Anas Khalifa, who had been a radical Salafist preacher for around 20 years, was once one of the most prominent radical Moslems in the country but is said to have turned his back on fundamentalist ideology.
According to Khalifa, radicalism has become more and more prevalent in Sweden’s Moslem community. He told broadcaster SVT that there is a Salafist in every mosque in the country.
"They are everywhere online, they have hundreds of thousands of followers. I’m probably the only one who’s not a Salafist who has 60-70,000 followers," Khalifa said, claiming that he has seen young people born and raised in Sweden who have still become followers of Islamic radicals.
"I have travelled from Boden to Ystad, lectured in associations and mosques for several years, and I have always found someone who is Salafist there," he said, added that Salafists
...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them...
often also behave as morality police in their communities, telling others what to do.
Problems with so-called morality police have been an issue in some areas of Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...for years, and in 2018 Sweden’s centre-right Moderate Party proposed criminalising anyone caught acting in such a manner.
"They spread hatred against non-Moslems — Christians, Jews. They spread strong prejudices about other groups and minorities, and they sometimes cover that up nicely. They try to explain it and justify it in different ways, but the basic message is this hatred," Khalifa said.
Khalifa also added that, in the past, he had personally known many of the Swedish nationals who had travelled to the Middle East to join the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
terrorist organization, saying: "I’ve never sent anyone down, but I haven’t stopped anyone from leaving when I find out... I have blood on my hands."
Earlier this year in May, Swedish terrorism expert Magnus Ranstorp claimed that Moslem holy warriors were continuing to recruit and spread their ideology in Sweden.
"It’s basically been a disaster. Especially in the area of prevention, but also in terms of legislation," Ranstorp said.
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