It has become difficult to be an ethnic Norwegian in Grorud Valley. There are huge language problems, and additionally a pressure that we must adjust to norms that feel completely foreign to us, who have a Western lifestyle and mindset.

“There are kindergartens where almost no children or parents speak Norwegian, and there are schools where children are threatened with beatings if they bring salami with them for their school lunch.

“Girls are bullied for being blond, and they colour their hair dark to avoid it and fit in. It is especially not okay to be gay at the school, nor atheist, and especially not Jewish.

“Over the last three years it has been particularly frightening to watch and hear about everything that happens,” says Åserud.

A majority of parents need a translator

He has quit his job at the kindergarten. It is especially during his fifteen years as a teacher at the school and kindergarten that he has noticed the changes in the population.

“We had to use a translator in 10 of 18 conversations with parents.

“What kind of possibility does one have to create a good environment and a co-operate with the families, when the situation is like this?” asks Åserud.

Thousands have left

He feels that it is he and his family who must integrate as a minority in their own country. […]

“I was positive and optimistic earlier. But it has crossed a line when there is a majority that does not speak the language well.” […]

“Many people will perhaps think you are intolerant and not in line with the ‘New Norway’?”

“If that is the case, then there are very many who are not in line. The reality is that [Norwegian] people move away from this area. And they do so because of experiences they have had,” says Åserud.

Numbers from Statistisk Sentralbyrå back up his statement. 3,000 fewer ethnic Norwegians now live in Grorud Valley, compared to only two years earlier. More people are moving away faster than before, but even over a longer time-span the trend is clear: Grorud Valley has lost 20,000 ethnic Norwegians the last fifteen years, and still the population continues to grow.

The ethnic Norwegian percentage in Grorud Valley has gone from 82% to 56% in fifteen years.

In another, less enlightened century, we might have called that an invasion.

Fears that it will become like Malmø

And this year Åserud will become a part of that statistics. He is moving with his family to Hamar.

“We have no connections there, but we can’t afford a house in Høybråten, Røa or the other places where we don’t feel like foreigners when going shopping,” says Åserud.

Vikverjer adds that the latter in general are “‘whiter’ areas populated by the elite politicians who praise ‘multiculturalism.’”

He has no good recipe for how the development can be turned around.

“I don’t know. I fear that it will start becoming like Rosengård.”

A “widely-known immigrant/Muslim area” of Malmø, Sweden, “with heavy crime.”

“There shots are fired in the streets on average once every week. I wish the best for this town, but I feel I can’t carry the integration on my shoulders,” says Åserud.

A sidebar:

Last week Aften revealed that four out of ten parents are trying to move their children away from minority schools.

The principals confirm that the number of minority students is given as explanation by those who move. School analyst Ivar Morken says that the schools have become like a “social garbage can,” because they are thrown into the demographic problems that schools can’t solve.

The newspaper’s commenters seem to agree substantially with this assessment.

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Patrick Åserud of Groruddalen

“Everything You Have Learned in School Is Wrong”

Excerpts from The Observer’s translation of ‘Norwegian boys in the new Norway’ (Finansavisen, 2013).

Over the past few weeks, Finansavisen has focused on immigration and its economic consequences. We have commented on several of these previously. Last weekend the journalists Kjell Erik Eilertsen, Ole Asbjørn Ness and the photographer Iván Kverme left behind their calculators and computers and met with some of the individuals who are growing up in the new Norway. They decided to focus on the youngsters, Norwegian boys, who are growing up in the most immigrant-dense area of Norway — Grorud Valley in Oslo. And they have produced an article that other media would probably refuse to print.

Grorud Valley is an area that covers four neighborhoods: Stovner, Alna, Grorud and Bjerke. All the neighborhoods have an immigrant population approaching 50 percent.

Finansavisen has made contact with two young boys in the “valley.” One of them, Marius Sørvik, has decided to go public, and his name and picture appear in the newspaper. The other one has decided to remain anonymous. Finansavisen refers to him as “Andreas.” […]

When they arrive in Stovner, they hear the voice of “Andreas”:

“A few weeks ago,” he says, “I was entering the schoolyard. They were attacking Lars. There’s a whole heap of them. They always attack as a group. They are dogs, they hunt in packs. They are beating him up. I run in between them and I punch one of them. Then someone comes rushing to and separates us, and yet again I’m being hauled off to the principal’s office, and yet again I am being told that even if they punch us we are not supposed to retaliate. Do you know how insanely provocative such a statement is?” […]

“My mum told me that it would be good for me to grow up here. I would get to know the new Norway, get to know different cultures.”

Then we are introduced to Marius Sørvik.

He is nineteen. […]

He came to Grorud Valley from Fredrikstad when he was one year old. Soon he’ll move back to Fredrikstad. […]

[Marius:] “All the teachers told me, the principal told me, if I had an altercation with them I had to understand that they were to be pitied, that they came from countries where there had been war. I thought that he was joking. Their grandparents emigrated from Pakistan. So if I hit someone no one would scold me because my grandfather had been a member of the Norwegian Resistance Movement? But I believed in it.” […]

“People are different; everything you have learned in school is wrong,” says Marius.

You have the ethnic Norwegian boys, and then there are the others. Faced with these two choices, the two boys chose different strategies:

Marius’ strategy

He doesn’t lower his head. He refuses to take any crap. He answers back. He’s loudmouthed. He is who he is. It does not matter. But that’s not why they target him. It is an autumn evening in seventh grade. He is playing tennis. When he leaves the court to collect some tennis balls they appear. They are seven or eight Somalis. The beat the crap out of him, he has to get new teeth put in. […]

Andreas’ strategy

He lowers his gaze, he wants to be like them, talk like them, he alters his language, limits his vocabulary, makes deliberate spelling mistakes — ‘an school’, kebab-Norwegian, buys a soft gun, wants to be like the older, tougher, cool Pakistani guys that have cars and money and no job, why not become a Muslim, become a brother?

He wants to be like them, but he doesn’t become like them, something inside him is resisting.

Fragments: the bad grades in the Norwegian classes, the bad friends, Islam, he notices how they view women, as an object, how they react when he tries to discuss Islam with them, how they talk about respect, but don’t show any respect, how they refer to Norwegians as f***ing Norwegians, whitey, potato; something inside him resists. […]

We learn about the suffering of Marius:

He heads off to school an hour before it starts in the morning. He heads home before it finishes in the afternoon. More episodes, more threats. Fear is not an isolated event, but rather a continuous stream. […]

It has been three years since [Marius] graduated from high school. He can still feel a twinge of fear whenever he meets the gangs on the subway, but he doesn’t give a ****, he has made four movies, he says what he thinks, […] and he has been interviewed twice by the producer of the Norwegian TV series ‘Dalen Vår’ [‘Our Valley’], Elisabeth Brun […] to find out if his story fitted in with the story about Grorud Valley.

It did not.

“Your views do not fit in with our concept,” she said. That TV series is state-funded propaganda. A documentary where the angle has been determined in advance is no documentary, but a half-mockumentary where they have full control of what is being said. If you are going to tell a story about what a great place Grorud Valley is, then you can’t talk to young ethnic Norwegian boys, because most of them will tell you that it is a horrible place. […]

Andreas doesn’t deny that he’s still scared. That he lift weights to gain strength. He also says that he’s contemplating carrying a knife, but that he fears the police knife controls. He says that he’s made deals with his friends, that they will all stand up for each other. Friends who also lift weights and that are into martial arts.

“Muslims don’t fight you on a one-to-one basis. If you meet them alone they are cowards. If I run into Omar alone, he will just walk past me. If I am alone and meet him in a crowd, the best outcome I can hope for is a beating.” […]

Andreas believes that the Norwegian culture is being squeezed out.

“Nobody wants to be a Norwegian here. Norwegian is synonymous with weakness. This is a feeling that is also being conveyed by the teachers.

“They are afraid. They don’t dare to speak out. You should have a look at the number of principals that have come and gone at Vestliveien school in recent years, and ask them why they left. They don’t have control, but they do everything to accommodate the Muslim students. In home economics classes everybody has to prepare halal meat. Immigrants do not have to attend ‘NyNorsk’ [New Norwegian] classes. I have to attend these classes. The Muslim girls do not have to attend the physical activity classes; because of course they cannot undress in front of other girls. We have to adapt to their culture. They don’t have to adapt to ours.”

Andreas’ views on girls:

“There is one thing that annoys the hell out of me. They can start chasing Norwegian girls, but we cannot go after theirs. It’s something you learn early on. You just don’t go after a Pakistani girl, but Norwegian girls are available to immigrant boys. Norwegian girls prefer them. I don’t know why. I guess it must be that brown skin. That they are tough, that they have money despite not having jobs. They don’t see that they fight in packs, that they are cowards. I asked my best female friend if we could get romantically involved, and she told me that I have the right personality, but the problem was that I’m Norwegian. She wants to become involved with a foreigner.”

“The domination of native Norwegian women by the Muslim men,” writes Kevin MacDonald (Occidental Observer), “is the ultimate evolutionary disaster for Norwegian men.” Just one more way in which “[i]mmigration and multiculturalism are a disaster for the West.”

Andreas sees little hope for the future:

He believes that Oslo will eventually become Oslostan.

“It’s not going to happen straightaway, but it that’s the way its going. More and more Muslims arrive here from abroad, and many Norwegians convert. Personally I know of five converts. Here it’s all about Islam; Islam is strong, so why fight it?”

Why indeed, when you’ll only succeed at making yourself a universally despised “racist”?

The Observer remarks:

This report shows the real consequences of the enormous betrayal of their people by the ruling elites in Norway. Sadly, the same thing goes on in every Western European country today, and on both sides of the Atlantic.

There is something seriously wrong with politicians who actively pursue policies that have such horrific outcomes. Nor is this ground-breaking information that is being presented in this article — it has been going on for a couple of decades now in Norway.

The politicians know it, but they keep their mouths shut and let the vulnerable ‘youths’ pay the price for their betrayal.

As a matter of interest, Finansavisen (which published the original piece) is one of the very few newspapers in Norway that don’t receive press subsidies. Every Norwegian newspaper journalist is subsidized by the authorities to the tune of $75,000 per year. Which is perhaps also why (as far as I know) no other MSM newspaper has covered this story — for them, Norwegian ‘racism’ against non-Norwegians is all that matters.

3-2 Burnt cars, Groruddalen

It’s “carbecue season” in Oslo.

“Enriching Linguistic Diversity”

The Observer translates ‘Ask the ethnic Norwegian youths whether they feel safe in their own city’ (Document.no, June 2013):

Ronny Ramberg from Tonsenhagen in Grorud Valley has written an op-ed for Aftenposten about his own family’s experiences in the area. All four of his children have been mugged. In the op-ed he mentions that they have been subjected to verbal threats and robbed at gunpoint.

Young people feel unsafe in Oslo, says Ronny Ramberg, while politicians who have a more favorable attitude towards Multiculturalism praise the great food, the new dances and the enriching linguistic diversity of the new international community.

You can’t make this stuff up. (Meanwhile, Patrick Åserud has “to use a translator in 10 of 18 conversations with parents,” and young Andreas “alters his language, limits his vocabulary, makes deliberate spelling mistakes.”)

Are they incapable of, or they are simply refusing to see that certain groups of immigrants are openly working against the society that has welcomed them? […]

“We have four boys in our family. All of them have been mugged at gunpoint here in Oslo, and they have been subjected to violent threats such as stabbings. The perpetrators are immigrant youths. Last Saturday night one of our boys was mugged yet again at the bus stop outside our apartment. In our own local community, where we are supposed to feel safe and enjoy a good life, he was threatened at knifepoint and had his cell phone taken away from him.

“It is of course possible to buy a new phone, but it is very frustrating that this happens time after time. What’s worse is that our boys don’t feel safe in their own local community, and that the hatred towards the immigrants is simmering just below the surface when we discuss the incidents, something that I find completely understandable.”

Ah, but you see, Mr. Ramberg, it has recently been discovered by a crack squad of “anti-racism” experts that it is in fact quite racist and hateful (not to mention The Holocaust) for you dull, boring, pasty, non-diverse so-called “ethnic”/“native”/“white” Norwegians to have your “own local community” (racist) where you can “feel safe” (hate crime) and “enjoy a good life” (Hitler) when the world at large is brimming with vibrant diversity and multicultural enrichment, all demanding a slice of the Norwegian pie for themselves. You understand, of course.

“These are not exceptional cases; it’s just that it’s a whole lot worse when it’s your own children that are being affected, and the feeling of helplessness becomes so much more palpable. We would simply have moved out of the city that we are so fond of if they had been younger. The city that has been so completely neglected by the politicians who appear to be both blind and deaf. What do they really know about what is taking place outside of the great multicultural events that they have awarded money to, and where they bask in their own glory? Ask the ethnic Norwegian youths whether they feel safe in their own city, the answer might perhaps wake up the politicians.”

No chance in hell.

2-4 Stockholm v1

Sweden

From the L.A. Times: ‘Nights of rioting test Sweden’s reputation for tolerance’ (May 24, 2013).

Residents of Stockholm braced for more violence Friday after five consecutive nights of rioting that have rocked the Swedish capital and shaken the Scandinavian country’s self-image as a tolerant, liberal place.

Rest easy, Scandinavians. There’s no need to be shaken, or even stirred. I assure you, the vibrantly diverse crowd of North Africans and South Asians that’s been torching cars in your capital city is the living proof that you’ve been running a tolerant and liberal operation over there for years.

Since Sunday, sections of northwestern and southern Stockholm have lighted up with the glow of fires started by rock-throwing rioters apparently protesting a fatal shooting by police last week. Schools, shops, a library and about 150 vehicles have been set ablaze during the nightly rampages, which some commentators say are rooted in feelings of despair and disenfranchisement among the city’s poor and its growing immigrant population. […]

Yes, just as any occasion (an act of political violence, for instance) is a good occasion not to have a “frank conversation about the excesses of diversity and the alienating effects of globalisation and migration,” it turns out that any occasion (an act of political violence, for instance) is an excellent occasion to blame Europeans for the problem of immigrants — I mean, the problems of immigrants.

Swedes have been shocked by the images of destruction and by the convulsion of anger and fear in their usually easygoing capital. Television footage showed smoking husks of cars on otherwise ordinary-looking streets.

The unrest has raised uncomfortable questions in a once-homogeneous society now dealing with a relatively recent influx of immigrants, many of them from war-ravaged countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq.

Well, we wouldn’t want to make anyone uncomfortable. (Just like we wouldn’t want to draw any ugly conclusions from scientific research.)

“Uncomfortable”: the new “offensive”?

Anti-immigrant sentiment is on the rise and has become a political force in the far-right Swedish Democrats party.

Pro-immigrant sentiment (that is, support for mass Third World immigration), on the other hand, is just what every decent human being who isn’t a far-right Swedish Nazi feels in his heart. Therefore, we see no need to measure how many ethnic Swedes actually feel this way — especially since it could raise uncomfortable questions about how, in a nominal democracy, this sentiment became such a powerful political force.

The proximate cause of the rioting was the May 13 death of a man in his late 60s in the Husby district of Stockholm, a predominantly immigrant community where unemployment runs higher than the national average. Police say the man had threatened people on the street with a machete-like weapon and then continued to pose a danger after going inside an apartment building, where officers shot him.

But the incident roused anger in an area whose residents have complained of police abuse and racism and of institutional neglect. Violence erupted Sunday and escalated the following two or three nights.

Witnesses told Swedish media that some officers who responded to the unrest used racial slurs and called residents “monkeys” and “rats.” Lindgren said there would be an independent investigation of the accusations. […]

This is the closest the official press will come to telling us who, exactly, among “the city’s poor and its growing immigrant population” is actually doing the rioting. It can’t be Polish immigrants, for instance, because bashing Poles isn’t considered “racist.” (“While many of the immigrant population are from Nordic neighbours closely tied to Sweden by language or culture,” — and not, of course, biology, — “the debate has tended to focus on poor asylum seekers from distant war zones,” according to The Guardian, possibly because the poor asylum seekers insist on torching cars.)

About 15% of Sweden’s 9.5 million people are foreign-born, many of them drawn to the Scandinavian country because of its liberal asylum policies for refugees from armed conflict. But absorption and integration have not always been smooth, and critics say that social inequalities across Swedish society as a whole have grown rapidly in recent years, breeding resentment.

Still, few Swedes expected this week’s eruption of violence.

Perhaps they should adjust their expectations accordingly. I mean, if you’ve just been “stunned” by a third night of rioting and “shocked” by a fourth, should you really also be “shocked” by a fifth? And “shaken” and “rocked” by a sixth?

Well, maybe, if you’ve just read in the papers that, notwithstanding a few hundred torched cars, Stockholm is “most definitely” “not burning” (The Local), and then on the sixth night the riots “also spread outside the capital for the first time […], with youths torching vehicles and buildings in two towns” (BBC).

Still, at what point does this stop being a “blazing surprise”? How long does it take before a few burning cars is business as usual in the New Sweden?

The answer, apparently, is ten days (The Local, May 28):

A few cars were set alight in the Stockholm suburbs early on Tuesday morning, but police have said the situation in the Swedish capital has returned to normal following a week of disturbances.

Now we’re back to normal. There was no rioting, and only a few torched cars, fewer than ten,” Stockholm police spokesman Kjell Lindgren said.

I’ve saved the best for last. From Fria Tider: ‘Parking Tickets Issued on Wrecks while Stockholm Burns’ (May 24). Wait, I thought it was “most definitely” not burning as of May 24. Well, whatever.

Since last Sunday, May 19, rioters have taken to the streets of Stockholm’s suburbs every night, torching cars, schools, stores, office buildings and residential complexes. Yesterday, a police station in Rågsved, a suburb four kilometers south of Stockholm, was attacked and set on fire.

But while the Stockholm riots keep spreading and intensifying, Swedish police have adopted a tactic of non-interference. “Our ambition is really to do as little as possible,” Stockholm Chief of Police Mats Löfving explained to the Swedish newspaper Expressen on Tuesday.

“We go to the crime scenes, but when we get there we stand and wait,” elaborated Lars Byström, the media relations officer of the Stockholm Police Department. “If we see a burning car, we let it burn if there is no risk of the fire spreading to other cars or buildings nearby. By doing so we minimize the risk of having rocks thrown at us.”

Swedish parking laws, however, continue to be rigidly enforced despite the increasingly chaotic situation. Early Wednesday, while documenting the destruction after a night of rioting in the Stockholm suburb of Alby, a reporter from Fria Tider observed a parking enforcement officer writing a ticket for a burnt-out Ford.

3-2 While Europe Slept

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Community Service

This one’s for the feminists (hah).

From FrontPageMag: ‘Crime and Non-Punishment in Sweden’ (June 20), by Bruce Bawer, author of While Europe Slept (2006) and The Victims’ Revolution (2012).

It’s no secret that while rape has been on the upswing in recent years across Europe, the figures are higher in Sweden — which, not coincidentally, has Europe’s second highest percentage of Muslim inhabitants — than in an other country on the continent. Yet even as the incidence of rape has soared, Sweden has continued to treat rapists more leniently than pretty much every other country in the Western world.

Case in point: earlier this month six young men were convicted of taking part last January in the gang rape of a fifteen-year-old girl in a Stockholm suburb. The punishment? Well, if the perpetrators had been over eighteen, they’d have been looking at up to four years in prison. […]

But that’s neither here nor there — because in this case, as it happened, the perpetrators were minors, all of them either fifteen or sixteen years old. Consequently, their sentences were mild indeed. Each was sentenced to pay 55,000 kroner ($8,500) to the victim. In addition, all but one were required to perform a few days’ worth of community service.

[…]

I had to poke around a bit online before finding one marginal publication, Exponerat, which not only acknowledged that the perps were all Muslims (three of them Swedish citizens, one Finnish, and another Turkish) but also listed their names and sentencing details.

A typical example:

Amer Akrem Abdu, found guilty of attempted aggravated rape, will do 150 hours of “youth service,” plus Ungdomsvård, which, according to Wikipedia, is a “penalty” (though it hardly sounds like one; we’re not talking about juvenile detention here) that’s specifically designed “for young people, particularly 15-17 years old, who need special support or help from social services.”

On the other hand:

What about the sixth perp, Mehmet Acaralp (who, by the way, describes himself on his Facebook page as “a proud Muslim”)? Like his buddies, he was found guilty of aggravated rape — but while he, too, was sentenced to Ungdomsvård “with special provisions,” he won’t have to do any “youth service” at all. Why? Two reasons were given. First, his family is homeless (or, at least, has no official place of residence, which may simply mean that they’re living in Sweden illegally); second, the court felt (and I’m not making this up) that poor Mehmet had already been punished sufficiently because somebody had posted his photo online — which, you see, will make it uncomfortable for him to attend school or go out at night.

It doesn’t seem to have occurred to the court that it just might be in the larger interest of Swedish society for Mehmet not to go out at night for a while. A long while. […]

This is not a new phenomenon:

Years ago, […] Sweden’s National Crime Prevention Council issued a report on rapes committed in Sweden between 1985 and 1989. It categorized the perpetrators by country of origin; even then — a quarter of a century ago, when the number of Muslims in Sweden was a fraction of what it is today — only 39% of rapists were ethnically Swedish.

Since then, both the immigrant population and the incidence of rape have skyrocketed in Sweden. But when a follow-up report on rape statistics was issued in 2005, it included a note explaining that this time around, the National Crime Prevention Council had decided that a “detailed analysis” of perpetrators’ ethnic backgrounds was “not meaningful.” What was missing from the report, however, wasn’t just “analysis”; it was the information itself — the raw data on rapists’ ethnicity — which had, in fact, been collected, but which officials chose to suppress.

You’d expect that decent, self-respecting people who’ve held public office in Sweden in recent decades would be ashamed of what they’ve allowed to happen to countless girls and women on their watch — ashamed to be part of a system that’s pampered rapists and covered up the scale of their transgressions. But such is the mentality of Swedish elites that they’re genuinely proud of what they’ve done. In their view, their lenient treatment of the Bashirs, Mohammeds, and Mehmets marks them as civilized, noble, humane. And, for them, that’s what counts.

2-4 Colonization 5

France

Please enjoy this fascinating footage out of France.

  1. ‘Inter-ethnic tension rises in France as natives fear to become “white minority”’ (Russia Today, December 2012)
  2. ‘“Super-diversity” in French Amateur League — Paris, June 2013’ (Le Parisien, June 2013; this version seems clearer)
  3. ‘“I Was Treated Like a Stray Dog”’ (Gates of Vienna, July 2013)

With all that going on, it’s encouraging to see the French government is responding appropriately. Oh, wait…

From the BBC (June 2013): ‘French nationalist Marine Le Pen faces racism charges.’:

French far-right leader, Marine Le Pen, could face criminal charges for inciting racism, the BBC has learnt.

The French authorities opened a case against Mrs Le Pen in 2011 after she likened the sight of Muslims praying in the streets to the Nazi occupation of France.

As a European Parliament member (MEP), she enjoyed immunity from prosecution.

However, this protection was removed by a European parliamentary committee in a secret vote this week.

BBC chief political correspondent Gary O’Donoghue says he has been told that the vote to remove her immunity was “overwhelming”. […]

The move clears the way for the French authorities to pursue a case against the leader, who steered her party to a record 18% showing in the first round of last year’s presidential election.

It seems only to have made her a target.

By some estimates, as many as six million French people, or just under 10% of the population, are Muslims, with origins in France’s former North African colonies.

Almost one in ten — but one in three newborns (Those Who Can See). The future of France.

Recommended Reading

Want to learn more about the topics covered in this issue of Radish? We highly recommend the following articles and films. (We do not, however, necessarily endorse all opinions expressed in them: some are not nearly extreme enough.)

Unqualified Reservations

Those Who Can See

Grorud Valley

The Rest of Norway

Sweden

France

Assorted, Tangential & Miscellaneous

13 thoughts on “19. Breivik’s Norway

  1. Hmm, I’m a bit surprised that there’s a Finland-tag included in this post (along with Sweden and Norway, but not e.g. Denmark).

    The immigration situation here in Finland actually happens to be somewhat different than in Norway/Sweden/Denmark, since we only relatively recently started allowing in notable quantities of e.g. muslim immigrants. We currently have a lot less of them than pretty much any other “rich” European country; we’re lagging something like 20-25 years behind in this regard. (And it’s also possible we’ll actually reverse the current trend before it gets to the same point as in other Nordic countries, since politically somewhat strong anti-immigration sentiments already arose here a couple of years ago — though this reversal is not certain, since it hasn’t really happened yet.)

    Not that I have a problem with you including a Finland-tag there, since currently we *do* have similar immigration policies as Norway/Sweden, even though they are more recent for us. But it does look weird to me to see Finland listed there without e.g. Denmark, or non-Nordic European countries such as France/Britain/Netherlands/Germany/Austria which certainly have bigger muslim immigrant populations than Finland yet has.

    But then again, now that I stop to think about this, Denmark actually is different from the other Nordic countries in the sense that the anti-immigration backlash that stopped large-scale muslim immigration has already happened there, to some extent at least. So they’re not *currently* as open to muslim immigration as e.g. Norway/Sweden/Finland/Britain is, even though they previously took in a significantly larger and more problematic muslim population than Finland has yet taken in.

    • It’s actually just lazy tagging. I planned to include Finland and Sweden right after Norway, and before e.g. France. I’ll add more tags later.

      PS Welcome Finns!

  2. I think a lot of people see reports of the oh-so-common “election-related violence” in third world countries and assume that while those countries “can’t handle democracy”, it’s not a problem for western developed countries. Breivik’s attack shows that the difference is one of degree, not of kind – ultimately, democracy is just as corrosive in Europe as it is in the third world.

    Someone said that you can think of an election as a civil war where both sides agree that whoever brings the largest army wins. In a lot of countries people don’t always get the memo that you’re not supposed to actually use violence. Breivik’s actions makes a lot more sense as a unsanctioned military attack in the context of a civil war than as an act of terrorism.

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  5. Instead of arresting rioters, the Swedish Police went after native Swedes.

    “In the Stockholm suburb of Tumba the police decided to abandon their earlier non-intervention policy as a large group of police officers rounded up and dispersed a group of vigilantes trying to fend off rioters.”

    http://www.friatider.se/swedes-take-to-the-streets-to-defend-their-neighborhoods

    No wonder “extreme-right” websites are so popular in Sweden.

    http://www.thelocal.se/48576/20130619/

  6. Yeah, I think that the Nordic countries would benefit from encouraging immigration from the USA. Since our economy is terrible right now you could have a flood of college educated, 80 hour a week workers that would love to simply work hard and raise their children in an environment free of drugs, violence and corruption. They also would be law abiding and completely unfazed by gangs of immigrants. However they would be greatly confused as to why no one has shot them yet.

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