Is Nazism in Sweden - a normal reaction because of high immigration??

By Roland Lohr gen Stahl

Immigration and immigration hostility, a beloved subject in the Swedish policy! It is not a subject you can speak open about without  conflict. There is not a day that you cannot read about it in our newspapers, radio or TV. A debate we had, with one of our famous historians "Herman Lindqvist," expressed his opinion (99) in a daily hot topic in the contemporary right winds blowing environment, with the rise of extremism around the world even in Sweden.

What did he express?

Herman Lindqvist claimed that today's "Nazi" does not have anything to do with the 30-and 40-century German Nazism but constitutes a "natural reaction" from a large part of the Swedish people to the "high immigration." Not entirely unexpected a quick response came on this. The issue of immigration and xenophobia is a topic not addressed openly without creating a direct conflict. On this opinion someone responded, "Why do we have a growing racism and fighting immigrants?" We believe that one of the reasons was the ever-increasing immigration, a normal derivation for the rest of Europe, and in history.

A normal conclusion is that when foreign people of different cultures and social conditions sometimes with religious elements confronting them with each other is a result of a conflict, sometimes it manifests in racist expressions, and Sweden is no exception. A natural reaction, expected for many - but not in Sweden. Here you are avoiding discussing it, here there is no connection between immigrant hostility and increased immigration - of course there is a correlation between increased immigration and immigrant hostility and perhaps it is time to ask the question openly even in our society.

No need to be hostile to see the connection, no need to be racist to question increased immigration as a cause of the problem. And yes, it is true Lindqvist said that "violence and immigrant hostility" is part of a natural reaction, and Nazism is not behind all immigrant hostility in Sweden. For that matter, what is a Nazi? Today hardly we do not having any real Nazis!

I agree with Lindkvist, the issue of Nazism, it cannot be compared with Nazism in Germany, (my family experienced this). The potential core group that exists today, they are not real Nazis. However, there will always be youths who are looking for an identity, a purpose in life, poor young people who are easy victims who do not know better, they are easy to catch in the use of the propaganda of the groups. Still they will never become a real Nazi. They using symbols, tattoos, things that give them an identity, they go around shouting "Heil Hitler" on the street hoping for an reaction, looking for the attention! Do they they understand what it is about – No!

More racism has its roots in more immigration, but immigrant hostility has not always to do with Nazism. Hostility based in conflicts between groups, is a prerequisite on large immigration. Given increasingly extensive discussions conducted among politicians, it is somewhat surprising that the issue is not addressed to "increased immigration in some places a mix of different cultures, languages ​​and religions" which means a confrontation, a result that should be expected. This has however nothing to do with Nazism. The fact is that Sweden has a immigrant hostility but the cause is not Nazism and as thus it has nothing to do with Nazism in Germany.

While there are Nazis in Sweden as in the UK and the U.S., however they represent a very small group. The problem as an ongoing increased extremism as far more important and dangerous. This is a broad group of organizations with different specializations, Patriots, Militants, Nazis, White power movement, Ku Klux Klan and others. These groups started to gain significant power appealed to the public. So far, it is still on a small scale, but it´s growing. Some of the group leaders having important positions in our society.

The same trend can also be observed in the north and in Europe. In Sweden, for example, our white power party “Sweden Democrats(SD)” is now represented in parliament and in a number of authorities. Still, they are very limited to a few political issues, confined to their immigration policies and as often on their inappropriate behavior in their performances. Outside of Sweden we having the same development in Germany, Britain, France and especially the United States where extremism is gaining increasingly larger areas, here often connected with terrorism.