One day Karen Jespersen and Ralf Pittelkow drove from their home in Dragør, over the Øresund bridge, to the Rosengård district in Malmö. They drove around and felt that they've arrived in a different world. Shops had signs in Arabic. Only a few spoke Swedish on the street. Veiled women were everywhere. There were satellite dishes on the balconies.
"We thought of a young headscarf-wearing woman who appeared on Swedish TV," remembers Karen Jespersen. "She said: 'it feels like Iraq or another Arab country. I feel excellent in Malmö'. Rosengård is a Muslim parallel society where people live their own lives. This provides fertile ground for radical Muslims to have growing influence. All over Europe we see the same trend in many major cities." [Islam in Europe] Read more
