As refugees from Islamic countries pour into Sweden, feminists there have had enough and are fleeing suburbs after a slew of rapes and sexual assaults.
Famed feminist Nalin Pekgul, who called attention to the rising insecurity of women in the suburbs, says she now avoids the center of town in Tensta, where she lived for 30 years. And the former Left Party official Zeliha Dagli moved from Husby to the inner city.
Pekgul says she no longer feels safe in her home town, adding that Muslim fundamentalists now have full control of the center. She says “religious fundamentalists gained increasing space in the area and the place of women in the public sphere diminished,” according to SVT, a television station in Sweden. Pekgul sought to raise the issue by holding coffee shop meetings, but she’s been forced to give those up.
“It is clear that people have been incredibly aggressive towards me when I joined the center. Especially the last year, I ducked to sit at the restaurant that I used to sit on after several people have been on me really angry because I told you about these things,” SVT reports.
“I always hope that it will blow over. One should never forget that the vast majority here are cursing the fundamentalists,” she said.
Dagli has moved from the “no-go” suburb of Husby (a no-go area is one that even the police refuse to enter). She said the new Islamic refugees are acting as “morality police,” attempting to control women’s behavior in the area, SVT reports.
“There were rumors that we wanted to take away women’s veils, we painted black community, that we were not good and decent women and we wanted MAKE SWEDISH all women. People told me that I would not write about Husby and my surroundings began to warn me. They said that I would keep myself, and then I did not feel so safe anymore.”
Dagli moved to downtown Stockholm and says the same problems do not exist there.
“I feel calm, at least not controlled. Nobody cares how I dress or what I have people I talk to,” she said.