Operation Epic Fury did not strike only Tehran with its murderous mullahs. Across Europe, governments are currently convening in emergency meetings, and speechwriters are weighing every word on a gold scale. How we act in the days to come may determine whether the European nations are cast into a chaos of terrorist acts and civil war or take a further step towards total submission to Islam.

For several decades, Europe has invested wholeheartedly in multiculturalism and mass immigration in combination with an intense struggle against “Islamophobia” and failed demands for integration. One of the consequences of this policy is that an unknown, yet significant, portion of Western European countries today consists of Muslims, who demand ever greater influence the more numerous they become.

An unknown proportion of the countries’ Muslims are also radical Islamists; Sweden, for example, was one of the nations that supplied the highest number of IS terrorists to the perverse caliphate. We have already witnessed a number of religiously motivated terrorist acts in our countries. Iran has long been a principal sponsor of the growing mosques whose imams defend child marriage, wife abuse and honour killings, while proclaiming death both to the democratic society and to the infidels who welcomed them.

Whether consciously or not, our politicians have created an ideological minefield for themselves which they must now attempt to navigate without they themselves and the nations they govern being blown to pieces.

It is for this reason that our Prime Ministers are now treading around like cats around hot porridge.

The confirmation that the dictator Khamenei is dead, a man who has oppressed Iranians since 1989 and who has ordered the slaughter of tens of thousands of demonstrators in recent months alone, ought to cause any politician with even a trace of democratic disposition to dance the jenka through the party offices, wearing MAGA caps. But no.

While France, Germany and the United Kingdom hint that they may participate in attacks on Iranian territory, our leaders speak of the danger of escalation. Jonas Gahr Støre’s official statement reads:

“The situation in the Middle East is extremely serious and deeply concerning. I am deeply concerned that further escalation may lead to a full-scale war in the region”, and “Norway urges all parties to exercise restraint and to resume diplomatic talks as soon as possible in order to find a solution to the conflict.”

Ulf Kristersson wrote in a post on X:

“We stand behind the brave Iranian people. Their rights must be respected.”

How is this to be interpreted? Is it the rights of Iranians who are critical of the government that are to be respected (and, hopefully, defended), or is it wrong to bomb the mullahs’ Tehran (in which case it was also wrong to bomb the Nazis’ Berlin)?

The Foreign Ministers in both countries, Maria Malmer Stenergard and Espen Barth Eide, emphasise in their statements that the American attack is in breach of international law.

Note that neither Gahr Støre, Barth Eide, Kristersson nor Malmer Stenergard gives direct support to the United States. We have no idea what they truly mean, but they are reluctant to celebrate.

The reason is simple: Sweden and Norway must choose between plague and cholera.

Official support for Trump risks becoming the spark of a civil war when those who support the Iranian regime are given a reason to initiate a violent attack on everything and everyone who supports “the Great Satan” (the United States) and “the Little Satan” (Israel). The so-called “Easter riots” in 2022, in which entire families went out to throw stones at Swedish police officers, would seem like a pleasant Sunday picnic by comparison.

Our politicians know that both the capacity for violence and the hatred are there. The only thing lacking is a pretext, and no one wishes to contribute to this.

The only problem is that even the politicians’ silence and babbling about “breaches of international law” have negative consequences. Islam is extremely sensitive to signals, and in the same way as support for Trump may be the starting point for violent riots, the absence of such support may be perceived as submission to Islam.

European politicians therefore face an impossible choice: Either we risk that radical and violent Islamists start riots, or we risk that radical and violent Islamists consider the victory won when Sweden and Norway are quietly integrated into the Islamic ummah.

We are, to use a particularly apt American expression, caught between a rock and a hard place – and nowhere was this more evident than in Gothenburg on Sunday, where thousands of exiled Iranians at Götaplatsen celebrated the ayatollah’s death, while regime loyalists a few blocks away gathered to mourn their “beloved leader”.

All the conditions for conflict are present, and regardless of how our politicians choose to act, there will be negative consequences. Violence or oppression? Plague or cholera?

Trump’s attack to liberate the Iranian people from the turban tyrants exposes the multicultural complex our nations have cultivated over several decades. What will our politicians choose? Which path must we take? Only time will tell.

Only one thing is certain: In this process, it is impossible to remain neutral.