TERROR IN SWEDEN? – AT 9:33 P.M. ET:  There's been a small terror attack in Sweden, a country that has done handstands to appease the Muslim world.  From The New York Times:

STOCKHOLM — One man was killed and two other people were injured when two explosions hit the heart of Stockholm’s city-center shopping district on Saturday evening, the police in the Swedish capital said. The country’s foreign minister called the blasts a terrorist attack, and an e-mail to news organizations minutes before the blasts seemed to link them to anger over anti-Islamic cartoons and the war in Afghanistan.

The police said that a car parked near the busy shopping street of Drottninggatan exploded first, shortly before 5 p.m. Stockholm time, and that the wreckage of the vehicle included gas canisters. A second blast followed minutes later, and about 200 yards from the first. A man’s body, with blast injuries to his abdomen, was discovered after the second explosion...

...An editor at the Swedish news agency Tidningarnas Telegrambyra, Dan Skeppe, said the agency had received an e-mail minutes before the blasts; it was also addressed to Sweden’s security police, and included a sound recording addressed to “Sweden and the Swedish people.” Mr. Skeppe said the recording cited Swedish “silence” over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad drawn by the artist Lars Vilks, criticized Sweden’s 500-soldier military contingent in northern Afghanistan and threatened attacks on Swedes.

COMMENT:  Sweden has had an awful problem with Muslims who refuse to integrate into Swedish society.  There have been electoral signs in recent years that Swedish tolerance has begun to wane.  It will be instructive to see if this incident hurries the process, or whether the Swedish left comes out of the woodwork to try to find the "root cause" of the terror act – a code term for "blame America and Israel."

December 11, 2010