A terrorism expert says Western countries don't seem to understand that Muslims don't share their values.
In Sweden, for example, scholar Göran Adamson says spiraling gun crime, marauding Islamic gangs, and fascist violence have transformed the once peaceful Scandinavian country into Europe's crime capital, and he believes it is on the "brink of civil war."
It's so bad in Sweden that "The girls are wearing hijab so they are not kidnapped and raped on the streets."
And it is not only in Sweden.
Be informed, not misled.
Brigitte Gabriel is the founder and president of ACT for America, the nation's "premier nonprofit grassroots movement" that empowers citizens and educates elected officials to impact public policy and keep America safe from all foreign and domestic threats. She is not surprised that Adamson attributes his country's problem to Islamic immigration.
"It's letting people in who don't share your values," she summarizes. "That's the problem with importing a large number of Muslim immigrants who did not necessarily come to the West to become a part of the West. They came, and they brought their values with them, and they are trying now to turn the West into the countries that they left."
She points out that people – especially women – live in fear in those countries.
According to official figures from the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå), the number of fatalities a year per million from gun violence is more than double the European average.
In 2017, there were 281 shootings in Sweden, and by 2022, that number had grown to 391, 62 of which were fatal. According to the Office for National Statistics, in the UK, there were 28 people killed by shooting in the year ending March 2022.
That means the Swedish rate of death by shooting was more than twice that of the UK, despite Sweden having a population less than a sixth the size.
"In Sweden, in Norway, and all these countries that accepted large blocs of Muslim refugees, the girls now are dying their hair black to blend in because of all the rape, because of the fear," Gabriel reports. "The girls are wearing hijab so they are not kidnapped and raped on the streets."
Gabriel, a Christian who grew up in Lebanon and refers to herself as "a survivor of Islamic terror," points out that not all Arab immigrants are a problem.
"Obviously there is no problem with the Christian Arabs who immigrated to these countries because they share the same values," she says. "It's not about color; it's about values. It's about character."
Muslims In America
And, "A record 81 Muslim American candidates ran for office in 2020 across 28 states and Washington, D.C"
The Hill notes that there is pushback from many Americans, including Republicans, but the Muslim community is making great progress politically and economically, they note.
But not everyone thinks it's a good thing to see Muslims increasingly becoming involved in government and the culture because, to Brigitte Gabriel's point, they hold a very different worldview than citizens of the West.
In April, Breitbart reported, "A recent poll by the Pew Research Center shows that nearly half of Muslims in the U.S. support the Hamas terrorist group in its war against Israel — a similar proportion to that found in a different poll of Muslims in the United Kingdom."
A similar poll by the Pew Research Center in the U.S. released March 21 found that 49% of U.S. Muslims believed that Hamas’s reasons for fighting were “valid.” Only 22% said that Hamas’s reasons for fighting were “not valid.”
The Muslim population in the U.S. is growing “much faster” than the Jewish population. It coincides with a rise of antisemitism on college campuses, as well as the Democratic Party’s drift away from its historically pro-Israel position.
Nothing is more revealing than the chants we're hearing across the West---and in our own country: "Death to Israel," "Death to America."
David Miller, Ph.D, has written, "The average American’s lack of awareness of the past has left our nation in an extremely vulnerable position. The multi-culturalism, pluralism, “diversity,” and political correctness that now blanket American culture mean that many are oblivious to and unconcerned about the threat that Islam poses to the American (and Christian) way of life. The Founders of the American Republic were not so dispossessed. They were well-studied in the ebb and flow of human history, and the international circumstances that could potentially impact America adversely. They, in fact, spoke openly and pointedly about the anti-American, anti-Christian nature of the religion of Islam."
John Quincy Adams, son of our second president, John Adams, and others wrote extensively about the conflict between Islam and Christianity in American Western culture.
I encourage you to read his writings linked above.
This is part of what Adams said:
In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind.
Takeaway
Adams not only documents the violent nature of Islam, in contrast with the peaceful and benevolent thrust of Christianity, he further exposes the mistreatment of women inherent in Islamic doctrine, including the degrading practice of polygamy.
A few pages later, President Adams again spotlights the coercive, violent nature of Islam, as well as the Muslim’s right to lie and deceive to advance Islam:
"The precept of the koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God. The vanquished may purchase their lives, by the payment of tribute; the victorious may be appeased by a false and delusive promise of peace; and the faithful follower of the prophet, may submit to the imperious necessities of defeat: but the command to propagate the Moslem creed by the sword is always obligatory, when it can be made effective. The commands of the prophet may be performed alike, by fraud, or by force."
Back to Brigitte Gabriel's point: "It's letting people in who don't share your values. That's the problem with importing a large number of Muslim immigrants who did not necessarily come to the West to become a part of the West. They came, and they brought their values with them, and they are trying now to turn the West into the countries that they left."
Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Engaged. Be Prayerful.