Paying For Their Own Demise


The following essay was written by the Swedish author Katerina Janouch. As a child living in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s she was called Kateřina Janouchová, but her name was shortened when her family moved to Scandinavia.

Ms. Janouch has lived in Sweden since the 1970s. She is the founder of Katerina Magasin. The following essay from her magazine was translated by Gary Fouse:

The Swedish people happily continue to pay for their own downfall

June 1, 2023

Which do you think is worse? Islamists who openly advance their positions and plan to install sharia law in the little country of Sweden? Or Swedes who allow it to happen and gladly contribute to their own downfall by supporting it with tax money? Muslims are determined and do what they think is right to gain world domination, one country at a time. But how in Hell can the Swede sell out his own country to an ideology that in the end, will enslave him, his children, and his people? Treason against one’s own people lacks precedent in world history, and it gets worse when politically correct people of culture feel that love of one’s own country is something negative that must be countered. Hello, Swedish people: do you see that Sweden is on the way to becoming a Scandinavian caliphate? Where will you go then if you don’t want to be forced to live under sharia law in your own country?

The newspaper Kvartal, after a tip from Medborgerligt Samling [political party], reveals that the large mosque that is now under construction in Skärholmen in southern Stockholm has close ties to the Islamist movement Milli Görüs. The tax money of the Swedish people is being greatly misused to make this building possible. The city of Stockholm has donated 13 million kronor from our general funds for this political temple, and it really makes you sick.

Instead of building gigantic mosques to subdue Sweden and the Swedish people and turn Sweden into a Muslim country, we should dismantle the progress of this invasive ideology. But no. The huge building is in progress, expected to be finished in 2025, and when it is ready, the mosque will be three stories high, have 2,500 square meters inside, and for calling out Islam sufficiently, two 63-meter-high minarets.

The website of the Skärholmen mosque makes no secret of the anti-Western message. It is explained there that the Western lifestyle is incompatible with Islam. The Western world is accused of putting base desires and pleasure over everything else. “The only principle that is clear and distinct for all Muslims is that sovereignty ultimately belongs to Allah (May His majesty be exalted), as it is expressed in Divine Law. The large majority of all Muslims, even in the most Westernized and modernized countries, would like to live according to sharia and have their own freedom and democracy based on their own understanding of this concept and ideal rather than how they are understood in this modern and post-modern Western country.” On the mosque’s website, you also find information that the majority of all Muslims want to have sharia law.

From Kvartal:

The then-housing minister, Mehmet Kaplan (Green Party), was forced to leave the government in 2016 due to his contacts with the two Turkish organizations, the Grey Wolves and Milli Görüs. In Malmö, Milli Görüs’ local organization has received contributions from the community for several years, and the local chairman sat for a term on the Social Committee as a representative of the Green Party. The organization cooperates in Malmö with the Study Association Ibn Rushd.

But is it now suddenly OK to build an enormous Milli Görüs-connected mosque and finance it with our Swedish tax money? Do they see it as “contributing to a diverse city environment”? This is where the authorities’ and politicians’ enormous betrayal of Sweden comes into the picture.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/2/2023

The “Traffic Light” government in Germany is quietly flying 4,000 migrants into the country every month. Meanwhile, migrants staying at a hotel in London staged a demonstration on the sidewalk outside the hotel, demanding private rooms and better wi-fi.

In other news, the pet products superstore PetSmart announced the launch of its line of “Pride” wear for cats and dogs.

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The Palestinians of Malmö

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from Ledarsidorna:

El Haj makes the “S” Visible in Malmö’s DNA

May 30, 2023

MP Jamal El Haj (Social Democrat) has received extensive criticism for his participation in the Palestinian conference that was held this weekend in Malmö. But El Haj’s engagement and presence in radical groups have not gone unnoticed for some time. On the contrary, this presence is a prerequisite for his Parliamentary mandate, previous investigations show.

Social Democrat Parliamentary member Jamal El Haj has received extensive criticism for his participation in the Palestinian conference that was held this weekend in Malmö. A conference that Ledarsidorna was the first to reveal with this connection to Hamas. El Haj refuses to be interviewed and consequently refers to his Facebook page where he goes into a longer explanation.

“For the majority of the Palestinian people in the diaspora, every Palestinian’s involvement, whether political or idealistic, is an important marker of the people’s liberation struggle”.

“Attempts to link me to Hamas on the grounds of my participation in what I experienced at a huge people’s festival I consider to be guilt-by-association.”

Further, during the weekend, he “put the rose on the shelf” (the symbol for the Social Democrats’ party, coincidentally).

This explanation is rejected by several highly-placed Social Democrats that Aftonbladet spoke to. They are all of the view that it is impossible to differentiate between the Parliamentary mandate for the Social Democrat party and what was expressed by Jamal El-Haj at the European Palestinian conference.

“You can’t ‘put the rose on the shelf’ for a while and then take up the work for the Social Democrats again afterwards. If the party doesn’t do something now, it will send a signal to other members that we can put other interests before the party’s. This is unacceptable,” says one source.

That Jamal El-Haj participated and spoke is also seen by one leading Social Democrat as a blow against the party’s work against anti-Semitism in Malmö, where the Social Democrats have been drawn into the problem with anti-Semitism for a long time.

“The advice is given for good reason. This is so f****** sad,” the person says.

Expressen gives a picture of El Haj’s political career, but it is far from comprehensive, but rather is limited to his involvement in Parliament and his time at IF Metal.

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How Sweden Became a Gangster’s Paradise

Fjordman’s latest essay has been published at Gatestone Institute. Below are some excerpts:

How Sweden Became a Gangster’s Paradise

by Peder Jensen

After the Russian invasion of the Ukraine in February 2022, Sweden and Finland abandoned generations of neutrality to apply for membership in the NATO military alliance. However, there is already a gang war going on in Swedish streets, and it has nothing to do with Russia.

Between January and May 2023, Swedish police recorded on average one completed bomb detonation every two days. If you add the bombs that were in preparation, but not yet detonated, Sweden experienced one explosives-related crime per day. Rival gangs increasingly continue to target each other’s relatives with revenge attacks.

In early May 2023, National Police Commissioner Anders Thornberg stated that more than 1,000 people are initiated into criminal gangs across Sweden every year. Despite some arrests, the rate of recruitment shows no sign of slowing down. With three new recruits, many noticeably young, added every day, it is virtually impossible to reduce the total number of active gang members. Thornberg estimated that more than 30,000 people are now involved in gang violence in Sweden. For comparison, he stated that the number of police officers in Sweden is 22,600. The number of gang members already exceeds the number of police and keeps growing at an alarming rate. According to Thornberg, the situation is “extremely serious,” with organized crime infiltrating and corrupting the democratic society, the business world and the public sector.

That Sweden has become one of Europe’s most violent countries has finally attracted international attention. The French newspaper Le Monde lamented “Sweden’s powerlessness in the face of organized violence.” The paper quoted Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson from the Moderate Party stating that the situation is “uncontrollable” and may “get worse before it gets better.” Kristersson labelled the dozens of criminal gangs in Sweden “domestic terrorists.”

Read the rest at Gatestone Institute.


“Sweden must die”

For a complete archive of Fjordman’s writings, see the multi-index listing in the Fjordman Files.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/1/2023

President Biden tripped over a sandbag and took a hard fall today at the Air Force Academy commencement. Former President Trump expressed his concern for Mr. Biden’s well-being after the mishap, but the president appears to have sustained no permanent damage.

In other news, the Russian government said that it repelled another cross-border attack from Ukraine in the Belgorod region.

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The European Union Will Shut Your Mouth For You

The European Union is planning a new set of draconian speech restrictions to be imposed on all major social media platforms. The “pandemic” is simply the most obvious and most recent excuse for the crackdown. It’s obvious that the Powers That Be are determined to enforce their groupthink on all citizens.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Uncut News. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

The mother of all censorships is approaching. The digital law eliminates all opinions that contradict the system.

The Digital Services Act (DSA), an EU-level regulation, is practically the mother of all censorship. Under the guise of online platforms’ transparency and accountability, any opinion that goes against the system is eliminated. More specifically, the regulation obliges the platforms to mitigate risks such as misinformation or election rigging with the help of “trusted” bodies that will censor everything.

The turbulent times of the pandemic have highlighted the aggressive censorship practiced by the authorities, combined with social networks no longer shying away from eliminating voices, particularly those of professionals and medical luminaries, who disagree with the official narrative. During the pandemic there was virtually only one opinion, and those who dared to disagree were ostracized and publicly lynched. Censoring the opinions of people outside of the medical field wasn’t so destructive, but the fact that reputable and respected medical researchers became pariahs overnight simply for daring to point out the flaws in logic and the distortion of science itself is unthinkable.

EU leaders have consistently complained about low vaccination rates in some countries, including Romania, and pointed fingers at “conspiracy theories” circulating on social media. [Well, everybody who read the SPARS document from Johns Hopkins University knew straightaway what was coming.] Did they make a difference in our country? In part, because more important was the survival instinct of the population, who sensed something was wrong and chose to resist the pressure or, when they had no choice, to stick with the sham vaccine. In the meantime, all the “conspiracy theories” have come true, but public attention has been deliberately drawn to other crises. Eagerly preparing for the next pandemic, which will depend very much on who wins the battle between the two world orders, the European Union is now introducing an official act of total censorship.

General Surveillance

The Digital Services Act is a regulation that applies directly across the EU. Obligations imposed on very large online platforms and search engines include monitoring their risk management measures through independent audits. The platforms must also contain risks such as misinformation or election manipulation, cyber-violence against women or the endangerment of minors on the Internet. [I bet that the LGBT crap will be pushed and opposing voices will be silenced that way.] The law also provides for measures to combat illegal content online, including illegal goods and services. The DSA provides new mechanisms for users to report illegal content online and requires platforms to work with specialized “trusted whistleblowers” to identify and remove illegal content, as well as effective protections for users, including the ability to override platform decisions, challenge moderation of content, based on new mandatory information for users when their content is removed or restricted.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/31/2023

Russia launched another night-time attack on the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, reportedly killing three people, including two children. Meanwhile, the German government has ordered Russia to close four of its five consulates in Germany.

In other news, EU officials have met with the prime minister of Kosovo in an effort to defuse a crisis that has seen ethnic Serbs clash with KFOR troops in majority-Serb towns in northern Kosovo.

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The Political Environment

In Germany, the Advisory Council on the Environment (Sachverständigenrat für Umweltfragen, SRU) is a scientific body advising the federal German government about its future environmental policy. It is theoretically independent, and does not take direct instructions from the government concerning the preparation of its reports.

In its latest report, the SRU outlines how the political process can effect change in citizens’ behavior that will benefit the “environment”.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from the SRU. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

Politics has a duty: Facilitate environmentally friendly behavior

The environmental crises of our time can only be overcome if we change the way we live — that is, how we live, consume, travel and eat. It is the task of politics to facilitate, encourage and also demand environmentally friendly behavior by setting the appropriate course. In this special report, the SRU (Expert Council on the Environment) shows how this can be achieved. [Eat your bugs, freeze, work hard, pay 99% taxes and shut up, or we will do it for you.]

To this end, politicians should first analyze which factors have so far made environmentally friendly behavior difficult. Political measures can begin here. Contextual conditions can be changed in such a way that they facilitate ecological solutions, whether through price signals, infrastructure or regulation. In concrete decision-making situations, people who want to behave in an environmentally friendly way should be better supported, for example through information and advice. In the longer term, environmental education and a shift in societal values can lay the foundation for change.

In some areas it is politically controversial whether politics should influence the behavior of the population more. Public acceptance can be improved through transparent communication on planned measures and their effects, through a targeted combination of instruments and through citizen participation.

In this report, the SRU analyzes when the behavior should be addressed, which measures are suitable and how these can be implemented politically. The report provides recommendations for concrete implementation in the areas of meat consumption, smart phones and energy-saving renovation. [I bet they do.]

Afterword from the translator:

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The ISIS Junior Varsity

A culture-enriching teenager in northern Italy was planning some boisterous activities in association with the civic group known as the Islamic State, but had the misfortune to be detained by the police. I’m sure it’s all just a misunderstanding, and the unfortunate lad will soon be released.

Actually, there’s no indication in the report as to the specific age of the young feller, who may in fact not even be a teenager yet. He might be one of those prepubescent ISIS “cubs” who spend a lot of time in training camps being tutored in special skills by the older mujahideen.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this brief article from Il Tempo:

Bergamo: “Association for criminal purposes”

Juvenile supporter of ISIS arrested

May 30, 2023

A juvenile, an Italian citizen of foreign origin residing in the province of Bergamo, has been arrested and investigated for association for terrorist purposes, training, support, and instigation of aggravated delinquency. The monitoring by Digos agents in Bergamo and Brescia and by the Extremism and Terrorism Service of the Central Directorate of Prevention Police revealed that the young person was part of a network of ISIS supporters in various countries in Europe and America, many of whom were arrested in recent weeks. The investigations made it possible to ascertain that the boy was ready to go into action and that he was preparing an incendiary attack in the area in which he resides. In addition, the minor was found in possession of numerous materials linked to the Islamic State, among which were videos of executions and manuals relating to weapons and the packaging of bombs, which he also disseminated on the web, exhorting other youths to go into action.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/30/2023

Ukraine launched a major drone attack on a wealthy residential neighborhood in Moscow, damaging several apartment buildings and injuring two people. The attack is said to be in retaliation for a recent series of massive air attacks on Kiev and other Ukrainian cities.

In other news, NATO has dispatched an additional 700 troops to reinforce its garrison in Kosovo after a series of violent attacks by ethnic Serbs enraged over the installation of ethnic Albanian mayors in majority Serb towns.

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What Does Your Skeleton Identify As?

The time-honored practice of imposing the preoccupations of the present on the denizens of the distant past has a natural advantage: our long-dead ancestors are moldering in their graves and unavailable for comment. Whatever we decide to say about them is therefore irrefutable.

Now it seems that the moldering remains of those ancestors are being exhumed and used as proof of their “transgender” tendencies.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Report24. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

Transgender propaganda: Archaeologists claim to have found “non-binary” skeletons

As with Corona and the climate mania, all stops are being pulled out in the case of transgender propaganda. No matter how absurd a fact is, it is presented by bought and paid for journalists as a sensation and the truth. Because those who pull the strings know that by constantly repeating the brazen fairy tales, they get into the mainstream and are believed by people who are easily influenced. Now archeology has to be employed to support newfangled left-wing fantasies.

Sensational: In order to be able to read the findings on this alleged archaeological sensational find, one has to dig deep into one’s pocket; the article, which aroused viral interest, is already hidden behind a paywall from the first sentence — and that in several media. So most people have to be content with the lurid title.

This headline already explains that with this find “doubts about the two-gender theory” arise. It is obvious that this is madness, which is now to be made socially acceptable by means of state power — and there is no need to talk about the biological reality on this planet, which has developed over billions of years. This reality will still be valid when all memory of the “Left” delusion that is currently going around has long since crumbled into dust.

After some searching we found a text on the facts in EJZ.de which is not hidden behind a payment barrier. And we learn what was logical for every clear-thinking person in advance:

With their publication, the scientists transferred a modern understanding of gender identities to archaeology.

Archaeological studies to date have mostly used a traditional binary sex model, in which corpses were assigned their biological sex based on the DNA in their bones. But there is also the concept of gender, which depends on one’s own gender identity and the perception of others.

This quote also explains all the mumbo-jumbo.

Realistically, in earlier times in history, should a man or woman say out loud that they were ignorant of their gender, drastic solvents existed.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/29/2023

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has decided to dissolve parliament, and is calling for snap elections in July. Mr. Sánchez made his decision after right-wing candidates scored decisive victories in local elections.

In other news, NATO-led KFOR troops in Kosovo suffered injuries at the hands of ethnic Serb protesters who objected to the installation of Albanian mayors in majority-Serb towns.

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When Rape is a Group Activity

When I began covering European issues more than fifteen years ago, gang rapes were relatively rare in Northern and Western Europe. And when they did happen, the perpetrators were always culture-enrichers. It just wasn’t a pastime that white guys engaged in.

In recent years gang rapes have become epidemic in Western Europe. And it’s still a culture-enriching practice: the huge increase is due to the flood of migrants that has overwhelmed the continent since the Great Migration Crisis of 2015.

The following essay talks about the latest statistics from Germany. Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this op-ed from Report24. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

Crime, Mass Migration

More and more gang rapes: Germany has a problem

In Germany there was a record high in gang rapes last year. Half of these crimes were committed by foreigners. Nothing is known about the migration background of the remaining perpetrators. We are talking about a serious problem that affects women’s safety.

A commentary by Heinz Steiner

In 2022 there were a total of 789 gang rapes in Germany. That’s an average of more than two such sexual assaults per day, or 15 per week. So every week an average of 15 lives are destroyed of women and girls who are abused by several men. And not only that: This is a new record. Back in 2021 there were 677 reported cases and in 2017 there were less than half with 380 such attacks.

But Germans themselves are hardly responsible for this. According to the statistics, foreigners — including mainly Syrians and Afghans — are responsible for half of these attacks, although a total of “only” about 1.3 million Syrians and Afghans are “seeking protection” in Germany. There is reason to assume that the majority of the other perpetrators also have an immigrant background, although these figures have not been collected or published. The generous granting of German citizenships during the last decades makes it difficult to evaluate backgrounds more precisely.

Nevertheless, it is clear that Germany has an imported problem in this regard. (By the way, a comparable problem can be seen in Scandinavian countries.) The mass influx of young men from predominantly Moslem countries, where different values and customs prevail, causes various complications. Above all, however, with such gang rapes these men show a will to degrade and humiliate the victims. This has little to do with the gratification of the instinct itself, as is usually the case with rape. Rather, it is a power play.

In Mohammedan culture, the coordinated communal sexual harassment of women is also known by the term “taharrush gamea”. This practice was brought to Europe thanks to liberal immigration policies. As the influx of immigrants from these countries continues, things are unlikely to get any better in the future. On the contrary: How long will it be before the sad record of 1,000 such attacks per year is reached? [More like, per day, but by then these guys will all have German citizenship.]

Afterword from the translator:

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Rumor Control Central

The Food and Drug Administration is asking American citizens for their assistance in fighting “misinformation” about health. And — as we have learned over the last thirty years since Hillary Clinton began the process of nationalizing the health care system — that means misinformation about anything, because everything can be re-cognized as concerning health. The food you eat, the places you go, the people you associate with, how you spend your money — all of these can be related to your health, and each choice can be ranked according to how good or bad it is for your bodily well-being.

It goes without saying that the FDA will do the ranking of all activities as they pertain to health, and then define anything that deviates from that schema as misinformation.

In order to help ensure that everyone’s health is optimized, the FDA will make it easy and convenient to report misinformation — that is, what they consider unfounded rumors and inaccurate information about anything they deem health-related. At this particular historical moment, COVID-19 and the “vaccines” are obviously their main concerns. But other unhealthy behaviors will also come under scrutiny. We can already catch a glimpse of some of the general topics that will at some point be considered relevant: “climate change”, eating the bugs instead of meat or dairy, not using the internal combustion engine, adopting a digital currency, getting chipped, and so on. All of these will fall under the rubric of “health”, and therefore be subject to regulation by the national socialist federal health care system.

Citizens will be strongly urged to report anyone who propagates “misinformation” on any of these topics. Furthermore, when the system is fully mature, we may expect that the reporting of information criminals will become mandatory — the duty of every civic-minded person. Those who peddle misinformation are a danger to our democracy, which depends on the universal acceptance of a single truth in order to be able to function. Propagators of false information must be exposed and silenced.

That’s what the FDA’s “Rumor Control” site is aiming at:

Find the Truth

Get the latest fact checks and help stop the spread of false rumors.

The growing spread of rumors, misinformation and disinformation about science, medicine, and the FDA, is putting patients and consumers at risk. We’re here to provide the facts.

Watch how to identify and help stop the spread of health misinformation. [YouTube video]

After that come these features:

  • Learn the Facts
  • Health Information For You
  • What the FDA Does For You
  • Share the Facts

Next you can download a pdf document by means of which you may “Learn about how you can identify and address misinformation.”

It’s mostly in graphical form, and is designed in a grade-school format. It’s available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Korean.

No French, German, or Italian. Hmm…

Finally, and most importantly:

How to Report Misinformation Online

We face the challenge of an overabundance of information related to our public health. Some of this information may be false and potentially harmful.

Inaccurate information spreads widely and at speed, making it more difficult for the public to identify verified facts and advice from trusted sources, such as the FDA.

However, everyone can help to stop the spread. If you see content online that you believe to be false of misleading, you can report it to the applicable platform…

Then it has icons and links for the following platforms:

  • How do I mark a Facebook post as false news? Click here
  • Reduce the spread of false information on Instagram. Click here.
  • LinkedIn: Recognizing and reporting spam, inappropriate, and abusive content. Click here.
  • Report inappropriate content on TikTok. Click here.
  • Report a tweet, list or direct message on Twitter. Click here.
  • How to report a contact or a group on WhatsApp. Click here.
  • Report inappropriate content on YouTube. Click here.

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The normal reaction to all of the above would be one of outrage, but I recommend tamping down that instinctive response, if you can, because outrage at this point serves no useful purpose.

You can contact your elected representative, and it will make no difference whatsoever. For that matter, voting itself will make no difference whatsoever. You can vote for whomever you like, and the federal government will continue doing this stuff, no matter what.

Outrage is a waste of psychic energy. Pointing out the hypocrisy and double standards is a waste of time. Identifying all the ways in which these actions violate the Constitution is pointless — the Constitution has been dead for a long time now, and “our democracy” keeps chugging along just fine without it.

At one time I would have recommended that we attempt to break the system by overloading it — posting as much controversial material as possible, making stuff up, signing off on any paranoid lunacy that comes along, etc. We might thus make it impossible for the tech monitors to keep up with all our “misinformation” — there would simply be too few employees to handle it.

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