Most European Muslims want Sharia
A majority of the Muslims in Europe want Shariah shall take precedence over the secular laws of their European host countries. According to a new survey from the WZB Berlin Science Centerwhere Muslims in six countries were interviewed, including Sweden. A study should be worried Western politicians, researchers believe.
The study asked three questions to the immigrant Turks and Moroccans in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Holland and Sweden:
- Do you think that Sharia is more important to you than laws of the country you live? (66 percent)
- Are you saying that there is only one legitimate interpretation of the Koran that should apply to all Muslims? (75 percent)
- Are you saying that Muslims should return to the "Islamic roots"? (60 percent)
Those who answered yes to all these questions is referred to as "consistent fundamentalists" - and these make up 44 percent of those surveyed Muslims in Europe. The fundamentalist attitudes are as common among younger Muslims among the elderly.
According to the study (conducted in 2008, but has only now been published) is the worst state in Austria. There, 73 percent of Muslims that Sharia is more important than the secular state laws, 79 percent said there is only one correct interpretation of the Quran that apply to all, and 65 percent believe that Muslims should return to their Islamic roots. In total, 55 per cent of Austrian Muslims in the survey that they agreed with all three statements.
The report's authors, the Dutch sociologist Ruud Koopmans says the study reveals remarkably similar pattern in comparison to other German studies. For example Muslime in Deutschland (Muslims in Germany) in 2007 showed that 47 percent of German Muslims argued that the religious rules are more important than democracy - exactly the same as in this study argue that the Quranic laws are more important than the German law.
Equally worrying is that the study shows the significant Muslim hostility toward other groups. For example, 60 per cent of the Muslims that they refuse to have gay friends, and 45 percent say they can not trust Jews.
Even in these matters is distinguished Austrian Muslims. 69 percent refuse to have gay friends, and 63 percent say they can not trust Jews. Moreover, said 66 percent of those that the West is trying to destroy Islam.
To have something to compare European Muslims' response with, were also asked non-Muslim Europeans about their approach to suspicion towards Jews (8 percent), homosexual (10 percent), Muslims (21 percent). 1.4 percent were against all three groups.
According to Koopmans is Muslim fundamentalism "is not an innocent form of strict religiosity. ... While about one in five native Europeans can be described as Islamophobic, is the degree of phobia against the West among Muslims - for which, oddly enough, no words, but can call it occidentofobi [Occident = the West] - much higher: 54 percent believe that West's goal is to destroy Islam. "
"These findings contradict the very clear what one often hears that Islamic fundamentalism is a marginal phenomenon in Western Europe and that it is different from the degree of fundamentalism of the Christian majority. Both of these claims are patently false, since almost half of European Muslims want that Muslims should go back to the roots of Islam, there is only one interpretation of the Qur'an and the laws of that is more important than secular laws. Among the native Christians, fewer than one in 25, which would qualify as a fundamentalist in that regard. Religious fundamentalism is also no innocent form of strict religiosity, which is the clear relationship with their attitude to people outside the group shows. "
Koopmans continues:
"Both the scope of the Islamic religious fundamentalism and its companion - homophobia, antisemitism and 'occidentofobi' - should cause serious concern among both politicians of the Muslim community leaders. Of course one must not equate religious fundamentalism with the willingness to support or participate in religiously motivated violence. But given the strong connection between it and hostility toward other groups, it is highly likely that religious fundamentalism is fertile ground for radicalizing environment. "
The German newspaper Die Welt writes in a comment on the study results cast serious doubts about the unbridled optimism of European multiculturalists, those who claim that Muslim citizens will ultimately be bound by the Liberal Democrat mindset in the West.
"The study does not lend itself to simple conclusions," the paper said. "But it must be recognized: democracies must beware of those who believe that a free society is something that must be defeated."
Increasingly in Europe warn now also for the increasingly aggressive attempts Islamic organizations that the OIC (57 Muslim countries) are doing to squeeze Western politicians to gradually outlaw all criticism of Islam.
The German think tank Gustav Stresemann Foundation (whose main goal is the preservation and development of liberal democracy in Europe) has published a report by political scientist Felix Strüning, including writes that the German authorities begin to give way to pressure from the Islamic organizations in the country through to embrace the Muslim definition of "Islamophobia" in the public debate, creating uncertainty about " who is who gets to say what about Islam and Muslims in Germany ".
German authorities have already acknowledged that they are monitoring German-language Internet sites that are critical of Muslim immigration and the Islamization of Europe.
Felix Strüning:
"Critics of the Islamic ideology and its organizations pulled constantly on trial and have to defend themselves against charges of blasphemy and incitement to hatred. Even if they are not convicted costs of such a process both time and money, and can lead to loss of reputation and perhaps even his job. Thus, we also experience in the West increased enforcement of Sharia law in matters relating to Islam. "
Even today, Germans see how the so-called "spiral of silence" works when it comes to Islam.
"In a representative German study acknowledged over half of respondents said that they do not dare to criticize Islam or Muslims in public," writes Felix Strüning.
Шеријат низ цел свет, радост за Алах.