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KASSAM: What I Saw in Sweden Last Week is Not 'Normal' And Trump is Right
When I got off the train at Malmoâs Central station last week and dragged my suitcase noisily over the cobbled pavements I thought to myself, âThereâs no way this place has âNo Go Zones'â.
Downtown Malmo is a gorgeous though freezing cold place to visit in February. I checked into my hotel â passing between a âBurger Kingâ and a âSchwarma Kingâ along the way, the latter of which recently took the spot of the âStortogets Gatukokâ in Malmoâs Great Square â and set off for my destination: Rosengard.
Much has been written about Swedenâs âNo Go Zonesâ in recent years. Weâve watched them burn over the years with a combination of disbelief and shock. When the Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Akesson told me â as we walked through Molenbeek in Brusselsjust days after the Paris terror attacks in 2015 â âwe have these places in Sweden tooâ, I was sceptical.
Sweden is supposed to be paradise-like, I thought. Isnât it all leggy blondes and Ikea and Abba and lingonberries?
Well if you stay downtown in Malmo or Stockholm, perhaps it is. Even the elevator muzak had a whiff of âFernandoâ about it.
But the stereotypes and cliches, kept alive for the tourists no doubt, end when you leave the city centres and head out to some of the suburbs.
My first stop was Rosengard, where my colleague Oliver Lane first reported from in September 2015.
As we drove around the housing estates at night, it became clear the problems in these areas: drugs, rape, police assaults and more, were created in large part by state-sponsored âmulticulturalismâ.
Swedenâs liberal migration policies, that is to say a failure to maintain any sort of border control at all over the past few decades, have led to ghettoised communities that the state props up with generous welfare payments and socialist lecturing.
Sign posts on noticeboards advertised for left wing political parties, and as we passed by a mural of a mosque and parked up at the Herregarden housing estate, a couple of girls we asked for directions signed off, âGood luck there!â
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This is the same in Stockholmâs suburbs of Rinkeby and Husby, where filmmaker Ami Horowitz was recently beaten up for attempting to film.
Within minutes of exiting a cab outside central Husby, I was surrounded by drug dealers pushing âhashishâ and âmarijuanaâ. Within a few seconds more we witness two van loads of Swedish police appearing to negotiate one manâs arrest from a building guarded by burly men.
âWhy are there so many satellite dishes?â I asked one of my guides.
âThey donât watch Swedish television. They donât speak Swedish. They want to receive television from their home countries in their native languagesâ.
KASSAM: What I Saw in Sweden Last Week is Not 'Normal' And Trump is Right
When I got off the train at Malmoâs Central station last week and dragged my suitcase noisily over the cobbled pavements I thought to myself, âThereâs no way this place has âNo Go Zones'â.
Downtown Malmo is a gorgeous though freezing cold place to visit in February. I checked into my hotel â passing between a âBurger Kingâ and a âSchwarma Kingâ along the way, the latter of which recently took the spot of the âStortogets Gatukokâ in Malmoâs Great Square â and set off for my destination: Rosengard.
Much has been written about Swedenâs âNo Go Zonesâ in recent years. Weâve watched them burn over the years with a combination of disbelief and shock. When the Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Akesson told me â as we walked through Molenbeek in Brusselsjust days after the Paris terror attacks in 2015 â âwe have these places in Sweden tooâ, I was sceptical.
Sweden is supposed to be paradise-like, I thought. Isnât it all leggy blondes and Ikea and Abba and lingonberries?
Well if you stay downtown in Malmo or Stockholm, perhaps it is. Even the elevator muzak had a whiff of âFernandoâ about it.
But the stereotypes and cliches, kept alive for the tourists no doubt, end when you leave the city centres and head out to some of the suburbs.
My first stop was Rosengard, where my colleague Oliver Lane first reported from in September 2015.
As we drove around the housing estates at night, it became clear the problems in these areas: drugs, rape, police assaults and more, were created in large part by state-sponsored âmulticulturalismâ.
Swedenâs liberal migration policies, that is to say a failure to maintain any sort of border control at all over the past few decades, have led to ghettoised communities that the state props up with generous welfare payments and socialist lecturing.
Sign posts on noticeboards advertised for left wing political parties, and as we passed by a mural of a mosque and parked up at the Herregarden housing estate, a couple of girls we asked for directions signed off, âGood luck there!â
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This is the same in Stockholmâs suburbs of Rinkeby and Husby, where filmmaker Ami Horowitz was recently beaten up for attempting to film.
Within minutes of exiting a cab outside central Husby, I was surrounded by drug dealers pushing âhashishâ and âmarijuanaâ. Within a few seconds more we witness two van loads of Swedish police appearing to negotiate one manâs arrest from a building guarded by burly men.
âWhy are there so many satellite dishes?â I asked one of my guides.
âThey donât watch Swedish television. They donât speak Swedish. They want to receive television from their home countries in their native languagesâ.
