Courtesy of Bruce Bawr, Frontpage Magazine "
The Coming Flood of Syrian Refugees to Sweden."
This week, the eyebrow-raising news is that Sweden is
offering instant permanent residency to any and all Syrian refugees who apply. Full stop. Does anyone really believe that this policy will end well
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At the risk of being politically incorrect, one would be tempted to say that "maybe they like it." I can't think of any other reason why they'd put up with that.
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I figure, the more Syrians away from the Israeli border, the better. If Sweden wants to kill itself, that's their business.
I wonder which bleeding heart country we can get to take the Philistines, um, I mean Palestinians?
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(packing and planning as I speak)
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I've read it, and it's a great book. Great because Kratman dares speculate about something taboo in a lot of science fiction. Very few science-fiction writers are wiling to talk about the elephant in the room of Muslim aggressiveness and deliberate colonization-by-immigration. Thus they craft futures in which, for no obvious or very explicit reason, the Muslims have all become sweetly reasonable save perhaps in their countries of origin (which may lead either to The End of the World or the Destruction of Israel -- almost never anything in between).
Tom Kratman's speculation is that the result will be a highly-destructive global war, which the Muslims badly LOSE, coupled with a hardening of all Great Powers against both Islam and each other, but in the case of Europe and Europe alone, the Muslim minority will rise, swelled by immigrants from the devasted lands, and the European natives will go under. The only similar ( ... )
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Sweden actually has a strong military for a European Minor Power, and only ended compulsory military service for all male citizens a few years ago. That means that the majority of Swedish men at least know how to move in units and shoot rifles. In terms of small arms, Sweden (like most countries) owns enough or could get enough on short notice to essentially arm their whole population capable of military service of any sort.
Muslims tend toward military incompetence. They are "hardened veterans" of fighting against other military incompetence -- when Syrians have fought the militarily competent, they have suffered military disasters. The only way in which the Syrian immigrants would be likely to win a straight-out civil war would be if they significantly outnumbered the natives in the category of persons able and willing to bear arms in a fight -- and by significantly, I mean enough to ( ... )
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