European leaders are considering a proposal to introduce a common EU-wide Coronavirus vaccination passport. The so-called Covid passports would permit those who have been vaccinated to travel freely within the European Union without the need for quarantining and testing.

The leaders of several European countries heavily dependent on tourism are pushing for Covid passports to be implemented with immediate effect. Others say that it is far too early to consider such a move, especially because the EU’s Coronavirus vaccine rollout has been dogged by delays and questions about the efficacy of certain vaccines, particularly in light of the virus’s new mutant strains.

The idea of Covid passports has also sparked a heated debate over government overreach and the constitutionality and ethics of vaccine-related discrimination. At the same time, some EU member countries have threatened to act unilaterally and issue their own Covid passports if the EU fails to produce bloc-wide certification.

In short, the Covid pandemic continues to expose fault lines within 27-member EU, which remains more divided than ever.

European leaders held a two-day virtual summit on February 25-26 to discuss ways to solve problems with the Coronavirus vaccine rollout in the European Union. The vaccine launch has been plagued by bureaucratic sclerosis, poorly-negotiated contracts, penny-pinching and blame-shifting — resulting in needless shortages of vaccines.

The European Commission initially recommended that at least 70% of adults in the EU be vaccinated by the beginning of summer. So far, however, the EU’s inoculation rate is still below 10% and the original goal will not be met until after the end of summer at the earliest.

At the current vaccination rate, the EU will not reach the 70% threshold — needed to reduce the spread of the virus, relieve pressure on health care systems, and allow restrictions on businesses society to be lifted — until March 2024, accordingto independent calculations.

If the present rates of inoculation do not improve, Germany will not reach the 70% threshold until May 2024; Belgium until September 2024; Denmark until August 2025; the Netherlands until September 2025; and Italy until December 2027, according to independent calculations. The delays will have a devastating impact on the tourism industry.

Tourism-dependent countries, including Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Portugal and Spain, are urging other EU states to adopt Covid passports, which would be modeled on the “green passport” system implemented by Israel.

Israelis who have been fully vaccinated are given a Green Pass — a digital certificate — which is valid for six months and will allow them access to gyms, hotels, cinemas, plays, concerts, swimming pools and indoor restaurant dining.

Unresolved Questions

On March 1, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, tweeted that “this month” she would present a legislative proposal for a “Digital Green Pass.” The certificate would provide proof that a person has been vaccinated against Covid-19. The aim is to “gradually enable” Europeans to “move safely in the European Union or abroad — for work or tourism.”

In fact, the 27 EU member states are nowhere close to reaching an agreement on common rules for a mutual recognition of vaccine certificates. Also unresolved are a host of constitutional, ethical, legal and scientific questions. The introduction of Covid passports also risks creating a market for forged documents.

The Royal Society, the United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences, recently issued a 22-page report — “Twelve Criteria for the Development and Use of Covid-19 Vaccine Passports —which may serve as a roadmap for countries both inside and outside the European Union.

The report concludes that although an internationally standardized Covid-19 vaccine passport system is feasible, much more time is needed to meet the basic technical and scientific prerequisites for such certificates to become reality. The report urges political leaders to exercise caution and consider the longer-term implications, especially regarding questions of government surveillance and constitutional rights to privacy.

According to the report, a vaccine passport must fulfill at least twelve requirements: 1) meet benchmarks for Covid-19 immunity; 2) accommodate differences between vaccines in their efficacy, as well as changes in vaccine efficacy against emerging variants; 3) be internationally standardized; 4) have verifiable credentials; 5) have defined uses; 6) be based on a platform of interoperable technologies; 7) be secure for personal data; 8) be portable; 9) be affordable to individuals and governments; 10) meet legal standards; 11) meet ethical standards; and 12) have conditions of use that are understood and accepted by the passport holders.

Professor Melinda Mills, Director of the Leverhulme Center for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford and lead author of the report, said:

“Understanding what a vaccine passport could be used for is a fundamental question — is it literally a passport to allow international travel or could it be used domestically to allow holders greater freedoms? The intended use will have significant implications across a wide range of legal and ethical issues that need to be fully explored and could inadvertently discriminate or exacerbate existing inequalities.

“International standardization is one of the criteria we believe essential, but we have already seen some countries introducing vaccine certificates related to travel or linked to quarantine or attending events. We need a broader discussion about multiple aspects of a vaccine passport, from the science of immunity through to data privacy, technical challenges and the ethics and legality of how it might be used.”

Professor Christopher Dye, Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford and co-author of the Royal Society report, added:

“An effective vaccine passport system that would allow the return to pre-Covid-19 activities, including travel, without compromising personal or public health, must meet a set of demanding criteria — but it is feasible. First there is the science of immunity, then the challenges of something working across the world that is durable, reliable and secure. There are the legal and ethical issues and if you can crack all that, you have to have the trust of the people.

“Huge progress has been made in many of these areas, but we are not there yet. At the most basic level, we are still gathering data on exactly how effective each vaccine is in preventing infection and transmission and on how long the immunity will last.”

The Reuters News Agency reported that there are still many unanswered questions about immunity to Covid-19:

“EU officials also point out there is no guidance yet from the WHO and EU agencies whether people who have received two shots of the Covid-19 vaccine can still carry the coronavirus and infect others, even if no longer vulnerable themselves.

“It was also not clear if people could be infectious having already fought off the coronavirus themselves, for how long they remained immune and if they too should get certificates.”

Professor Carsten Maple, a cyber security expert at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science, warned that criminals could exploit the demand from prospective travelers for vaccine passports:

“This really gives that kind of incentive. You’ll get people who’ve got these rights, especially if it’s mandatory. Other people will be excluded. People, where it is mandatory and really offers a significant difference, will be incentivized to create a market of forged documents.

“We know that in Israel they’ve made statements about anybody who tries to forge will face criminal proceedings and possibly be imprisoned. So, they really think that this is a risk that could happen.”

Maple also raised concerns over how a vaccine passport, once issued, could be revoked if medical evidence indicated that immunity was short-lived:

“What we need to do in dynamic environments is to consider: how can we revoke that certificate effectively? That’s a real challenge we see in security of systems very often. I think it’s very pertinent in this case.”

European Disunion

Portugal’s Prime Minister Antonio Costa, whose country currently heads the EU’s six-month rotating presidency, said that he wanted Covid passports to be in place by this summer:

“It is a document that, obviously, will greatly facilitate freedom of movement, will greatly help the functioning of the internal market and will, of course, help tourism to gradually recover….

“The ideal is that this green certificate is not a national certificate, but a certificate common to the whole European Union and that it is subject to mutual recognition.

“We are defenders of a European-wide measure and it is with this objective that…this document will exist by this summer….

“It is above all essential that the European Commission can have consolidated scientific information on the degree of immunization ensured by vaccines and also by the immunity granted through contraction of the virus.”

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz tweeted:

“In consultation with other EU member states, we are in favor of a digital green passport, similar to the one in #Israel. This should offer the possibility to prove on the mobile phone that one has been tested, vaccinated or recovered. Our goal: to avoid a permanent lockdown & finally to enable freedom to travel within the EU as well as to visit events or restaurants.”

On March 2, Reuters reported that Austria and Denmark, chafing at the slow rollout of Covid-19 vaccines within the European Union, have joined forces with Israel to produce second-generation vaccines against mutations of the Coronavirus. The move will be seen by many as a geopolitical humiliation for the European Union, which is trailing far behind Israel’s “world-beating” vaccination campaign.

Adding insult to injury, Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia have broken ranks with the European Union and have ordered vaccines produced by China and Russia, even though the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has yet to rule on whether they are both safe and effective.

Meanwhile, Greek Tourism Minister Haris Theoharis said that Greece had reached a unilateral agreement with the United Kingdom, and that all Britons, whether they have had a coronavirus vaccine or not, will be allowed into Greece this summer. He explained that Britons who have received the Covid vaccine will no longer be required to self-isolate upon arrival, and those who have not been vaccinated will require a negative Covid-19 test before travelling to Greece.

Greece has already signed an agreement to admit Israeli tourists this summer who can prove their vaccination status with the Israeli digital certificate.

Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo argued that now is not the time to discuss a Covid passport. “It’s really not a good idea to start granting such privileges in this situation,” he said. “Certainly not because the active population, the people who travel, are barely vaccinated.”

Belgian Foreign Affairs Minister Sophie Wilmès warned that vaccine passports could “lead to discrimination between European citizens if there is no universal access to vaccines.”

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in a February 25 interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, said that Covid passports would be premature because data on the efficacy of vaccines is incomplete:

“First of all, it really has to be clearly established that people who have been vaccinated are no longer contagious. As long as the number of people vaccinated is so much smaller than the number waiting to be vaccinated, the state should not treat the two groups differently.

“When it comes to private contractual relationships, the state has little room to interfere. Overall, however, I am convinced that something like this must be widely discussed, certainly also in Parliament. If we have made a vaccination offer to enough people and some of them do not want to be vaccinated at all, one will have to consider whether there should be openings and accesses in certain areas only for vaccinated people. But we’re not there yet.”

The German Ethics Council (Deutsche Ethikrat), in guidance issued on February 4, advised against treating people who have already been vaccinated differently from those who have not. This applies to both rights and obligations, meaning, for instance, that mask requirements and social distancing rules should continue to apply to everyone.

The Council also recommended that government-mandated restrictions should be lifted for everyone at the same time — but not until it is proved that the vaccination program is successful.

Other European governments have taken a wide range of different positions on Covid passports:

• Britain is reviewing the potential to use vaccine passports as a means to reopen the economy. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the review, to be delivered before June 21, will explore the “moral, philosophical and ethical viewpoints” on vaccine passports. He added that the UK “cannot be discriminatory” against people who are unable to be vaccinated.
• Bulgaria, where tourism comprises 12% of gross domestic product, is backing the idea of digital Covid-19 vaccine passports.
• Denmark is developing digital certificates that prove people have been vaccinated against Covid-19.
• Estonia is testing so-called digital immunity passports that collect vaccination data and enable people to share their immunity status with a third party, such as an employer.
• Finland is planning to introduce a coronavirus vaccine certificate. The certificate system would require a government decree, which is currently being drafted by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health.
• France says that it is too early talk of a Covid passport. Secretary of State for Tourism Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne said: “The idea of ​​restricting the movement of people to only those who are vaccinated is a debate that seems premature to us. You have 4% to 5% of the European population vaccinated, the most vulnerable and not those who spontaneously can travel. The fact of conditioning travel to the fact of being vaccinated is an ethical and not a small issue.”
• Iceland now provides Covid-19 digital vaccination certificates to citizens who have received two doses of the vaccine. Iceland, which is not a member of the EU but is part of the Schengen Area, will recognize vaccination certificates that are issued from any EU or Schengen country.
• Italy, where tourism accounts for 13% of gross domestic product, has officially been reticent about Covid passports. In a Facebook post, however, Italian Tourism Minister Massimo Garavaglia wrote that in principle he agrees: “The adoption of new European digital tools that document the state of health of travelers…will be crucial for the recovery of the travel industry. We must work together with our European colleagues in this direction. Vaccine strategy will play a key role.”
• Poland plans to provide vaccine passports to people who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19.
• Romania is opposed to an EU-wide Covid-19 passport for travel. Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said: “To use these certificates to divide the population of Europe in two does not seem like a good thing to me.”
• Spain, where tourism accounts for nearly 12% of gross domestic product, said that it would not take unilateral measures on Covid passports and would wait for European Union to set common rules.
• Sweden plans to launch a digital coronavirus “vaccine passport” by summer, assuming there is an international standard in place for the document by then.

Select Commentary

In an essay for the Financial Times, Melinda Mills, lead author of the Royal Society report on Covid passports,” wrote:

“Vaccine passports are essentially certificates that link proof of vaccination to the identity of the holder, a potential silver bullet to return to our pre-Covid-19 lives. Before the pandemic, the EU was working on plans for cross-border electronic certificates to replace the paper booklets that many travelers carry. At this week’s EU summit some leaders pressed for further steps towards coronavirus passports.

“But would these certificates only be required for international travel or could they be needed for getting a job, attending a football match, or buying some milk? …

“There is also the question of mission creep. Recall the UK’s early digital contact tracing app, which raised concerns about privacy, government surveillance and private sector data sharing….

“Credit cards and social media data hold a wealth of behavioral and location data, that companies regularly mine. With vaccine passports, it will come down to trust in government and that can only be won through transparency. There is a risk that the government expends time and money to create a passport system only to have the public recoil in horror.

“We also shouldn’t forget we are globally interconnected. When travel resumes, visitors and workers will cross borders and need global standards such the WHO’s Smart Vaccination Certificate. This could be a legal minefield of issues. Human rights and data protection need to be weighed against a duty of care and commercial freedom to act. Governments may make vaccine passports mandatory on economic grounds or to protect public health. Or they may decide to dodge that bullet but allow businesses to require them instead.”

In an essay titled, “No Jab, No Job,” Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff added:

“For weeks, ministers have been downplaying the idea of vaccine passports, which could be used to deny people who are unjabbed access to pubs, clubs, sporting or musical events, and potentially some workplaces. But this week brought a sudden volte-face. Now Michael Gove is to lead a review into whether they might be feasible, once all adults have been offered a dose.

“Presumably, it hasn’t escaped ministers that promising twentysomethings a summer of Reading festival and football matches and clubbing, but only if they take the vaccine, could powerfully incentivize the age group most likely not to bother. Although officially the cabinet remains open-minded, the education secretary, Gavin Williamson, admitted that he would ‘probably do pretty much sort of anything’ to go to the cinema or theatre again.

“The pressure group Liberty warns that vaccine passports could create a ‘two-tier society,’ where unvaccinated people overlap too closely for comfort with those who are already marginalised and discriminated against. Vaccine uptake is lower in BAME [Black, Asian and minority ethnic] communities, targeted by disinformation campaigns and often with good historical reasons to distrust authority figures, but also in poor white communities….

“Yet making freedom conditional on facing the needle takes us perilously close to the concept of compulsory vaccination, forcing anxious people to accept something they don’t trust or else go underground… hardly likely to reassure anyone whose fear of the vaccine is bound up with a fear of an authoritarian state.”

In an interview with Computer Weekly, cyber security expert Tim Mackey warnedthat technology is far from fool-proof, and that serious security reviews are necessary:

“Returning to a world where international travel and even air travel is once again commonplace is something we all want, but it requires far more than an app to be solved. Significant coordination between international entities is required to ensure that the data recorded by the app is correct and complete.

“Once in the app, the data needs to be verifiably secure and stored in a tamper evident form that itself can’t be modified. Building confidence around this process requires some of the transparency seen within open source software development, where skilled practitioners are able to review the implementation and configuration of the proposed solution.

“Mis-steps along this path could easily tarnish the reputation of digital health passports and form a setback to the return to a pre-Covid-19 travel experience.”

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17131/europe-covid-passports

It is mainly migrants who are in the intensive care units in Germany as a result of the Corona crisis.

German daily Bild reported that the head of the Robert Koch Institute, Professor Lothar Wieler, recently had a conversation with a group of chief physicians. The subject of the discussion with doctor Thomas Voshaar, chief physician at the lung clinic at the Bethanien Hospital in Moers.

The doctor had compiled an internal evaluation of the months of November and December 2020 and the beginning of January 2021. This showed that over 90 percent of the intubated, seriously ill Corona patients in the intensive care units had a migration background. Internally, it was agreed to call these sick people “patients with a communication barrier”.

Wieler had already been aware of this problem. He responded: “I heard that too. But it’s a taboo. I tried to reach out to certain people. We must address this religious group through imams. The whole thing has huge implications for Berlin. That’s a real problem.”

Evidently, it is mainly Muslims who cannot be reached due to the “communication barrier” and the RKI boss has spilled the beans on this taboo subject.

In addition, Wieler spoke of parallel societies in Germany, with four million people who cannot be reached. The RKI boss literally stated: “And that’s crap”. Although this group makes up only 4,8 percent of the population in the country, it makes up 50 percent of the patients in the intensive care units.

Dr Thomas Voshaar has informed German Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn about this matter. “Everyone I spoke to, including Mr. Spahn, said: ‘OGottoGottoGott’ [Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God].”

As Bild learned from a government spokesman, Spahn did not find it necessary to pass this information on to the Chancellery. As a result, these patients were never an issue at the Chancellor’s Corona summits with the country’s health and political leaders. “OGottoGottoGott”, appears to have been the only political answer to this pressing problem.

This begs the question of lockdowns being exclusively designed because of the “patients with a communication barrier”?

One must bear in mind that the compulsory Corona measures are ostensibly imposed to avoid overloading the intensive care units. And now we are learning by the way that it is predominantly migrants who are admitted because of the pandemic, because the state is not in a position to make it clear to them how to behave. Instead they call it a “communication barrier” euphemistically. The better expression would be: “A resounding failed integration policy”.

Meanwhile Germans are locked up, businesses go bankrupt and senior citizens die of loneliness in old people’s homes.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/03/03/covid-taboo-90-percent-of-ventilated-patients-in-germany-have-migration-background/

The former chief of Swedish Security Service (Säpo), Malena Rembe, demands Sweden should “take home all IS Swedes”, in a controversial push to bring back terrorists and those tied to the IS group back into Sweden.

These include not only women and children but also men who fought for the terrorist organization, the Samnytt news outlet reported. Rembe is concerned about the safety of IS members because she believes they live in dangerous areas of the Middle East.

In her Sunday interview with Sydsvenskan, Rembe, who previously worked as counter-terrorism chief analyst, expressed her concern about the current situation in the Kurdish prison camp al-Hol in northern Syria.

According to Rembe, who herself has visited the prison camp and had conversations with IS women, it is an “extremely dangerous place” to stay. She, therefore, is appealing to the government of Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven not only to arrange a return journey for children who have Swedish citizenship but also the remaining men and women.

“Al-Hol is an extremely dangerous place. There are plenty of firearms and knives. People get drowned. People get suffocated with plastic bags,” said Rembe.

Her proposal is in the same spirit as the scathing letter of the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, to the government. According to the UN, Sweden violates human rights by not assisting Swedish citizens with leaving the concentration camp and returning to Sweden.

However, it may prove a tall order for Swedes, who overwhelmingly reject more immigration into their country. Even the pro-migrant Löfven has signaled that Sweden cannot take in asylum seekers at the same levels as the past due to integration problems and spiraling crime.

The former Säpo chief claims that the only way to stop the spiral of violence of Islamist terrorism is to take care of the people in an orderly manner.

Furthermore, she is concerned that the rule of law is not of sufficient quality, and there is a risk that suspected IS terrorists will get killed. Therefore, she wants the government to forget political prestige, stop worrying about losing voters, and instead “bring home all Swedes.”

“As long as they are in prison camps with other IS supporters, it can be life-threatening to distance themselves from IS. You can get murdered,” said Malena Rembe.

As a solution to the risk that IS terrorists will continue to pose a terrorist threat in Sweden, Rembe believes that they would have to be radicalized in the first place. Rembe has no suggestions on how to proceed in concrete terms but believes that the task is not impossible and that resources are required.

“It will stand out to people that you invest so much in these individuals. But then we have to think: If we do not do that, they can pose a much greater threat,” added Rembe.

Sweden should take in IS terrorists, says former chief of Sweden’s security service

by Giulio Meotti 

Over 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped in Zamfara, in the second mass kidnapping of its kind in just over a week in Nigeria.Last week, 42 ​​children were abducted in west-central Nigeria and more than 300 boys were abducted in early December in Kankara.

In April 2014, the Islamic terrorists of Boko Haram kidnapped 276 students from the city of Chibok. It was they who inaugurated the season of mass abductions.They are kidnapped by gangs of criminals with ties to jihadist groups in the north-east of the country.

Young women are often forced to marry the kidnappers when they fail to make money on ransom demands. They are often sold for 2,000 naire, the Nigerian currency (equivalent to 12 dollars). The NGO Free the Slaves estimates a profit of $ 1.6 billion (an amount greater than the GDP of eight African countries) from African slavery each year.

According to the bishops, “Nigeria is on the verge of collapse” and is in danger of breaking apart.

Unfortunately, the West feeds on Third Worldism and says “Black Lives Matter” but does not care about this slavery, on the contrary it often collaborates with it.

In 2017, shocking images of slave auctions in Libya surfaced: men who spoke Arabic sold twelve Nigerians. It is estimated that 250,000 people lived in slavery in Mali in 2013. A Malian slave, Raichatou, told the Guardian that she was enslaved at age 7 when her mother, also a slave, died. “My father could not help but watch when my mother’s boss came to claim me and my brothers,” said the woman.

It is estimated that 20 percent of the population in Mauritania is held in slavery. Many are of the Haratin ethnic group, black Moors, while half of the population is made up of Arabs and Berbers.

A BBC investigation found that domestic workers in Saudi Arabia are being sold online in a booming slave market. Algerian essayist Mohammed Sifaoui reminds us that “Mauritania in North Africa is today the most enslaved country in the world. Qatar is too, as is Saudi Arabia, under the banner of the Guardians of the Holy Places of Islam”.

Today, slavery still exists in many parts of Africa and the Middle East, but Western public self-flagellation on Victorian statues or statues of Columbus and Washington glosses over the actual slavery going on, alive, well, and ignored.

The West not only turns its back on the new slave markets, but the United Nations Human Rights Council welcomes states like Sudan, where tens of thousands of Christian women and children have been enslaved during jihadist raids; Kenya and Nigeria, where the police rescued hundreds of children chained in an Islamic school; Pakistan, where Christian women are often condemned to servitude.

Many of these slaves then end up on the illegal immigration markets, which Cardinal Robert Sarah called “a modern form of slavery”. The West actively collaborates in this horror.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/297725

According to the Hessian state government, muezzin calls are also possible without permission. “Contrary to the assumption of the questioners, Muslim calls to prayer, with or without loudspeakers, do not require a permit (under immission control law); permits have therefore not been issued and therefore cannot be withdrawn or revoked,” the CDU/CSU-green state government replied to a parliamentary question from the AfD parliamentary group.The reason given in the parliamentary reply was that the loudspeakers used for the Islamic call to prayer are installations that do not require a permit. The government does not have an overview of the municipalities in Hesse where the muezzin call is heard.The background to the question was, among other things, a ruling by the Münster Higher Administrative Court, which had decided in autumn that the Ditib congregation in the town of Oer-Erkenschwick may again call for prayers via loudspeakers. A resident had previously filed a complaint against the exemption granted by the city under immission control law and had been successful in the court at first instance.In its question, the AfD had complained that the Islamic call to prayer was “often met with massive disapproval from the non-Muslim population concerned, who see the muezzin call as an expression of Islamic claims to dominance and a violation of their own religious and cultural identity”.The opposition party also raised the question of whether the muezzin call does not constitute an interference in the sense of negative religious freedom. This is understood to mean the freedom not to have a faith or not to have to make a religious confession. The Hessian government, however, took a different view: “In a society that gives space to different beliefs, there is no right to be spared from contact with deviant expressions of faith or religious symbols, even under the aspect of so-called negative religious freedom.”The alien calls to prayer cause political debates again and again. The Green Party in Gelsenkirchen recently spoke out in favour of a public muezzin call and introduced a motion to this effect in the Council for Migration and Integration.

https://jungefreiheit.de/politik/deutschland/2021/muezzinrufe-hessen-genehmigung/

A new research study of more than 3 000 convicted men in Sweden shows that 60 percent were first or second-generation immigrants, and that almost half were previously convicted of violent crimes.

Some 8 820 rapes and attempted rapes were reported in 2019 to police. Since 2010 the number has increased 44 percent, according to the Crime Prevention Council (BRÅ).

The research group at Lund University identified and charted different characteristics and background factors for all convicted rapists between 2000 an d 2015. No similar study has ever been done.

Half of the rapes were committed by men born abroad. Another 10 percent had an immigrant background. In all, 60 percent of perpetrators were either first or second-generation immigrants.

Among those with an immigrant background, the most common were those born in the Middle East/North Africa (34,5 percent), followed by Africa (19,1 percent), then Eastern Europe (15 percent).

“The immigrant background was nothing we investigated specifically; it was just one of the many variables. But the proportions here were something that surprised us,” says Kristina Sundquist, professor of general medicine and clinical epidemiology at Lund University to Kvällsposten.

Half of all convicted rapists (men) had previously been convicted of violent crimes, and one-third were on some form of social assistance. More often than not they resided in a socially vulnerable area and had a lower IQ than average.

Researchers have been able, through studies, to identify two different types of rapists. One is the expected one: those with criminal careers and those who have abuse or psychiatric problems. They live in society’s shadow with welfare dependency, low school grades, low IQ, and a low tolerance for stress.

The latest Swedish study showed results similar to several international studies, including those conducted in Norway, Finland and Denmark, namely that immigrants are not only massively overrepresented, they even commit a majority of rapes in Sweden despite the fact that they constitute a minority of the population.

As in previous studies, it is specifically immigrants from the Middle East, North Africa and Africa who stand out as the most common ethnic groups for rapists. Another interesting aspect that the study addresses is that it undermines theories that are often put forward that there are socio-economic reasons behind immigrants’ over-representation as perpetrators of rape.

The study was recently published on the reputable site Taylor & Francis Onlinein their Forensic Sciences Research journal. It is a unique survey covering several interesting aspects compiled from requests for extensive material from the Swedish Criminal Register.

The study covers rapes from 2000 to 2015, which suggests that the number of these crimes has undoubtedly increased since large numbers of “unaccompanied” immigrants from countries such as Afghanistan and Syria – individuals who are particularly overrepresented as perpetrators of rape – have been omitted because they have chosen not to include any data beyond 2015.

The authors had chosen to classify “Swedes” as “born in Sweden by Swedish-born parents”, which, however, includes an increasing proportion of Swedish citizens with a foreign background. Ethnic Swedes thus constitute a continuously smaller proportion of “Swedes” in studies such as these since they do take ethnic background into account but the country of birth instead. It is relevant to note that future statistics will thus become increasingly skewed and show that more and more “Swedes” are rapists when the proportion of ethnic Swedes is in fact decreasing.

The study thus divided immigrants into the groups “first or second generation immigrants”, born in Sweden with a parent born in Sweden, born in Sweden without parents born in Sweden and born outside Sweden.

The study found that an overwhelming majority of the perpetrators were men, 99,7 percent and that almost half of these were born outside Sweden, 47,7 percent (immigrants not born in Sweden), while 40,8 percent of the perpetrators were “Swedish-born”. That is, they were “born in Sweden of Swedish-born parents”.

In total, 59,3 percent of the rapists in the study are immigrants according to their classification. According to the same criteria, today about 25,5 percent of Sweden’s population consists of immigrants – even if the actual figure is higher if you include ethnic origin. This suggests a massive over-representation of certain ethnic groups, and that over-representation only becomes greater when dividing the perpetrators into subgroups (for example, immigrants from the Middle East) instead of mixing in subgroups that commit fewer rapes (for example, immigrants from Southeast Asia or the United States).

Citizen studies on the subject, such as the one presented by lay researcher Joakim P Jonasson who went through convictions from Sweden’s district courts between 2012 and 2017, have been able to take a closer look at this over-representation that exists among subgroups. His extensive research showed, among other things, that men of non-European descent commit 84 percent of the aggravated rapes, while 95,6 percent of the assault rapes are committed by men of foreign origin and 90 percent of the gang rapes [against women/girls] were committed by men of non-European descent.

But peer-reviewed research is becoming difficult to find in the Swedish context, since there is a clear political bias not to reveal the real extent of the scourge. A similar situation is evident in South Africa, where the rate of sexual violence has been among the highest in the world since 1994 when the ANC took power, but the ethnicity of perpetrator groups have never been exposed. Instead all men are blamed indiscriminately for “gender-based” violence. Women’s groups in South Africa have estimated that a woman is raped every 26 seconds.

Rape is a widespread problem in Sweden, a problem which is constantly increasing in scope and affecting more and more people. According to the Swedish Crime Prevention Council, rapes increased by 45,4 percent between 2008 and 2018 alone. Crime statistics initiated by the Council of Europe, showed Sweden has had the highest number of registered rape offences in Europe by a considerable extent.

Because immigration from these perpetrator groups have increased, rapes committed by these immigrants have naturally increased too.

But this issue is – to say the least – politically troublesome for those who want to see continued immigration to Sweden and despite the obvious importance of combating these crimes, the government, most parliamentary parties and mass media have for a long time tried to hide the problem or simply ignore it. BRÅ, for example, has only conducted two major studies on the subject to date.

In 1996, BRÅ released the first report that addressed the issue of immigrants’ over-representation as perpetrators of sexual crimes: “The crime of immigrants and immigrant children” by Jan Ahlberg, showed the over-representation of certain perpetrators. According to BRÅ, immigrants in general were found to commit 4,5 times as many rapes as Swedes per capita. The North Africans were the worst – in comparison with a Swedish man, they were 18 times more likely to be the perpetrator of a reported rape. Together with sub-Saharan Africans, men from the Middle East were between five and thirteen times more prone to rape than Swedish men. This was followed by South Americans, southern Europeans and Eastern Europeans.

BRÅ came out with a new report on immigrant crime in 2005, that is 16 years ago. The fact that North Africans were four times more likely to be suspected of crime could be admitted, but not that they were 18 times more likely to be rapists.

As in South Africa, the results of these and other studies were viewed as fodder for “racists” because for obvious reasons it would support a very strong argument against continued immigration of groups that commit these rapes, in addition largely aimed at vulnerable Swedish women and children.

Pro-immigration activists often claim that “socio-economic factors” are behind the fact that immigrants rape more often. The explanatory argument proposesthat it is society’s fault, because “poor” immigrants living in ghettos were more likely to commit crimes. But no one has questioned how rape would improve the economic situation of a poor immigrant, because the non-white individual needs to be exonerated by leftists and multiculturalists while society at large carries the blame.

This latest study however, refutes the hypothesis that socio-economic reasons force immigrants to commit more crimes. An interesting conclusion was reached in the study, namely that the majority of perpetrators of rape, as much as 74,6 percent, had very few contributing social factors such as difficult economic, educational, or living conditions known as “areas of exclusion” and so on. Yet as many as 62,2 percent of the perpetrators in this group were first- or second-generation immigrants.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/03/02/the-majority-of-rapes-in-sweden-are-perpetrated-by-immigrant-men-study-reveals/