Början på ett mediakrig om mångkulturen?

Och det vore komplett oärligt att inte tala om kostnaderna. Det har inget med sverigedemokraterna att göra, det handlar om respekt för medborgarna. Det är självklart okej att besluta att Sverige har råd, men bara om man har gjort en gedigen uppskattning.

När Fredrik Reinfeldt till slut stödde migrationsministern med några ord tog han upp det: »Om vi ska låta människor som lever under fattigare förhållanden och har anhöriga i Sverige komma hit … då blir det mindre till skolan och mindre till sjukvården.«

Detta fick Aftonbladet att räkna och redovisa resultatet i rubriken: »Billström och Reinfeldt tog miste – på ett par miljarder«. Billström hade talat om många miljarder. Aftonbladet kom fram till 25 miljoner kronor.

Hur kan det bli så olika? För att Aftonbladet spelar idiot.

De försvagade värdegemenskaperna och de framväxande enklaverna och den återuppväckta nationalismen är i det sammanhanget inte resultatet av en ny och förfelad idé om hur samhället ska organiseras utan av en gammal och förlegad.

I den meningen är multikulturalismen inte död. Den har bara ännu inte fötts.

Scheffer gör sig stor möda för att hålla sin kritik av multikulturalismen på en civiliserad nivå, men han om någon borde veta hur fin skiljelinjen är. I Scheffers hemland, Nederländerna, har sedan länge alla lock lyfts och alla tabun brutits, med följd att debatten blivit alltmer ociviliserad och främlingsfientliga partier fått ett växande inflytande över politiken.

"---Cohen’s idea seems to have been to move away from the multicultural extreme while also avoiding the anti-immigrant extreme, to fashion a practical inclusiveness. He has repeatedly said that “Keeping Things Together” was his motto for governing the city. “I think he would be the first to say that keeping things together is more a strategy than a philosophy,” says Paul Scheffer, a Dutch sociologist who is one of the leading thinkers of the Labor Party but who has also been critical of Cohen. “What’s behind it is experience. He understands that the relationships between groups in our time are fragile. He has a modest ambition.”

At the same time, many who broadly support Cohen say he took the city too far in strengthening the social well-being of orthodox groups in order to stabilize and integrate them. “The city of Amsterdam and the Dutch government were subsidizing schools and organizations that were totally retrograde, that were teaching that women aren’t the equal of men and that Jews should be burned,” says Deborah Scroggins, an American journalist who is writing a book on Muslim women in the West. Paul Scheffer, the prominent Labor Party thinker, agrees. “The vision Cohen projects about the Netherlands, the inclusive idea, that’s definitely something we need,” he says. “But he should point out to certain parts of the Muslim community the obligations that religious freedom brings with it.”

In practice, and surely also to broaden his appeal on the right, Cohen linked his inclusiveness efforts to crime-fighting and quality-of-life issues. “You can’t feel at home if you don’t feel safe,” he told me. “Look at the banlieues of Paris.” He cleaned up areas of Amsterdam and gave the police more authority. At the same time, he stresses that as mayor of the most famously liberal city in the world, he was in a unique position. Political forces that support the liberal image remain very strong, and Cohen counts himself one of them. “People come here because they feel you can do whatever you want here,” he says, approvingly. He says the city went too far, however, and was naïve in promoting its tolerance. He says he still believes in the philosophy that decriminalized prostitution and soft drugs, but that is has long been clear that, with international organized crime lurking behind both, more aggressive regulation is necessary. As with immigration, his guiding principle is an unrepentant tolerance, but one tempered by experience.

FOR ALL THE INTEREST Job Cohen has stirred among the Dutch, there is also a widespread feeling that the man himself is an enigma. People refer to him as “the sphinx” or “Saint Job” for the way he seems to float above the political fray. Paul Scheffer told me he has known Job Cohen since 1997 but feels he doesn’t really get him. So here is a curiosity: people are turning to this man to answer what has become the pressing question of national identity, Who are we? Yet nobody seems to know who he is.-- What makes him different, besides the approach toward immigration that he pioneered in Amsterdam, is the aloof persona he has forged, which led one national newspaper to declare (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) that the nation now looks to him as “the savior.”

Cohen has a number of challenges before him. The European debt crisis has persuaded many Dutch voters to see the economy as the most important issue, and he is not strong on economics. He also presided over the digging of a subway line through the heart of Amsterdam that is now financially and structurally threatening the city. Such issues, plus the fact that he has never before campaigned for office, could make the final days of the campaign a minefield for him. During a recent national television interview, he was caught off guard by that old trick of journalists, the pop quiz. He got the price of a loaf of bread right but didn’t know the current unemployment figures and squirmed in handling a question about mortgage rates. To some, Saint Job has started to look mortal. He would prefer to talk about immigration and integration matters, which allows for the matchup many observers want to see: Cohen versus Wilders, with all of Europe awaiting the outcome. “I would hope that my approach would work elsewhere in Europe,” Cohen said.---"

"---Today, people of non-Western origin make up approximately one-third of the population of Amsterdam, and more than 50% of children.[70][71][72]---"

"Amsterdam’s mayor Job Cohen was due to light a Jewish chandelier on Tuesday, marking the third day of the Jewish Festival of Lights, or Hanukkah. The festive lighting of the so-called Hanukkiah, or Hanukkah Menorah, which is three metres tall and one-and-a-half metres wide, was due to take place at 6 pm (1700 GMT) at the central Dam Square in Amsterdam.

At least 600 people were expected to attend the festive ceremony.

The public lighting is part of a global lighting campaign organized each year by the Jewish Orthodox outreach movement Chabad-Lubavich.

Other Hanukkiah lighting ceremonies are scheduled to take place in Washington, Paris, Moscow, New York, Berlin, Milan, Brussels, Beijing, Buenos Aires, Bangkok and Melbourne.

Public lightings have taken place for several years in at least four Dutch cities with substantial Jewish communities.

But this year marks only the second time a public lighting ceremony takes place at Amsterdam’s most central square.---"

"On Monday night, BBC2 screened a shocking programme about how some Jewish extremists and Israel have been secretly behind the rise of the notorious Fascist Geert Wilders.

The programme was remarkable because it goes behind the superficial Nazi ranting of Wilders to uncover how some Jews are the real organ grinders and Wilders along with his fellow travellers in the EDL and Pamela Geller are simply the Monkeys.

Everyone needs to watch the programme in its entirety to establish how we Muslims have been targeted and set upon by some very powerful Jewish extremists. First Louis Theroux exposes “ultra Zionists” and now this excellent BBC 2 programme, good to see all our collective criticism of BBC’s pro israel bias getting through.---"

"---Wilders fondness for Israel and Jews is an unrequited love. In an article that ran on June 4, 2010, the Dutch newspaper De Pers pointed out that only 2% of Dutch Jews voted for Wilders (compared this to the 25% of the native Dutch who voted in the general elections of 2010). The majority of Jewish votes go to the liberals and socialists (58%).---There is no significant Jewish support for right-wing politics in the Netherlands. Indeed, Jews are overrepresented among the public enemies of Wilders: “Wilders is a politician with a stick of dynamite in his hand” (chief rabbi Awraham Soetendorp in interview in Algemeen Dagblad, 2/16/2008); “Wilders is spreading hate” (former secretary of state Ed van Thijn in an interview in Telegraaf, 11/09/2008); “Wilders’ deadly words”(op-ed Ruth Wertheim in ‘De Volkskrant, 01/23/2009); “No reason for support for Wilders” (op-ed Ulli d’Oliveira in Trouw, 02/18/2009).

Wilders can depend on support from radical Jewish colonists on the West bank or some renegade Israeli generals, but if Wilders campaign against the Muslims succeeds, it will be without the help of Dutch Jews."

"---Bojeruds porträtt av svensken är som en spegelvänd antimuslimsk stereotyp, vilket även förklarar att svensken beskrivs som en hundmänniska – inom islam är hunden ett orent djur. ”Svensken tycker vanligen om djur och avskyr djurplågeri. Hundar är accepterade och till och med omhuldade sällskapsdjur”, berättar Bojerud.

SD:s lite säregna intresse för djur och natur har en historia. I det antisemitiska Tyskland infördes på 1930-talet ett antal djurskyddslagar, bland annat förbud mot kosherslakt. Så skedde också i Sverige. Idag är det framför allt det antimuslimska som döljs bakom djurskyddet.---"

Om femtio år är det accepterat att om man känner sig som jude, och har minst en förälder som är det, då är man jude, även i det religiösa livet. Vidare kommer alla konverteringar att gälla överallt, också de utförda av konservativa och reforma rabbiner. Istället för dagens gudstjänster, som ofta kan vara ”föreställningar”, med en passiv publik, ser jag framför mig ett andligt liv där alla deltar med sång och musik, och där det också finns stunder av eftertanke och tystnad i vår stora, vackra synagoga. Slutligen blir koscherslakt tillåtet i Sverige, Ahmed Rahmi sitter bakom lås och bom, och Radio Islam finns inte längre på nätet. Inte heller andra hemsidor som sprider hat, för de släcks automatiskt ner, på samma sätt som idag sker med hemsidor med barnpornografi.

SD:s lite säregna intresse för djur och natur har en historia. I det antisemitiska Tyskland infördes på 1930-talet ett antal djurskyddslagar, bland annat förbud mot kosherslakt. Så skedde också i Sverige. Idag är det framför allt det antimuslimska som döljs bakom djurskyddet.

Partiet, som i det nya programmet beskriver sin ideologi som national-socialkonservativ, delar även nationalsocialismens naturromantik. ”En utmärkande egenskap är förbundenheten med naturen”, skriver Bojerud om svensken – helt i enlighet med partiets idédokument.