Actually east Swedish vikings were more mercenaries than raiders so much that the Swedish king stripped all property from them if they joined the byzantium guard.
As for why they were more traders than raiders is quite simple, the east didn't have easily attacked places with gold unlike the west but that didn't really stop the vikings when they attacked the Eastern Roman Empire so technically Western vikings attacked undefended or barely defended **** meanwhile Eastern vikings attacked real heavy hitter.
Swedish vikings from Geat lands probably went west with the Danes and Norwegians
about 2% of the german population is currently muslims originating from a country outside europe (almost all mulsims in germany are from Turkey, which is a european country, if we count turkish people, it's about 3.8% of german populations, assuming all turks are muslims.)
20% of germanys population is of non-german origin.
17 of those 20 are immigrants from other european countries.
3 of the top 5 non-european origin countries of the populatoin of germany, are the US, China, and Vietnam.
none of which are muslim countries.
muslims are an underwhelmingly tiny part of the german population, yet people are blowing it up to be some kind of massive problem.
remember, all it takes is 1-200 idiots, to make a group of a million people, look bad.
loud minority, does not equal majority.
I have to say we are kinda heading down this path in america too. Like its not normal to be patriotic anymore, its seen as rednecky and borderline racist. I dont think nationalism is a good thing, but I think patriotism is. I mean, if you are a citizen of a country shouldnt you be proud and support it? I have a regular US flag hanging in my apartment and too often I feel I have to explain why its there to people visiting. Im not saying we have to do the redneck "put the flag on everything," but I wish more people aside from them would express some patriotism because I feel like our flag is slowly turning less into "liberty and freedom" and more into just "anti-immigration and guns" purely by association with the group that flies it the most.
"There is no other country that hates itself as much as sweden. There is no other country were nationalism is as much despised to the point of racism."
Dude should really visit germany. We would open his eyes.