"Jihad" and "Dead" Graffiti Sprayed on Church
In the morning of September 3rd church staff discovered that the Alhem Church in Skellefteå had been sprayed with black graffiti, including "Jihad" and "Dead" with a Nazarene symbol for Christians. The police stated in a statement that they took this form of hateful attacks against churches very seriously, and that they do not equate them with regular hip-hop graffiti and so-called "tags."
Despite the obvious importance of the incident, Sweden's Radio P4 downplayed the incident and omitted information about the case. The Swedish Church Communications Officer PO Sjödin, in interview with the Public Service channel, did not want to indicate which church suffered or what message was sprayed. Sjödin said that within the church, an active decision had been made not to comment and instead chose to "lie low."
The Church tried, at first, to not comment or mention the case at all. Only after pressure from locals, the Church of Sweden and the radio decided, to report about the incident.
Researcher Tino Sanandaji (Stockholm’s Institute for Economic and Business History Research) commented on the current development: "Exposing negative statistics about immigration sparked angry accusations of bigotry. Establishment voices shied away from the topic for fear of being accused as racist. Opposition to immigration became off-limits within all establishment parties, and Swedish policy gradually moved toward open borders."
The Observatory reported already earlier this year about a similar incident in Skellefteå, where also "Jihad" was sprayed on a Church.
Source: Conservative Woman, Samhällsnytt, Folkbladet Västerbotten, SR 4