June 10, 2010 · 11 Comments
Rioters in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, have burned down a school building and thrown stones at police in a second night of disturbances.
The trouble began on Monday after a group of youths in a suburb with a mainly immigrant population were refused entry to a school dance.
Source: BBC | Thursday, June 10, 2010
Police say up to 100 youths went on the rampage, throwing stones and setting several cars alight.
Two people were detained but later released.
‘Little Mogadishu’
Police said the rioters threw stones at the fire engines, preventing them from reaching the school building before it burned to the ground. The youths also attacked a police station.
Rinkeby is home to a large number of first- and second-generation immigrants. Many of them are from Somalia, so the area is sometimes nicknamed Little Mogadishu.
Government ministers have visited Rinkeby to assess the situation.
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By Mo Guled
Tags: School burn in sweden, Somali Pirates, Somali youth, Sweden
Arurtaan waalan!!!! Shaming us…!
There not shaming anyone! I give them props for not taking that bullshit, how discriminative!!!!!
I knew it was Rinkaby beforethey even mentioned it!!! LOOOOOOOL…
No excuses here but as always there is a way forward, I wish well
those involved and commend each and everyone.
A few thoughts I wanted to share and feel sad for all!!!
These young adults feel alienated from the rest of society,
growing up there, obviously the children are confused and
disoriented. They need counseling, social services is doing
that already but maybe more needs to be done; counselors
should periodically visit the families and homes of these children
and find out what problems they are encountering in integrating in
schools and even in other communities; there families could
have a language barrier and need to be assisted to assimilate
in this new society which is so very foreign to them; these kids
should be made aware that their ideas, their contribution and
themselves matter in their community and in others too and in
also the place they are residing and if all nationalities work
together if will be for their own good. The people living in this
suburb should find away of extending their hands in friendship
to those that they feel that they can relate to, even those that
they have nothing in common with; other people; barriers have to
be broken; and maybe arrange football matches, bazaars,
cookouts, etc. where communities; can explore each other cultures,
etc. other events so that these residents feel that they matter
where they are. Everyone comes from a different background and
a different culture and has something good to offer the suburb that
they are part of; there is a culture shock; it is nice for nationalities to
see what good there is in another person or other people. Community
leaders should work very hard and be patient in reaching out to
these young adults.
Ali Qab what a load of rubbish. They arnt alienated youths, they are criminals. The Swedish people have kindly allowed them to live in Sweden and how do they repay that kindness? They never will "assimilate into this new society" because they are incompatable with western life. Its the same in every EU country that is suffering from these immigrants and there is only one solution. If you want an end to violence and you want sweden to become the country you used to know and love, the immigrants must return to the homelands of their people. Thats the bottom line and everybody knows it, including the immigrants themselfs.
Immigrant youths riot in Stockholm, Sweden, after refused entry in a school dance???. Youth and dance — not a big problem, and the event situation
was properly handled. Lets not manipulate the issue.
Nevertheless, Muslims in non-muslim countries must learn to cope with not
their Islam way of livelyhood but also how to integrate & cope up with the
new non-islamic way of livelyhood, without losing crediblity of their class
in human societies of different cultures, Religions ETC ETC.
@Mohamed
Thanks walaal, that is the point I was trying to get at.
celt99
If all the europeans get out of africa and stop interfering with africa we would be more happy to leave any country. Dont forget the europeans came to africa well before any african came to europe ( as they say in the west "what goes round comes round".
Allegedly homo sapiens (modern man) evolved in Africa so "whites" are only going back to their roots. At the school I attended the geography teacher was a genius, for example he predicted the existence of North Sea oil twenty years before any oil was found. His name was Leonard Hadlow the author of "Climate, Vegetation & Man". Anyhow he said that the main problem in Africa was the lack of natural geographical boundaries like rivers or mountain ranges. This leads to boundary disputes and wars. As to the white man "interfering in Africa" can you really claim that Zimbabwe is an improvement on Rhodesia? Gringos can sometimes be very useful as the Chilean miners discovered.
It is a pity that Sweden is (like the UK) in the EU. This means that Sweden has to kow-tow to Brussels. Now I always thought that Sweden was a white Christian country where they made Volvos and everybody was law abiding. Times have changed! Yesterday I was amazed to see videos of rioting youths and graffiti written in Arabic that promised "Paradise for those who kill policemen". Now you can call me racist if you like but is this the right attitude to have towards a country that has given refuge and safety to people from a war zone? I like the Swiss system where citizenship is not automatic. If these rioters and arsonists were in Switzerland they would NEVER be granted citizenship and they would then have to apply for citizenship in the country of their ancestors.