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Long way from Yemen to South Korea - how many safe countries can a refugee pass before becoming a migrant? As for > many feminists reinforce myths that Muslim
by deogeo 8y ago
Long way from Yemen to South Korea - how many safe countries can a refugee pass before becoming a migrant? As for
> many feminists reinforce myths that Muslim refugees are potential rapists, drawing from a mixture of real and fake news from Europe.
I am shocked - shocked - that despite the many polls and statistics in the article, none of them address this myth.
So lets give it a shot, with the famous Sweden: 58% of those convicted of rape are foreign-born [1] (which make-up 17% of the Swedish population [2]). One could argue they are over-prosecuted, but there is evidence of the exact opposite [3]. Of course Sweden decided it's wrong to keep statistics based on ethnicity [4], so we must remember that Finns and Poles are also among those foreign-born. If someone can find more granular statistics, perhaps we can dispel this myth entirely.
Of course it's not fair to blame all immigrants for the actions of a few - it's racist, xenophobic, prejudiced. But will you dismiss positive stories with the same arguments? Next time someone brings up that 44 of the US Fortune 100 companies were founded by immigrants, or there's a story of a refugee child winning a chess championship, will you refute those as irrelevant, racist, xenophilic, prejudiced?
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45269764 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45269764
[2] https://nordic.businessinsider.com/swedens-foreign-born-population-is-nearly-17-million-people---finns-are-the-biggest-group-2017-3 https://nordic.businessinsider.com/swedens-foreign-born-popu...
[3] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/13/sex-assaults-sweden-stockholm-music-festival https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/13/sex-as...
[4] https://www.thelocal.se/20180508/why-sweden-doesnt-keep-stats-on-ethnic-background-and-crime https://www.thelocal.se/20180508/why-sweden-doesnt-keep-stat...