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Unrest may spread across Europe, warns Red Cross chief
The rest of Europe could see riots not just Sweden.
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Charlotte McDonald-Gibson
24 May 2013
Rocketing unemployment and poverty in some areas of Europe could lead to rising civil unrest, unless governments take measures to address the humanitarian consequences of austerity measures, the secretary-general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has warned.
Bekele Geleta’s caution comes as police battle with rioters in Stockholm, where high unemployment and social deprivation in migrant communities have been blamed for a week of violence.
As Europe continues to grapple with the financial crisis, the situation for many young people is dire. More than half of under-25s are out of work in Greece and Spain. In some areas of Greece, that figure has hit 75 per cent, while in Portugal youth unemployment soared from around 30 per cent two years ago to 43 per cent now.
“If the number does not start being affected and start coming down, the more uneasy people become,” Mr Geleta told The Independent. “I don't rule out social exclusion, tensions, uneasiness and unrest, because if people don't have anything to do, and if people don't see anything in the future, there is mental agitation, there is political agitation.”
Europe is experiencing its biggest depression since the end of the Second World War, with the number of people receiving food aid from the IFRC nearly doubling from 2.3 million in 2009 to 4.1 million today. Twelve per cent of Europe’s workforce is out of a job, while EU figures show that 120 million people – nearly a quarter of the bloc’s population – are at risk of poverty and social exclusion.
“The figures are not going down, said Mr Geleta. “So we are worried, and we would like to warn governments this could be a serious concern.”
Mr Geleta’s comments come amid debate over the true cost of the austerity programmes foisted upon struggling nations by the European Union and International Monetary Fund, in exchange for bailout cash. While proponents argue that the cuts are the only way to get economies back on track, many politicians, activists and economists believe austerity is causing unacceptable levels of hardship while failing to kick-start growth.
In Greece, deep cuts to healthcare and social budgets have led to a resurgence of diseases such as malaria, while the number of suicides increased 26 per cent between 2011 and 2012. Homelessness in Spain is soaring, while in Bulgaria six people have self-immolated to protest against economic hardship.
While Mr Geleta said it was “important not to be divided on the best considered action” for hauling countries out of economic turmoil, he said governments must be willing to deal with the consequences of their policies. “We know that austerity measures will have humanitarian consequences: how we handle this is the issue, that is what worries us.”
He said he would like to see more government investment, as well as funding for the most vulnerable in society.
Asked whether events such as the riots in Sweden could be repeated elsewhere, Mr Gelata said it was impossible to predict. “You can’t rule out anything,” he said.
The rest of Europe could see riots not just Sweden.
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Charlotte McDonald-Gibson
24 May 2013
Rocketing unemployment and poverty in some areas of Europe could lead to rising civil unrest, unless governments take measures to address the humanitarian consequences of austerity measures, the secretary-general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has warned.
Bekele Geleta’s caution comes as police battle with rioters in Stockholm, where high unemployment and social deprivation in migrant communities have been blamed for a week of violence.
As Europe continues to grapple with the financial crisis, the situation for many young people is dire. More than half of under-25s are out of work in Greece and Spain. In some areas of Greece, that figure has hit 75 per cent, while in Portugal youth unemployment soared from around 30 per cent two years ago to 43 per cent now.
“If the number does not start being affected and start coming down, the more uneasy people become,” Mr Geleta told The Independent. “I don't rule out social exclusion, tensions, uneasiness and unrest, because if people don't have anything to do, and if people don't see anything in the future, there is mental agitation, there is political agitation.”
Europe is experiencing its biggest depression since the end of the Second World War, with the number of people receiving food aid from the IFRC nearly doubling from 2.3 million in 2009 to 4.1 million today. Twelve per cent of Europe’s workforce is out of a job, while EU figures show that 120 million people – nearly a quarter of the bloc’s population – are at risk of poverty and social exclusion.
“The figures are not going down, said Mr Geleta. “So we are worried, and we would like to warn governments this could be a serious concern.”
Mr Geleta’s comments come amid debate over the true cost of the austerity programmes foisted upon struggling nations by the European Union and International Monetary Fund, in exchange for bailout cash. While proponents argue that the cuts are the only way to get economies back on track, many politicians, activists and economists believe austerity is causing unacceptable levels of hardship while failing to kick-start growth.
In Greece, deep cuts to healthcare and social budgets have led to a resurgence of diseases such as malaria, while the number of suicides increased 26 per cent between 2011 and 2012. Homelessness in Spain is soaring, while in Bulgaria six people have self-immolated to protest against economic hardship.
While Mr Geleta said it was “important not to be divided on the best considered action” for hauling countries out of economic turmoil, he said governments must be willing to deal with the consequences of their policies. “We know that austerity measures will have humanitarian consequences: how we handle this is the issue, that is what worries us.”
He said he would like to see more government investment, as well as funding for the most vulnerable in society.
Asked whether events such as the riots in Sweden could be repeated elsewhere, Mr Gelata said it was impossible to predict. “You can’t rule out anything,” he said.
I believe it's the middle east immigrants. Unfortunately the Scandinavian countries have never been ones to welcome immigrants, at least not the people anyway. These countries also have a rather large number of groups who oppose immigrants and refugees. Plenty of far right wing political parties not to mention neo nazi groups and the like.
A completely wrong analysis. Completely. No country has been more open and accommodating to immigrants than Sweden. Not even Canada pampers its immigrants more. The rioters live in otherwise charming neighbourhoods that many Canadians would crave to live in, have full health care access, educational benefits, cultural programs, etc. Why are they rioting? One theory is because despite their relative wealth and comfort, they see that native Swedes are still richer. Bizarre, almost inexplicable. The Stockholm Chief of Police - hardly a dumb or unaware man - does not know why these riots are happening. Local ethnic leaders do no know why these riots are happening. Sweden is an immigrant's paradise, but they are angry about (????).I believe it's the middle east immigrants. Unfortunately the Scandinavian countries have never been ones to welcome immigrants, at least not the people anyway. These countries also have a rather large number of groups who oppose immigrants and refugees. Plenty of far right wing political parties not to mention neo nazi groups and the like.
Its certainly not because the Swedes failed to welcome them and shower them with liberties and handouts to help them get on their feet.
Apparently they get racially profiled by the police and called racial slurs. They get passed on jobs and have a high unemployment rate. They are expected to do menial work and locked out of the cushy white collar jobs.Its certainly not because the Swedes failed to welcome them and shower them with liberties and handouts to help them get on their feet.
Basically they are getting left behind and Sweden is not the model socialist paradise that people like to point out
The rioters are indeed mostly Muslim and I do agree that Sweden has been one of the most welcoming country in the world. People need to read this article, it explains it all.A completely wrong analysis. Completely. No country has been more open and accommodating to immigrants than Sweden. Not even Canada pampers its immigrants more. The rioters live in otherwise charming neighbourhoods that many Canadians would crave to live in, have full health care access, educational benefits, cultural programs, etc. Why are they rioting? One theory is because despite their relative wealth and comfort, they see that native Swedes are still richer. Bizarre, almost inexplicable. The Stockholm Chief of Police - hardly a dumb or unaware man - does not know why these riots are happening. Local ethnic leaders do no know why these riots are happening. Sweden is an immigrant's paradise, but they are angry about (????).
Its certainly not because the Swedes failed to welcome them and shower them with liberties and handouts to help them get on their feet.
Swedish Multiculturalism Goes Awry
"Sweden is the best Islamic State." — Adly Abu Hajar, Imam based in Malmö
Hundreds of Muslim immigrants have rampaged through parts of the Swedish capital of Stockholm, torching cars and buses, setting fires, and hurling rocks at police.
The unrest -- a predictable consequence of Sweden's failed model of multiculturalism, which does not encourage Muslim immigrants to assimilate or integrate into Swedish society -- is an ominous sign of things to come.
The trouble began after police fatally shot an elderly man brandishing a machete in a Muslim-majority neighborhood. Although the exact circumstances of the May 13 incident remain unclear, police say they shot the 69-year-old man (his nationality has not been disclosed) in self-defense after he allegedly threatened them with the weapon.
Two days later, on May 15, a Muslim youth organization called Megafonen arranged a protest against alleged police brutality and demanded an independent investigation and a public apology.
On May 19, Muslim youths initiated a riot in Husby, a heavily Muslim suburb in the western part of Stockholm where more than 80% of the residents originate from Africa and the Middle East.
At least 100 masked Muslim youths set fire to cars and buildings, smashed windows, vandalized property and hurled rocks and bottles at police and rescue services in Husby. The riots quickly spread to at least 15 other parts of Stockholm, including the districts of Fittja, Hagsätra, Kista, Jakobsberg, Norsborg, Skaerholmen, Skogås and Vaarberg.
After two nights of spiraling violence, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt appealed for calm, condemning the riots as hooliganism. But his plea ("Everyone must pitch in to restore calm -- parents, adults") failed to prevent more nights of unrest, during which Muslim youth set fire to two schools, a police station, a restaurant, and a cultural center, and burned more than 50 cars and buses.
The unrest -- which has many parallels to the Muslim riots that occurred in France in 2005 -- has shocked Swedes who have long turned a blind eye to immigration policies that have encouraged the establishment of a parallel Muslim society in Sweden.
Although there are no official statistics of Muslims in Sweden, the US State Department reported in 2011 that there are now between 450,000 and 500,000 Muslims in the country, or about 5% of the total population of 9.5 million.
Muslim immigration to Sweden has been fostered by open-door asylum policies that are among the most generous in the world.
During the early 1990s, for example, Sweden granted asylum to nearly 100,000 refugees fleeing the wars in the Balkans. Sweden has also been a magnet for refugees from Iraq; as a result of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), the Gulf War (1990-1991) and the Iraq War (2003-2011), there are now more than 120,000 Iraqis living in Sweden. In fact, Iraqis (both Christians and Muslims) now make up the second-largest ethnic minority group in Sweden, second only to ethnic Finns.
More recently, Sweden has granted asylum to thousands of refugees from Afghanistan, Somalia and Syria, as well as from Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, Turkey, Uzbekistan and Yemen.
Sweden is forecast to receive some 54,000 asylum seekers in 2013, according to the Swedish Migration Board (Migrationsverket), the highest level since the 1990s. In 2012, Sweden accepted 44,000 asylum seekers, up by nearly a half from 2011.
Sweden is expected to receive at least 18,000 Syrians in 2013 alone. Since September 2012, asylum seekers have arrived in Sweden at the rate of 1,250 per week, far more than the Migration Board's capacity of between 500 and 700.
Sweden is a prime destination for asylum seekers because the country offers new immigrants free housing and social welfare benefits upon arrival. But many immigrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East are poorly educated and have great difficulty finding a job in Sweden.
As a result, many immigrants are segregated from Swedish society and often live in areas where much of the population comes from countries other than Sweden. This in turn has encouraged the creation of parallel societies and the establishment of so-called no-go zones, parts of Sweden that are off limits to non-Muslims.
In some areas, no-go zones function as microstates governed by Islamic Sharia law where Swedish authorities have effectively lost control and are unable to provide even basic public aid such as police, fire fighting and ambulance services.
In the southern city of Malmö -- where Muslims make up more than 25% of the population -- fire and emergency workers refuse to enter Malmö's mostly Muslim Rosengaard district without police escorts. The male unemployment rate in Rosengaard is estimated to be above 80%. When fire fighters attempted to put out a fire at Malmö's main mosque, they were attacked by stone throwers.
In the Swedish city of Gothenburg, Muslim youth have hurled petrol bombs at police cars. In the city's Angered district, where more than 15 police cars were recently destroyed, teenagers have been pointing green lasers at the eyes of police officers, some of whom have been temporarily blinded.
In Gothenburg's Backa district, youth have been throwing stones at patrolling officers. Gothenburg police have also been struggling to deal with the problem of Muslim teenagers burning cars and attacking emergency services in several areas of the city.
At the same time, Muslim immigrants are becoming increasing assertive in demanding special rights and privileges for Islam in Sweden.
In February, for example, a mosque in Stockholm received final approval from the mayor's office to begin sounding public prayer calls from its minaret, the first time such permission has ever been granted in Sweden.
A majority of the members of the city planning committee in the southern Stockholm suburb of Botkyrka voted to repeal a 1994 prohibition on such prayer calls, thereby opening the way for a muezzin to begin calling Muslims to prayer from the top of a 32-meter (104-foot) minaret at a Turkish mosque in the Fittja district of the city.
The issue was put to a vote after Ismail Okur, the chairman of the Botkyrka Islamic Association (Islamiska föreningen i Botkyrka), filed a petition with the city in January 2012 demanding permission to allow public prayer calls at the mosque.
In an interview with the Swedish newspaper Dagen, Okur said earlier generations of Muslim immigrants "did not dare" to press the issue, but that he represents the "new guys" who are determined to "exercise their right to religious freedom" in Sweden.
When told that Sweden has historically been a Christian country, Okur responded: "So it was perhaps before, during the 1930s and 1940s. Now it is a new era. We are more than 100,000 [sic] Muslims in Sweden. Should we not have our religion as well, especially here in Botkyrka, where we are so many?"
Swedish multiculturalists agree. The Multicultural Center (Mångkulturellt centrum) in Botkyrka recently called on Swedes to "separate whiteness from Swedishness in order to be a socially sustainable future Swedishness."
On the other hand, a growing number of Swedes are beginning to have second thoughts about the long-term sustainability of multiculturalism and mass immigration.
Immigration Minister Tobias Billström recently marked a turning point in the debate when he told the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter that Sweden needs to tighten rules for asylum seekers and other would-be immigrants to reduce the number of people coming into the country.
"Today Sweden is one of the countries that receives the most immigrants in the EU. That's not sustainable," Billström said. "Today, people are coming to households where the only income is support from the municipality. Is that reasonable?" he added.
Reflecting the unease about immigrants among many voters, an anti-immigrant party, the conservative Sweden Democrats, have risen to third-place in the polls ahead of a general election set to take place in September 2014.
But the riots in Stockholm imply that the damage has already been done. The fatal flaw of Swedish multiculturalism has been to grant asylum to hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have no prospect of ever finding a job or making a meaningful contribution to Swedish society. Many immigrants are, and will remain, wards of the state.
The Malmö-based Imam Adly Abu Hajar, in an interview with the newspaper Skånska Dagbladet, recently summed it up this way: "Sweden is the best Islamic state."
Soeren Kern is a Senior Fellow at the New York-based Gatestone Institute. He is also Senior Fellow for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos / Strategic Studies Group. Follow him on Facebook.
Loony liberal lefty social policies. Give them free housing and social welfare benefits and they will come.Sweden is a prime destination for asylum seekers because the country offers new immigrants free housing and social welfare benefits upon arrival.
A brief search will also show you that most of the rapes in the country are done by Muslim immigrants.Loony liberal lefty social policies. Give them free housing and social welfare benefits and they will come.
Well, the Swedes are reaping what they sowed.A brief search will also show you that most of the rapes in the country are done by Muslim immigrants.
I'm not talking about the Swedish government, they have created this mess. I'm talking about the Swedish people, they are the ones who don't want the Muslims in their country. Why do you think they can't find work? Simply because any Swedish employer would never hire one whether they have credentials or not. The Swedes have ignored and isolated the Muslims to the point that they have no future in Sweden so they rely on the state to survive but the younger generation of Muslims refuse to accept that kind of future. So we have a standoff, the young Muslims who are demanding respect and acceptance into Swedish society and the average Swede who wants no part of the Muslims.A completely wrong analysis. Completely. No country has been more open and accommodating to immigrants than Sweden. Not even Canada pampers its immigrants more. The rioters live in otherwise charming neighbourhoods that many Canadians would crave to live in, have full health care access, educational benefits, cultural programs, etc. Why are they rioting? One theory is because despite their relative wealth and comfort, they see that native Swedes are still richer. Bizarre, almost inexplicable. The Stockholm Chief of Police - hardly a dumb or unaware man - does not know why these riots are happening. Local ethnic leaders do no know why these riots are happening. Sweden is an immigrant's paradise, but they are angry about (????).
Its certainly not because the Swedes failed to welcome them and shower them with liberties and handouts to help them get on their feet.
See post #9.I'm not talking about the Swedish government, they have created this mess. I'm talking about the Swedish people, they are the ones who don't want the Muslims in their country. Why do you think they can't find work? Simply because any Swedish employer would never hire one whether they have credentials or not. The Swedes have ignored and isolated the Muslims to the point that they have no future in Sweden so they rely on the state to survive but the younger generation of Muslims refuse to accept that kind of future. So we have a standoff, the young Muslims who are demanding respect and acceptance into Swedish society and the average Swede who wants no part of the Muslims.
Sweden tried to be nice to people who needed their help. Bad idea. Sweden would have been better off letting the world's refugees die in their homelands. Sad, but true.
Say anything against letting alien cultures into your country and you are simply labelled racist. If your country's culture caused your country to become so untenable that you are compelled to leave it for a new country that is obviously appealing enough to you that you would uproot your entire past to move there, why ON EARTH would you NOT want to adopt the culture that made that new country so appealing, and abandon the culture that caused your own country to become so unappealing?Well, the Swedes are reaping what they sowed.
Interesting contrast between Sweden and Canada regarding immigrants and refugees. Here they don't have to forget about their homeland or their culture or traditions. Our government has basically made it easy for them by telling us "homegrown" Canadians we have to accept these people into our society. Witness our labour laws which force large employers to have a certain percentage of visible minorities represented in their workplace. Nothing like telling a business they have to hire a minority instead of someone who's actually best qualified for the job.
Can't lump all immigrants into one group. There are major differences. The most successful are the Chinese followed fairly closely by the E.I's (just look at the top students in any graduating class). Filipinos contribute greatly to our health care sector. These folks don't need any "affirmative action" programs. In fact, Chinese students suffered discriminatory quotas that restrict their access to universities. On the other hand, there are -----------------(can't name them because of political correctness) who resort to crime to make money and/or feed off the social welfare system.Interesting contrast between Sweden and Canada regarding immigrants and refugees. Here they don't have to forget about their homeland or their culture or traditions. Our government has basically made it easy for them by telling us "homegrown" Canadians we have to accept these people into our society. Witness our labour laws which force large employers to have a certain percentage of visible minorities represented in their workplace. Nothing like telling a business they have to hire a minority instead of someone who's actually best qualified for the job.
P.S. Some immigrant groups have carved niches for themselves. Koreans--24/7 convenience stores. Vietnamese--nail salons. Pakistanis/E.I.'s --dollar and electronic stores. ?????--illegal drug trade.
Canada is different,...nothing new
How many times have we heard the "...my daughter or wife was becoming too Canadianised,....so I murdered her !!
Does anybody think that kind of mind set doesn't pose a problem.
This of coarse doesn't apply to all Muslims,...but obviously too many.
I know it probably isn't easy,...but, they knew this coming in.
FAST
How many times have we heard the "...my daughter or wife was becoming too Canadianised,....so I murdered her !!
Does anybody think that kind of mind set doesn't pose a problem.
This of coarse doesn't apply to all Muslims,...but obviously too many.
I know it probably isn't easy,...but, they knew this coming in.
FAST
Jassi Sidu (R.I.P.) is just one of many examples. Of course, the apologists will say that Christians also murder women to justify "honour killings".How many times have we heard the "...my daughter or wife was becoming too Canadianised,....so I murdered her !!
