A parish within the Swedish Church (separated from the State in 2000) recently employed an imam, Othman Al-Tawalbeh, (Swedish link on him) to be stationed at a youth centre in Stockholm, Fryshuset, to help strengthen the multicultural work and counteract prejudices against Muslims and increase the cooperation between Christians and Muslims.
Politically correct do-gooders have not succeeded in preventing an animated debate within and outside the Church, though. The Swedish Church has worked hard for decades to integrate female ministers and to marry homosexuals. Many people ask what will be of this work now. Some debaters mean that the islamization has gone too far when the Swedish Church pays for being driven out of competition. But no threats have been pronounced.
The debacle has now taken another turn, when the Swedish Security Service, SÄPO, have contacted Tawalbeh after newly having found published texts on him on Arabic sites written by another Swedish Muslim, the chairman of the Swedish Muslim Association (the Swedish branch of the Muslim Brotherhood), Mahmoud Aldebe.
SÄPO got worried about Tawalbeh and regards the texts on the Internet as threatening. The texts are written in Arabic and Tawalbeh is reported being an apostate, having poisoned the Islamic faith, trying to christen Muslim youngsters and defending the rights of women. SÄPO have offered Tawalbeh protection. They fear that a fatwa will be proclaimed in the Muslim world.
Now Mahmoud Aldebe also alleges having been threatened by Tawalbeh and his medial network in Sweden after Aldebe’s contribution. Aldebe is known for being the person that in a long and thorough letter demanded Sharialaws to be introduced in Sweden in 2006.
To work for a Christian church is haram, according to the Swedish Fatwa Council. And the fact that this piece of news has spread to the Arab press is problematic. Sweden already has a negative report (Lars Vilks, the cartoonist and Taimour Abdulwahab, the suicide bomber) and Tawalbeh can become yet another target. Even those who harass Vilks here in Sweden could start attacking Tawalbeh.
The Swedish Church’s desire to improve the dialogue seems to be counterproductive, particularly when the prevalent interpretation of Islam does not seem to embrace the same flexibility. Perhaps the Church should have studied Islam more closely before launching this project?
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The sweedes must be a very weak people to accept such, and the christians in Sweden must be mad to let their church employ muslims (they should employ ex-muslims if they want to know about islam).
Yes, Swedes are self-denying when trying to play tolerant.
The flirtation with this medieval theocratic totalitarianism is suicidally insane , especially in light of the daily reports of the atrocities, outrages, and massacres from the Islamic world. The denial of the reality is astonishing.
What I find myself wondering more about is how to assist those who help themselves and how to better protect the innocent. Where are they to turn? I’m content to leave the fools to their fate. They can reap what they’ve sown. It’s the innocent victims of their folly that trouble me – most especially the children who are being betrayed by their willfully blind and willfully stupid parents.
I suspect that most people understand that the ‘Swedish Church’ is not much of a church at all. It’s a hollow fraud.
Nonetheless, this is astonishingly foolish naivete.
Mindlessness and Meaninglessness are the ugly twin children of Postmodernism.
It looks like they’re all grown up now.
It certainly takes libtardation to new heights.
I am confused. I thought that all Swedes were politically correct and quite accepting of everything Muslim. I am surprised that Sharia Law is not part of the Swedish constitution. Why does the Swedish government feel that it has to do things like place an Imam in a Christian church in order to correct prejudice against Muslims? Who in Sweden is prejudice against Muslims? Is the government fighting a paper tiger – something that does not really exist in Sweden?
First were the communists, as my great uncle from Sweden pointed out as he left Sweden in 1920. Now it is Muslims and Sharia Law. Is anyone in Sweden interested in protecting Swedish culture and democracy???
I realize the Cavatus Blog and some very small political group, that most everyone in Sweden despises, are trying to preserve Swedish culture and democracy and I say more power to you!!!
I’ve added you to my blogroll.
Gordon, the fence post tortoise left a comment on one of my posts telling me about your excellent blog.
We Europeans need to unite and stand up against the socialist regime we have been forced into by the EU.
All over Europe, people are standing up to the EU and fighting for their sovereign rights. We are entitled to live in democracies and we have been tricked into accepting a dictatorship by those in power.
I have now put your blog to my blogroll, as well. Very interersting information about the UK, that we don’t get here in Sweden, where all the news are filtered through the cultural-marxist filter.
As you have heard one Swedish UN-worker was beheaded in Afghanistan after the Coran debacle in the US. This do we know through the Internet and media abroad. One tabloid here in Sweden mentioned that the Swedish man had been cut in his throat. The truth was too hard for Sweden, they thought. The truth would undermine their campaign on the “religion of peace”, you see.
Det var av den anledningen jag gick ur pedofilkyrkan.
Ah yes, Religion of Peace. Insult Christianity and letters are written to newspapers and maybe a small demonstration may occur. Insult Islam and people die. Horribly.