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The IKEA Murders: Sweden in Crisis
by Ingrid Carlqvist
August 23, 2015 at 5:00 am
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6379/ikea-murders-sweden
Translation of the original text: IKEA-morden tänder raseriet i Sverige
Carola Herlin, Director of the Moro Backe Health Center, was murdered
on August 10, along with her son, in the IKEA store in Västerås,
Sweden.
A surge of rage has washed over otherwise docile Sweden. After a
double homicide at an IKEA store in Västerås, where an illegal alien
stabbed two random Swedes to death, more and more people are
questioning why the government is exposing Swedish citizens to
murderers from across the globe.
On August 10, news of the IKEA murders shocked Sweden. Two asylum
seekers from Eritrea (the second largest source of asylum applicants
in Sweden), were suspected of having grabbed knives from the
kitchenware department and attacked two random Swedes. The victims
were 55-year-old Carola Herlin and her 28-year-old son, Emil.
The elder of the two asylum seekers, a 36-year-old man, had twice been
denied residency status in Sweden — because he had already been
granted residency it in Italy — but he had not yet been deported.
(Eritreans without residence permits in other EU-countries
automatically get to stay in Sweden.)
The killer also inflicted life-threatening injuries on himself, and
underwent several surgeries before the police could finally question
him. On August 14, he confessed. His 23-year-old compatriot was
released from custody, because the police no longer believe he had
anything to do with the murders or had even known what his friend was
planning to do.
Fear has now struck the Swedes. Even those who had routinely brand
critics of immigration and multiculturalism racist, were shaken to the
core. Questions flooded the social media: Who are these people that
are let into Sweden? How many of them are not innocent victims of war,
but in fact war criminals and other criminals, hiding among the
refugees? And should we pay billions in taxes to support and shelter
citizens of other countries, while some of them try to kill us?
The fact that the police refuse to deny the persistent rumor that one
of the IKEA victims was beheaded, only adds fuel to the fear.
So many questions and no answers. No one from the government has even
bothered to make a statement about the horrific double murder. None of
the mainstream media has confronted the government about the violent
crimes committed by asylum seekers against Swedes. On the contrary –
the media have done the utmost to convince Swedes that everything is
safe and sound in Sweden. Better than ever, in fact. The day after the
double murder, Sweden’s largest morning paper, Dagens Nyheter,
published an article titled, “After all, deadly violence is on the
decline.” The article begins:
“In recent weeks, several brutal murders have been committed, and many
people ask themselves where society is headed. The answer is that
Sweden has, after all, become a safer place. Deadly violence has been
on the decline for some time.”
Nowhere does the article explain that the reason deadly violence has
been on the decline is that emergency medicine is now able to save the
lives of a lot more victims of knife- and gunshot-injuries. The
so-called Laser Man, for example, shot a number of immigrants in
Sweden in the 1990s. Forensic pathologist Jovan Rajs commented, “The
Laser Man shot eleven people, and one of them died. In the 1930s eight
or nine would have died, in the 1970s about five, and today probably
none.”
Ergo, deadly violence remains on an even level thanks to better health
care in Sweden, but all other kinds of violent crime (including
attempted homicide) has gone off the charts. Violent crime is up 300%
and rape is up 1,472% since 1975, the year the Swedish Parliament
decided to turn homogenous Sweden into a multicultural country.
Ninety percent of asylum seekers to Sweden lack proper identification
papers, so in reality no one knows how many murderers, rapists and
thugs hide among the 100,000 or so people granted asylum in Sweden
every year.
Frustrated Swedes are now howling with powerlessness on social media.
The normal democratic order, where citizens can contact politicians or
the media to make their voices heard, has all but evaporated.
Newspaper websites have removed the reader comment fields, and the
politicians hide behind a wall of officials, who brand callers
expressing concern “racist,” and hang up. Thousands bear witness to
this on Facebook. One person who actually got to talk about her
uneasiness is Ewa, who writes on Facebook about calling Immigration
Services:
“Well, I’ve unleashed the devil now. I called Immigration Services and
demanded to talk to a Unit Manager. … I gave him an earful about every
injustice I could think of, like how badly we treat our elderly and
how we take away their homes and give them to asylum seekers. I also
told him how unsafe Swedish women feel due to all these gang rapes
perpetrated by asylum seekers and other foreigners. Also asked him if
we all have to be beheaded before they stop taking in these kinds of
people. … Now I’m sitting here, feeling completely empty after crying,
screaming, discussing, raging and getting all this frustration out of
me. Told him there are many of us who feel depressed because of what
Immigration is doing. He was really sorry I feel this way. Yes, I told
him, a lot of people feel this way but they are afraid to open their
mouths because then they are labeled racist. You don’t even have to be
a Sweden Democrat to see that our country is falling apart more and
more with each passing day. Something you and all the rest at
Immigration Services are responsible for. Where do I apply for asylum,
I asked, when the day comes and I can no longer live here? Our country
is ruined economically, socially and so forth and you are responsible.
He answered that it was the politicians who decided about this, but
that they would do everything in their power to make things better.”
Another woman, Amanda, wrote on Facebook that she e-mailed Prime
Minister Stefan Löfven. She noted that “nothing may change, but at
least I’ve made my voice heard.” Her e-mail read:
“Hi, why did the Prime Minister feel it was essential and urgent to go
and talk about the fire at the mosque in Eskilstuna, no one even knew
what started it when he held his speech? But now, he’s as silent as
the grave. Why? It’s his/your unconditional and lax immigration
policies that have enabled this culprit to move freely in society,
despite having received a deportation order not just once, but twice.
Can you tell me if this is something the citizens of this country
should get used to, that immigrants, upon receiving deportation
orders, kill people in order to get a lifelong contract with the
Swedish state? It is your personal responsibility every time this
happens, I hope you know that. Because this is nothing if not a
political issue regarding immigration, and… its massive consequences
to an entire nation.”
The mosque fire in Eskilstuna that Amanda referred to happened
December 25, 2014, and is one of many incidents affecting Muslims and
other immigrants that have received huge attention, while the rape
epidemic in Sweden is basically ignored. After the fire, the Prime
Minister was quick to make a statement:
“It is despicable, a despicable act. We will never tolerate this type
of crime. People who want to practice their religion should have the
right to do so. Today I feel great sympathy and empathy for those
affected.”
Three months later, it turned out no crime was behind the mosque fire,
and police dropped the investigation. Most likely, it was caused by an
accident or children playing with fire.
But when a Swedish woman and her son are brutally knifed to death in
the most Swedish of all places – an IKEA store – the Prime Minister
has nothing to say.
The Swedes are not prone to rebellion. To find a citizen that took up
arms and marched on the citadels of power, one has to go back to the
days of Gustav Vasa – the king who during his reign, 1523-1560,
founded the nation-state of Sweden.
Although Sweden today is not occupied territory, it is governed by a
power that has shut down the democratic process by the “December
Agreement” of 2014. In the general election that year, the only party
critical of mass immigration, the Sweden Democrats (SD), became the
third-largest party in Parliament. The left-wing and center-right
blocs then agreed to lock SD out of political power, but SD refused to
be silenced. When the left-wing minority government budget was
presented one month after the election, SD voted for the opposition’s
budget – a shocking and unique occurrence in the Swedish Parliament.
Here, it is considered “good manners and decorum” to vote for your own
budget proposition first, then lay down your vote and let the
government win. But after the Sweden Democrats’ “coup,” Prime Minister
Stefan Löfven (of the Social Democratic Party) was forced to govern
with a center-right budget during his first year in office.
One would think that this came as a pleasant surprise to the
center-right opposition, but that was not what happened. No one wants
support from the “racist” Sweden Democrats. Rather than call a snap
election, the two blocs entered into an agreement in which the
center-right opposition promises to abstain from voting when it comes
to important issues such as a proposed budget.
Thus, the December Agreement is in reality a kind of “relay-race”
dictatorship: The left-wing government gets to do what it wants for
the next four years, and after that, for next the four years (if there
is a change of power), it will be the center-right government’s turn.
This means both parties are free to ignore the 58% of Swedeswho now
feel that immigration is too high, and may choose to vote for the
Sweden Democrats in the next election.
When the Swedes got the news about the December Agreement, they did
what they usually do – clenched their fists in their pockets, formed
Facebook groups and wrote angry comments on Twitter and Facebook. But
the politicians congratulated each other on once again restoring
order; they ignored the people’s concern that democracy had now become
even more eroded.
A well-known stand-up comedian, Magnus Betnér, thought it a good idea
to mock frightened Swedes in a YouTube clip:
“Yes, it’s really tragic two people were murdered in IKEA. … but… it’s
not dangerous; Sweden has never been safer than it is now. … Very few
of you guys watching this clip will be murdered. And those of you who
are, will be murdered in your own homes.”
When the establishment refuses to take people’s concerns seriously,
rumors on social media spread fast. A stubborn rumor claims that
Carola Herlin was beheaded by the Eritrean murderer. According to
sources interviewed by Gatestone, the woman had her throat slit and
was also stabbed in the abdomen. Her son tried to defend himself, but
received a deadly stab wound to the stomach.
When Dispatch International called Per Ågren, the police investigator
in charge of the case, and asked him about the rumor, he said: “I’m
not going to confirm… describe anything at all about what happened,
except to say that two people were murdered. You won’t find out how
from me.”
One of the first measures taken by the police after the IKEA murders
was to start guarding all the buildings housing asylum seekers in the
county. There was some apprehension concerning “dark forces,” the
police claimed, without specifying who these “dark forces” were. The
night of August 15, an asylum house in Arboga had to be evacuated
after someone shouted something about a bomb outside. Now the
mainstream media were really on their toes: Carola and Emil Herlin,
according to their reports, had been “at the wrong place at the wrong
time.”
The newspaper Aftonbladet interviewed an anonymous woman who said, “My
cousin has lived here for over a year. He told me the Swedes are the
nicest people in Europe. Then something like this happens. I could
never have imagined.”
Once again, it is supposedly the Swedes who should bow their heads in
shame. Supposedly, we are not the ones grieving; we do not have the
right to be frightened to death over the immigration policy of our
rulers – it is the asylum seekers who are the victims, even when they
kill, rape, rob and abuse.
The burning question is: What will the people do, whom no one will
listen to? In East Germany of 1989, the people took to the streets,
scaled the Berlin wall and made the government to resign. The other
communist dictatorships of Eastern Europe fell in similar ways. The
Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (the right to bear arms),
exists to ensure that the citizens are able to seize power from a
tyrannical government.
If powerlessness drives people to answer violence with violence, maybe
one should not ask why Swedes are “racists” if they do not want the
highest immigration level in Europe?
The most relevant question is why one government after another has
chosen to spend Swedish taxpayers’ money on citizens of other
countries. While Swedish students take a plunge in the PISA tests,60%
of the welfare benefits go to immigrants who make up about 15% of the
population. Healthcare and other social services are deteriorating,
according to many Swedes, while violence is exponentially increasing.
When more and more Swedes feel that they are being badly treated in
their own country, the politicians have created a powder keg ready to
explode at any minute.
The truth is that even the docile Swedish people have a limit. When
those in power expose us to bloodbaths, whether in the Big Square of
Stockholm in 1520 or at IKEA in Västerås in 2015, there will always be
those who are ready to overthrow the mighty. Just as in Gustav Vasa’s
day, a lot of Swedes have firearms. They are not as easy to come by as
in the United States, but more and more Swedes are getting hunting
licenses, and are thereafter legally able to buy guns. From now on in
Sweden, anything can happen.
{Ingrid Carlqvist is editor-in-chief of Dispatch International}
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