Blue skies over Sweden

Published 08/30/2012

• Ingrid Carlqvist

Many Swedes will be shocked by what we write in Dispatch International. For those who are not neighbors to multiculturalism, whose kids do not attend the worst schools and only read the mainstream media, the old Sweden still exists.

Some of these Swedes will refuse to believe us when we write about the other side of reality, the New Sweden that we who live in Malmö meet close up every single day. Some will become so enraged at what they read that they will turn their anger at us and not at those responsible for the dangerous times we live in. Others will be confirmed in what they have long suspected – that our country is undergoing such massive changes that we have to act before it becomes too late.  The latter group grows by the day. Opinion surveys document that journalists have become the least trusted profession. Just 24% of Swedes believe what they read in the newspapers or is reported by television and radio.

In the editorial rooms they dismiss such surveys. Most journalists despise their readers, who they consider to be stupid and racist. They have assumed the role of educators and decided that it is best not to tell Swedes about the dark side of reality but instead continue singing the praise of multicultural society in every key. The very society they themselves stay well away from.    

Journalists have become the storytellers of our time. Do not believe their fairytales. Reality is worse than you think.

Swedes are nice and naive. Whatever transpires around us – murder, rape, robbery and grievous bodily harm – we look to the sky and hum with Ted Gärdestad that it is innocently blue.

But the undertone in Ted Gärdestad’s magnificent song is that although the sky is innocently blue, danger always lurks – even for those who refuse to acknowledge it.

Glued to a beach
We flew our kites while
time drifted ashore.
We were children that no evil could reach
The sky was so blue

We are living in a time of great upheaval. Either we follow the example of the Danish resistance during the German occupation and fight for our country and culture. Or we bend to those who want to force us to live under their violent and uncompromising ideology.

I’m often asked the question: Why do you do this, Ingrid? Why don’t you just be quiet and nice and conform like the rest of us? Every time I cite Jonathan in Astrid Lindgren’s The Brothers Lionheart. In response to Karl’s despairing question why his big brother Jonathan must leave to fight the dragon Katla, Jonathan replies:

”But there are things you have to do, otherwise you’re not a human being but just a bit of filth.”