re: #112 oslogin

I don’t know if I would call Sweden a small country. Out of 223 countries and territories in the world, it ranks as number 88.

Anyway, there is anti-Semitism in Sweden, and since we’re painting broadly here; it can be divided into roughly four kinds of anti-Semitism.

1) Old-fashioned anti-Semitism of the “Europe in the 1920s”-kind. Disgusting cultural phenomenons don’t always die easy, and as a neutral country during WWII Sweden never really had the confrontation against Jew-hatred seen in other European countries.

2) Anti-Semitism from the extreme left, generally tied to anti-Israeli ideas.

3) Anti-Semitism from the extreme right. One wonders where they picked up the idea.

4) Muslim anti-Semitism, inspired by classical Islamic anti-Semitism and more importantly by modern-day anti-Semitism in the socalled Muslim world (and obviously, far from all Muslims are anti-Semitic).

Now, can you imagine any Swedes falling outside those categories? Can you imagine that the combination of 1, 2, 3 and 4 might lead to some (undoubtably nasty) “anecdotal evidence” without that saying much about Sweden at all?

If you’re still around… my question is, in these cities where anti-Semitism has taken a big spike, why isn’t the government doing more to crack down, stop, arrest those who are defacing property or tormenting the Jewish residents there? Are Sweden’s nationalist parties, such as the Sweden Democrats, influencing others to not help the Jews? If Sweden is going to let its Jews be hassled, it’s going to get the moniker of anti-Semitic. Same as if we, the U.S., do not stand up and support the right of all people, particularly Muslims to practice their faith, if we let Geller and Spencer spin the discourse as they want, we will be perceived as an Islamophobic nation. And I hate to say it, but rightly so.