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Puppyroach on 02 February 2016
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SamuelRSmith said:

Puppyroach said:

That is not to say we don´t cherish some of the more common swedish traditions (some of which goes a couple of hundred years back in time). Christmas is huge, but not as a christian holiday. New years eve is big aswell. Halloween is big but has traditionally been celebrated in a different way than the US version. Easter is huge aswell, where kids dress up as witches and go around collecting candy. And the big one is Mid summers eve, where se drink schnaps, eat "sill", raise a celebratory pole and sing songs. We also have Cray Fish parties with funny hats and a party where we eat fermented fish.

The concern isn't whether or not the large numbers of immigrants like Christmas, meatballs, or Ikea. It's civil-rights that have been hard-worked for for decades and centuries. Gender equality, racial equality, sexual equality, freedom of speech, assembly, religion, freedom of association. The right to trial by jury, etc, etc.

These things have taken generations and generations, people don't come around to these ideas once they get a nice job and a house. You're now importing a very large number of individuals who have not yet developed these mindsets, as they are simply not the reality of the places where these people are from.

Problem is, it is the right-wing, lead by the party "Sweden Democrats" that are on the forefront in infringing on people's rights, by wanting to force immigrants to give up on their religion, suggestion citizenship should be revoked for some groups, wanting to create a national registry on Muslims and some even suggesting Muslims should have some kind of special identification.

it's not Muslim organizations that are any problem at all, or immigrants. As a group, they have no influence on the issues you raise. I have always been more concerned that we have the party "Christian Democrats" in the parliament, a party that actually base their politics on the bible and have been in the leading coalition for this country between 2006-2014. Any party that want to form the country according to a specific religion is something I deeply oppose, but that party hasn't come from Muslims, but Christians.