Afghan refugee goes on axe rampage on German train

[Tamas]

The main problem in Sweden is that we don't have a society that gives the correct feedback to people with disruptive views or behavior. This completely regardless of the color of their skin or name of their god.

Yes, that is the main problem in general.

[The Brain]

@Brain: I recently read that the Swedish political class is convinced (or pretends to be convinced) that right wing extremism, rather than radical Islam, is the most significant threat to Swedish society. How correct is this?

That has certainly been the case until the recent past, but I'm not sure if it's still true. This last year they changed the official line on asylum seekers (from "the more the merrier" to "OK we might not desperately need more") and they now talk more of "Swedish values" and "integration". They may have dropped that particular bizarre fiction you mention.

[Siege]

@Brain: I recently read that the Swedish political class is convinced (or pretends to be convinced) that right wing extremism, rather than radical Islam, is the most significant threat to Swedish society. How correct is this?

That's the same everywhere.
The left see the right as its greatest threat because the right can win elections and kick the left out. Terrorists don't win elections, at least on the west, therefore making the right the greatest threat for the left.

[Hamilcar]

@Brain: I recently read that the Swedish political class is convinced (or pretends to be convinced) that right wing extremism, rather than radical Islam, is the most significant threat to Swedish society. How correct is this?

That has certainly been the case until the recent past, but I'm not sure if it's still true. This last year they changed the official line on asylum seekers (from "the more the merrier" to "OK we might not desperately need more") and they now talk more of "Swedish values" and "integration". They may have dropped that particular bizarre fiction you mention.

Thanks. Is there a concern of the pendulum swinging too far to the other side? Or are the changes for now healthy?

[The Brain]

@Brain: I recently read that the Swedish political class is convinced (or pretends to be convinced) that right wing extremism, rather than radical Islam, is the most significant threat to Swedish society. How correct is this?

That has certainly been the case until the recent past, but I'm not sure if it's still true. This last year they changed the official line on asylum seekers (from "the more the merrier" to "OK we might not desperately need more") and they now talk more of "Swedish values" and "integration". They may have dropped that particular bizarre fiction you mention.

Thanks. Is there a concern of the pendulum swinging too far to the other side? Or are the changes for now healthy?

Well the changes are from an extreme to something slightly less extreme, so they seem healthy.