Lite popcorn

 

Lite politisk popcorn från de mångomtalade kryssraketerna. Kommer säkert mer snart, LOL. 

Mohamed Ali ville stoppa Pride-flaggan

Mohamed Ali spred konspirationsteori

Malmös nya kommunalråd delar extrema konspirationer

Gilla läget

 

Översättning: Ali är inte en virrig, underprivilegierad strulpelle som ligger efter med räkningarna av totalt obegripliga orsaker, utan uppenbarligen en "community leader" inom den somaliska gruppen. Eller en del av den. Varför han ändå ligger efter med betalningarna kan ni ju ta och grunna på. Fast Aftonbladet har sagt att vi ska gilla läget, så då gör vi väl det. Eller?

Om tio år kommer vi att få höra att vi-har-varit-naiva igen...

Här hålls böner för Mohamed Ali - i Nairobi

Här ber klanen för Mohamed Ali

En åsna bland hästar?

 

Ali (V) hånar en kurdisk medlem av SD. Sammanhanget är lite oklart, men Ali ska ha tweetat ett arabiskt ordspråk: "En åsna som betar med hästar kan börja tro att han är en häst själv". Fria Tider tolkar detta som etno-hån mot SD-kurden. 

Man skulle ju kunna svara: "Det finns tydligen åsnor som är fullt medvetna om att de faktiskt är åsnor, men ändå vill ha papper på att de egentligen är hästar". Med tanke på Alis ihärdiga ansträngningar att bli svensk medborgare...

"En åsna bland hästar"

"Just google it"

 

Komedin fortsätter...

Ali (V) kontrollerades genom "en enkel googling"

Lämna in frågorna i förväg, kamrat

 

Parodi på en travesti? Vänsterpartiets krishantering för tankarna till Sovjetunionen när det var som mest pinsamt... 

Vänsterpartiet avbryter intervjun med Mohamed Ali

Damage control

 

Det här ser ut som ett modigt ställningstagande, men är egentligen "damage control". Observera att Cantwell inte med ett ord nämner två verkligt besvärande omständigheter i fallet Ali: det mystiska företaget han drev tillsammans med en lokalpolitiker i Borlänge, samt hur han använde detta som argument i en ansökan om svenskt medborgarskap. Och vad valfusket beträffar så säger han bara "Ali är inte delgiven misstanke, ingen rättegång har hållits".

Varför undviker vår stridbare svensk-irländare just dessa frågor? Givetvis för att de inte stämmer in på det narrativ han spinner: Ali är en "strulpelle" som av totalt obegripliga orsaker varken kan eller vill betala sina räkningar. Kanske är vår hamitiske broder helt enkelt lite förvirrad. Snarare än, jag vet inte, slug och strategiskt beräknande? 

Men okej, det är rätt kul att Cantwell lyfter det obetalda underhållet för att skamma Vänsterpartiet (ett feministiskt parti) till att utesluta honom från parlamentet. Nästan lite slugt och strategiskt. 

"Ali är olämplig som riksdagsledamot"

Vilse i pannkakan

 

Vänsterpartiets krishantering när det gäller den, skall vi säga, originelle riksdagsledamoten Mohamed Ali är ju inte direkt imponerande. Det verkar som att V-ledningen helt enkelt inte bryr sig. Vilket kanske säger oss något om förfallet bland "våra" politiker. Oavsett partibeteckning eller block.

Det för också tankarna till hur Nooshi Dadgostar bara skrattade när någon kvällstidning avslöjade att det fanns spår av kokain på V-relaterade toaletter i riskdagshuset...

Spåren efter Mohamed Ali

Ida Gabrielsson kommenterar avslöjandena

Kryssraket

 

Hur svårt var det här att förutsäga? Den här historien låter som SD-propaganda som skriver sig själv. Det enda märkliga är att "batikhäxan" är f.d. moderat, medan killen från Somalia är vänsterpartist. Båda "borde" tillhöra Miljöpartiet. Eller kanske Centern. 

"Känner mig som en nyttig idiot"

Och apropå Vänsterpartiet...

Nu har Ida Gabrielsson faktiskt gått för långt

Social pedagogik

 

- Jag röstar på Norrlandspartiet, mannen!

Det är inte klanröstning, det är faktiskt *etnisk* röstning. Döh! Lär er skillnaden, svennar!!!

Vi riskerar att blanda ihop begreppen

Klanröstning

 

Klanröstare? 

Tja, jag vet inte...det där med klanröstning. När jag var yngre visste alla att de flesta invandrargrupper stödde socialdemokraterna. Transmissionsremmarna var de olika invandrargruppernas riksförbund. Alla uppfattade riksförbunden som fronter för sossarna. Vilket kanske förklarar varför så många reagerade när Jugoslaviska / Serbiska Riksförbundet så tydligt tog ställning för Milosevic under Balkankrigen. Det var inte officiell sossepolitik...

Det var också ganska uppenbart att många andra invandrare röstade på VPK (senare Vänsterpartiet). Eller kanske ibland på APK. Det handlade givetvis om flyktingar med starkt vänsterradikala sympatier. 

Är själv uppvuxen i ett s.k. utanförskapsområde (!). Mina föräldrar röstar på SAP resp. Vänsterpartiet. Vilket jag själv länge gjorde / har gjort också. Det hela var rätt så okontroversiellt. Ingen kallade det vi gjorde för "klanröstning" eller "etnisk röstning". Det var inte konstigare än att bönder röstade på Centern ("det gamla Bondeförbundet"). Sedan hände något. Tydligen. Misstänker dock att somalisk (eller sydsudanesisk) etno-röstning kommer att vara helt normaliserad om tio år.

Om det sedan är "bra för Sverige" är kanske en helt annan fråga. Jag konstaterar bara fakta. Och så var det med det. 

Jaha

 

Finns det någon som på fullt allvar tror att röstköpet / klanröstningen i Borlänge är en isolerad företeelse? Nej, det har såklart pågått hela tiden. Men för säg tio år sedan kunde ingen skriva om det. Vad synd att det är försent att stoppa nu.

Etnisk röstning kommer (såklart) att bli lika vanlig (och lika öppen) som den tidigare svenska intressegruppsröstningen. LO-medlemmar röstade på SAP, LRF-medlemmar på Centerpartiet, pingstvänner på KDS, och så vidare. (Oklart vem alkisarna stödde. Centrum-Demokraterna?) 

Så om ytterligare tio år kommer medierna att betrakta Borlänge-historien som en märklig moralpanik och nothing-burger. Och så var det med det.  

Jaha, det var det

 

Jag trodde först att historien om den där somaliske killen i Dalarna var en "nothing-burger", och hyckleriet hos dem som fördömde Mohamed Abdukardir Ali var ju ganska uppenbart. SD kallade honom en säkerhetsrisk. Samma SD som hade en rysk tjänstekvinna på regeringskansliet. M kallad honom en säkerhetsriks. Samma M som inte visste att SD hade en rysk tjänstekvinna på regeringskansliet. Amineh Kakabaveh (!) kallade honom en säkerhetsrisk. Samma Kakabaveh som antagligen tillhör PKK och använde sin vågmästarställning i riksdagen för att gynna denna (kurdiska) organisation. 

Ooookej.

Men nu har affären vuxit. Vågar man gissa att Vänsterpartiets ministerdrömmar just gick upp i rök? Och blir det dessutom omval i Dalarna har jag svårt att se hur Nooshi Dadgostar kan sitta kvar som partiledare. Å andra sidan verkar V leva i sitt eget lilla universum, så det kanske går ändå? Fast ministrar lär det inte bli... 

Vad synd. Jag menar, de hade ju i allra bästa fall kunnat höja den sketna arbetslöshetsersättningen!

Sunt förnuft

 

Rubrik i Aftonbladet. Det som hände var förstås att läkaren rättkönade patienten... 

Framtiden är här

 

Apropå mitt tidigare blogginlägg "Framtiden är vår", där jag länkade till några inlägg på TH:s blogg. Vi kan väl hoppas att nedanstående är kraftigt överdrivet!  

"Tioåringar i raskrig på Älvdalsskolan"

Bråk skakar Älvdalsskolan

Swedish "No Go Zone"

 

Credit: Calle Eklund/V-wolf

Previously posted on January 29, 2022

"Riskområde: Tjärna Ängar" is a Swedish documentary recently aired on SVT, the Swedish public service TV network. It´s only available in Swedish. Tjärna Ängar is a neighborhood in Borlänge (in the county of Dalarna or Dalecarlia). Most of the inhabitants are immigrants, and half of those are from Somalia. Swedes have nicknamed the neighborhood "Little Mogadishu". Tjärna Ängar is officially on the Swedish government´s list of areas with dangerous social problems (really a euphemism for No Go Zones). These are heavily immigrant neighborhoods with high rates of crime, unemployment and welfare dependency. For some reason, Tjärna Ängar is often mentioned in Swedish media, perhaps because it´s the northernmost of the problem areas (it´s actually in central Sweden). There doesn´t seem to be anything particularly unusual with this particular barrio compared to all the others.

Officially, the population of Tjärna Ängar is 3,500. The houses are built for 5,000 people. However, many suspect that the actual population is around 10,000. The documentary doesn´t explain who these additional people might be. Illegal aliens? Unregistered children, or what? The camera crew is threatened by stone-throwing masked criminals who (bizarrely) demand that the TV documentary must "concentrate on the positive things" in the neighborhood. A local Somali association refuse to participate in the documentary after realizing that it will be critical. At one point, the reporters interview a group of young drug dealers who spout politically correct rhetoric, as if they were left-wing activists! Meanwhile, 49% of all elementary school children fail to qualify for senior high school. Kids in the area tell stories of shootings and other disturbances. 

The reporters interview Mursal Isa, a Somali immigrant who represents the Green Party on a regional government committee. Isa was threatened by criminal gangs from Tjärna Ängar for wanting to speak to SVT. He believes that the failure of integration in the neighborhood is to a large extent caused by the Somali community itself (hardly the official Green Party position). When new Somali immigrants arrive at Tjärna Ängar, the local ethnic networks tell them three things: it´s pointless to learn the Swedish language, it´s not worth the effort to seek employment, and everyone who reports local crime to the police risks being attacked by the criminals (hint hint nudge nudge). Isa believes that the immigrant associations in the neighborhood, which get enormous public grants, form a kind of elite group and do very little to actually solve the social problems. (One of the Somali associations teach Quran classes. I´m sure this aids the integration process.) 

Foreign students who study at the Dalarna University have been placed at Tjärna Ängar. Their house has been burglarized several times. When the students complained about the high rate of criminality to the student union, and the union supported them, the union was (surprise) accused of "racism" by the Somali associations. But who are these foreign students? They turn out to be...Black Africans! The irony is palpable. Perhaps the real racists are the politically correct bureaucrats who decided to place Third World students in a "Third World" barrio?

The documentary is concluded by an interview with Borlänge´s long-time mayor Jan Bohman (Social Democrat). He mentions all the programs the local government has initiated to help Tjärna Ängar. They aren´t working and Bohman has no real answers, except that the politicians simply have to stay the course. For instance, he promises an upgrade of the old houses in the neighborhood. I admit that I feel sorry for him - he looks like a typical Swedish local politician who is trying to administer the crisis as best as he can. Bohman at one point says that welfare payments should be the responsibility of the national government. He does have a certain point. And while the alcalde can´t say it, the problems are *created* at the national level, including the Social Democratic Party (which is currently in government). 

Here is a heretical thought: what if the overwhelming majority of Somalis *actually don´t want to be integrated into Swedish society*? Why *should they* want to be integrated? Isn´t this just a smug liberal myth, that everyone in the world wants to be like "us", meaning the modern-liberal Western middle class? 

Another thought: why was this "racist" program aired on Swedish public service TV? Managed dissent? 

With that, I leave you for now.  

Favorit i repris

 

Apropå Gustav Vasa, och så vidare. 

Jerusalem Madness

 

Nås, not Jerusalem 

“Jerusalem” is a Swedish drama series in four parts from 1997, directed by Bille August. Among the many actors, Max von Sydow and Sven-Bertil Taube are perhaps most well-known. Most of the dialogue is in Swedish. American actress Olympia Dukakis stars the Christian cult leader “Mother”. In real life, Dukakis was apparently a Goddess-worshipping pagan feminist! And yes, she only speaks English.

The TV series is based on famous Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf´s two-volume novel “Jerusalem”, originally published in 1901-1902. The novel is in turn based on real events in 1896, when 37 people from the small village of Nås in Dalarna (Dalecarlia) left Sweden and journeyed to Jerusalem, where they joined the so-called American Colony, really an authoritarian religious commune. This somewhat peculiar emigration has become part of the local folklore at Nås, where a theatre play based on Lagerlöf´s novel is still staged once a year.

In the novel and the TV series, the preacher who turns the heads of the Nås peasants is named Hellgum. At least in the TV series, Hellgum is depicted as a fiery charismatic who skillfully manipulates the villagers into joining his cult. (I don´t remember how he is depicted in the novel, since I only read it once, about 30 years ago!) In Jerusalem, the Hellgumites join forces with another cult, simply called the Colony, led by Miss Gordon (Mother). Both Hellgum and Gordon are based on real people. Hellgum´s real name was Olof Henrik Larsson, a returning Swedish expat from the United States. The Larssonites are sometimes dubbed “Sweden´s smallest revivalist movement”. Gordon´s real name was Anna Spafford, a Norwegian-American with a background in Christian pyramidology. An intriguing detail is that Spafford actually purged Larsson once the latter had joined her in the Holy Land with his Swedish faithful. Larsson was demoted to an insignificant position within the Colony, and died under wretched circumstances. In the TV series, Hellgum gets second thoughts about the move to Jerusalem and wants to travel back to Sweden with his flock, and then “purges” himself by simply absconding when his brain-washed followers prefer to stay in Mother´s authoritarian sect!

“Jerusalem” isn´t just a story about a revival gone dangerously wrong, but also contains a number of other plot elements. How much of these are true, I don´t know. The main characters aren´t really Hellgum and Miss Gordon, but the farmer and saw-mill owner Ingmar and his on-off love interest Gertrud. Ingmar´s sister Karin is also important. Both Gertrud and Karin joins the cult. As a counterpoint to the crazy revival and its contretemps in Jerusalem stands Ingmarsgården (the Ingmar Farm) back at Nås, presumably a symbol of stability and tradition, since the farm is said to have been in the possession of the Ingmar family since time immemorial, every male head of the family being named “Ingmar”. The Ingmars are depicted as the local strongmen in the community. For various reasons, the current Ingmar loses control of the family farm, and his attempts to regain possession forms a kind of intertwined parallel plot to Hellgum´s rabble-rousing. Perhaps the revival represents the “new” or “modern”, while Ingmar stands for the old way? In the novel, the various storylines are even more complex than in the TV series.

What strikes me most in the TV series is its negative depiction of religion, except – somewhat ironically – the Lutheranism of the Swedish establishment. Ingmar is depicted as a near-atheist skeptic and rationalist. The local priest and the schoolmaster represent common sense and civic virtue. All other religious types are dangerous firebrands (Hellgum), authoritarian cultists (Mother), gullible and emotional (Gertrud), fanatics (Karin) or easily led (Karin´s husband). Jerusalem turns out to be filled with eponymous madness. The increasingly delusional Gertrud mistakes a bizarre Dervish sect for Jesus and his disciples, and is attacked by fanaticized Russian pilgrims when she by mistake aborts one of their penances. Order is restored when Ingmar unexpectedly shows up in Jerusalem, deprograms Gertrud and forces Mother to let her return to Sweden. At the very end, the Lutheran priest baptizes skeptic Ingmar´s newly born son (of course also named Ingmar), while Karin remains behind at the Colony in Jerusalem, fervently thanking God for deliverance while surrounded by the graves of dead Swedish emigrants at a cemetery, including her husband and little daughter…

I would like to say that we are wiser today, 127 years later, but alas, we are not. We simply live out different delusions to those of the Nås Jerusalem-farers. Jerusalem Madness has been replaced by Clown World.

What hipsters do

 

YouTube ads are usually not funny. They are mostly annoying, actually. So it´s something of a surprise that the most funny YouTube ad is Swedish. I mean, Sweden isn´t known for funny ads. Or funny anything, really. Yet, here we are!

In the ad (linked above), the teacher asks some kids who the man on the portrait is (it´s 16th century Swedish king Gustav Vasa). The little girl answers "That´s a hipster, obviously". When the teacher tries to explain that Vasa fled from Mora to Sälen on skis, an event which inspired the modern cross-country ski race Vasaloppet, the girl answers "Yeah, but that´s what hipsters do (i.e. they go skiing). And then they bake bread". 

I admit I have no idea what the heck this is supposed to mean, LOL. Nor do I understand the connection between hipsters, skiing, king Gustav, and the "KPA". The KPA? Yes, that´s who made the ad. But what *is* the KPA? As far as I can make out, it´s a national pension plan for Swedish local government employees?!

Not sure why on earth they even *need* an ad (does anyone voluntarily say no to their pension plans?). Which just makes the whole thing even more crazy, somehow...

Veckans besvikelse

Credit: Narking

Trodde ett tag att Greider hade kvalat in till Veckans Strasser, men det verkar inte så. Hans lösning på etno-problematiken är att alla måste bli socialdemokratiska dalmasar! OK, Boomer.  

Uppdrag Granskning kan inte rädda Tjärna Ängar

Swedish "No Go Zone"

Dalarna University Campus
Credit: Edaen

"Riskområde: Tjärna Ängar" is a Swedish documentary recently aired on SVT, the Swedish public service TV network. It´s only available in Swedish. Tjärna Ängar is a neighborhood in Borlänge (in the county of Dalarna or Dalecarlia). Most of the inhabitants are immigrants, and half of those are from Somalia. Swedes have nicknamed the neighborhood "Little Mogadishu". Tjärna Ängar is officially on the Swedish government´s list of areas with dangerous social problems (really a euphemism for No Go Zones). These are heavily immigrant neighborhoods with high rates of crime, unemployment and welfare dependency. For some reason, Tjärna Ängar is often mentioned in Swedish media, perhaps because it´s the northernmost of the problem areas (it´s actually in central Sweden). There doesn´t seem to be anything particularly unusual with this particular barrio compared to all the others.

Officially, the population of Tjärna Ängar is 3,500. The houses are built for 5,000 people. However, many suspect that the actual population is around 10,000. The documentary doesn´t explain who these additional people might be. Illegal aliens? Unregistered children, or what? The camera crew is threatened by stone-throwing masked criminals who (bizarrely) demand that the TV documentary must "concentrate on the positive things" in the neighborhood. A local Somali association refuse to participate in the documentary after realizing that it will be critical. At one point, the reporters interview a group of young drug dealers who spout politically correct rhetoric, as if they were left-wing activists! Meanwhile, 49% of all elementary school children fail to qualify for senior high school. Kids in the area tell stories of shootings and other disturbances. 

The reporters interview Mursal Isa, a Somali immigrant who represents the Green Party on a regional government committee. Isa was threatened by criminal gangs from Tjärna Ängar for wanting to speak to SVT. He believes that the failure of integration in the neighborhood is to a large extent caused by the Somali community itself (hardly the official Green Party position). When new Somali immigrants arrive at Tjärna Ängar, the local ethnic networks tell them three things: it´s pointless to learn the Swedish language, it´s not worth the effort to seek employment, and everyone who reports local crime to the police risks being attacked by the criminals (hint hint nudge nudge). Isa believes that the immigrant associations in the neighborhood, which get enormous public grants, form a kind of elite group and do very little to actually solve the social problems. (One of the Somali associations teach Quran classes. I´m sure this aids the integration process.) 

Foreign students who study at the Dalarna University have been placed at Tjärna Ängar. Their house has been burglarized several times. When the students complained about the high rate of criminality to the student union, and the union supported them, the union was (surprise) accused of "racism" by the Somali associations. But who are these foreign students? They turn out to be...Black Africans! The irony is palpable. Perhaps the real racists are the politically correct bureaucrats who decided to place Third World students in a "Third World" barrio?

The documentary is concluded by an interview with Borlänge´s long-time mayor Jan Bohman (Social Democrat). He mentions all the programs the local government has initiated to help Tjärna Ängar. They aren´t working and Bohman has no real answers, except that the politicians simply have to stay the course. For instance, he promises an upgrade of the old houses in the neighborhood. I admit that I feel sorry for him - he looks like a typical Swedish local politician who is trying to administer the crisis as best as he can. Bohman at one point says that welfare payments should be the responsibility of the national government. He does have a certain point. And while the alcalde can´t say it, the problems are *created* at the national level, including the Social Democratic Party (which is currently in government). 

Here is a heretical thought: what if the overwhelming majority of Somalis *actually don´t want to be integrated into Swedish society*? Why *should they* want to be integrated? Isn´t this just a smug liberal myth, that everyone in the world wants to be like "us", meaning the modern-liberal Western middle class? 

Another thought: why was this "racist" program aired on Swedish public service TV? Managed dissent? 

With that, I leave you for now.