Sweden: What to expect for the rest of the west

It is a daunting task to in a short article describe Sweden of today. To digest this tale, you must first change your outlook on reality. Think of President Obama as a conservative, think of Huffington Post as moderate, and think of the BBC as a newsagent known for its fearless pursuit of truth no matter what.

Imagine the laws of California as reactionary right wing and the immigration policy of the United States as racist and criminal. Your average Tumblr feminist is a mainstream Swedish politician, your Guantanamo Bay inmate is a Swedish diversity official. This is how far the rabbit hole goes.

Sweden has officially adopted feminism as a core value for her policies. This is not a matter of opinion, but rather the clearly expressed politics of the current government. 

Contrary to its stated aims, feminism does not limit violence. The recent legal suggestion from feminist Sweden clearly indicate the opposite, as returning fighters from the Islamic State will get extra benefits from the Swedish state.

These benefits include being offered employment before others, free gender education, and rental apartments in Stockholm, paid by tax funds. Raping a child after you killed her parents and then selling her off as a sex slave is apparently a lesser crime then not employing women based only on the fact that they are women. In a feminist society, it pays to be a thug.

Rape statistics also show that Sweden is one of the most unsafe countries in the Western world for women. Although these stats can be debated, an increase in gang rapes does coincide with the creation of the liberal, multicultural feminist state.

Female genital mutilation is a fairly new occurrence in Sweden. School nurses reported last year that all 30 girls in a class in Norrköping had been genitally mutilated. Although this has not led to a debate on women’s rights, Sara Johnsdotter, a social anthropologist from the university of Malmö, argues that the word itself is stigmatizes women and should be exchanged to the more including “circumcision”.

Sara Johnsdotter also claims that removing the clitoris does not have a negative effect for the sexual pleasures of women, since she has discovered something she calls “phantom orgasms.” I am not familiar with what studies Johnsdotter used to come to this conclusion, but it is proven that she has not herself undergone any form of circumcision.

Violence is rising as a whole in Sweden, and recent statements from law enforcement agencies indicate 55 no-go zones. This means areas where the police say that they no longer control the situation. Police patrols, fire brigade, and ambulances are routinely attacked in these areas with stones and fire bombs.

“Fascists” are routinely targeted with violence. The Swedish Democrats that according to the latest polls have between 15 and 20% of the votes are one example. Issa Issa was an active member of that party but left politics after being attacked in his home by a mob that stabbed him 18 times and left him to die. Despite the fact that Issa Issa is of Assyrian origin, this was not labeled a hate crime and despite the fact that the attackers yelled “fucking Christian,” it was not considered religiously motivated.

Organized violence against “fascists” includes being targeted by the organized lefties. A research group that calls itself “the Swedish Stasi” have created lists of people with “fascist views” and recently hacked Disqus, giving them access to anonymous commentators on sites deemed as “hate sites.”

I could keep listing incidents ad nauseam, but this should give you a general idea of Swedish mainstream policies. The image I hope to paint is not that of a changing, or even failing state, but that of an already dead society. If you get the image of a struggling people making a last stand against an oppressive elite, I have failed as a writer. Study it, observe it, for it is your future should you choose the same path as Sweden.

The decay has reached too deep and the vast majority of Swedes live from pay-check to pay-check, killing time in between with Netflix and Facebook. Few dare to tear down the veil and see the world for what it is.

It is of course the failing of men that doom society, and not the other way around.

The silencing of opposing views via legal norms is nowhere more obvious than in Sweden, where several laws have been passed to make it incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to legally argue against “special groups” within the society. A law passed in2002 (2002:800) notably mentions that “expressing disrespect against groups of people with reference to race, color, national origin, ethnicity, confession of faith or sexual origin” can be sentenced to prison for a time of up to four years for inciting hatred.

The word “disrespect”(“missaktning”) is especially problematic, as the term fairly ambiguous. The law was most notably used to sentence a pastor (Åke Green) for comments against homosexuality during a sermon. The Supreme Court later overturned the conviction, as it did not comply with the European Convention of Human Rights, and hence the conviction would have most likely not have been upheld in the European Court.

However, the conviction by the Swedish legal system shows a troubling trend. Swedish laws restricting the freedom of speech have become increasingly severe, to the extent that they deviate from the European Convention of Human Rights. Furthermore, a new addition has recently been drafted to make prosecution for the crime of “insult” easier when LGBT, government officials, and immigrant groups are in question. One of the critical changes is that no longer will “exceptional circumstances” be required for public prosecution if the aforementioned groups are in question.

The riots in Stockholm in 2013 by groups of mostly young immigrants are one example of the many issues immigration has brought to Sweden. The problems with immigrant-rich areas have become so widespread that the worldwide logistics company DB Schenker has stopped operating in Rinkeby, which is an area of Stockholm that is populated almost exclusively by immigrants.

My name is Feminizta, Queen of Queens: 
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!” 
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay 
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare, 
The lone and level sands stretch far away.’