A far-right party entered the Swedish Parliament for the first time in elections Sunday, spoiling the center-right government's victory and majority, and plunging the country into political disarray, preliminary results showed.
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt was seeking to become the first center-right leader to win re-election after serving a full term in a Scandinavian welfare nation dominated for decades by the left-wing Social Democrats.
But the Islam-bashing Sweden Democrats held the balance of power after winning 5.7 percent of the votes for 20 seats in the 349-seat legislature, according to results.
Perhaps the Swedish Democrats are Islam bashers. But it wouldn't attract votes, I'd bet, if the center-left/center-right had been willing to address the problem of Islamic immigrants failing to conform to the political and social norms of Sweden. Instead, the governing class has allowed Islam to develop into an alien presence eating away at their cities.
Sweden doesn't have an immigration problem--it is an assimilation problem. Whatever happened to "when in Rome, do as the Romans" as a guide? Sweden has a right to expect immigrants to behave as Swedes. Instead, the Swedish government seems to believe that Swedes need to conform to a violent minority that bends both Moslems and Sweden as a whole toward accepting Islamo-faascist thinking as the norm.
I wrote many months ago that I figured that Malmo would be the first Western jurisdiction to forbid bartenders from serving alcohol to Moslems, taking on the role of enforcer of Islamist practices.
If the governing classes would address the problem that radical Islam creates for the West, far right parties wouldn't have any appeal at all.
