Sweden protest after three mosque fires in one week

[field 98]

It's the Swedish left in power that I'm partially blaming. Nobody benefits from a immigration policy that leads to racial tension, neither natives nor immigrants.

I don't think "racial tension" arises from immigration policy, but from ignorance fed by misinformation. Immigration is not to blame for racist and/or hate attacks, racist attitudes are.

 

Either the Sweden left is doing something misguided or the Swedish right is exceptionally vicious.

I would dispute the exceptional nature of the viciousness - the far right is without fail vicious, in numerous ways, worldwide. Perhaps only better organised in Sweden than in other places.

In relation to the OP, it's at least heartening to read of the reaction to the attacks, and to see the government attempting to tackle root cause rather than suppress symptoms.

[ByeBye49 161]

Bless my country

I don't live there, but. 

[craig 680]

Apparently the latest supposed attack was not an act of Islamophobic, but an accident (or maybe sunni on shiite violence).

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/01/sweden-mosque-fire-touted-as-islamophobia-was-an-accident

 

Since the fire was an accident started from inside the mosque, it means that it was either started by a Muslim (intentionally or not), or caused by gas or electrical installations that the mosque is responsible for. Muslim leaders in Sweden have already started to demand a state-paid “prayer room guarantee.â€

 

Meanwhile, a police bus and many cars near a Muslim area were torched, and there has been widespread “fireworks terror†in Muslim-dominated areas all over Sweden, with “youths†bombarding police and random people on the street with high-caliber fireworks (here, here, here).

 

Translated by Nicolai Sennels for 10news.dk:

After the whole Twitter Left mobilized, including a couple of ministers, who collectively screamed “racism†and blamed the Sweden Democrats, the police announced that the fire in Eskilstuna mosque was not the result of an attack, nor did it have a political motive. Today, the state police said that it believed that it was an accident. …

 

Meanwhile, Ali Hussein from the Shiite community in Malmo said in an interview with Sydsvenskan regarding threats to mosques:

 

“For large celebrations, we usually have guards out there, but thankfully, we have not had any direct threats. Possible threats come from other Muslim groups and not from the extreme right. And we of course hope that we avoid threats,†he says.