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Message 1873520 - Posted: 17 Jun 2017, 4:46:32 UTC - in response to Message 1873516.  

Jan says that is fake news, no wonder you can't verify.

It's Russian "news":)
Sorry to say that even many US "news" have the same view of our "ghettos":(
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Message 1873566 - Posted: 17 Jun 2017, 12:52:00 UTC - in response to Message 1873511.  

Found on Google. I can't verify.
Despite constantly ranking at the top of various well-being and human potential studies, Sweden has been struggling with ethnic ghettos with burgeoning crime and high unemployment. Of late, eight new districts have been added to the country's list of "especially vulnerable areas," which is the official police definition of a ghetto.

https://sputniknews.com/europe/201706131054576361-sweden-ghettos-crime

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That article is from Sputnik.
Sponsored by Putin.
Give me a break:)


This isn't exactly 'new' news. And here is another source, that you can't taint by association with the Russki site 'sputnik',


http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/06/world/a-swedish-dilemma-the-immigrant-ghetto.html

But, the word 'ghetto' can be misleading to those people that are primarily familiar with poor minority slums in big USA cities.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghetto


Definition of ghetto
plural ghettos also ghettoes

1
: a quarter of a city in which Jews were formerly required to live

2
: a quarter of a city in which members of a minority group live especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure

3
a : an isolated group a geriatric ghetto
b : a situation that resembles a ghetto especially in conferring inferior status or limiting opportunity the pink-collar ghetto


There is a reason why meaning '1' is rather specific.

The etymology of Italian ghetto was formerly the subject of much speculation, but today there is little doubt that the word comes from the Italian dialect form ghèto, meaning “foundry.” A foundry for cannons was once located on an island that forms part of Venice, where in 1516 the Venetians restricted Jewish residence. The word ghèto became the name for the area and was borrowed into standard Italian as ghetto, with the meaning of “section of a city where Jews are forced to live.” From there it passed into most other European languages. Since the late 19th century, the meaning of ghetto has been extended to crowded urban districts where other ethnic or racial groups have been confined by poverty or prejudice.


All this said, I am not a fan of the use of the word 'ghetto' for a minority neighborhood in a large city.

In my experience, the crime level in an area has more to do with poverty than with race/ethnicity, and the word 'ghetto' (as it is used in the USA) has connotations involving crime rate that are not necessarily justified. Not all minority neighborhoods are high-crime, and not all high-crime neighborhoods are minority.
https://youtu.be/iY57ErBkFFE

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Don't blame me, I voted for Johnson(L) in 2016.

Truth is dangerous... especially when it challenges those in power.
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Message 1873573 - Posted: 17 Jun 2017, 13:22:58 UTC
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Thanks for the fun read. LOL:)
No Bjorns, Alfs or Stefans appear on the Rinkeby community bulletin board.
Of course not.
They're not Swedish names:)

Rinkeby Kontidori. Hehe. Wrong spelling!
Should be Rinkeby Konditori that is a coffee shop.
Or should I say Covfefe shop like Trump does:):):)


And Rinkeby Square is now called Mogadishu Square.
Lots of Kats there!

Ill-spoken Swedish is known throughout the country as ''Rinkeby Swedish,'' used by urban toughs and middle-class youths eager for a little street credibility.
A short glossary:)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinkeby_Swedish

We call the subway to Rinkeby, Tensta and Hjulsta The Orient Express:)
It takes only 20 minutes from Stockholm center to get to the Orient.

In my experience, the crime level in an area has more to do with poverty than with race/ethnicity, and the word 'ghetto' (as it is used in the USA) has connotations involving crime rate that are not necessarily justified. Not all minority neighborhoods are high-crime, and not all high-crime neighborhoods are minority.

That's very true Major Kong.
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Message 1873600 - Posted: 17 Jun 2017, 16:14:52 UTC
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A Swedish brewery has paid tribute to the man who fought the London Bridge attackers by naming a new beer in his honour.
Frequency Beer Works, just north of Stockholm, has created a five per cent English bitter in honour of Roy Larner.
It’s called ‘F*** you I’m Millwall’
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/swedish-brewery-beer-name-you-im-millwall-stockholm-frequency-works-london-bridge-hero-attackers-a7794676.html


All the profits from sales of the beer will go towards Larner’s Just Giving page.
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/jayne-jacob
Many cheers:)
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Message 1873874 - Posted: 18 Jun 2017, 20:15:46 UTC

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mali-security-idUSKBN1990TY?il=0
At least two people were killed in an attack by gunmen on Sunday at a luxury resort outside Mali's capital Bamako popular with Western expatriates, the Security Ministry said.

Gunmen stormed Le Campement Kangaba in Dougourakoro, to the east of the capital Bamako, a resort foreign residents often visit for weekend breaks. There were no details of casualties but the attack was continuing on Sunday evening.

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Message 1873877 - Posted: 18 Jun 2017, 20:39:42 UTC

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/06/18/Colombian-mall-explosion-kills-3-in-possible-terrorist-attack/8801497797160/?utm_source=fp&utm_campaign=mp&utm_medium=1
June 18 (UPI) -- Three women died in an explosion at a mall in Bogota, Colombia, that authorities described as a terrorist attack.

Eleven other people were killed at the Andino shopping center in the Zona Rosa area Saturday afternoon, authorities said.

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Message 1873883 - Posted: 18 Jun 2017, 21:20:39 UTC

During the night, Iraq's government army went on to attack the old town of Mosul, still held by the Islamic State terrorist group (IS), on Sunday. The forces are now estimated to have taken the narrow city center.
In the district, up to 150,000 civilians are held as human shields.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/06/iraqi-forces-launch-assault-mosul-city-170618070211051.html
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Message 1873943 - Posted: 19 Jun 2017, 5:43:32 UTC - in response to Message 1873305.  

Another terrorist attack. :-( This carnage has to stop.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/18/europe/finsbury-park-london-car-crash/index.html

London van hits pedestrians in Finsbury Park: Live updates


(CNN)One person was killed, and several injured, when a van drove into pedestrians near Finsbury Park Mosque, north London, in the early hours of Monday morning. Follow live updates here.
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Message 1874026 - Posted: 19 Jun 2017, 16:42:07 UTC - in response to Message 1873943.  
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Just in case our faith in humanity is waning...

In the chaotic aftermath of the violence, Imam Mohammed Mahmoud reportedly leapt into action, urging the injured and angry worshipers to remain calm and shielding the alleged attacker from the furious crowd until police could detain the man.

Speaking with Sky News, one witness explained that “The leader of the mosque said ‘You do not touch him.’ He was sitting and holding him like that, people kept holding him.”

In another interview with Sky, Muslim Welfare House CEO Toufik Kacimi was more direct in his appraisal of Imam Mahmoud’s actions.

“Our imam, Mohammed Mahmoud, went there and saved him,” Kacimi said. “He saved his life basically.”


It also appears at this point that the person who died was having a medical emergency before the incident, possibly a heart attack or similar, so the death may not have been caused by the attack. Of course the chaos that ensued may have delayed prompt treatment...
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Message 1874030 - Posted: 19 Jun 2017, 17:13:34 UTC

United against all terror!
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Message 1874033 - Posted: 19 Jun 2017, 17:25:19 UTC

Paris https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/police-vehicle-rammed-on-champs-elysees-in-possible-terrorist-attack/2017/06/19/fde74cae-54ff-11e7-840b-512026319da7_story.html?utm_term=.443af5322888
Driver dies after ramming car into police vehicle on Champs-Elysees in probable terrorist attack

PARIS — A car exploded as it crashed into a police vehicle on Paris’s famed Champs-Elysees on Monday in what authorities called a probable terrorist attack.

Police were treating the incident as a deliberate act, and the Paris prosecutor had opened a terrorism investigation as of late Monday afternoon.

The driver, whose identity has not been released, was killed in the crash, Gerard Collomb, France’s interior minister, told reporters at the scene. No one else was injured, Paris police sources said.

Police said the attacker — who was 31 and from the northwestern Paris suburb of Argenteuil — was known to French authorities, the Associated Press reported. He was reportedly listed on the government’s “Fiche S,” a dossier of people suspected of posing a threat to national security.

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Message 1874036 - Posted: 19 Jun 2017, 17:51:07 UTC
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Finsbury Park.
As always. "He was such a nice guy".
Weird...
As police search a property in the Cardiff area - believed to be the home of Darren Osborne, who the BBC understands was arrested after the attack - neighbours have been reacting to the news.
Khadijeh Sherizi, who lives next door, said the suspected attacker was "so normal".
"He was in his kitchen yesterday afternoon singing with his kids. He was the dad of the family. He has kids. He lives next door. He seemed polite and pleasant to me."
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Message 1874174 - Posted: 21 Jun 2017, 0:12:51 UTC - in response to Message 1874036.  


Belgian troops kill 'terrorist' bomber in Brussels train station


Belgian troops shot dead a suspected suicide bomber in Brussels' central train station on Tuesday but there were no other casualties, in what authorities were treating as the latest terrorist incident in Europe.
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Message 1874233 - Posted: 21 Jun 2017, 8:51:16 UTC - in response to Message 1874174.  

On Wednesday morning, Belgium's Interior Minister Jan Jambon said that there was another, significantly larger, explosive charge on the site that never exploded.
"The big explosion never occurred," he said according to the AP without giving further details.
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Message 1874756 - Posted: 23 Jun 2017, 23:28:03 UTC
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A suicide bomber who planned an attack on the Great Mosque in Mecca blasted himself when security forces surrounded the house he was hiding, declares the Interior Ministry of Saudi Arabia.
According to the Ministry's statement, which was read in Saudi television channel al-Arabiya, five other suspects have been arrested, among them a woman.
Eleven people were injured, of which five police officers, when the three-storey building collapsed when the man blasted himself.

According to the Interior Ministry, the terrorist attack was planned against the Great Mosque in Mecca, where hundreds of thousands of Muslims from all over the world have gathered before the end of the Ramadan month of fasting.
Mecka, Islam's "cradle", is a sacred place for both Sunni and Shia Muslims.
https://www.alarabiya.net/ar/saudi-today/2017/06/23/%D8%A5%D8%AD%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B7-%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A5%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA-%D8%AA%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%AF%D9%81-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%83%D9%8A.html
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Message 1874773 - Posted: 24 Jun 2017, 0:50:19 UTC - in response to Message 1874756.  

A suicide bomber who planned an attack on the Great Mosque in Mecca blasted himself when security forces surrounded the house he was hiding, declares the Interior Ministry of Saudi Arabia.
According to the Ministry's statement, which was read in Saudi television channel al-Arabiya, five other suspects have been arrested, among them a woman.
Eleven people were injured, of which five police officers, when the three-storey building collapsed when the man blasted himself.

According to the Interior Ministry, the terrorist attack was planned against the Great Mosque in Mecca, where hundreds of thousands of Muslims from all over the world have gathered before the end of the Ramadan month of fasting.
Mecka, Islam's "cradle", is a sacred place for both Sunni and Shia Muslims.
https://www.alarabiya.net/ar/saudi-today/2017/06/23/%D8%A5%D8%AD%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B7-%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A5%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA-%D8%AA%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%AF%D9%81-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%83%D9%8A.html

for those that don't read Arabic http://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-security-idUSKBN19E2BL
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Message 1883741 - Posted: 14 Aug 2017, 4:17:50 UTC

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-40920338
Seventeen people have been killed and eight wounded in a "terrorist attack" in the centre of the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, the government says.

Witnesses were quoted as saying that three gunmen opened fire on customers seated outside a hotel and restaurant.

The city centre has been sealed off by the army, and the US embassy in Ouagadougou has warned its citizens to avoid the area.

A jihadist attack on a cafe nearby left 30 people dead in January last year.

There are fears that the attack is the work of one of the affiliates of al-Qaeda that are active in the Sahel region, the BBC's Alex Duval Smith reports.

Burkina Faso's Communication Minister Remis Dandjinou said it was unclear how many assailants had been involved.

"They are confined to one part of the building they attacked. Security and elite forces are conducting an operation," he said on television.

The shooting began shortly after 21:00 (21:00 GMT) on Sunday on Ouagadougou's busy Kwame Nkrumah Avenue.

The Aziz Istanbul Restaurant appear to have been at the centre of the shooting.

"The attack claimed 17 victims, their nationalities are yet to be confirmed, and eight injured," said a government statement quoted by the AFP news agency.

https://www.afp.com/en/news/205/17-dead-burkina-faso-restaurant-terrorist-attack
Witnesses said three gunmen arrived at a Turkish restaurant in a pickup truck on Sunday evening and opened fire on customers seated outside.

The government then launched a counter-assault, with gunfire heard into the night.

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Message 1884492 - Posted: 17 Aug 2017, 16:47:27 UTC - in response to Message 1883741.  

DEVELOPING: The terrorists alleged to have plowed a van into a crowd of pedestrians in a popular tourist area -- resulting in confirmed deaths -- were holed up in a Barcelona restaurant Thursday as images of the carnage, showing bodies lying crumpled and bleeding in the street, flooded forth from the Spanish city.


Barcelona terror attack: Bodies seen lying in the street as officials confirm deaths


Sad. :-(
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Message 1884705 - Posted: 18 Aug 2017, 12:09:24 UTC

The attack in Barcelona is the eighth terror deed in Europe so far this year.
At least 13 people have lost their lives and about 100 are injured.
There are 24 different nationalities among those injured and killed in the terrorist attack at La Rambla in Barcelona.
The night to Friday, the Spanish police averted a new terrorist attack in the city of Cambrils, south of Barcelona. The perpetrators should also have tried to drive a car into a crowd.
Four of the suspected terrorists were shot dead on site, one fifth died later in the night of their injuries. The police believe both deeds are interconnected.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40964242
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Message 1884766 - Posted: 18 Aug 2017, 17:34:12 UTC

As if Barcelona was not enough...
Two people have died and several people have been injured when they were stabbed in two different places in central Turku, Finland and a large police force is taking place. The suspect was shot in connection with the arrest. The police still can not rule out that several offenders could be involved, but nothing suggests it at this time.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/flera-personer-knivhuggna-i-abo
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/18/europe/finland-stabbing/index.html
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