[...]
The problem, of course, is that all Nordic countries
have similar cultural and legal environments,
but Sweden's rate of sexual assault
is 6 or 7 times higher than all neighboring countries.
According to a Gatestone Institute report
by Swedes Ingrid Carlqvist and Lars Hedegaard:
2008,
Sweden's neighbor Denmark only had 7.3 rapes
per 100,000 inhabitants compared to 53.2 in Sweden?
Danish legislation is not very different from Sweden's,
and there is no obvious reason
why Danish women should be less inclined
to report rape than their Swedish counterparts.
In 2011,
6,509 rapes were reported to the Swedish police
-- but only 392 in Denmark.
The population of Denmark is about half the size of Sweden's,
so even adjusted for size, the discrepancy is significant.
[...]
A 1996 report by
the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention
reached the conclusion that immigrants from North Africa
(Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia)
were 23 times as likely to commit rape as Swedish men.
The figures for men from Iraq, Bulgaria and Romania
were, respectively, 20, 18 and 18.
Men from the rest of Africa were 16 times more prone to commit rape;
and men from Iran, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia, 10 times
as prone as Swedish men.
[...]