Disadvantaged youth everywhere

The troubles began as a quiet protest linked to the recent closure of an Islamic cultural centre in Rosengård that housed a mosque, but have spread to become a general expression of discontent among disadvantaged youths.

The police "think they can appease us by joking with us, but they hassle us all the time, they arrest us for nothing and then they're surprised that we fight back," Ahmed Baccar, a 20-year-old unemployed Palestinian with a shaved head, told AFP.

"And they hit 11- and 12-year-old kids, set their dogs on us like they did yesterday, and then you want us to like them," said his friend Rached El Ali, an 18-year-old Palestinian.

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Multiculturalism failing as usual.

Two populations, one which elevated itself to first world status, and another which didn't. They're not going to mix. The latter is always going to blame the former. The former isn't going to want to have the latter among itself, as it gunks up the works.

Why not just pay attention to natural selection? The two populations are going in different ways. They can't be mixed without producing a hybrid that destroys both and reaches none of the heights of either.

This world has gone insane in the hands of the voting, TV-watching masses.