Swedish School Attack.

This morning (22/10/15) a masked man walked into a school in Trollhaten, Sweden and proceeded to attack staff and students with what is being described as a sword.

In the last few moments the death toll has risen to two. This includes and adult teacher and a student aged around 16 years old. With one other student seriously injured this death toll could rise as high as three. The attacker was shot and seriously wounded by police at the scene.

Although it has not been confirmed the attack was initially described as being at a school for immigrants. However I suspect once the initial shock and translation issues have been worked through this means a school in an area with a high immigrant population.

This is obviously a reference to the migration/refugee crisis that Europe finds itself in due to the conflicts in Iraq/Syria and Libya.

It is also a reference to the anti-migrant/refugee violence that has begun to emerge in Europe in response to the crisis.

In the former Soviet East Germany groups such as PEGIDA have been very active in staging sometimes violent anti-immigrant street protests including a protest marking the first anniversary of the group in Dresden on Monday (19/10/15). On Saturday (17/10/15) a pro-refugee Mayoral candidate was stabbed in Cologne by an assailant who is reported to have shouted anti-immigrant slogan. Fortunately she survived and went on to win the election.

These have simply been the headline grabbing incidents that have been part of a wave of low level attacks against refugees and facilities for refugees such as processing centres across numerous European nations. Just on Tuesday (20/10/15) Swedish authorities announced that they would be keeping secret the addresses of refugee housing units following 15 arson attacks against such locations this year.

Sweden actually has a very specific issue with refugees. Following the Balkan wars of the 1990's Sweden took in a lot of predominately Muslim refugees. Unfortunately it didn't do enough to integrate these newcomers instead leaving them to set up ghettos mainly in the Biskopsgarden area of Gothenburg. As often happens these ghettos have become havens for organised crime and this summer has seen a big gang war with tit-for-tat killings carried out with guns grenades and car bombings.

As a result during the negotiations over a European Union (EU) quota system lots of countries have expressed concern that it would lead to them experiencing the same problems as Sweden. Obviously though if they were to drop their opposition there could be an EU-wide discussion of the urban planning/human geography methods that can be employed to avoid Sweden's problems.

The use of the sword is a reference to the violence of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and associated groups. After all when people talk about violent Jihad they often talk about "The Jihad of the Sword" and I think we're all familiar with ISIL's fondness of beheadings.

Due to its earlier failure to integrate Muslim immigrants Sweden has seen a relatively high proportion of its citizens travel to join ISIL. Although Sweden didn't seem particularly worried about them leaving like much of Europe it is now very worried about them returning - possibly disguised as refugees - in order to carry out terror attacks.

The fact a school was targeted is a reference to the school shootings in the US such as the Newtown massacre and the recent shooting at Umpqua Community College. US President Barack Obama has long tried to exploit these to further his own gun control agenda.

Sweden has much tighter gun control legislation but this seems to have done nothing to stem the gang violence in Sweden's ghettos. As such a sword attack on a school being stopped by guns seems to be a complete rejection of President Obama's leadership.

Coming in from Sweden this is very significant. Not only has Sweden provided many fighters to ISIL they have also been very active supporters of US sanctions against Russia over ISIL's Northern/Shamali Province - "Ukraine" if you still insist on using the Kuffar name.

This week also sees the October meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bonn, Germany. As I've mentioned before Obama's incompetence along with the threat of terrorism both against nations that might benefit from a new agreement and the Paris, France venue itself have long been used to unsettle negotiations where issues such as urban planning/human geography come up frequently.

Therefore I can't say that I'm particularly happy that Sweden have gone with such a dramatic move today. After all the hour I've spent writing this up is an hour that I could have spent on the climate change issue itself.

However I suppose you could argue that a sign that Obama's support is collapsing and being replaced by a united European front is reassuring.

It's also worth pointing out that today US Secretary of State John Kerry is in Germany to meet with EU, Palestinian and Israeli leaders to discuss the current violence in Jerusalem which is closely linked to ISIL even if no-one will admit it.

Tomorrow will see a poorly scheduled meeting between the US, the EU, Russia and Saudi Arabia on the conflict in Iraq/Syria.

14:10 on 22/10/15 (UK date).