An American reporter goes to Sweden to see if they really have "no-go zones"
Like many Americans, journalist Andy Ngo had heard about "no-go zones" in once-peaceful Sweden--followed immediately by loud denials that any such things existed, or ever existed, or could possibly exist in sophisticated, liberal, immigrant-welcoming Sweden.
Could. Not. Happen. Evah!
Finding the truth about whether these zones exist is important because if no-go zones are real it would be evidence that the liberal policy of unlimited immigration--with the immigrants immediately getting extravagantly generous welfare benefits--was a horrible one. This would suggest that our Democrat party's demand that we have open borders is a disastrous policy.
Unlike some reporters beloved by CNN--specifically the German who simply made up stories purporting to show that small-town America was filled with knuckle-draggers--Andy decided to actually go to Sweden and find out if the claims of no-go-zones were true. Here's his story (edited):
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The Swedish government knows that in some neighborhoods crime is rampant and cops are reluctant to enter. Politically incorrect people call these “immigrant ghettos,” but in the time-honored liberal fashion the government calls them "especially vulnerable areas"--a far less alarming term than "no-go zones."
When I ask a Swedish journalist if she'd accompany me to some of these “especially vulnerable” areas she says "I don’t go to those places without security,”
In 2015 Sweden admitted more migrants per capita than any other EU nation, incluing Germany. Most of these were young men. Tens of thousands more have continued to arrive since then.
Days before I was due to arrive in Sweden last summer, the country was rocked by mass car burnings. The government said “youth gangs” were responsible, a euphemism for criminal young men of migrant backgrounds. My first visit was to Rosengård, Seved, and Nydala, immigrant neighborhoods in the southern city of Malmö. At times, ambulances and fire trucks will enter only with police protection.
In these neighborhoods less than half of ninth-graders pass enough classes to enroll in high school. Four hundred miles north, in the country’s capital, I witnessed similar social phenomena in some Stockholm neighborhoods.
In Rinkeby young girls and even some babies were dressed in headscarves. Cafés were in practice male-only spaces, and a restaurant in the town center offered segregated seating, with a curtain, for “families,” a euphemism for women.
The reality I saw in these areas was totally different from the egalitarian utopia I promised by American progressives. How did Sweden, on the whole a prosperous and peaceful nation, develop these segregated societies afflicted by crime and violence? The starkest reminder of this reality are the numerous grenade explosions and gun murders that have become a regular occurrence across some sections of society.
“The hope was to bring people together under a strong welfare state,” Mikael Jalving, a Copenhagen-based historian who wrote an acclaimed book on Swedish multiculturalism, tells me. “But instead, immigrants from one type of [religious] background became concentrated in those buildings.”
Urban planners selected locations near wide-open parks, unintentionally creating an ideal environment for future gangs, criminals, and their lookouts.
University West sociologist Göran Adamson blames, in addition to poor urban planning, Sweden’s state-sponsored multiculturalism for financing separatism through various ethno-religious institutions. “The shrewd thing about multiculturalism is that it has somehow fused with the state,” he says.
“We have failed at integration for the past 30 years,” Mustafa Panshiri, a former police officer and now full-time integration educator, tells me. Panshiri, who came to Sweden with his family from Afghanistan when he was eleven, says Sweden excels at welcoming migrants but fails at explaining what citizenship is. “You don’t have to speak a single word of Swedish to become a citizen. There are no expectations.”
Omar Makram, a 33-year-old refugee from Egypt who entered Sweden at the beginning of the migrant crisis in 2014, agreed. He describes government authorities as wholly ignorant or willfully blind, in the name of tolerance, to regressive cultural attitudes held by manymigrants.
The government has spent the equivalent of billions of dollars on foreign aid and resettling tens of thousands of "migrants." Within a generation, Sweden has experienced a dramatic demographic transformation. According to the latest government statistics, almost a third of the Swedish population has at least one parent who was born abroad.
The visibility of conservative and fundamentalist Islamic norms I witnessed in “vulnerable” neighborhoods may not mean much by itself, but too often it is linked to violent extremism. A Syrian man who lived in Rosengård is currently in French custody for suspected involvement in both the 2015 Paris attacks and the 2016 Brussels bombings.
In April 2017, an Uzbeki failed asylum seeker used a stolen truck to drive through a crowd of shoppers on a busy Stockholm street. Five people were killed, including an eleven-year-old girl. Fourteen others were injured. The man swore allegiance to the Islamic State the day before the attack.
None of these incidents budges the government, which, like Merkel, will do what it wants, regardless of the consequences.
And the kicker: When I told ethnic Swedes what I'd seen in some neighborhoods in their own cities, they refused to believe it. They didn’t believe that within a short metro ride they could find communities practicing sex segregation, religious fundamentalism, and the imposition of extreme modesty culture on young children.
The government's careful refusal to be honest with its people has worked.
Could. Not. Happen. Evah!
Finding the truth about whether these zones exist is important because if no-go zones are real it would be evidence that the liberal policy of unlimited immigration--with the immigrants immediately getting extravagantly generous welfare benefits--was a horrible one. This would suggest that our Democrat party's demand that we have open borders is a disastrous policy.
Unlike some reporters beloved by CNN--specifically the German who simply made up stories purporting to show that small-town America was filled with knuckle-draggers--Andy decided to actually go to Sweden and find out if the claims of no-go-zones were true. Here's his story (edited):
==
The Swedish government knows that in some neighborhoods crime is rampant and cops are reluctant to enter. Politically incorrect people call these “immigrant ghettos,” but in the time-honored liberal fashion the government calls them "especially vulnerable areas"--a far less alarming term than "no-go zones."
When I ask a Swedish journalist if she'd accompany me to some of these “especially vulnerable” areas she says "I don’t go to those places without security,”
In 2015 Sweden admitted more migrants per capita than any other EU nation, incluing Germany. Most of these were young men. Tens of thousands more have continued to arrive since then.
Days before I was due to arrive in Sweden last summer, the country was rocked by mass car burnings. The government said “youth gangs” were responsible, a euphemism for criminal young men of migrant backgrounds. My first visit was to Rosengård, Seved, and Nydala, immigrant neighborhoods in the southern city of Malmö. At times, ambulances and fire trucks will enter only with police protection.
In these neighborhoods less than half of ninth-graders pass enough classes to enroll in high school. Four hundred miles north, in the country’s capital, I witnessed similar social phenomena in some Stockholm neighborhoods.
In Rinkeby young girls and even some babies were dressed in headscarves. Cafés were in practice male-only spaces, and a restaurant in the town center offered segregated seating, with a curtain, for “families,” a euphemism for women.
The reality I saw in these areas was totally different from the egalitarian utopia I promised by American progressives. How did Sweden, on the whole a prosperous and peaceful nation, develop these segregated societies afflicted by crime and violence? The starkest reminder of this reality are the numerous grenade explosions and gun murders that have become a regular occurrence across some sections of society.
“The hope was to bring people together under a strong welfare state,” Mikael Jalving, a Copenhagen-based historian who wrote an acclaimed book on Swedish multiculturalism, tells me. “But instead, immigrants from one type of [religious] background became concentrated in those buildings.”
Urban planners selected locations near wide-open parks, unintentionally creating an ideal environment for future gangs, criminals, and their lookouts.
University West sociologist Göran Adamson blames, in addition to poor urban planning, Sweden’s state-sponsored multiculturalism for financing separatism through various ethno-religious institutions. “The shrewd thing about multiculturalism is that it has somehow fused with the state,” he says.
“We have failed at integration for the past 30 years,” Mustafa Panshiri, a former police officer and now full-time integration educator, tells me. Panshiri, who came to Sweden with his family from Afghanistan when he was eleven, says Sweden excels at welcoming migrants but fails at explaining what citizenship is. “You don’t have to speak a single word of Swedish to become a citizen. There are no expectations.”
Omar Makram, a 33-year-old refugee from Egypt who entered Sweden at the beginning of the migrant crisis in 2014, agreed. He describes government authorities as wholly ignorant or willfully blind, in the name of tolerance, to regressive cultural attitudes held by manymigrants.
The government has spent the equivalent of billions of dollars on foreign aid and resettling tens of thousands of "migrants." Within a generation, Sweden has experienced a dramatic demographic transformation. According to the latest government statistics, almost a third of the Swedish population has at least one parent who was born abroad.
The visibility of conservative and fundamentalist Islamic norms I witnessed in “vulnerable” neighborhoods may not mean much by itself, but too often it is linked to violent extremism. A Syrian man who lived in Rosengård is currently in French custody for suspected involvement in both the 2015 Paris attacks and the 2016 Brussels bombings.
In April 2017, an Uzbeki failed asylum seeker used a stolen truck to drive through a crowd of shoppers on a busy Stockholm street. Five people were killed, including an eleven-year-old girl. Fourteen others were injured. The man swore allegiance to the Islamic State the day before the attack.
None of these incidents budges the government, which, like Merkel, will do what it wants, regardless of the consequences.
And the kicker: When I told ethnic Swedes what I'd seen in some neighborhoods in their own cities, they refused to believe it. They didn’t believe that within a short metro ride they could find communities practicing sex segregation, religious fundamentalism, and the imposition of extreme modesty culture on young children.
The government's careful refusal to be honest with its people has worked.
**mandatory Google warning: "Readers are advised to consider the above story as completely unconfirmed, so probably false. According to the Swedish government, Sweden does NOT have "no-go zones." Instead they have "especially vulnerable areas" just as every nation does. In fact we have been unable to verify that Andy Ngo exists, or that he is a reporter. Until we verify these allegations, readers are instructed to disregard all of the above."
A good guideline is, unless something is from a trusted source like the NY Times, or has been confirmed by Google, it's probably fake news."**
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