In War, Cities Are Lost

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In the midst of a conventional war, one can generally measure the success or failure of a nation’s military effort by comparing how many cities it controls to how many it controlled at the beginning of the war. And though the Islamic jihad in Europe today is far from a conventional war, and most people aren’t even aware that it is happening at all, the principle remains largely the same: the advance of the invading army can be measured by looking at the number of cities it controls. That number is increasing.

Consider, for example, Sweden’s third-largest city, Malmö, which has become an Islamic enclave within Sweden. A third of the city’s population is now Muslim, and that number is rapidly growing. The city is essentially autonomous. As far back as 2004, Fox News reported that non-Muslim authorities were afraid to enter the city: “If we park our car it will be damaged — so we have to go very often in two vehicles, one just to protect the other vehicle,” reported a police officer in Malmo. Meanwhile, Swedish ambulance drivers will not enter some areas of Malmo unless police accompany them.”

But that was twenty years ago. Surely the situation has improved and stabilized since then, as moderate Muslims steadily overshadowed and silenced their more radically-minded coreligionists, no? No.

In June 2019, Malmö’s Jewish congregation, according to Breitbart, “warned that rising antisemitism is turning the city into a no-go zone for Jews.” In a letter to the city, the congregation noted that “the numbers of Jews have decreased dramatically from 842 members in 1999 to 387 members in 2019 and runs the risk of disappearing entirely in the future.” The congregation stated: “The Jewish congregation will soon disappear if nothing is done drastically. Malmö is already a no-go zone for Jews around the world. When Malmö is mentioned in the media around the world, it is far too often related to antisemitism. A Google search for ‘antisemitism Malmö’ gives 215,000 hits. Unfortunately, current initiatives are not enough.”

This was due to Islamic antisemitism, yet Swedish authorities, like their counterparts all over the West, remained resolutely determined to ignore that phenomenon.

By October 2020, Swedish author Paulina Neuding told the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: “I live in Malmö. It was once a safe haven for Jews, but today only 200 remain and are being harassed….In Malmö, anti-Semitism currently occurs mainly in migrant communities. That is something the Swedish government does not know how to deal with.” According to Remix News, “in a test of the city’s anti-Semitism, an hour-long documentary on Swedish television showcased a Swedish journalist putting on a kippa and sitting outside a café in Rosengaard. He was referred to as a ‘Jewish Satan’ and people threw eggs at him from their apartments….In 2020, chants in Arabic about killing Jews were chanted at a protest in Malmö.”

Sweden’s Expressen reported in October 2021 that at the “Malmö International Forum for the Remembrance of the Holocaust and the Fight against Anti-Semitism,” Jewish artifacts were covered with a blanket. Anette Sarnäs, a city archivist, explained: “I was informed that there was a security meeting and that this would not be visible during the weekend to avoid damage, that windows could be broken and that the city archives risked major damage.” In the new Malmö, the suffering of Jews was not to be accorded any official recognition.

Remix News reported that by January 2023, most students in Malmö had a “migration background.” Acquiescing to the new realities, one “prominent associate professor” called for “new educational facilities where migrants can study in their native language, particularly Arabic, arguing that Swedish is now a ‘minority language.’” Remix added that “according to the city’s local government website, one-third of Malmö’s residents were born abroad; Iraq is the most common country of birth, while Syria and other Middle Eastern countries are also high on the list.” That’s what invasion, conquest and colonization look like.

Malmö is just one city out of many in Europe where much the same things are happening. They’re just happening in Malmö more quickly and obviously than they are in many other places. The rest of Europe, however, is working hard to catch up.