Protesters demand end to Sweden mosque attacks

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Protesters demand end to Sweden mosque attacks
More than 1,000 demonstrators take to streets of Gothenburg, Malmö and Stockholm after third mosque fire in a week


More than 1,000 protesters have taken to the streets in Sweden to demand an end to a spate of mosque fires, amid growing tensions over the rise of an anti-immigration party.

The demonstrations in Stockholm, Malmö and Gothenburg, the country's three largest cities, came a day after what was believed to be the third arson attack on a mosque in a week.

"We want to send the message that these attacks "¦ are a problem for all of society and not just Muslims," Mohammed Kharraki, spokesman for Sweden's Islamic Association said during the largest demonstration, in the Swedish capital of Stockholm.

"This is about people being denied their basic rights "¦ Everyone needs to ask themselves, politicians and citizens if this is the kind of society they want."

Witnesses reported seeing a man throw a petrol bomb at a mosque in Uppsala in the east of the country early on New Year's Day, three days after a late-night blaze at a mosque in Esloev in the south. "Go home Muslim shit" was scrawled across the doors of the building.

On Christmas Day, five people were injured in a suspected arson attack on a mosque in Eskilstuna, west of Stockholm.

Police said they were bolstering security around mosques. "We are working flat out with the investigation but we have no leads to report yet," a police spokeswoman, Lisa Sannervik, said.
According to the anti-racism magazine Expo, there have been at least a dozen confirmed attacks on mosques in Sweden in the past year and a far larger number is likely to have gone unreported.
In a government survey of hate crimes in November, two-thirds of Swedish Muslim associations said their buildings had been vandalised.

The minister for culture and democracy, Alice Bah Kuhnke, said the attacks were "aimed at intimidating and diminishing people". "That's why one of the most important things we can do is to not let ourselves be intimidated," she told demonstrators in Stockholm.

Debate over immigration has intensified in the Nordic country, which is expected to receive a record 100,000 applications for asylum this year.

Last month, the Sweden Democrats – which doubled its support to 13% in September elections – came close to bringing down the left-green government over its liberal refugee policies.
The far-right party, which wants to slash immigration by 90%, has increased its support in opinion polls to about 16%.
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The 2010 Stockholm bombings occurred on 11 December 2010 had spooked Sweden.

And this is one of the reaction that has emanated from Sweden over radical Islamic terrorism wherein there seems to be a siege mentality affliction amingst some Swedes

Huge Threat: Swedish Spy Chief Warns Of Rising Islamic Terrorism, "We Haven't Seen Anything Like This Before"

n just two years Sweden has seen more people learning violent jihad than they've seen in the last 10 years. The government's immigration policies and submissiveness to the ideology that spurs this behavior is partly to blame, and will do nothing but ensure that the problems they're seeing today will only worsen tomorrow "¦

Al Rod Al Anf, Volume 2, Page 182: "You see [Allah] will soon make you inherit their land, their treasures and make you sleep with their women." (The Words of Mohammed as Recorded by Ibn Hisham)

"Sweden's biggest security threat comes from around 200 Islamists in the country with the potential for involvement in militant attacks, including young people radicalized after joining the war in Syria, the state's spy chief said.

Increasing Russian espionage and signs of 'war planning' from Moscow since the Ukraine crisis took second place in Sweden's overall security assessment – although it did not see any increased immediate threat, Anders Thornberg said.

Sweden has long taken a standoffish position in international affairs, avoiding even the world wars of the last century. But military roles in Afghanistan and missions to Mali have undermined that formal neutrality and made Sweden more of a target, said Thornberg, who has spent over two decades at SAPO.

'We are talking about a couple of hundred people that are supporting or are willing and capable to carry out terrorist attacks in Sweden or planning a terrorist attack in Sweden against targets in neighboring countries or other places in the world,' Thornberg told Reuters.

Thornberg, head of the SAPO security police, said there were more radicalized Swedes involved in Syria over the past two years than in the past 10 years of other insurgent campaigns.

Several Western states have voiced concern about the risk from youths returning home trained for jihad after joining disparate rebel groups, which include foreign al Qaeda insurgents, in Syria.

'It's a huge threat,' Thornberg said. 'We have seen through the years before that a lot of people were traveling to Afghanistan, to Yemen, Somalia, other countries, learning how to do jihad.'

'But it was over a period over 10 years. Now in just two years we have seen more people than totally in the last 10 years,' he added. 'We haven't seen anything like this before.'"
Huge Threat: Swedish Spy Chief Warns Of Rising Islamic Terrorism, "We Haven't Seen Anything Like This Before" | MidnightWatcher's Blogspot

and such mindless behaviour has added to the fear.

Sweden: Police Attacked By 50 'Youths' In Muslim-Dominated Area

Extremist imams, patrolling Muslim father groups and homemade sharia courts can operate safely in Europe's Muslim-dominated areas, while non-Islamic authorities are regularly attacked. I am glad to see that the Swedish police won this one, though I fear that they will not be able to control the streets in just a few years. Via 10news.dk, translated from Avpixlat by Nicolai Sennels:

On Sunday evening in Skäggetorp a riot broke out involving some 50 youths attacking the police with stones and fireworks.

It all began with an assault at 18 pm, when a man was ambushed by several masked attackers.

A police officer was injured when he was hit on the leg by a stone. Another police officer went to the hospital with a hand injury. Besides throwing stones and firecrackers, the "youth" built road blocks with road signs.

At midnight, the police managed to encircle about 30 youths from the mob, and got them down on the ground and then arrested them. 50 of people who attended the attack have been identified, most of whom were born in the 90s and are affiliated with gangs.

Sweden: Police Attacked By 50 'Youths' In Muslim-Dominated Area | MidnightWatcher's Blogspot

But the is it Jihad or simply crime is the issue that begs an answer.

The unfortunate part of all this, is the fact that the mindless rants of some Muslim clerics justifying illegal acts in the name of religion has got the world's back up and even crimes committed by a group is taken to be terrorism.

But on the other side, the reluctance to identify with the native culture of the host nation and instead maintain their separate identity while enjoying equal benefits of the host country is another issue that creates problems.