Sydsvenskan as the Firestarter

I will start with a little background.

Rosengård
There is an area in Malmö called Rosengård (translated to Rose Garden if anyone is interested), in which the police and the residents don’t see eye to eye. Most of the residents in this area are immigrants, and more than 80 percent are first and second generation in Sweden. Some of them are Muslims. [Source]

Some people claim this area became a “no man’s land”, and police are keeping distance from that area.

Last week (1-7.2.2009), a group of policemen were caught on tape treating badly the Muslim and Arabic residents of Rosengård. [Source]

January 25th demonstration
On January 25th, there was a demonstration in Malmö focusing on Israel’s right to defend itself, and stop hurting civilians on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This demonstration was scattered by a pro Palestinian mob. I have written a post describing my point of view from within this demonstration.

The newspapers in general avoided commenting about it. Sydsvesnkan mentioned it four days later in a page somewhere in a non-interesting page.

The Newspaper

In Wednesday’s (4.2.2009) edition of Sydsvenskan [http://sydsvenskan.se/], one of the biggest newspapers in this region in Sweden, the first page had two big reports pointing to an inner page – the first – an article about the police’s comments and treatment of the Muslim in Rosengård. The second about the situation in Gaza (current and previous). The problem comes with a third report, joining the first two on the page the articles were pointing to – a report about the last demonstration, and about the next one intended to be held tomorrow (8.2.2009). The first two articles will get Muslim and Arabic people enraged, and the third, to remind them where to point this anger, pro-Israelis and the police trying to defend them. The two enemies described in the two big articles.

I, personally, refuse to believe these three articles are put together out of coincidence. Moreover, I think there was an intent behind it and whoever states otherwise is either ignorant or way too naive.

Of course, people say I am paranoid; but hey, the fact that I am paranoid does not mean they are NOT up to get me.

P.S. Some facts were corrected, sorry for missing it in the first place.

Tags: Demonstration, Firestarter, FODKOS, Rosengård, Swedish Police, Sydsvenskan