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Why do they keep bringing Sweden into it?
I guess most Swedish news doesn't tend to be big news so maybe it's easy to make fake news about it and spread it to English speaking countries?
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Sweden has one of the highest incidences of rape in the world. Mostly down to the fact that the threshold for a rape charge is set very low there and people are more empowered to report sex offences to the police because they take them more seriously than other countries.
Why am I mentioning rape? Far right groups are blaming the high rape cases in Sweden on Muslim immigrants even though there is zero evidence to suggest that immigrants are behind the numbers. The question shouldnt be why is there so much rape reported in Sweden. The question should be why is rape so underreported elsewhere.
Separately, after the end of the Balkan wars a load of eastern European crime gangs moved to Sweden bringing military hardware with them. This has led to a load of nasty incidences with hand grenade attacks and shootings with military weapons in public places. Despite the fact that these have tended to be gang related attacks, the far right, especially in the US is pinning this on recent Muslim migration also.
Anyway, as a result, Sweden has become a cause celebre for the far right.
Not saying Sweden doesn't have problems, more that their problems are being hijacked to push agendas elsewhere.
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I think possibly because it's seen as a model social democracy, which is something the people pushing this line are keen to discredit? I also think the focus on Sweden brings in the ideal of a blond-haired blue-eyed Nordic racial identity; whether conscious or not, I don't think it's coincidental.
Stonehedge
Thrustvector
Yes, I had some internet advertising try to push a Spectator piece at me with a title something like 'It's time to admit the Swedish experiment has failed' the other day. Make up your fucking minds, folks!