"bigoted Muslims and their fellow racists in the country's Neo-Nazi fringe"
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Sweden has problems with racism, and I would say our politicians are partly to blame. They just don't know how to handle it.
About ten years ago I think, there was a lot of discussion in my home town regarding racism and immigrants. One school had a lot of kids from other countries and therefore the school decided it would be unwise to raise the Swedish flag and sing the Swedish national anthem. I mean, what!? Even if those kids come from another country (many of them were actually born in Sweden!) they are Swedes!
In my school it was suicide to show yourself with a Swedish flag because it symbolized racism and neo-nazis. I had a t-shirt with the text "Absolute Swedish" or something like that, and I quickly hid it. I did not want to be beaten up. Once I had a tourist shirt I've bought in Stockholm with an elk having a Swedish flag in it's mouth or something like that, and I was immediately asked if I was a racist. Because of the shirt.It was the same thing with symbols from the Norse Mythology. The Nazi bastards use a lot of symbols from our mythology such as Thor's hammer or runes. The 2 S's in the German SS was written with runes. Yeah, thank you for ruining our heritage, or whatever...Anyway, wearing mythological smbols was a big NO. I have to add, that it was just as likely to get beaten up by a "Swede".
Anyway, it results in the perfect growing ground for neo-nazi movements, or patriots/nationalists. They call out the leading politicians for not caring about our country, our heritage, our Swedish women, yadda yadda. It's election time for us Swedes this year, and one of the biggest national parties have a very good chance of getting a seat in the government. It's a complete mess...
Some time ago there was a Tennis game between Sweden and Israel where they didn't allow any audience. There's a lot of muslim immigrants in that region so they feared it would result in violence, or something like that. Some wanted to cancel the game. I don't remember the exact details but it was something like that...
I believe Swedish Jews have a hard time in Sweden. There are a lot of people from the Middle-east and some of them are very hostile against Israel, and Jews in general. Israel are also met with alot of criticism in media because of the latest actions against the Palestines. Again, it's tough to be a Swedish Jew.
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