Sweden: Singing Star Tells Swedes to Wake up

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Carola Häggkvist is a famous Swedish singer (she goes by the stage name of Carola). Initially, she was a prominent supporter of welcoming immigrants and refugees into Sweden. Now she has reconsidered her position. Recently, she gave an interview to Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) in which she expressed her sadness at how it has all turned out with the shootings, assaults on police, and refusal of (Muslim) immigrants to adopt Swedish values.

The below article from Fria Tider, a conservative Swedish site, describes her interview with SvD (whose original article has a subscriber block.) The Fria Tider article is translated by Fousesquawk. It also has an older video of Carola performing. She is quite talented.  

 https://www.friatider.se/carola-svenskarna-maste-vakna

Carola: Swedes must "wake up"

Posted April 7, 2023 at 16:52

Domestic. The artist, Carola, stated in an interview with Svenska Dagbladet that she was "despondent" about the multi-cultural developments in Sweden.

Carola says to SvD that it is time now for Swedes to "wake up".

"I don't think you can say come and live like you want in our land. It is not cowardly to protect Sweden's traditions and sing the Blomstertid at school graduations. Sometimes I get completely despondent over the developments.

For example, she cites the shootings and police who "only call for help".

"We let in and must be nice to people who have a totally different ideology, where it even states in their Scriptures that it is ok to lie to infidels," Carola continues.

SvD's journalist points out that there are "some" who would still call this reasoning "xenophobic".

To this, Carola answers that there "is a reason why there are nations and borders-we have different cultures and different ways of seeing things."

She further says that few are as open to others as she is, but one has to be "wise to it all."

Carola broke through in 1983 when as a 16-year-old, she won the Melody Festival with a song called  Främling (Stranger). The song came in third place in the European Song Contest.

In 1991, Carola again won the Melody Festival, this time with the song,  Fångad av en stormvind (Captured by a whirlwind). With this song, she also won the European Song Contest the same year.

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This interview caused a media frenzy in Sweden, and Carola subsequently issued an apology. So I guess everybody can go back to sleep.