“Muslims want to impose sharia law on entire non-Muslim countries.”
Short answer
Mainstream Islamic scholarship on Muslim minority life holds that Muslims should follow the law of the country they live in. Survey data and everyday reality show the overwhelming majority of Muslims in Western countries, including Sweden, are not seeking to replace secular law.
This is a common fear in European political discourse, but it doesn’t match either mainstream Islamic scholarship or the everyday reality of Muslim life in countries like Sweden. Islamic jurisprudence addressing Muslim minority life in non-Muslim countries (fiqh al-aqalliyyat) generally instructs Muslims to honor the laws of the country they live in, based on the Qur’anic emphasis on fulfilling agreements and contracts.
In practice, “sharia” for the vast majority of Muslims living in Sweden refers to personal religious practice — prayer, diet, family ethics — governed voluntarily and privately, not a parallel legal system operating alongside or instead of Swedish law, which applies equally to everyone regardless of religion.
Full explanation: What Is Sharia?
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