Listen to him on April 24, 2015 at 19.30 - 21.30 in Silkeborg Oasekirke, Frichsvej 2, 8600 Silkeborg. Coffee and cake will be served.
In addition, he speaks the April 25, 2015 at 12.00 - 16.00 at Copenhagen Cultural Center, Drejervej 15, 2400 Copenhagen. Lunch, coffee and cake will be served.
Registration required at info@forfulgtekristne.dk or 4444 1313 - before April 20, 2015.
How do you see developments in Syria and Iraq in the coming months?
Militarily, it may be possible to defeat Islamic State (IS), but IS has long since become a local, even global, Sunni insurgency, and it will also concern us in the West more than the threat from Shiite Iran because the Sunnis with 85 % make up by far the largest proportion of all Muslims worldwide.
Why are young people joining Islamic State?
The entire Arab Muslim world today is more divided than ever between Sunni and Shia, between Salafists and the Muslim Brotherhood, but above all, a massive generational conflict is becoming increasingly apparent.
The majority of Arabs are young, over 50 % are under 20, unemployed, disillusioned and angry because they see themselves as deprived of their future prospects. Above all, they feel betrayed by the older generation who have used Islam to their advantage at the expense of the youth. Therefore, these young people are demanding a return to the original Islam with all the radicalism and fanaticism of youth.
Young people are rebelling
They don't feel they owe respect to their old, corrupt authorities anymore, but accuse them - in the East as well as in the West. One can truly speak of ″arabels″, these young people rebelling against the old, a rebellion on the road to democracy, but which was suppressed and now expresses its furious frustration in Islamist fanaticism.
The evil spirit of jihadism, which was sown and financed by Islamic autocrats, partly because of their clinging to power and unwillingness to reform, to give their own ignored youth an outlet to vent their frustrations against infidels, this evil spirit is now increasingly targeting the Islamic autocrats in the Gulf States. This evil spirit of extremism, which they have brought to life, they can no longer free themselves from - and we must be prepared for that.
The Arab Spring paved the way
The Sunni revival movement came through the Arab Spring and all that it entailed. Islamic State has almost exclusively subjugated areas that were already Sunni. Many Christians and Yazidis have told me that their Sunni neighbors turned against them and took away their houses and became ISIS supporters. This raises the question of the refugees' ability to return after ISIS is militarily defeated.
- It costs approximately DKK 680 to ensure that a refugee family
has food, water and medicine for a month.
