The feeling that everything is alright

Kai Frederik Lorentzen lorentzen at hotmail.de
Tue Jan 12 06:44:55 CST 2016


 > I was only there for about 18 months,  but I remember remarking on a 
rape that had been reported on the front page of a local newspaper as 
being the first serious crime I had seen reported.<

Hardly surprising.

http://www.ibtimes.co.in/sweden-sexual-assault-teenage-girls-by-migrants-stockholm-music-festival-come-light-662909

 > A police spokesperson denied that there had been a cover-up, and 
instead used the term "self-censorship". "There are police employees 
that are afraid of talking about these things in the context of the 
immigration debate today," Varg Gyllander, a spokesperson for the 
Stockholm police was quoted as saying by The Guardian.<

According to an UNO statistic from 2013, more than 99% [!] of Egyptian 
women and girls report about being sexually harassed on the streets.

(Source: 
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/nach-und-vor-den-koelner-krawallen-in-der-haftanstalt-des-hasses/12810372.html)

And 94% of Egypt's population are Muslims.


On 09.01.2016 00:15, Jemmy Bloocher wrote:
>
> I used to live in Sweden and what a great time I had. I was only there 
> for about 18 months,  but I remember remarking on a rape that had been 
> reported on the front page of a local newspaper as being the first 
> serious crime I had seen reported. It was curious. No doubt serious 
> crime exists and domestic issues abound (there's a heck of a lot of 
> suicide to boot ), but I certainly never felt safer.
>
> On 8 Jan 2016 21:07, "Mark Thibodeau" <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Sweden’s latest murder statistics have come out for the year of 2012,
>     and this is really bad news for racists.
>
>     Remember the murder statistic is a very objective crime statistic
>     since it doesn’t rely much upon the rate of reporting, a country’s
>     laws, and is difficult to falsely report. So the homicide rate and
>     count is very objective when compared to many other crime statistics.
>
>     Here’s the official crime statistic:
>     http://bra.se/bra/brott–statistik/mord-och-drap.html
>     <http://bra.se/bra/brott%E2%80%93statistik/mord-och-drap.html>
>
>     The murder count in Sweden in 2012 was 68, which comes to a murder
>     rate of 0.71 per 100,000 for 2012, which is lower than all 50 US
>     states, almost every country on the entire planet, and one of the very
>     lowest murder rates in Sweden history!
>
>     So Sweden has now achieved an unthinkable astronomically low murder
>     rate of 0.71! Sweden’s murder rate in 2012 (with more Muslim
>     immigration) is even lower than it was in 2011, one of the very very
>     very lowest murder rates in all of Sweden history.
>
>     To put things into perspective, let’s look at number of murders in US
>     states with population sizes closest to Sweden’s 9.6 million
>     population (Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina) since the murder rate
>     is in proportion to the population size:
>     - Georgia had more than 550 murders in 2011
>     - Michigan had more than 600 murders in 2011
>     - North Carolina had more than 500 murders in 2011
>
>     Source:
>     http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/table-4
>
>     So this means that the US state with the lowest murder count and
>     population size closest to Sweden (North Carolina) had nearly 100 more
>     murders in 1 year than Sweden did in 5 years.
>
>     Sweden’s murder count in 5 years (2008-2012) would be 414, where as
>     North Carolina’s murder count is above 500 in just 1 year.
>
>     The murder count in Sweden in 2012 was 68. You’ll have to go all the
>     way back to maybe the 1960s or 1970s to find Sweden murder rates this
>     low.
>
>     I thought there was more crime in Sweden? If crime is up and there’s
>     much more violence, wouldn’t the murder count and murder rate go up
>     dramatically and be higher than at least a few US states? So where’s
>     all the ‘crime’?
>
>     Not only is the murder rate lower, the murder count is lower than
>     ever as well.
>
>     Apparently there’s more ‘crime’ and violence in Sweden, but Sweden is
>     safer than all 50 US states (the US state with the lowest murder rate
>     in 2011 had a murder rate of 1.2 per 100,000).
>
>     I guess we can’t blame people for being misled. Who has time to read
>     official crime statistics, instead of garbage on quasi-fascist blog
>     sites?
>
>     (Partially edited from source to remove stupid-sounding invective)
>
>     On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Thomas Eckhardt
>     <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de <mailto:thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>>
>     wrote:
>     > Amen to that.
>     >
>     > Am 08.01.2016 um 21:18 schrieb Johnny Marr:
>     >>
>     >> I'd rather they removed all religious priveliges in one fell swoop
>     >> (believe what you want in peaceful privacy, but don't expect
>     religious
>     >> institutions to receive state subsidies, mitigatory law making
>     or tax
>     >> exemptions on the grounds of being a force for social good or a
>     deeply
>     >> held community belief).
>     >
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