The conservative Swedish site, Samtiden, has a good article by Dick Erixon on the threat of Islamism, particularly in Sweden. He cites the late politician, Per Ahlmark, and concludes that Ahlmark's observations about Islamism were proved correct.
The below article is translated by Fousesquawk.
https://samtiden.nu/2023/10/lar-av-ahlmark-islamism-maste-behandlas-som-nazism/
LEARN FROM AHLMARK- ISLAMISM MUST BE TREATED LIKE NAZISM
DICK ERIXON 23 OCTOBER 2023
We now see how Islamists make many Swedes want to strip off what identifies them as Swedes. We begin to submit to their demands, which is exactly what is their intention is with this mindless violence. Islamism must be equated with Nazism, just as former People's Party leader and minister, Per Ahlmark, saw it.
One who early on understood Islamism's terrible power and threat was Per Ahlmark. I gladly single him out because he cannot be accused of being conservative or something that the left sees as terrible.
Crystal clear on evil
When he passed away in 2018, at 79, I cited him from his acclaimed book, "The Left and Tyranny" (which came out in a new edition in 2003 from Timbro when I was working there). There, he is crystal clear on Islamism's evil. This is what he wrote in the preface:
"The view of international terrorism has become the focal point in a partially new battle of ideas concerning our civilization. Above all: the third totalitarian worldview in the last hundred years has now emerged with strength and clarity. After communism and Nazism, we see how Islamic fundamentalism is placing similar demands upon us. We must adapt ourselves to its claims that do not allow for objections, pluralism, or compromises (...) The three ideologies demand to rule the world and are all intent on genocide. They despise freedom, reject democracy, and hate Jews. The Islamists' methods, therefore, are uncontrolled violence."
See Islamism as contemporary Nazism
I completely agree with him. We should see Islamism as a political ideology borne with the same evil as Nazism. It is not a religion. It is an ideology that makes brutal demands on us in the West. We will submit ourselves to their will, with bloody violence if necessary.
We who live in the secularized world can make the distinction between Muslims who in private and for their part, follow Islam's teachings. In this connection, it is usually said that "jihad" can be interpreted as an inner struggle or striving in every person to live a better life, In this part, Islam can exist in the West.
But when you make jihad into a fight to impose sharia laws upon "infidels", meaning to force Christian civilization to submit itself to Islamism's extreme interpretation, then it is a political movement as dangerous, violence-glorifying, and totalitarian as Nazism.
Taking the threat seriously
After the terror act last Monday against two Swedes in the colors of the soccer team, all authorities must drop the political correctness that excuses Islamists.
Last weekend, I read the book, "From the Frontlines of Terror" (Mondial 2023) by Magnus Ranstopr. He shows the astonishing reluctance of Swedish authorities to understand the threat from the terror-promoting Islamists. For example, he tells of the "Rosengård Report" from 2009, in which he participated for the Defense Academy. It highlighted the infiltration of Swedish associations and authorities by Islamists but received a lot of harsh criticism for being "Islamophobic". Even the head of Säpo (Security Police) fell for the outrage of the left and the media and considered the report exaggerated, despite (the fact) that the security police who knew Rosengård stood behind what was reported.
Just a few years later, Ranstorp was terrifyingly right. As a proportion of the country's size, Swedish citizens were the third-largest group in Europe who joined the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, where they beheaded, burned people alive, and took women as sex slaves.
If we don't see Islamism for what it is, we may see the same brutal violence in Sweden. Then we have barely seen the beginning.
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