Six years after his brother was beheaded by Iraqi insurgents, Riyad is still haunted by the memory of identifying the disfigured body and watching the mutilation on a video distributed by the killers.
Yet Riyad now has fresh worries to contend with: the threat of deportation from Sweden, which recently rejected his application for asylum. “They murdered my brother and would have done the same to me,” he told an immigration official in a secretly recorded meeting broadcast on Radio Sweden.
“Yes, I know that,” replied the official. “But it doesn’t count that they might do the same thing to you; you have to prove there is an actual threat.”
Riyad, who worked with his brother on a US army base, was drawn to Sweden by its reputation as the most welcoming European country for Iraqi asylum-seekers, having absorbed tens of thousands in the past decade. In the past two years, however, numbers have dropped sharply as Sweden shows signs of losing patience with its role as champion of refugee rights.
In 2007, 18,559 Iraqis sought asylum in Sweden and nearly three-quarters were accepted. Last year the number arriving was 2,297 – and less than a quarter were granted asylum.
The decline can be explained partly by better security in Iraq. But experts say the main factor was a Swedish court ruling in 2008 placing a greater burden on refugees to prove they were in danger.
Tobias Billström, Sweden’s migration minister, insists there was no political involvement in the ruling, but the centre-right government has been quick to stress the court’s message. “Now you have to show there is a real threat,” he says. “You cannot just turn up and say you’re from Iraq.”
The tougher approach is welcomed by some Swedes, amid unease over the changing face of their traditionally homogenous society. More than a tenth of the population is now foreign-born, with Iraqis among the largest group.
Anti-immigration sentiment could make itself felt in next month’s general election, with opinion polls suggesting the far-right Sweden Democrats could win their first seat in parliament.
Few places feel the tension more than Södertälje, an industrial town where 8,000 Iraqis live, many in high-rise ghettos. Anders Lago, the town’s Social Democratic mayor, says the strain on public services is unsustainable. “We need a new system. Södertälje cannot take care of everybody.”
Behind Sweden’s new approach lies frustration that other European Union states have not taken more refugees. Before the ruling, Sweden received about 60 per cent of Iraqi asylum applications in the EU.
If Stockholm is sending a message to other countries, critics say it has come at a heavy price for vulnerable refugees. It was among four European nations recently rebuked by the UNHCR for forcibly deporting asylum-seekers to Iraq despite the continuing violence.
Mikael Ribbenvik, director of legal affairs for the Swedish migration board, said his agency had issued new recommendations to take account of persecution of minorities in Iraq – a sign, perhaps, Sweden is anxious not to let its humanitarian halo slip too far. But this may be too late for Riyad, who says he would be at risk in Iraq not only because of his past ties to the US military, but also his Christian faith. “I don’t have to remain here,” he told Radio Sweden. “Just send me anywhere in the world – except Iraq.”
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Hello fellow Europeans
In the Swedish election yesterday the Sweden Democrats, who are critics to the current immigration policies and the islamisation of europe was given 5,7% of the votes, giving them 20 seats of 349 in the swedish parliament. It also gave them a “Scale-master role” between the two major political blocks in Sweden.
Also, they gain access to the parliaments own investigation archive, only accesible to members of the parliament. Hopefully they find a lot of interesting information that have been kept from us citizens for too long.
This was only the first, but a wery important step towards sane and reasonable immigration politics.
Hi Swe,
Thank you for the update, that is good news! Maybe this will be a new beginning, or at least the beginning of the end for all these 3rd world people who hate whites but love to overrun our countries and dragging them down.
White people have no obligation to care for non-white people. If non-white people should stay where they are and change their own societies instead of coming to white countries to change ours.
I totally agree with you.
The fact that there are problems in their countries, shows that the people there need to fix things. When they run to our countries, they just bring their problems to us.
If they thought like us and did things the way we do, they wouldn’t have problems. They should sort out their own problems – not leave their disastrous countries and then bring their disasters to us.
Send Riyad and his relatives to Izrael!
UNHCR should rebuke Izrael, too!
I can’t see big numbers on the map next to Izrael.
they have declared war upon our people, the only thing they are patiently waiting on, is for us to act rationally in fighting back.
Still waiting……….
What’s suposse to happen when the white Christians fight back?
I was stripped of my Slovak citizenship based on becoming a US citizen. It is really sad to see floodgates open for immigrants from as far away as Vietnam who have more rights in the country I was born in than I have.
‘Ol Riyad will settle in Sweden, have his 8 or 9 kids (compared to the Swedes 0.8), and in 20 years time when his people are the majority, he will be deporting all the white Swedish “infidils” when Sweden has become an Islamic state.
Chase the trash back to his own country. Myself (& most of my other fellow European descendants) have to stay in South Africa & make the best of it, with all the violent crime committed by blacks against whites still going strong. No European country is interested in giving the South African white populace refugee status, even though we have more legitimacy thereto!
That an intelligent nation (Sweden) is so stubbornly committed in committing mass suicide, is beyond me! But then again, they funded the corrupt Alan Boesak in their misguided assistance during the struggle against Apartheid in the 80’s. I guess it may be a bit of what goes around comes around.
I totally agree with you.
And I find it utterly disgusting and hypocritical that (some) whites in Europe (where we come from) would put us down for wanting segregation, when they now realise a rainbow nation is a disaster and they want it themselves! It’s self-hating racism.
The blacks lied a lot and also many of us weren’t even born during apartheid, but we also arent’ allowed to work due to affirmative action (BEE) and are also getting gang-raped and tortured to death.
We don’t hate the British even though they burnt down farms and killed 28,000 of us (just fewer than 2000 were men) in concentration camps between 1900 and 1902 because they wanted gold and diamonds. But the blacks and muslims are the ones who gang-rape and murder them.
I do have to say that I don’t think regular people necessarily hate whites, but the media and those in government have definitely lost touch with what people really feel. I read that in Sweden, they even cover the faces of rapists etc. and change names so that you can’t see their colour or figure out where they’re from. That is BEYOND STUPID.
I read something somewhere that the Swedish youth think their parents have been brainwashed and they even held a protest against the white genocide in SA earlier this year. So I think that is awesome :) :) Thank you Sweden, we think that’s awesome! We really appreciate that soooo much.
I just don’t get why they don’t make it easier for SA whites to immigrate or maybe get refugee status or something, and kick out the 3rd worlders? White people work hard, are smart and aren’t violent criminals like these bastards.
White people are starving in SA and they’re being murdered and raped and carved up in pieces. One woman even had her breasts cut off while she was a live and the black torturer wrote “kill the boer” on the walls with her blood! (Alice & Helen Lotter Murders)
I would like to propose an exchange program ;) White people from SA & Zim go back to Europe in exchange for muslims and blacks going back to Africa…
PS. Boer, did you know that the word “jihad” comes from the Arabic word “jahada” which means “struggle”?
And they are always carrying on about the struggle, saying “a luta continua” – from Portuguese (ANC terror camps were in Mozambique & Angola) “the struggle continues”.
I guess they’re slow learners, because it’s been over for more than 16 years now. But then again, they will always struggle. If they were able to take care of themselves, they wouldn’t always be running to whites everywhere to pay for their welfare.
Swedens citizens are loosing their patience.
But the ruling elite, the politicians and media have other plans.
2:nd of June this year the Swedish parliament voted for a new constitution. This was the first of two needed votations.
“For an amendment to be made, the Riksdag must take two identical decisions and these decisions must be separated by a general election. This long drawn-out procedure is designed to ensure that the Riksdag does not take any hasty decisions that can limit people’s freedoms and rights”
http://www.riksdagen.se/templates/R_Page____5562.aspx
The election is taking place 19:th of september this year.
Only half of the parliament member were there to vote!
Not a single word about this in mainstream media!
One of the changes ar that people that apply for asylum, have the same rights that a Swedish citizen have.
An regarding the Sweden Democrats not a single one of the other parties wants to cooperate with them they say.
This country is so bizarre and confusing…
JEWS ARE NOT SEMITIC.
The Jewish Encyclopedia:
“Khazars, a non-Semitic, Asiatic, Mongolian tribal nation who emigrated into Eastern Europe about the first century, who were converted as an entire nation to Judaism in the seventh century by the expanding Russian nation which absorbed the entire Khazar population, and who account for the presence in Eastern Europe of the great numbers of Yiddish-speaking Jews in Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Galatia, Besserabia and Rumania.
The Encyclopedia Judaica (1972):
“Khazars, a national group of general Turkic type, independent and sovereign in Eastern Europe between the seventh and tenth centuries C.E. During part of this time the leading Khazars professed Judaism… In spite of the negligible information of an archaeological nature, the presence of Jewish groups and the impact of Jewish ideas in Eastern Europe are considerable during the Middle Ages. Groups have been mentioned as migrating to Central Europe from the East often have been referred to as Khazars, thus making it impossible to overlook the possibility that they originated from within the former Khazar Empire.
The Bible:
Relates that the Khazar (Ashkenaz) Jews were/are the sons of Japheth not Shem:
“Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood. The sons of Japheth;…the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz…”
(Genesis 10:1-3)
Therefore, the Bible proves that the Ashkenaz Jews [Khazars] are not the descendants of Shem and cannot be Semite.
The Encyclopedia Judaica, Vol. 10, (1971) relates the following about the Khazars (Chazars):
“Khazars, a national group of general Turkic type, independent and sovereign in Eastern Europe between the seventh and tenth centuries A.D. During part of this time the leading Khazars professed Judaism.”
(Encyclopedia Judicia, Vol. 10, (1971)
The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia:
“Khazars, a medieval people, probably related to the Volga Bulgars, whose ruling class adopted Judaism during the 8th cent. The Khazars seem to have emerged during the 6th cent., from the vast nomadic Hun (Turki) empire which stretched from the steppes of Eastern Europe and the Volga basin to the Chinese frontier. Although it is often claimed that allusions to the Khazars are found as early as 200 C.E., actually they are not mentioned until 627…Most Jewish Historians date the conversion of the Khazar King to Judaism during the first half of this century {A.D.}..
Jews are satan Synagogue,they have nothing to do with the Bible or Israel.European people are the descendants of Abraham,not the SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN(REVELATION 2:9,,3:9).
http://www.realzionistnews.com
Duh! (Meaning: a naive sound)
If they stay, they must leave behind the hate.
or is it just not going to work.
Jews leaving Malmo after strong anti-Semitic hate crimes
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/7278532/Jews-leave-Swedish-city-after-sharp-rise-in-anti-Semitic-hate-crimes.html