Jews driven from Malmo, Sweden by Muslim violence
In a grim and alarming story datelined Malmo, Sweden, tomorrow’s edition of The Telegraph reports the flight of Jewish families because of Muslim violence against them. Quoting an 86-year-old widow, a survivor of Auschwitz who came to Malmo 65 years ago, as The Telegraph reports, “half dead from starvation and typhus,”
” ‘I never thought I would see this hatred again in my lifetime, not in Sweden anyway,’ Mrs [Judith] Popinski told The Sunday Telegraph. ‘This new hatred comes from Muslim immigrants. The Jewish people are afraid now.’
“Malmo’s Jews, however, do not just point the finger at bigoted Muslims and their fellow racists in the country’s Neo-Nazi fringe. They also accuse Ilmar Reepalu, the Left-wing mayor who has been in power for 15 years, of failing to protect them.
“Mr Reepalu, who is blamed for lax policing, is at the centre of a growing controversy for saying that what the Jews perceive as naked anti-Semitism is in fact just a sad, but understandable consequence of Israeli policy in the Middle East.
“While his views are far from unusual on the European liberal-left, which is often accused of a pro-Palestinian bias, his Jewish critics say they encourage young Muslim hotheads to abuse and harass them.
“The future looks so bleak that by one estimate, around 30 Jewish families have already left for Stockholm, England or Israel, and more are preparing to go.”
This dreadful situation has been building for years: “In 2009, a chapel serving the city’s 700-strong Jewish community was set ablaze. Jewish cemeteries were repeatedly desecrated, worshippers were abused on their way home from prayer, and ‘Hitler’ was mockingly chanted in the streets by masked men.”
Read the entire story through the link above, and then ask yourself if you really want to buy that Volvo or another piece of Ikea furniture.
Actually, IKEA is a Dutch company. Ingvar Kamprad is Swedish, but he sold it off long ago.
neither her nor there but I think you are wrong about Ikea
I believe that the co is owned by a holding company based in Curacao or Bonaire whose shareholders are not all known but believed by many to be a foundation that is run and owned by Kamprad
Charlie, I much appreciate your taking the time to correct this. All those mega Ikeas boldly painted with the national colors of Sweden (blue and yellow) and the heaping plates of Swedish meatballs in their restaurants (I’m really revealing too much knowledge of the stores here) did mislead me. Let’s change the final sentence to read,”…then ask yourself if you really want to buy that Volvo.”
Thanks for your fact-checking and I apologize that it was needed.
Last I saw, Volvo was owned by Ford….
Not anymore! As of August, 2010, Volvo was sold to a Chinese company but still maintains its factories in Sweden, employs great numbers of Swedes and remains a Swedish product, bringing huge revenues to Sweden. Here’s the essence of the story of the sale:
Hangzhou, China / Gothenburg, Sweden – 2nd August 2010 – Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd. (“Geely Holding Group”), one of the fastest-growing car manufacturers in China, today announced it has completed the acquisition of 100 per cent of Volvo Car Corporation (“Volvo Cars”) from Ford Motor Company.
Compounding the confusion: GM sold SAAB last year to the Dutch company Spyker, which ironically is now known as “Swedish Automobile NV”.
RL Texin: Thank you, too, for setting the record straight. Since responding to Charlie Martin and then reading your comment, I dug deeper and the truth seems to be that although Ikea is owned by a Dutch trust, the trust itself is owned by the founder’s own family, the Kamprads, a definitely Swedish family. Sol I’m going to say that it is Swedish-controlled since the Swedish family controls the Ductch trust, according to http://entrepreneurs.about.com/cs/famousentrepreneur/p/ingvarkamprad.htm
IKEA founder Ingvar “Kamprad has been extremely shrewd in creating IKEA’s organizational structure. It is owned ultimately by a Dutch trust controlled by the Kamprad family, with various holding companies handling different aspects of IKEA’s operations, such as franchising, manufacturing, and distribution. IKEA even has an investment banking arm. Kamprad has repeatedly resisted pressure to take the company public, feeling that it would slow their decision-making processes that have allowed their phenomenal growth.” Lastly,
“Kamprad made headlines in early 2004 when Swedish business magazine Veckans Affarer reported that he had surpassed Bill Gates as the world’s wealthiest person. While IKEA’s unconventional ownership structure makes this the matter of some debate, there is no doubt that IKEA is still one of the largest, most successful privately held companies in the world, with over 200 stores in 31 countries, employing over 75,000 people and generating over 12 billion in sales annually.”
For readers interested in learning more about the widespread problem of lethal attacks against Jews all over Europe, the best summary of which I’m aware is this, by the authoritative David J. Rusin, of the Middle East Forum’s http://www.islamist-watch.org here:
http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2011/01/the-slow-motion-exodus-of-european-jews
Gee, anti-semitism in Europe?
How unusual.
But the fact that the Europeans now have to import the people to do their anti-Semitic harassment just goes to show how lazy humans can get under socialism.
Soon the Europeans will be so lazy that they’ll have to import people to sneer at Americans for them.
If it weren’t so tragic, it would be funny, in a way. Gallow humor, merily singing the praises of Multi-Culti lingo and cultural cross-pollination to the bitter end and upper bounds of societal tolerance. But it’s true; when you can non longer afford your own Nanny State lifestyle and must fleece large segments of the the Third World and along with it some cultural hostility to the beloved notions of Europhilia, you’ve “outsourced” your own future.
Too bad once again the Jews must suffer for someone else’s delusions. This time, the kinds of delusions that only an unholy combo of Islamists and secular Europeans could harbor.
Ha! Good one Rkae.
Native born Malmo gays are also leaving the city and for the same reasons.
With all the comments on Ikea and Volvo, I’d like to repeat that as BBC notes on the fleeing of Malmo-born gays from their native city tragically illustrates, the presence of deeply intolerant, violent gangs of Muslim youths in Malmo is a disaster for gays and Jews alike. And the straight Swedes of Malmo needn’t feel any too smug or safe, either. If you don’t know it, Google the phrase, “First they came for the Jews.” That seems to me to be the message of Malmo, and a growing number of Western European cities, as well, because of the teachings of Islamic fundamentalists regarding the need to destroy all non-Muslims to make way for the next great Caliphate. Any non-Muslim Europeans who think that just because they’re neither Jewish nor gay, all will go well for them should think again. And again.
Do you remember that nice Hezbollah chap saying that he liked all the Jews being in Israel, because then he knew where they were when he came to attack. Perhaps in a few years time all the Muslims in Sweden will HAVE to live in Malmo. What did the Venetians call those places? Oh yes – ghettos.
Presumably straight gentile women are another demographic that is certainly _not_ safe in Malmo, which has the dubious distinction of being Sweden’s “rape capital.” Women are especially at risk if they walk unescorted and un-hijabed through the Rosengard quarter, now largely Moslem, many parts of which have become no-go zones for the police. The response from the Leftist political establishment–including Swedish feminists!–has been to advise Malmo’s women to conform their dress and demeanor to Moslem sensibilities.
Charles Martel is rolling in his grave.
How long before unemployed frustrated youth rebel against this Muslim invasion and start attacking the Muslims back? Will their violence be tolerated the way today’s Muslim violence is?
Well the Jews in the US had better stop blindly supporting liberal politicians and liberal causes here or the same thing will happen to them. It will be a crisis of their own making.
Yes!
I live in a nice, small city by the sea , south of Malmö. Malmö used to be an industrial city on decline, with a leftist rule and cheap housing. That´s why a lot of immigrants moved there. Then the Öresundbridge was build, the University was build, a lot of investments found it´s way to the city and now it is a changed place. It is a multicultural city with many Swedish enclaves. There are still many immigrants arriving as they prefer to live in Malmö and it´s still leftist rule. The mayor, Reepalu. is originally from Estonia and I suspect that he is at least anti-Israel and I am sure that he is pro-muslim.Well, they must be his most ardent supporters nowadays, they are so many. I don´t go to Malmö very often and I see only “the surface” which is a vibrant colourful city. But I am sure all these muslim aggressive young men give Jews and gays a hard time and it´s a shame that the politicians don´t react strongly on that. The schools have of course problems with their motley crowd and we now have crimes that we did not know existed. I and my family have done what a lot of Swedes do, we leave the city behind and build our societies outside. What can we do ? The politicians and the lame media created the problems.
If the educational system on Sweden is anything like the system in the US then education must shoulder 50% of the blame. Between the Media and the Schools the young are programed to respond only to the liberal view. By the time they get old enough to think for themselves it is too late.
We are starting to experience Muslim discord in Toronto now with the uncovering of several public schools being used as mosques each Friday with the collusion of our leftist school boards and our Liberal provincial government. Thorncliffe, the area where one of the schools is located, is quickly turning into a Muslim area with the requisite niqabs and burquas.
The leftist school boards and teachers unions have long ago driven out any reference to Christmas or Christian holidays.
The Muslims bring nothing we need in Canada yet our government keeps allowing them to pour in and now wonder why we are facing the same problems as Europe has!
“The number of rape charges per capita in Malmö is 5 to 6 times that of Copenhagen, Denmark. Copenhagen is a larger city, but the percentage of immigrants is much lower. And it’s not just the rape statistics that reveal a scary increase in Malmö or Sweden. Virtually every kind of violent crime is on the rise. Robberies have increased with 50 % in Malmö only during the fall of 2004. Threats against witnesses in Swedish court cases have quadrupled between 2000 and 2003… last week’s police statistics… revealed that in 68% of all rapes committed this year the perpetrator was from an ethnic minority
” But you’re not supposed to talk about such issues in Sweden. That would be “racist”: Swedish laws prohibiting “hate speech” against racial minorities have been vigorously enforced. There have, for example, been a number of gang-rapes of Swedish women by Muslim immigrants. But Swedes must be careful what they say about them. On May 25, neo-Nazi Bjorn Bjorkqvist was convicted and sentenced to two months in prison for writing, “I don’t think I am alone in feeling sick when reading about how Swedish girls are raped by immigrant hordes.” “
Yes, that´s what I meant with the lame media. The problems with the immigration, and foremost the muslims, are not discussed. This political correctness has bred a new political party ( Sverigedemokraterna), now in the Swedish parliament, and a new medialandscape where lively and free discussions about hidden news are going on. The situation is the same in many European countries.
It is absolutely amazing how easy it is to brainwash the human race. Start young enough and 90% of the populace can be molded into anything that the government wants. In the US the Democrats do everything that they can to keep the people poor and dependent on the government. That is how they stay in power. They encourage poor illegal immigrants to enter the country and utilize the welfare system. Groups like ACORN encourage them to illegally vote. The children that they have here automatically become citizens and if a few short years will vote Democratic. If you are an educated white European it can take you 8 years and thousands of dollars just to get a Green Card that allows you to work and stay in the US.
What is the delay? Do we need permission to defend our lives? Who are we afraid of offending anyhow, the people who want to kill us? They will still want to kill us, so that can’t be it. If anyone else broke the law as these people do they would be convicted without a moment’s hesitation and thrown in jail, where they belong. If I call it a religion when I cut your throat or rape your daughter does that get me a free pass? If your religion is so base as to allow that behavior, do I have to accommodate it? Why?
Somehow I don’t think Charles X Gustav would approve.
That link to the Telegraph goes to a story from Feb 2010. Absolutely, Malmo is a “grim and alarming” place, a cesspit of Eurabian antisemitism, but come on. The Telly is going to republish “tomorrow!!!1!” an article they already ran a year and a half ago? Helluva scoop, Ms Rogers.
The solution is for Jews to leave and go home.