Sweden’s problems
Trump is in trouble with the Left because he highlighted Sweden’s problems with the European Muslim invasion. He got it wrong as in it didn’t just happen “last night” as he suggested but it is happening all the time
Watch this and think.
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Well I watched it – and this is what I think.
No doubt there are those who will always try to make a quick buck from the misfortune of others (assuming there is any truth behind this obviously staged conversation). After all Stefan Molyneux is a well know cultist and Trump supporter – http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/05/meet-the-cult-leader-stumping-for-donald-trump.htm
But let take this video at face value and believe that somebody is making a motsa out of refugees, coincidentally something that resembles current Australian government policy and practice – http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/fallen-well-short-of-standards-audit-slams-immigration-department-over-nauru-and-manus-island-contracts-20170117-gtsvb0.html
If this is happening in Sweden, it should be sorted, but this is a strawman and has nothing to do with the bullshit that doing the rounds about Sweden at the moment.
Trump and his supporters claim that terrorism is an issue in Sweden, and that refugees are committing rape. Let’s fact check those two propositions.
Let’s look at terrorism first. There was an incident in 2010 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Stockholm_bombings
Nothing since. Despite this, Trump talked about “last night”. The low information voter would assume he was referring to a specific incident. Turns out he claims he was referring to a Fox News report. Who knew?
This is relevant – http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/02/trump-sweden-terror-claims
Looking at the second proposition – Politifact is generally reliable – http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/feb/20/what-statistics-say-about-immigration-and-sweden/
If you don’t accept Politifacts findings, you can always read the Daily Telegraph, not noted for being a journal sympathetic to refugee causes – http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/22/data-analysis-true-scale-immigration-crime-sweden-five-charts/
An extract – “Sweden’s crime rates are typically low compared with other nations and – contrary to Trump’s belief – there hasn’t been a refugee-driven crime wave in recent years. In fact, the latest figures show that the rate of crimes against life and health have actually decreased in recent years.”
In case you don’t trust either Politifact or the Telegraph, you can always go to the Swedish statistics – http://www.brottsrummet.se/sv/sexualbrott
It’s in Swedish, of course (relatively unsurprising), but Google translate is your friend. I challenge you to find evidence of an outbreak of rape committed by refugees in these figures.
It’s interesting, of course, to compare Swedish and US crime stats – https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp
Sweden is safer. Maybe Fatty 5D* needs to sort his own backyard before he smears the Swedes.
*Trump was deferred 5 times when drafted for service in Vietnam.