The exodus from Syria is challenging traditional notions about Sweden, a country of only nine million which has long prided itself as a refuge for those fleeing war. About 85,000, mostly Syrian refugees, have arrived so far this year, making it by far the greatest recipient, per capita, of asylum seekers of any country in Europe.
As a Polish-Iraqi who emigrated more than 30 years ago, Azad Jonczyk… has been the chief of integration for refugees setting in Astorp.
His task is complicated by the cultural divide. Swedes are generally quiet and introspective, and relatively relaxed about relationships between the sexes. Arabs tend to be garrulous and show their emotions, but are deeply conservative regarding social issues. Another point of division is language — most refugees have trouble mastering Swedish.
That helps explain what has happened in Rosengard, a suburb of Malmo, Sweden’s third-largest city 80 kilometres from Astorp: more than 80 per cent of residents speak Arabic. Most of them on welfare benefits, sucking Sweden dry.....yet never grateful but always feeling superior and angry.
“I love it here because it feels like the Middle East,” said Taghrid, a young hijab-wearing Palestinian from Syria as she pushed a baby carriage past other women in similar attire…
Such segregated enclaves are part of the problem, said Jonczyk, who moves easily between Astorp’s Swedish and Arab communities.
“What they do at home, they want to do in Swedish society and they want Swedish society to accept that,” he said. Just as Sweden seems to accept the fact that it is the RAPE CAPITAL of the Western World; Swedish women raped at the hands of the Muslim men they so generously accepted. FILTH!
With unemployment among refugees well above 40 per cent, finding them work was one of Jonczyk’s major preoccupations. But to reach the point where they were employable was not possible if Sweden did not do a much better job of making them feel part of their new environment.

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