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Published: 13:28 GMT Daylight Time - Monday 12 July 2010

The Islamisation of the West

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The Islamisation of the West

MIGRATION AND DEMOGRAPHICS

THE ALLIANCE BETWEEN ISLAMISTS...

ISLAMIC SHARIA

PRESENTATION OF ISLAM

CONCLUSION

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INTRODUCTION

“Islam entered Europe twice and left it... Perhaps the next conquest, Allah willing, will be by means of preaching and ideology. The conquest need not necessarily be by the sword... Perhaps we will conquer these lands without armies. We want an army of preachers and teachers who will present Islam in all languages and in all dialects..”
Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a popular Sunni Muslim cleric, head of the European Council for Fatwa and Research[1]

Since the 1960s large numbers of Muslims have been migrating to the West. Muslim migration is unusual because of radicals within the community who are deliberately seeking to create dramatic changes in their host societies; they want Islam to gain social, cultural, economic and political power.

Secularism has already undermined the Judeo-Christian basis of Western society, and this makes it easier for radical Muslims in the West to progress towards their goal. There are also other factors that seem to make many Westerners ashamed of their Judeo-Christian heritage and values. These factors include guilt and shame about two world wars, colonialism, racism and the Holocaust.

What is happening in the West is linked to worldwide developments in Islam. Muslims around the globe are regaining their confidence and promoting a resurgence of Islam. Their aim is to establish Muslim control in politics, economics and culture in every country. In this process the Islamic world is growing more assertive and intolerant towards the West. This resurgence of Islam and the increasing power of Islamism (political Islam) strongly impact Muslim communities in the West. In response, the West is gradually changing its structures, laws and customs to suit its Muslim communities.

"We're the ones who will change you ... Just look at the development within Europe, where the number of Muslims is expanding like mosquitoes. Every western woman in the EU is producing an average of 1.4 children. Every Muslim woman in the same countries are [sic'] producing 3.5 children. By 2050, 30% of the population in Europe will be Muslim... Our way of thinking ... will prove more powerful than yours." [Mullah Krekar, a Kurdish Islamist radical from Iraq, who has been granted asylum in Norway[2]]

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