Bomb attacks are now a normal part of Swedish life

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One night last week, explosions took place in three different locations in and around Stockholm. There were no injuries this time, just the usual shattered windows, scattered debris and shocked people woken by the blast.

The police bomb squad was already on its way to the first explosion in the district of Vaxholm when it had to turn around and prioritise the detonation at a residential building in the more densely populated city centre. Residents whose doors had been deformed by the shock wave had to be rescued. The third target (seemingly unrelated) was a facility belonging to a Syriac Orthodox church, which had already been bombed twice in the past year.

‘Normalisation’ is a term that we have come to associate with domestic violence: the victim begins to think of abuse as a part of everyday life. Explosions have become so normalised in Sweden that SVT, Sweden’s equivalent of the BBC, did not even mention the three explosions in the country’s capital on its national news programme that evening. Instead, the main domestic story was the purported censorship of ‘big female bodies’ on Instagram. Apparently, we mustn’t be referred to as ‘women’ any more, but ‘female bodies’, lest anyone’s gender be assumed. The explosions were left to the local news.

To understand how Sweden arrived at this degree of normalisation, consider the statistics: between January and June this year, more than 100 explosions were reported in the country, up from about 70 in the same period last year. A total of more than 160 suspected attacks with explosives were reported last year. There are no comparable figures available for earlier years because it’s such a recent phenomenon. Until recently no one would have thought of adding a column on bombings to the national Swedish crime statistics.

Wilhelm Agrell, professor of intelligence analysis at Lund University, has warned that the situation has become so dire that the integrity of the Swedish state is in jeopardy. ‘The state’s monopoly on violence, the actual token of a sovereign government, has been hollowed out bit by bit and no longer exists,’ he wrote a few weeks ago. ‘The armed criminal violence is having effects that are increasingly similar to those of terrorism.’

A new report from the Swedish Defence University warns that clan structures in some immigrant areas are putting the Swedish justice system under ‘severe stress’. In these parallel societies, the Swedish state is weak, witness intimidation is systematic and ordinary citizens are pressured to submit to clan rule.
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"SVT, Sweden’s equivalent of the BBC, did not even mention the three explosions in the country’s capital on its national news programme that evening. Instead, the main domestic story was the purported censorship of ‘big female bodies’ on Instagram"

I'm trying my best to find an excellent quote I've heard before (either from Douglas Murray, Shapiro or Harris?)
Basically, something like, "The West will be busy arguing about someone's sex while the enemy storms the gate"
 
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Jopie Fourie said:
You opened your borders, now live with the consequences. No bad feelings.
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During the years when porn was underground, but freely available in Sweden, Sweden had almost zero rape crime despite the world-wide fundamentalist preaching that porn was the cause of rape. Once Sweden opened its borders and embraced multiculturalism the new residents quickly made Sweden the rape capital of the world.
 
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With the main broadcaster ignoring the bombings, it is very easy for the Left to claim there is "no evidence" (or something along those lines).

Very easy to say there is little evidence when you don't cover it.
 
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RaptorSA said:
"SVT, Sweden’s equivalent of the BBC, did not even mention the three explosions in the country’s capital on its national news programme that evening. Instead, the main domestic story was the purported censorship of ‘big female bodies’ on Instagram"

I'm trying my best to find an excellent quote I've heard before (either from Douglas Murray, Shapiro or Harris?)
Basically, something like, "The West will be busy arguing about someone's sex while the enemy storms the gate"
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While the pilots argued about comfortable cabin temperature, the Boeing plunged headlong into the sea.
 
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Chris_the_Brit said:
With the main broadcaster ignoring the bombings, it is very easy for the Left to claim there is "no evidence" (or something along those lines).

Very easy to say there is little evidence when you refuse to cover it.
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