re: #450 captdiggs

I don’t know which Malmo you are referring to but Malmo, Sweden has over 50,000 muslim immigrants that comprise between 20 and 25% of the population.

Rubbish and more rubbish, yet again.

As I haven’t only visited the city recently, but also am quite capable in the Swedish language, I can refer you to this article in the regional newspaper Sydsvenskan: sydsvenskan.se

There, you can read that Malm now has 290.000 inhabitants. This number does not include only the city itself, but also several smaller communities.

Also feel free to check Statistics Sweden’s website: scb.se

There you will find the figures for Malm in line 797.

As for demographics, around a quarter of the population are foreign-born (75.000), the biggest groups being the Danes (Copenhagen is not far away), Iraq, former Yugoslavia (Serbia, Kosovo and Montenegro), Poland, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Lebanon, Iran, Hungary and Germany. (Source: Official statistics from Malm municipality, 1. Jan 2009: malmo.se)

Malm is a rather charming city, by the way. Worth the visit.

As for the article in The Local which you refer too, this was published in connection with the riots in Rosengrd; a very real and very worrying episode. To conclude from the ongoings in a riot situation to the actual situation today is - however - bizarre to say the very least. Frankly, there are lots of places in the U.S. I would be more in doubt about visiting.

Rosengrd is a part of the city near the centre; where there are around 6.000 Kosovars (including 2. generation), some more than 3.000 Iraqis (including 2. generation) and around 3.000 Palestinians, and immigrants (including 2. generation) make up for 84% of the population. It has a total population of just above 20.000, and is somewhat over 300 acres in size. Look it up on Google Maps. Seriously.

As for Rosengrd: It’s an area with high unemployment, below standard housing (by Swedish standards, that is), and numerous social problems. But it’s not a no-go zone, not for you and me, not for ambulances and firetrucks.