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One Month of Islam and Multiculturalism in Sweden: February 2016

by Ingrid Carlqvist • March 26, 2016 at 5:00 am

Two "unaccompanied refugee children," remanded in January on suspicion of the aggravated rape of a younger boy at an asylum house in Alvesta, were revealed to be much older than 15 years old -- the age they claimed to be. One of them, an Afghan man, wrote on Facebook that he was 44.
On Sweden's most popular TV show, host Gina Dirawi and a children's choir rewrote Sweden's national anthem -- instead of "I want to live, I want to die in the North", they sang, "I want to live, I want to die on Earth." The producer stated that the show "is not for those who get upset if the national anthem is changed. The focus should be on the people of this country who have 'different roots.'"
Adult migrants with residence permits now have a right to bypass Swedes in waiting lists for housing. There is a massive shortage of housing, which has led to young Swedes, well into their 30s, being forced to live with their parents.

Left: A police van, riddled with shrapnel from a hand grenade attack in Stockholm last year. The man accused of the attack was recently acquitted, because the court doubted that his DNA, found on the grenade's lever, had gotten there at the time of the attack. Right: Kim Bodnia, star of the acclaimed Swedish-Danish TV show, The Bridge (Bron), revealed last month that one of the reasons he left the show was the rampant antisemitism in Malmö (the filming location).

No one seems to have given any thought as to where all the people who are granted asylum in Sweden are supposed to live. There is a massive shortage of housing, which has led to young Swedes, well into their 30s, being forced to live with their parents. In 2014, a report from the Swedish Union of Tenants (Hyresgästföreningen) disclosed that close to 300,000 young people between the ages of 20-27 do not have their own place to live. The Immigration Service has the right to send "unaccompanied refugee children," who are often, in fact, undocumented adults, to the local municipalities -- and then it is their problem to procure accommodation. It was also recently reported that adult migrants with residence permits have a right to bypass Swedes in waiting lists for housing. The municipality of Skellefteå now plans to inventory all the empty houses in the countryside, looking for possible alternatives for migrants.