Cultural Death By Immigration Policy
Europe is becoming increasingly unsafe for women and Jews.

I am pro-immigration, in that I love how America is a blending of peoples and cultures. I especially love that about California, and my part of Southern California. My ancestors emigrated from peasant shitholes in Eastern Europe to come to Detroit, where they quickly learned English and worked to become part of the culture and economy.

In fact, there was such a push to become American that Temple Beth El, the oldest Jewish congregation in Michigan, where my family has long had a membership, used to prohibit Hebrew words in art and elsewhere in the temple because it was reportedly "too Jewish."

There's something very different going on in Europe now.

Hugh Ash writes in the JPost, "Welcome to Swedenistan...and have a lousy day":

There was a conspiracy of silence, or rather a policy to whitewash the adverse effects of accepting half-a-million immigrants from the Middle East, who plainly weren't interesting in adopting Sweden's values and Swedish culture.

...'It's like a laboratory experiment gone horribly wrong,' one told me. 'But the scientists won't admit they've made a monstrous mistake. So Sweden isn't Sweden as we knew it - it's become Swedenistan.'

...All this coincided with the nation that gave the world flat-pack furniture and smorgasbord welcoming 500,000 incomers, mainly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, the overwhelming majority Muslim, though the government releases no official figures about migrants' religious affiliations.

In this land of mystical forests and tranquil islands, whose population of around nine million remained relatively unchanged until contemporary times, such an influx was bound to have consequences, especially given where the huge wave of immigrants originated.

So, the impact on Sweden's Jewry has been predictably disturbing.

Malmö, Dan and Karla's former home and Sweden's third largest city, has seen a dramatic surge in anti-Semitic violence over the last decade, in tandem with the exponential rise of its Islamic community, now numbering at about 75,000.

In 2009, its Jewish center was set ablaze and, since then, Jewish cemeteries have been repeatedly desecrated, worshippers abused on their way home from prayer, and Jews in the streets targeted with anti-Semitic insults by men of 'dark and foreign' appearance.

...Meanwhile, as the pattern of unrest is being replicated throughout Europe, the ancient prejudices of the Middle East have spread their tentacles further and deeper into Sweden, where the dwindling, 20,000-strong Jewish community has been strongly advised against wearing any outward signs of their faith in public.

Like Dan and Karla did, many Swedish Jews are now contemplating futures away from a country that long boasted toleration as its totem. But no longer.

As Dr. Richard Prasquier, former president of France's national Jewish association, noted, 'Jews are a litmus test of what's going on in a country. It's not only Jews who will leave. And it's not only the country which will go down the drain; it's not only Europe, it's the entire Western world.'