Swedish Government Can’t Get Enough Multi-Culturalism

When it comes to refugees, Sweden goes out of its way to accommodate them, even at the expense of its own people.

Sweden has gotten creative in its efforts to provide additional housing for Muslim refugees on the backs of Swedish citizens – from proposals to have Swedes rebuild garages that could be rented out to refugees, to reports of Swedes being evicted from their homes to make room for foreigners. Sweden has a reputation of being very welcoming to refugees including allowing liberal immigration policies (because the number of refugees accepted in 2015 some officials claim Sweden is the “largest refuge country per capita in Europe”) and generous government benefits. A recent article shows that Swedish authorities are even paying Swedish teenagers to essentially hang-out with Muslim immigrants. Breitbart reports on this cultural integration type effort:

Around 50 Swedish-born youngsters, aged 14 to 15-years-old, are being paid 50 Swedish Krona ($6/£4.50) an hour to mingle with the new, mainly Muslim, arrivals.

In the first week of the trial, in the town Svenljunga, about an hour from Gothenburg, the teenagers are said to have learnt about democracy, equality, and prosperity.

“You can’t just turn things on, but we see it as these young people are doing a very important job in teaching about their cultures and gaining a greater understanding of each other,” said project manager Kristina Sune Fire.

While getting paid to share a country’s values with immigrants may sound like a good idea to multiculturalists – why after seeing the manifestations of a Sharia based culture would Sweden continue down the path of cultural integration instead of assimilation for Muslim refugees? What kind of values can Sharia contribute to Swedish society – misogyny, Islamic supremacy? Furthermore, Breitbart reveals how the refugees are being rewarded to have fun while the Swedish public are the ones to foot the bill:

The young migrants participating in the scheme in Svenljunga do not have work permits and receive income support payments from the government.

In the first week, they were treated to a free trip to the Liseberg amusement park where they went canoeing on the water “learn to cooperate in and with nature” and stayed with a scout troop in a wooden cabin.

With these types of benefits what immigrant wouldn’t want to come to Sweden, especially when the government helps with housing and other kinds of assistance?

Sweden is experiencing a type of ‘immigration jihad’ that is being enabled by a naive Swedish government. Politicians of the Swedish welfare state continue to pander to the dictates of their ‘tolerant’ and ‘inclusive’ political ideology. While one can argue these values helped Swedish authorities accept desperate groups of people during World War II such as Norwegian and Danish Jews (these actions were commendable) – the Sharia adherent Muslims it’s letting move to Sweden today are a grave danger to Swedish society.

Sharia law attempts to govern every aspect of a Muslim’s life. In Western countries like Sweden where there isn’t a Muslim-majority Sharia is oftentimes held to the local, neighborhood or family level of enforcement, but this does not diminish the fact that Sharia has an expansive outlook – looking to spread throughout Sweden and the rest of the world.

Sharia law gives non-Muslims a relegated position in society, suppresses religious liberty, freedom of expression, freedom of conscience, and more. It’s no surprise that Sharia comprises of commands and principles derived from Islamic texts. Such as this passage alluding to the inferiority of women:

Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri: Once Allah’s Apostle went out to the Musalla (to offer the prayer) o ‘Id-al-Adha or Al-Fitr prayer. Then he passed by the women and said, “O women! Give alms, as I have seen that the majority of the dwellers of Hell-fire were you (women).” They asked, “Why is it so, O Allah’s Apostle?” He replied, “You curse frequently and are ungrateful to your husbands. I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religion than you. A cautious sensible man could be led astray by some of you.” The women asked, “O Allah’s Apostle! What is deficient in our intelligence and religion?” He said, “Is not the evidence of two women equal to the witness of one man?” They replied in the affirmative. He said, “This is the deficiency in her intelligence. Isn’t it true that a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menses?” The women replied in the affirmative. He said, “This is the deficiency in her religion.”  –Sahih Bukhari 1.6.301

Furthermore, Sharia values such as treating women as property contributes immensely to the current rape crisis in Sweden, and other such problems.

The Swedish government has even inadvertently helped fuel some of these Sharia principles that are in direct conflict with Swedish values. Such was the case of a radical Imam named Abo Raab who was part of an organization (Swedish Imam Association) that received over $47,000 from Sweden’s government to “combat Islamophobia and racism in society[,]” but Abo Raab instead launched a website that exhorted Swedish Muslims to hold to Sharia type standards: refusing to befriend non-Muslims, not joining political parties of non-Muslims,  among many others. Sweden also has dozens of reported “no-go zones” where Swedish law is undermined by Muslims (ex. showing open hostility toward non-Muslims and secular government authorities).

Even though the anti-mass migration/immigration movement in Sweden has shown some promise in bringing immigration issues to the public light, will it be enough for government leaders to address not only the unsustainable number of immigrants coming into Sweden, but also the Sharia culture that Muslims are bringing to the streets of Stockholm?

If Swedish officials want to get serious about this clash of cultures, they need to start by cutting funds for programs such as teenagers getting paid to hang-out with refugees and getting more meticulous about who they let into their country and allow to stay. Sweden can’t afford to keep ignoring the harm caused by importing Sharia via multi-culturalism. Multi-culturalism is destroying the West.