Although, the article is a few months old, the only reason I liked it, is because it shows how social & economic inequality among the public is dangerous to us all.
Governments, especially Western ones, keep saying for the past couple decades that they are working hard to root out "terrorism". Whenever there are violent incidents, government officials issue statements with words like "unnecessary" & "senseless", & outline how they will root out the terrorism problem from their societies & the world. But the violence has only increased.
So, the common sense says that the root cause analyses done by these government officials' advisors are useless. One of the major root cause of modern terrorism is social & economic inequality, & hidden & open discrimination.
In one of my prior blog posts from last year (2015), the article mentioned was a Daily Mail article mentioning how Charlie Hebdo attackers were born-&-bred French citizens. Those attackers / "terrorists" grew up in Parisian suburbs, which are full of immigrants or even "foreign" citizens, & who are excluded from the economic development of France, Paris, & its general public. They have been left out in the metaphorical cold outside, while the Caucasian French natives are enjoying the fruits of immigrants' hard labour.
Now, those "foreign" citizens are from former French colonies & have been living in France for generations. But they are still considered as "foreigners". This similar problem has permeated other countries in EU; from Spain to UK to Belgium to Sweden. The root problem is still same, though; immigrants are welcomed wholeheartedly because they are discriminated against in the upper echelons of the labour market & they are only given hard labour jobs, at minimum wages & benefits, if any, while the natives of the country enjoy becoming rich on the backs of those immigrants.
As the professor of social science clearly explains in the article that these violent incidents in Sweden are not senseless but have major social problems like discrimination & high unemployment among immigrant families are their root causes. The unemployment rate for youths is about 25%, & most of those unemployed are “not Swedes.” He further affirms my points that “in the last 15 years the gap between the rich & the poor has grown enormously & ... you find very rich people that are white people & the poor people are non-white people.”
Problem is that Western governments & other non-Western governments will not solve the root cause of these violent incidents. Solving root causes will involve stop interfering with the internal sovereign matters of other developing countries, stop selling arms & weapons to developing countries, putting in policies in their own countries to judge every job applicant on merit & not on personal & professional networks, & end discrimination in labour market & education. Some of these are much easier to do but unachievable because it will hurt them economically. Some others are much harder to do, perhaps impossible, because human nature cannot be changed (we like people who are like us & hence, we readily will help them).
But if Western governments want these violent incidents to stop, then they have to take the first steps to carefully examine themselves & correct their own actions first. We can't blame others for their actions until we take a hard look at ourselves & correct our own actions first. Why give an excuse to others to harm us?
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On Sunday, the southern Swedish city of Malmo saw the fourth grenade attack in under a week as the a hand grenade was detonated in a car park in the district of Värnhem in the morning, local media reported.
The attack came after a blast on Friday in the Solbacken neighborhood, which occurred less than 12 hours after another explosion in the residential area of Limhamn in the west, & 2 days after a car bomb attack that injured a man outside a community center in the south.
“It is the thirtieth explosive attack since the New Year. We have a situation that is serious,” said the Malmö police chief, Stefan Sintéus, about the explosion on Friday, as quoted by the Local.se on Saturday.
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This week’s unrest continues a series of numerous shootings, explosions & arsons that have occurred since the beginning of the year in Malmo, infamous for high crime rates, multi-ethnic & gang-related violence.
Since the beginning of 2015, 18 explosions rocked the city prompting the Swedish police's national bomb squad (NSB) to be called in. Over the whole 2014 a total of 25 explosions took place which shows a significant increase, Goran Mansson, head of NSB Malmo, told regional newspaper Sydsvenskan on Friday.
Police said they believe this week’s explosions are linked with the court sentencing of 3 young men on July 10 for their roles in the Christmas Eve bombing in Rosengard – the city district which has been dubbed by media as Sweden’s “most notorious refugee ghetto.” The Financial Times reported that 9 out of 10 in Rosengard have a foreign background.
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Rosengard, a district in Malmo, was built in the 1960s & has long been associated with immigrants. Over 80% of residents there are immigrants, hailing from the Middle East, Africa & Eastern Europe. Only 38% of residents in the district are employed, according to the Economist, prompting restive youth to take to rioting & crime.
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Forstell told RT that there are 30 to 40 people with criminal background & weapons in the city. He explained that criminal activity is connected with internal conflicts between different gangs or ethnic groups.
“Some of these people are involved in selling drugs and some of them are in other kinds of economic relations with each other and are not happy with the way things work out. It’s more of a business-like conflict,” he said.
According to statistics provided by local authorities, 31% of the city’s 300,000 population were born abroad & nearly 41% of the residents have a foreign background. The main countries from which immigration takes place are ones which have been recently plagued by conflicts – migrant groups from Iraq, Syria, the former Yugoslavia & Somalia are among them. The data also says that the Muslim population constitutes about 20% of Malmo’s population; this is one of the most significant percentages in Scandinavian cities.
Adrian Groglopo, professor of social science at the University of Gothenburg said that the conflicts are fueled by racial & economic tensions.
“People growing up in different areas segregated racially and economically are trying to keep their own business, protect their own areas and sometimes create a very violent climate,” he told RT.
...
Groglopo believes that the young population is being hit the hardest by the “racism and segregation in Sweden.”
“We have living conditions which are not good for the youth, that’s one of the problems,” he explains.
He also pointed to the problem of unemployment in Sweden which is “about 8-9 percent and for young people it’s about 25 percent.” He stressed that one of the main problems is ethnic discrimination in the labor market as most of the unemployed are “not Swedes.”
“In the last 15 years the gap between the rich & the poor has grown enormously & of course it has racial connotations – you find very rich people that are white people & the poor people are non-white people,” he added.
He urged the Swedish government to implement political measures for non-discrimination. There have been controversial incidents involving security forces & refugees ... .
...
“Sweden is going through political period very complex and bad,” Groglopo said. “We [are witnessing] a raise of fascism and Nazism in Sweden…they are getting political power.”
...
Governments, especially Western ones, keep saying for the past couple decades that they are working hard to root out "terrorism". Whenever there are violent incidents, government officials issue statements with words like "unnecessary" & "senseless", & outline how they will root out the terrorism problem from their societies & the world. But the violence has only increased.
So, the common sense says that the root cause analyses done by these government officials' advisors are useless. One of the major root cause of modern terrorism is social & economic inequality, & hidden & open discrimination.
In one of my prior blog posts from last year (2015), the article mentioned was a Daily Mail article mentioning how Charlie Hebdo attackers were born-&-bred French citizens. Those attackers / "terrorists" grew up in Parisian suburbs, which are full of immigrants or even "foreign" citizens, & who are excluded from the economic development of France, Paris, & its general public. They have been left out in the metaphorical cold outside, while the Caucasian French natives are enjoying the fruits of immigrants' hard labour.
Now, those "foreign" citizens are from former French colonies & have been living in France for generations. But they are still considered as "foreigners". This similar problem has permeated other countries in EU; from Spain to UK to Belgium to Sweden. The root problem is still same, though; immigrants are welcomed wholeheartedly because they are discriminated against in the upper echelons of the labour market & they are only given hard labour jobs, at minimum wages & benefits, if any, while the natives of the country enjoy becoming rich on the backs of those immigrants.
As the professor of social science clearly explains in the article that these violent incidents in Sweden are not senseless but have major social problems like discrimination & high unemployment among immigrant families are their root causes. The unemployment rate for youths is about 25%, & most of those unemployed are “not Swedes.” He further affirms my points that “in the last 15 years the gap between the rich & the poor has grown enormously & ... you find very rich people that are white people & the poor people are non-white people.”
Problem is that Western governments & other non-Western governments will not solve the root cause of these violent incidents. Solving root causes will involve stop interfering with the internal sovereign matters of other developing countries, stop selling arms & weapons to developing countries, putting in policies in their own countries to judge every job applicant on merit & not on personal & professional networks, & end discrimination in labour market & education. Some of these are much easier to do but unachievable because it will hurt them economically. Some others are much harder to do, perhaps impossible, because human nature cannot be changed (we like people who are like us & hence, we readily will help them).
But if Western governments want these violent incidents to stop, then they have to take the first steps to carefully examine themselves & correct their own actions first. We can't blame others for their actions until we take a hard look at ourselves & correct our own actions first. Why give an excuse to others to harm us?
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On Sunday, the southern Swedish city of Malmo saw the fourth grenade attack in under a week as the a hand grenade was detonated in a car park in the district of Värnhem in the morning, local media reported.
The attack came after a blast on Friday in the Solbacken neighborhood, which occurred less than 12 hours after another explosion in the residential area of Limhamn in the west, & 2 days after a car bomb attack that injured a man outside a community center in the south.
“It is the thirtieth explosive attack since the New Year. We have a situation that is serious,” said the Malmö police chief, Stefan Sintéus, about the explosion on Friday, as quoted by the Local.se on Saturday.
...
This week’s unrest continues a series of numerous shootings, explosions & arsons that have occurred since the beginning of the year in Malmo, infamous for high crime rates, multi-ethnic & gang-related violence.
Since the beginning of 2015, 18 explosions rocked the city prompting the Swedish police's national bomb squad (NSB) to be called in. Over the whole 2014 a total of 25 explosions took place which shows a significant increase, Goran Mansson, head of NSB Malmo, told regional newspaper Sydsvenskan on Friday.
Police said they believe this week’s explosions are linked with the court sentencing of 3 young men on July 10 for their roles in the Christmas Eve bombing in Rosengard – the city district which has been dubbed by media as Sweden’s “most notorious refugee ghetto.” The Financial Times reported that 9 out of 10 in Rosengard have a foreign background.
...
Rosengard, a district in Malmo, was built in the 1960s & has long been associated with immigrants. Over 80% of residents there are immigrants, hailing from the Middle East, Africa & Eastern Europe. Only 38% of residents in the district are employed, according to the Economist, prompting restive youth to take to rioting & crime.
...
Forstell told RT that there are 30 to 40 people with criminal background & weapons in the city. He explained that criminal activity is connected with internal conflicts between different gangs or ethnic groups.
“Some of these people are involved in selling drugs and some of them are in other kinds of economic relations with each other and are not happy with the way things work out. It’s more of a business-like conflict,” he said.
According to statistics provided by local authorities, 31% of the city’s 300,000 population were born abroad & nearly 41% of the residents have a foreign background. The main countries from which immigration takes place are ones which have been recently plagued by conflicts – migrant groups from Iraq, Syria, the former Yugoslavia & Somalia are among them. The data also says that the Muslim population constitutes about 20% of Malmo’s population; this is one of the most significant percentages in Scandinavian cities.
Adrian Groglopo, professor of social science at the University of Gothenburg said that the conflicts are fueled by racial & economic tensions.
“People growing up in different areas segregated racially and economically are trying to keep their own business, protect their own areas and sometimes create a very violent climate,” he told RT.
...
Groglopo believes that the young population is being hit the hardest by the “racism and segregation in Sweden.”
“We have living conditions which are not good for the youth, that’s one of the problems,” he explains.
He also pointed to the problem of unemployment in Sweden which is “about 8-9 percent and for young people it’s about 25 percent.” He stressed that one of the main problems is ethnic discrimination in the labor market as most of the unemployed are “not Swedes.”
“In the last 15 years the gap between the rich & the poor has grown enormously & of course it has racial connotations – you find very rich people that are white people & the poor people are non-white people,” he added.
He urged the Swedish government to implement political measures for non-discrimination. There have been controversial incidents involving security forces & refugees ... .
...
“Sweden is going through political period very complex and bad,” Groglopo said. “We [are witnessing] a raise of fascism and Nazism in Sweden…they are getting political power.”
...
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