Xenophobic Sweden Democrats headed for parliament

[Tender Branson]

To cite 2 of the more common polls in Sweden:

Synovate

SD @ 4.7%

http://www.synovate.se/upload/Synovate_26%20nov_2009.pdf

Sifo

SD @ 5.8%

http://www.tns-sifo.se/nyheter/vaeljarbarometern-november-2009

Sifo mentions that there was a debate about the SD recently (what kind of debate, Gustaf ?) and that their support among men rose from 4.7% to 8.9%, but it dropped from 4.7% to 2.6% among women. The party receives 12.5% support from people under-30 year old and with 11.7% it´s the third-biggest party among under-30 men. Does that mean that under-30 women are more supportive of the SD than men under 30 ? Weird.

[Tender Branson]

Example: SD-leader claimed that muslim women have higher nativity than Swedish women. Aftonbladet claims that this is wrong and cites a source claiming that women from the Middle East have 3 times the nativity of Swedish women. All in all the attack, which was made to save their conscience and reputation of course, was ludicrous)

Muslim women DO have higher fertility than non-Muslim (at least Austrian) women.

Currently, 6% of Austrians are Muslims, but last year there were 77.752 births in Austria, of which 49.444 (64%) were to Catholic mothers and 10.883 (14%) were to Muslim mothers.

According to the Austrian Demographic Statistical Yearbook 2008, published by Statistics Austria, the average number of children for every Austrian woman was 1.31 in 2008, whereas it was 2.71 for women of Turkish citizenship.

http://www.statistik.at/dynamic/wcmsprod/idcplg?IdcService=GET_NATIVE_FILE&dID=58397&dDocName=042258

(page 26)

[Tender Branson]

Just checked the Statistics Sweden page and it also finds higher fertility for women of countries with high Muslim populations than for native Swedish women:

For example: A woman with Swedish citizenship had an average of 1.85 children in 2008, but women with Turkish citizenship had a fertility of 2.65, from Somalia 4.19, Iraq 3.00, Iran 2.98 and Lebanese women had an average of 1.87 children.

http://www.scb.se/statistik/_publikationer/BE0101_2008A01_BR_08_BE0109TAB.pdf

(page 231)

[Tender Branson]

In other news, the Left Alliance is now above 50%, according to the SIFO poll:

Socialdemokraterna: 36.7%
Miljöpartiet: 10.3%
Vänsterpartiet: 5.2%

TOTAL LEFT: 52.2%

Moderaterna: 25.1%
Folkpartiet: 6.8%
Centern: 5.2%
Kristdemokraterna: 3.7%

TOTAL RIGHT: 40.8%

Sverigedemokraterna: 5.1%
Others: 2.0%

http://www.tns-sifo.se/media/255188/vb%20dec%202009%20gp.pdf

[Tender Branson]

Currently, 6% of Austrians are Muslims, but last year there were 77.752 births in Austria, of which 49.444 (64%) were to Catholic mothers and 10.883 (14%) were to Muslim mothers.

Harebrained comparison. What percentage of women of child-bearing age are Muslims?

Certainly less than 14%.