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BalanceLost posted...

The Muslims who engage in this behaviour and take the bait only shoot themselves in the foot. Public opinion was not very immigrant friendly to start with and this is pushing the existing support into the ground. Our next election is in September and the Nationalist party Sverigedemokraterna, which had begun to lose support in the polls for the first time in years, will thrive on this. And if they come to power, it will go downhill fast for non-whites.

This is true. But it's also not on the map of what they care about. The people doing this are mostly young men. And the reason is a lot more than just Paludan burning the Quran. They've grown up being racially profiled and abused by the police, had their schools underfunded or shut down, local healthcare services shut down, etc etc. They somewhat rightly feel that society is excluding them. They also see either themselves or friends/acquaintances being targeted on the suspicion of selling drugs, but the rich kid buyers come away scot free. And so on. With this context, it's not hard to understand why Paludan getting a police and Spo (secret service type police) escort from town to town just to shit on them is the straw that breaks the camel's back.

You say that they're shooting themselves in the foot, which I would agree with from a perspective of parliamentary politics. But these folks have been shut out of society during governments of both colors, and I think it's fair to say that their trust in our democracy is justifiably low.