‘After day with Christians, Muslim teens wash in mosque’: Study charts rise of Salafism in Sweden
Published time: 16 Jul, 2018 15:01
Edited time: 17 Jul, 2018 08:22
A mosque in Malmo, Sweden. / Reuters
The largest-ever report on the fundamentalist branch of Islam shows Salafist preachers in Sweden are cooperating to push their message across Muslim communities – and disturbing everyday behavior is now common even in children.
"Not all Salafists are jihadists, but all jihadists are Salafists,†says the 265-page study of a movement that advocates a return to ‘pure’ Islam, commissioned by the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, a government department.
Swedish authorities declared last year that the number of militant Islamists in the country had risen from 200 to 2000 in a decade. Through 70 interviews with police, social workers and community representatives, the study attempted to understand how religious belief leads to terrorism. What it found was a well-organized ideology consciously pushing for the Muslim minority to divorce itself from the cultural surroundings of mainstream Sweden, creating a deep social rift from which terrorists and jihadist recruits can emerge.
https://www.rt.com/news/433386-salafism-sweden-terrorism-islam/
