Uncle dans leg wrote:Not actually relative to the topic at hand but intersting nonetheless.
http://muslimstatistics.wordpress.com/2 ... y-muslims/
Wondering if their callous disrespect of Allemansrätten will bring the age old right of access tradition to an end...as far as I know this tradition is only found in the Scandinavian countries. Sad really
Wow...!
Under what neonazi rock did you find that report? I mean, it's ridiculouslyclumsy st what it attempts to do, and the phrasing reeks of extreme right propaganda...
It talks of a totalitarian socialist regime in Sweden in 1975? Seriously.
Sweden has had a parliament since the Middle Ages, albeit equal and universal suffrage just from 1921.
Before that voting rights were skewered depending on income and wealth, and women could not vote, but alredy in the 18th century the parliament was often at odds with the king, and we had a power struggle, sort of like between the white house and congress in the US, so even back then it wasn't quite totaliraian, even if it was a deeply flawed democracy.
Now, referring to a totalitarian government in 1975 truly reveals that this site is part of the neonazi or fascist movement, since they insist that there is no difference between the social democrats, the liberals or the conservatives, so they don't really believe that the elections make any difference. OK, there is an extreme left wing fringe that reasons the same way, but the rest of the text makes it pretty clear thst we're dealing with right wing xenophobes.
And the headline is misleading. The stats he brings up show an increase in reported assaults, and this is compared with statistics showing an increase in immigration. Wow! This is like the famous statistics showing a negative correlation between the number of telephones in a country and average number of children per family... The graphs were perfect and seemed to show a clear correlation, but of course there is none.
Seriously, there are so many flaws in this, that I don't really know where to begin. He doesn't show any statistics that are relevant for the statements he makes, and several of the claims are clearly wrong. I know for a fact that our crime statistics do not mention what religion suspected or convicted people subscribe to. There is some statistics (albeit not cited here) that show country of birth, but that has nothing to do with religion! One of the biggest immigrant groups in Sweden are the Assyrians. They hail from Syria and Iraq, and most of them have moved to Sweden because of persecution in their home countries, since they are Christians! Now, the idiot behind the article you posted will of course consider all Assyrians Muslims, since he seems to think that country of origin equals religion. What a moron!
Same goes for many other groups. A lot of the Iranians in Sweden have come here because they are Bahaï, Zoroastrians or Atheists. Or gay. Or communists. Very few of them are devout Muslims.
Then there is the problem with "reported assaults". Back in the day young men fought on a Friday or Saturday night and then they went home. No reports filed. These days pretty much every bar fight leads to a police report, or typically two, since both guys report their opponent for having assaulted them. Since the 1970's we have also banned the use of physical violence against children, which means that some of the reported assaults probablyresult from neighbours reporting people who discipline their children by beating them. This is a good thing, of course, but it means that when you compare assault stats from 1975 with assault stats from today, it's apples and pears. They don't mean the same thing. Surveys that ask people if they have been the victim of violent crime in the past year show an opposite trend, so most social scientists think the rising assault numbers merely reflect an increase in the number of assaults reported, not in the number of actual assaults.
This is confirmed if you look at the number of homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, which has been fairly stable in Sweden since the 19th century, with lows in the1850's and 1950's and a peak in the 1980's through 1990's and is now falling again. Logically, if there really is an increase in violent crime, that should allso be reflected in the homicide rate. In 2012 the Swedish homicide rate was 0.7 per 100,000 inhabitants, which is less than half of Canada's 1.6 and less than a sixth of the 4.7 of the USA, so I'm not so worried.
So, to sum it up, seems you stumbled upon some right wing bullshitter who is doing his best in trying to make some random stats show that Muslims are evil, but fortunately lacks the skills and intellect to succeed.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ ... icide_rate