‘Sweden Has Been Attacked’

‘Sweden Has Been Attacked’

Emergency services work at the scene where a truck crashed into the Ahlens department store at Drottninggatan in central Stockholm, April 7, 2017.

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Terrorism continues to spread throughout Europe

By Josué Michels • April 7

“Everything indicates an act of terror,” Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven said after a hijacked truck drove into a crowd in one of Stockholm’s shopping streets. Four have been confirmed killed, and several have been injured. The series of terrorist attacks in Europe continues.

Panic broke out as the truck crashed into a crowd of shoppers in the Swedish capital, Stockholm. Still in shock, one of the eyewitnesses said: “There was blood everywhere, there were bodies on the ground everywhere.” The police secured the Rosenberg complex, where the Swedish government is located, as well as the parliament building and the royal palace. Eyewitnesses reported about hearing shots at one of the department stores, and people in the building were evacuated. Subway traffic was interrupted, and people were warned to not enter the inner city.

Such fearful news has become a common in Europe today. The attack follows a series of similar attacks that hit Berlin, Germany, and Nice, France, where a terrorist driving a truck killed 84 people. The similarities between the attacks are also not a coincidence. In September 2014, isis propagandist Abu Muhammad al-Adnani demanded the death of “disbelievers” in Western countries because of their participation in the fight against isis. Among the promoted options to execute the judgment were running pedestrians over with vehicles.

Since the refugee crisis, Sweden has welcomed thousands of refugees. In 2015 alone, the country received nearly 163,000 asylum applications. The numbers have been increasing to the point that they became a major problem for the Swedish government. Swedish parliament has tightened asylum laws to relieve the country.

Though Sweden was hit by this major influx of refugees in the last two years, it appeared to manage immigration pretty well. Some even present it as an example of successful large-scale immigration, an argument that United States President Trump challenged. He tweeted in February: “Give the public a break - The FAKE NEWS media is trying to say that large scale immigration in Sweden is working out just beautifully. NOT!”

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/833681539997253636?lang=en

The latest terror attack adds to criticism against so-called successful mass immigration. Europe starts to learn its lessons and in turn toughens its stands on immigration. But the problem cannot be solved within Europe alone; the root cause of the refugee crises needs to be addressed if Europe ever wants to live free of terrorism. This will lead to what Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry called “The Whirlwind Prophecy.”