THE GLOBE AND MAIL
(The GLOBE AND MAIL från Totonto är en av mina sedan länge dagligt lästa/skummade nättidningar)
NAOMI POWELL
STOCKHOLM— From Monday's Globe and Mail
Published Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010 8:26PM EST
Last updated Monday, Dec. 13, 2010 6:23AM EST
Utdrag:
“We’ve been a sheltered bay in a stormy world,” said Magnus Ranstorp, research director of the Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defence College. “We have even seen ourselves as a moral guardian for the world. Innocence lost is a good way to describe what has happened now.” ---
But things are rapidly changing in the country of 9.3 million. With one of the most open immigration policies in Europe, Sweden has struggled to integrate a growing Muslim population after accepting more immigrants from Iraq than any other Western country since the ouster of Saddam Hussein.
A recent election redrew the country’s political map, giving the far-right Sweden Democrats 20 seats in Parliament. The anti-immigration party’s leader Jimmie Akesson has described the growing number of Muslims – about 5 per cent of the country’s population – as the biggest external threat to Sweden since the Second World War.
“Certainly Sweden isn’t any longer the island of peace and wealth that we thought it was,” said Olof Ruin, professor emeritus of political science at Stockholm University. “We maybe naively thought we were outside these problems. But of course we are not. We are part of tendencies affecting Europe as a whole, the world as a whole.” ---
