In an earlier post, I quoted Norwegian blogger Fjordman on Sweden's trouble integrating its (mainly Muslim) immigrant population.

Fjordman now gives us this excellent post on Norway's "multicultural inquisition":

Dr. Ole Jørgen Anfindsen, editor, HonestThinking.org, believes that Norwegian authorities have cheated* with prognoses for the number of immigrants. According to his numbers, ethnic Norwegians will become a minority in their own country before 2050 if the current trends continue. The number of Muslims in Norway over 15 years has quadrupled, meaning an annual growth of more than 9%. A Norwegian researcher warns that ethnic gangs can give Norway the kind of immigrant-related organized crime that accompanied waves of migration to the USA. Dr. Inger-Lise Lien concludes that the ethnic groups themselves are worried. Oslo, which used to be a safe Scandinavian city, today looks more like New York City pre-Giuliani. Native Norwegians are quietly moving out of the immigrant ghettos in inner-city Oslo in large numbers. Tensions with immigrants have spread even to smaller towns. The trend is identical to what can be seen in neighboring Sweden, where several cities are now on the verge of collapse. Norway has already experienced what seems to have been an attempted Islamic terror attack. At the same time, there is new legislation proposed against "discriminating" statements made about specific groups, even on Internet discussion forums and websites. Which means that Norwegians can't say too much about Muslim immigrants destroying the country, because that is racism and thus illegal.

These are matters about which even the most obtuse leftist should be concerned. As I noted in my post on Sweden, the breakdown of social solidarity and the growth of social service dependence consequent upon mass immigration are undermining the foundations of the post-war providentialist state across Western Europe. While the Open Borders crowd likes to see mass immigration as a solution to collapsing birth rates and an aging population, their case simply isn't plausible any more.

* Related: With the UK elections over and Labour safely back in power, the British government reveals that immigration to the country is at record levels.