Sweden Attack Suspect Had Been Ordered To Leave Country

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Source: NPR

The man suspected of hijacking a truck and using it to commit Friday's attack in Sweden, killing 4, had been denied residency in that country, officials said Sunday.

In a Sunday news conference, Stockholm police say the 39-year-old Uzbek national had applied for residency in 2014, but was denied just last year and ordered to leave the country.

This past February, the still unnamed man continued to evade authorities tasked that month in carrying out the order.

He had also expressed sympathies for extremist Islamist groups, said the head of Sweden's national police.

Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/09/523190820/sweden-attack-suspect-had-been-ordered-to-leave-country

[Warpy]

1. Can't blame him for not wanting to go back to Uzbekistan

but jacking a truck and using it to murder people in the country you chose is not a good way to get them to let you stay.

Looks like the Swedes were right to want him out.

[angstlessk]

2. It seems folks PROVE the very reason they are dismissed

be it at a workplace that, when fired, they come back and murder or this situation...

[Igel]

4. Hey, why not engage in victimology 101?

The reason he was radicalized is because of the pervasive ethnocentric views leading to Islamophobia and ethnic discrimination resulting in upending his human right to live in Sweden.

When you're discriminated against, actively hated and persecuted like this, of course you lash out at those supporting an unjust and racist system.

Let's call it Swedish privilege. He was the real victim here.

While that's a bit hyperbolic, it's likely that part of his radicalization did stem from a wounded sense of honor and the belief that he was being persecuted and done wrong by a system that was out to get him, fed by blather about all the rights he had as a human being and possibly that he has more rights because he's a member of the "best nation" or umma. His perceptions may be wildly inaccurate, but most of us lack a sense of perspective.

[Lulu KC]

3. I can hear it coming

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I read this and I should be thinking of Sweden and Uzbek and grief for those who are lost. Instead, I hear the "president" using this as another example to keep Muslims out. "We need to be smarter than those dumb people in Sweden." Definitely losing my mind.