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| Sweden hit by third mosque attack in a week |
| 2015-01-02 |
| [ARABNEWS] Swedish police were hunting Thursday for at least one suspect following what is believed to be the third arson attack on a mosque in a week. “Someone threw a firebomb, a Molotov cocktail at the building,” Torsten Hemlin a spokesman for Uppsala police told Swedish news agency TT, adding that the bomb did not set the mosque in eastern Sweden alight. “They also wrote some vulgar racist words,” he said, adding that no one was in the building at the time of the attack. Police in Sweden’s fourth largest city Uppsala were alerted by passers-by who reportedly saw a man throw a burning object at the mosque at around 0430 GMT. “The crime has been classed as attempted arson, vandalism and incitement to hatred,” the police said in a statement appealing for eyewitnesses to come forward. Thursday’s attack came just three days after a late night blaze at a mosque in Esloev in southern Sweden which police suspect was also arson. On Christmas Day five people were injured when a petrol bomb was thrown through the window of a mosque in Eskilstuna, east of the capital Stockholm. The country’s leftist Prime Minister Stefan Loefven called the Christmas attack a spurt of “hateful violence” and said Sweden would “never tolerate this kind of crime.” According to the anti-racism magazine Expo, there have been more than a dozen attacks on mosques in Sweden in the last year. The attacks come as debate intensifies in the country over immigration and the integration of asylum seekers in the traditionally tolerant Nordic country. Last month the far right Sweden Democrats — which doubled its support to 13 percent in September elections — came close to bringing down the left-green government over its liberal refugee policies, further boosting its support in opinion polls. In Germany, according to a poll, one German in eight would join an anti-Muslim march if a rapidly-growing protest movement organized one in their home towns. The survey highlighted growing support in Germany, as in other European Union countries including Britain and Sweden, for parties and movements tapping into voter fears that mainstream politicians are too soft on immigration. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 The country’s leftist Prime Minister Stefan Loefven called the Christmas attack a spurt of “hateful violence” and said Sweden would “never tolerate this kind of crime. However rape of Swedish women by "immigrants" is merely an "expression of frustration"... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-01-02 08:51 |
| #3 Assimilation is not the goal. Conquest of existing cultures is the goal. The eugenicist dream of vast pumpkin tree forests will one day be viewed along side the belief's of flat earth followers. Whether decided upon by some higher power, or developed through simple evolution and the laws of nature, geographic assignment was purposed. The Yuri and the Passé peoples of the Amazon have no longing to migrate to the frozen hunting grounds and waters of the Inuits, Aleuts, Athabaskans, and Gwich’in, nor should they. The forced or voluntary reassignment of these people would result not only in 'cultural suicide' but their extinction as well. Why this fact can be readily accepted whilst other forms of geographic reassignment are enthusiastically embraced with all caution thrown to the wind, remains a mystery. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-01-02 03:14 |
| #2 the bomb did not set the mosque in eastern Sweden alight. Islam and enlightenment don't mix? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-01-02 02:41 |
| #1 Many of those immigrants have not, nor will they ever, assimilate into Swedish or European culture. |
| Posted by: jvalentour 2015-01-02 01:00 |