Islamization of rebellious suburbs in Paris has had a soothing effect on those young men and women who two years ago were behind a wave of fires there, according to the French sociologist Yamin El Soum.
– Islamization of these neighbourhoods gives some moral framework for young people. You can think what you like about it, but it is a fact, the sociologist says to Aftonbladet.se.
The problem with cars and buildings burning in several Swedish cities is, as I said earlier on this blog, not a problem that is going to be solved by the police.
And it is not a problem the state should outsource to religious agents. Both Jesus and Muhammed must be kept away from this kind of political businesses. The intifada we have seen in Sweden the last weeks is a political answer to the failure of the Swedish state to deal with stigmatized communities.
Before the right under the leadership of Mr Fredrik Reinfeldt took over the political power in Sweden, researchers, politicians and the media talked openly about the structural racism in the Swedish society and how it forces citizens with immigrant background into poverty and depending on the welfare state’s good will.
But with Mr Fredrik Reinfeldt and his black-skinned Nyamko Sabuni as Minister for Integration and Gender Equality in power, that kind of discourse and knowledge has been banned. The right’s mantra goes: Immigrants can only be grateful and happy, they are after all now living in the best country on earth; if they fail they only have themselves to blame at.
Reinfeldt and Sabuni utter nothing about racism but they keep on saying that “the overall goal of the Swedish government is to combat exclusion, with a particular focus on employment, education and security.”
But three years later, the jobs aren’t there, the schools and teachers lack resources, and the inhabitants of many suburbs still can not have security because police force and the judicial system even now are white reservoirs. Well, the fires should make Reinfeldt and his team realize that it always has a price to let down hundreds of thousands of people.
Islamization will not stop the intifada
7 09 2009Islamization of rebellious suburbs in Paris has had a soothing effect on those young men and women who two years ago were behind a wave of fires there, according to the French sociologist Yamin El Soum.
– Islamization of these neighbourhoods gives some moral framework for young people. You can think what you like about it, but it is a fact, the sociologist says to Aftonbladet.se.
The problem with cars and buildings burning in several Swedish cities is, as I said earlier on this blog, not a problem that is going to be solved by the police.
And it is not a problem the state should outsource to religious agents. Both Jesus and Muhammed must be kept away from this kind of political businesses. The intifada we have seen in Sweden the last weeks is a political answer to the failure of the Swedish state to deal with stigmatized communities.
Before the right under the leadership of Mr Fredrik Reinfeldt took over the political power in Sweden, researchers, politicians and the media talked openly about the structural racism in the Swedish society and how it forces citizens with immigrant background into poverty and depending on the welfare state’s good will.
But with Mr Fredrik Reinfeldt and his black-skinned Nyamko Sabuni as Minister for Integration and Gender Equality in power, that kind of discourse and knowledge has been banned. The right’s mantra goes: Immigrants can only be grateful and happy, they are after all now living in the best country on earth; if they fail they only have themselves to blame at.
Reinfeldt and Sabuni utter nothing about racism but they keep on saying that “the overall goal of the Swedish government is to combat exclusion, with a particular focus on employment, education and security.”
But three years later, the jobs aren’t there, the schools and teachers lack resources, and the inhabitants of many suburbs still can not have security because police force and the judicial system even now are white reservoirs. Well, the fires should make Reinfeldt and his team realize that it always has a price to let down hundreds of thousands of people.