The latest Diversity Poll, carried out every year by Uppsala University to follow attitudes to immigration shows that the numbers of those strongly negative to a multicultural society is growing, up from 4 percent last year to 6 percent this. However, over 85 percent had positive experiences.
45 percent of Swedes don't think headscarves should be worn at school or work, that's down compared to last year, and almost 60 percent are opposed to confessional schools, that's up compared to 2007.
Iraqis, Kurds, Iranians, Turks, Somalis, Greeks and Russians were considered to be immigrants for example, while Norwegians, Brits, Germans, Americans and Finns weren't.
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The study also reported that less than one fourth of the survey's respondents – 23 percent – want to live in areas which feature cultural, ethnic, and social diversity.
The results come from a report entitled BoTrender 08 ('Living Tends '08') carried out by the Tyréns Temaplan consulting company and based on responses gathered in August from 5,000 Swedes aged 18- to 70-years-old who live in apartments or are considering living in apartments in the future.
Source: Radio Sweden, The Local (English)
45 percent of Swedes don't think headscarves should be worn at school or work, that's down compared to last year, and almost 60 percent are opposed to confessional schools, that's up compared to 2007.
Iraqis, Kurds, Iranians, Turks, Somalis, Greeks and Russians were considered to be immigrants for example, while Norwegians, Brits, Germans, Americans and Finns weren't.
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The study also reported that less than one fourth of the survey's respondents – 23 percent – want to live in areas which feature cultural, ethnic, and social diversity.
The results come from a report entitled BoTrender 08 ('Living Tends '08') carried out by the Tyréns Temaplan consulting company and based on responses gathered in August from 5,000 Swedes aged 18- to 70-years-old who live in apartments or are considering living in apartments in the future.
Source: Radio Sweden, The Local (English)
6 comments:
The old story: Yes, by all means, build it. Just do not build it in my neighborhood.
Why are Islamic headscarves an issue while Jewish headscarves are not?
Whenever I have investigated such issues, I have always found Zionist gatekeepers or facilitators with the goal of demonizing, marginalizing or othering Muslim citizens.
The amnesia of Americans and Europeans in terms of the issue is quite astounding. It was still proverbial in large parts of Europe and N. American as late as the early 60s that decent women did not leave the house without covering their hair while Roman Catholic women wore something that was essentially a niqab in some Catholic religious services at least as late as the 1950s. It may still be worn in some Catholic circles on special occasions to this day.
Well, the Europeans have always been highly nationalist. It's just that in today's world it's not an acceptable ideology. So now, what we see is the Europeans accepting each other, but clinging on to their culture as their new form of nationalism.
The same mongering seems to take different forms when the previous form is no longer acceptable overall.
But I guess this is just human nature. To discriminate and create "the other"
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Joachim Martillo,
Why do you think it's not an issue? Or in other words, why do you think those Jewish European women who do want to cover their head, do so wearing a wig? Muslim women are not only covering their hair, they are doing so in a way that is not the norm in Europe.
The topic of this article has nothing to do with Jews (imagine that!) Not only that, would you believe more Swedes hate Jews than Muslims? Or is that also some part of the vast Jewish Zionist plot?
Dear Esther, Only a small percentage of shomrot mitzvot Jewish women wear a shaytl, and they normally wear a stirntikhl over the shaytl.
You can claim that the Muslim hijab is somehow exceptionally un-European, but I have employed religious Jewish and Muslim women, and the headscarves looked the same to me. See The Oppression of Orthodox Jewish Women :-). It does not look much different from the clothing that Merve Kavakci used to wear when she was at Harvard. Merve is the Turkish parliamentarian that was stripped of her seat for wearing a headscarf.
A Bosnian Austrian friend even put up a design for an Islamic Dirndl on her website.
I grant that Tyrolians and Bavarians do not wear dirndls most of the time, but Azra's design is not so different from various forms of traditional Balkan garb, which was worn by Balkan non-Muslims as well.
While the the hijab issue has lately found some traction among non-Jewish racists, it is completely fabricated by Jewish racists trying to marginalize Muslim citizens, whom Jewish Zionists assume are unsympathetic to the State of Israel.
The role of Jewish incitement is probably the most interesting aspect of the hijab controversy.
Joachim Martillo,
I'll refer you to my original response, which you have so conveniently ignored: Why do you think it's not an issue for Jewish women (and men for that matter)?
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