(Mand skudt ned på gaden i Gøteborg i går. Tre skud i kroppen og et i hovedet. Hvad der holder dødstallet noget nede, er at svenske læger er blevet gode til krigskirugi. Han er ikke død endnu.: “Folk gömde sig bakom bilar”. Foto Twitter)

Enligt min egen månatliga brottsstatistik begicks det under april månad i år sammanlagt 14 mord, 44 mordförsök, 15 fall av grov misshandel, 6 fall av misshandel och 17 mordbränder i Sverige. Det betyder en kraftig ökning av samtliga brottskategorier jämfört med mars månad, då det begicks 12 mord, 40 mordförsök, 13 fall av misshandel och 8 mordbränder i Sverige. Ändå var april månad en dag kortare än mars. Det betyder att det sen årsskiftet begicks 54 mord och 101 mordförsök i Sverige. Elisabeth Höglund: Brottsfacit för april 2016: 14 mord, 44 mordförsök och 17 mordbränder

Der begås nogenlunde konstant 44-46 drab i Danmark – om året. I Norge 29. Journalist Elisabeth Höglund blev sat igang med at tælle grove forbrydelser af samme grund som jeg.  BRÅ siger præliminært, at  der i  2015 var 315 mord (dråp, manddrab på dansk). Når året er slut, er det alligevel kun knapt 90. Höglunds årsgennemsnit svarer allerede nu til 154 mord om året. Hvad er sandheden, BRÅ?

Jeg har talt med flere danske journalister med nogen viden om svensk statistik, og de rullede med himmelvendte øjne over den. Det er kendt, at der fuskes politisk. Det er 14 år siden tidligere BRÅ medarbejdere skrev: “Det är katastrof överallt på BRÅ. Ledningen försöker bara få resultatet att passa regeringen”.

En af de danske journalister sagde: “Jeg stoler på svenske fodboldresultater, men resten, helt  ærligt.” Der er ikke meget, der cirkulerer i den svenske offentlighed, man ikke skal stille sig ekstra skeptisk overfor.

Foreign Policy: In defence of Denmark

Man har kunnet læse meget vrøvl om Danmark på engelsksprogede medier det sidste halve år, for ikke at tale om muslimske, der alle har et næsten Sovjetisk propagandatilsnit. I forbifarten kan jeg nævne, at svenske mediers kroniske Danmarks-baskning 2001-2011, er fuldstændigt ophørt. Hvorfor? De har nok at gøre med at administrere den katastrofe, de var fortalere for i fyrre år, mens de svinede andre til som “racister”. Det ville være løgn, hvis jeg ikke indrømmede, det fryder mig. Ikke for landet, men for den foragtelige forsamling, der kalder sig svenske journalister. Nu kommer besindelsen i mere seriøse medier:

In retrospect, compared with its neighbors Sweden and Germany, which have prided themselves on taking in an abundance of migrants (and self-righteously scolded other nations for not doing the same), Denmark’s approach to the migrant crisis looks even better. Sweden, which has accepted far more refugees per capita than any other country in the world, announced in January its decision to deport some 80,000 asylum-seekers, having realized too late the full costs — both monetary and social — of its dangerously naive “generosity.”

The Swedish political and media establishment’s longtime uniformity on immigration — brooking no dissent from an open-borders policy and labeling any criticism of it as morally beyond the pale — allowed for the rise of the Sweden Democrats, a once-marginal, far-right party that is now the third largest in the country. Even further to the right of the Sweden Democrats are paramilitary groups that have taken to harassing and beating migrants. In Denmark, by contrast, where immigration skeptics were never written out of the political conversation, alternative views have always been part of the political system. Though the Danish People’s Party is often mischaracterized as “far right,” it is not nearly as extreme as the Sweden Democrats. Anti-migration sentiments are thus channeled in a healthy way — the parliamentary process — and not onto the streets.

Attacking Denmark for being stingy and uniquely nationalistic in its approach to the migrant crisis is also unfair in light of its massive development aid budget and commitment to internationalism.

Danes are also the last people who should be lectured to about the sanctity of “European values.” Unlike most of Europe, Denmark has reason to be unambiguously proud of its wartime history, having saved nearly every single one of its Jews during the Holocaust, making latter-day comparisons to the Nazis not only wildly inappropriate but also utterly misplaced. Danes are also strong defenders of freedom of speech, having rallied in defense of Jyllands-Posten, the newspaper that originally published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2005. When former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen became NATO’s secretary-general in 2009, he pointedly refused to apologize to fellow member state Turkey, which had protested his appointment as a grievous insult to Muslims. Contrast that adherence to principle with Merkel’s pathetic groveling before the Turks over a German comedian who “insulted” authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and was recently banned from repeating an offensive poem by a German court. JAMES KIRCHICK i Foeign Policy