In their campaign, the Sweden Democrats raised the spectre of creeping Islamicisation of society and promised to crack down on immigration.
Now, repression in the wake of the failed coup against Turkey's President Erdoğan moves against all Alevi Kurds, like Matur's family – seen not only as enemies of the state, but also as heretics by its aggressive Islamicisation.
Add to this schedule the routine reports about gender segregation in UK universities and Muslim schools (as if the concept of gender segregation was somehow exotic to non-faith schools in the UK), claims of grand plans to "overthrow" non-Muslim heads of certain schools and you have a steady flow of creeping sharia messages, stoking a fear of a stealthy, incremental Islamicisation.
Persecution complex Taming Islam Told you so The delusions of Mr Juncker Reprints Related items Iraq: A foreign tide that ebbs and flowsJun 23rd 2005The outcome may signal a wider shift in the fortunes of the UOIF, a group inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood that advocates the "Islamicisation" of society.
What is it even doing in England anyway?Pegida is a German acronym for "patriotic Europeans against the Islamicisation of the Occident".
Refugees from Muslim areas of the archipelago have horrific tales to tell of forced Islamicisation, with death the only alternative to conversion.
He is likely to avoid antagonising the Kurds with overzealous Islamicisation, or riling the Sunnis by settling pre-invasion scores.
By contrast, before the hostage crisis tempered such calls, the UOIF was telling schoolgirls to wear what they liked.Though it denies any formal link, the UOIF is inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood, an international movement which calls for the "Islamicisation" of society.
"The Islamicisation of knowledge – instead of the modernisation of Islamic thought!" Those were dangerous days.
Secular Turks feel threatened by creeping Islamicisation, though in practice these threats have never quite been realised.
