Press Release
Swedish Politicians Want to Decapitate “European” Values with a Totalitarian Proposal to Expel Muslims

On Wednesday, Dagens Nyheter published an article ahead of the EU elections in which Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch said that Muslims who do not adapt Islam to European values should be expelled because they have exhausted their right to be in Europe.

Muslims are not surprised to see Swedish politicians cracking down on Muslims and especially not in times of elections and especially not by failed parties that are dangerously close to the line in elections and trying to win cheap points among racists. The Deputy Prime Minister's statement is in line with the Swedish policy that for decades, by different governments, intended to secularize Islam and assimilate Muslims. The state has therefore closed Islamic schools, sanctioned Koran burnings, kidnapped children and tried to criminalize basic Islamic practices, such as the veil, under the pretext of oppression of honor. With her statement, Ebba Busch wants to demonize and put more pressure on Muslims with her grotesque formulations such as 'beheading' and 'justice outside the courts'. Ironically and paradoxically, this comes from a person who supports the most bestial and barbaric genocide of our time in Gaza and is an accomplice to a government that proposes to deport unconvicted criminals. This is hypocrisy in its purest form.

Swedish politicians claim to stand for the rights and freedoms of all people, they proclaim tolerance between different ethnic groups, but they themselves do not stand for what they advocate. Requiring Muslims to change Islam and their beliefs in order to stay is against all rights and freedoms and sends the all-important message that freedom is a lie and that Muslims do not enjoy the same rights as everyone else, and that the only way for Muslims to live a normal life is to become secularized. This is neither tolerance nor freedom, it is forced conversion, an aggressive assimilation policy. Ebba Busch and the rest of Sweden's intolerant politicians should learn from Islam, which really built a society where Muslims, Christians, Jews, and people of other faiths lived side by side. Not like the European societies that suffer from racism, xenophobia, and discrimination. They should learn that values and beliefs are not changed by force but by argument. The method used by the Swedish state and expressed by the Deputy Prime Minister is a fascist method that we recognize from secular dictatorships and banana republics.

The use of coercion by Swedish politicians illustrates the weakness of the secular capitalist ideology, which cannot respond to arguments with arguments. They want Muslims to embrace secularism and freedom while they themselves undermine them. It shows cultural bankruptcy and ideological capitulation.

Dear Muslims:

Islam is the Creator's Revelation and guidance to humanity. Islam is an all-encompassing ideology with solutions to all human problems. It is our pride and the source of our glory. It is not for sale like the ideology of Ebba and her fellow politicians. Hold on to it and let no one pressure you to give up even one tiny aspect of Islam. Remember that hardship and pressure were the way of the prophets and even they were told: “We will either cast you out or you will adopt our way of life”.

To the people of Sweden:

We know that you are victims of the lies and oppression of Swedish and Western politicians. We all suffer from the social problems caused by the capitalist ideology that serves only the wealthy capital owners. Politicians try to cover up their failures and the failures of the system by blaming Muslims and immigration. But there are solutions beyond capitalism, in an ideology that led the world for over 1000 years and that the media never talks about. Seek out Islam, read, study, or talk to Muslims without allowing anyone to control your thinking.

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Sweden