Random Politics & Religion #03

SÄPO (Swedish Security Police) has received information about a potential terrorist attack in Sweden and Aftonbladet's sources say there are 7-8 ISIS members in the country for the purpose of an attack though SÄPO won't confirm (likely due to the mistake last year where they released an image and name of a suspected terrorist who turned out to just be a refugee)

They also haven't raised the threat level yet and are still working on gathering information




Hopefully not something serious but it also wouldn't surprise me since hundreds left to fight and have returned

Norwegian authorities are offering a "bonus" 10,000 kroner (£1,000) to asylum seekers willing to leave the country voluntarily.

The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI) says the measure is less expensive than keeping refugees in immigration centres in the country.

Launched on Monday, the scheme will run for six weeks, state broadcaster NRK reported UDI saying.

The money will be paid to the first 500 asylum seekers to apply on a first-come, first-served basis.

“We need to entice more [people] to voluntarily travel back by giving them a bit more money on their way out. This will save us a lot of money because it is expensive to have people in the asylum centres,” Sylvi Listhaug, integration minister, said.

The 10,000 kroner would be in addition to the 20,000 kroner already given to asylum seekers and migrants in an irregular situation who wish to return voluntarily from Norway to their country of origin.

Ms Listhaug said she hoped this project would be successful and would support those who return to their homeland voluntarily.

“There are also many who are not entitled to asylum and are going to be rejected. It's better for us to encourage them to travel back,” she added.

The Norwegian government initially launched financial incentives for migrants to return to their home countries in December last year.

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM), which processes the Voluntary Assisted Return Programme requests and offers advice and counselling, described it as “safe and dignified”.

Spokesperson Joost van der Aalst said the number of asylum seekers taking up the offer was rocketing, particularly among people attempting to bring their families to Norway.
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UDI said that many of the people arriving from Syria, Iraq, the Middle East and Africa expect to receive protection quickly and cannot wait the months or even years the process can take.

“Many cannot wait (for the asylum process to run its course). They have family at home who expect them to be able to help," Katinka Hartmann, UDI's head, said in December.

“For a long time, Norway has not been able to forcibly return people to Somalia, but now that we can, I think that more Somalis with an obligation to leave will opt for assisted return.

“It’s important to have more initiatives of this kind in the future,” she said.

Ms Listhaug made headlines last week after floating in the Mediterranean Sea in an orange survival suit to experience being rescued from a refugee's "perspective."

Before starting her new role she was also accused of being insensitive after she invoked Jesus in an explanation for why Norway shouldn't accept so many refugees.

Why would anyone attack Sweden. What have you guys ever done to anybody?

Lars Endel Roger Vilks Lanat (born 20 June 1946) is a Swedish artist, Doctor of Philosophy, and activist who garnered fame for his drawings of Muhammad, which resulted in at least two failed attempts by Islamic extremists to murder him.

About ten minutes before the explosions, a threatening email was sent to the Swedish Security Service and the Swedish news agency Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå (TT). It referred to the presence of Swedish troops in Afghanistan and Swedish artist Lars Vilks' drawings of Muhammad as a roundabout dog: "Now your children, daughters and sisters will die in the same way our brothers and sisters die. Our actions will speak for themselves. As long as you don't end your war against Islam and degradation against the prophet and your foolish support for the pig [Lars] Vilks." The email ended with a call to "all Mujahedin in Europe and Sweden. Now is the time to strike, wait no longer. Go forward with whatever you have, even if it is a knife, and I know you have more than a knife. Fear no one, don't fear prison, don't fear death."

This counts as random and politics right?

What have you guys ever done to anybody?

And we support other countries who are actively fighting ISIS

That's if you drive

Why would anyone attack Sweden. What have you guys ever done to anybody?

This counts as random and politics right?

That is a phrase from your generation. While I know what it means. I can't say I have ever felt inclined to use it. Nor has anyone else I know under age 50.

That is a phrase from your generation. While I know what it means. I can't say I have ever felt inclined to use it. Nor has anyone else I know under age 50.

a lot more common in rural areas.

What's annoying with y'all is when one of us West Coast folk ask you how far a is location from a place and you answer in time.