Sweden, rape and foreign born migrants

 

 Research shows that individuals with a foreign background are overrepresented among those convicted of rape in Sweden. Of men convicted of rape and attempted rape between 2012 and 2017, 58% were born abroad, a figure that rises to 84% for those convicted of violent or gang rape. Conviction Statistics: Swedish TV investigative journalism program Uppdrag Granskning analyzed 843 district court cases between 2012 and 2017. They found that 58% of those convicted for rape or attempted rape had a foreign background. In cases involving an unknown perpetrator (assault rape), 75% were born outside Europe, with many having been in Sweden for a year or less.

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Grupo de jovens negros espanca aluno branco à porta da escola de Massamá

 

Pregador islâmico invade missa em igreja alemã

 

Expert Comment: If multiculturalism has failed, then what about integration?

 

Jörg Friedrichs, Associate Professor of Politics at the Oxford Department of International Development, explores how debates over multiculturalism in Britain and Europe reveal that cultural diversity and integration must go hand in hand.

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Recent headlines reflect a growing unease about the fate of multiculturalism in Britain. From the political fallout of Gaza-related protests to concerns over segregated communities, debates on community cohesion are no longer confined to fringe discourse. 

Social reality does not imply political ideology. But what if the problem is not multiple cultures as a demographic fact, but multiculturalism as a political ideology? Conversations with Muslim and non-Muslim inner-city residents in Yorkshire, Birmingham, and London have persuaded me that, just because Britain is a multicultural country, it does not follow that we should follow multiculturalism as an ideology. Instead, as I show in a recent book, the fact that Britain is multicultural makes the need for integration even more pressing. 

A shifting political landscape

When I entered Britain in 2007, myself a migrant from Germany, multiculturalism was still part of the national brand. At the same time, there were searching discussions in the wake of the 2005 London bombings and communal riots in Bradford and other Northern cities a few years earlier. Then, in 2011, Prime Minister David Cameron famously declared that state multiculturalism has failed, in unison with Germany’s Angela Merkel and France’s Nicolas Sarkozy.

Taking a longer view

In Europe, we should perhaps not rush to premature judgment as the lived experience of Western countries with Muslim and other ethnoreligious minorities is still relatively recent, although, by now, many migrant minorities go back by generations. Outside the West, community relations between Muslim minorities and non-Muslim majorities have a much older history. In India and China, for example, Muslim and non-Muslim communities have lived together for many centuries. 

India, China, and contrasting traditions

Comparing India and China is interesting. In India, before independence, a rather weak imperial state run by non-Hindu rulers would preside over intensely fractured but highly energetic communal groups. In China, by contrast, communal groups were less energetic and imperial rulers would aspire for, and sometimes achieve, high levels of political control.

In continuation of such tendencies, community relations in India mostly unfold in society, although increasingly with the state backing majoritarian elements, whereas community relations in China are largely state-managed. Harking back to ancient practices, ethnoreligious minorities in the Middle Kingdom are treated differently depending on their degree of perceived cultural affinity with the dominant core. 

Western parallels and divergences

In Britain, where a liberal state has traditionally tried to keep itself aloof from what happens in society, community relations are largely left to people on the ground. In France, with its dirigiste tradition, the central state, with limited success, tries to act as the arbiter of community relations. Despite differences in context, we can draw a parallel distinction for Western countries. In Britain, where a liberal state has traditionally tried to keep itself aloof from what happens in society, community relations are largely left to people on the ground. In France, with its dirigiste tradition, the central state, with limited success, tries to act as the arbiter of community relations. 

India’s debate as Europe’s warning

While anything related to religion and minorities is deemed sensitive in China, in India I was able to interview Hindus and Muslims. I spoke to politicians and other people from manifold walks of life, gathering views not only from cosmopolitan secularists close to the Congress Party, but also from leftists and Islamists on the one hand and Hindu Nationalists on the other. Given India’s long history of majority-Muslim relations, I asked interviewees was what 'we', in Europe, might learn. 

Competing visions of secularism and diversity

Many European voters identify with national majorities. Unless European elites find ways to persuade people, with good arguments, that their policies benefit the majority as much as minorities, a majoritarian protest vote may sweep them away. Cosmopolitan secularists, leftists, and Islamists told me that multireligious India was an exemplar of intercommunal harmony, although such harmony was unfortunately being ruined by the Hindu nationalism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his associates. Hindu nationalists, on the contrary, painted themselves as saving India from Congress-style "pseudo-secularism" and suggested that Europeans should avoid its mistakes of “pandering” or “caving in” to minorities. 

On one end of the spectrum, I found a striking affinity between India’s cosmopolitan secularism and Europe’s multiculturalism. On the other end, I found an equally striking affinity between Hindu nationalist critiques of cosmopolitan secularism and populist critiques of multiculturalism. Given the way things had played out, with Modi in power since 2014, I concluded that India does hold a warning for Europe. Many European voters identify with national majorities. Unless European elites find ways to persuade people, with good arguments, that their policies benefit the majority as much as minorities, a majoritarian protest vote may sweep them away. 
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Muslim instructions how to stone a woman to death

 

Nobody could believe this in 9/11 - a council meeting in New York

 

Conquered: NYC Firefighters Angry After Bosses, Muslim Firefighters Make Startling Change to 9/11 Memorial Area for Ramadan

 

 In an insensitive, if not outright brazen display of disrespect for the firefighters who lost their lives on 9/11, Muslims placed their prayer mats right in front of a plaque at the Fire Department of New York’s headquarters that memorializes the 343 dead. For context, FDNY Islamic Society hosted an iftar last week – a breaking of the Ramadan fast with an evening meal. Fire Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore and Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani attended, along with an estimated 125 employees and guests.

According to Edelman, this event has taken place for years, using the FDNY auditorium at the Metrotech Plaza as a venue. However, Edelman said, this appears to have been the first time prayer rugs were put in the lobby next to the plaque. Another plaque is out of the shot, listing the 409 firefighters who died of various illnesses as a result of their heroism that day.

New York Republican Councilwoman Joann Ariola reportedly had over 20 complaints come to her office from 9/11 first responders and relatives upon learning about the event. One current firefighter said, “As someone who respects the sacrifices made by all FDNY members, I believe the Muslim group involved, along with city leadership (including the Mayor), showed a real lack of sensitivity.”

The firefighter added that “the auditorium, already in use as a dining hall, could easily have served a dual purpose for any ritual or gathering — keeping the memorial lobby untouched and focused on its solemn role.”

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Afonso Gonçalves proibido pelo Ministério Público de ter contas bancárias

 

É probido hastear a bandeira nacional no Martim Moniz!!!!