“We who have grown up here know what Islam is. It is not the people, the Muslims, that I warn about, but the ideology. Although most Muslims don’t believe in jihad, they believe in Mohammad. They believe that all peoples should become Muslims and that there is a reward in heaven for those who bring people to Islam. If Islamists gain power, they will not treat you according to human rights, but according to Sharia law. Love the Muslims, but be aware. Jesus says we should be cunning as snakes and innocent as doves.”
She will, of course, be dismissed as having come under the influence of “Islamophobes,” despite the fact that these conclusions come from her lived experience in Iraq.
“Iraqi Christians Warn Sweden of ‘Islamist Rule,'” Sputnik, December 2, 2019:
While Swedish researchers have brushed aside the idea of an Islamic takeover despite a dramatic demographic change, they admitted the rise of Islamist indoctrination and increasing tensions.
Among Iraqi Christians there is a widespread belief that many European countries, such as Sweden and France, have “naively” received too many Muslims from the Middle East and now risk an increased Islamic influence to the point of Islamist rule, the Christian magazine Världen Idag reported.
“You lose control”, church worker Layla (a pseudonym for security reasons) from Iraqi Kurdistan told the magazine. Among Christian Iraqis like herself, she said, there is a belief that Sweden will turn Islamist in the future, because of the large immigration from Muslim countries.
“We who have grown up here know what Islam is. It is not the people, the Muslims, that I warn about, but the ideology”, she said. “Although most Muslims don’t believe in jihad, they believe in Mohammad. They believe that all peoples should become Muslims and that there is a reward in heaven for those who bring people to Islam”.
Layla urged European churches to “wake up”.
“If Islamists gain power, they will not treat you according to human rights, but according to Sharia law”, she stressed. “Love the Muslims, but be aware. Jesus says we should be cunning as snakes and innocent as doves”, she concluded, urging not to yield to any pressure.
Pastor Basil (also a pseudonym), who has met thousands of Yazidis and Christians fleeing from Daesh*, recalled the Muslim concept of taqiya, a precautionary dissimulation or denial of religious belief. According to him, it is frequently utilised by radical Muslims as well to hide their true intent.
“This means that radicals ‘lie low’ and adapt to a more non-religious society to gain power”, he said, warning of sleeper cells ready for action, while acting to “take over” once a parliamentary majority is in place….
Aje Carlbom, associate professor of social anthropology at Malmö University, ventured it was an exaggeration that Islam will take over Europe. He stressed that many Muslims become secularised and thus have fewer children. At the same time, he envisioned clear tensions between Swedes and Muslim communities, especially radical ones….