Via SN:

A recent investigation by Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter has found that the Assyrian community in the city of Gothenburg, southwestern Sweden is being threatened by ISIL-inspired messages to “convert [to Islam] or die.”

On Tuesday, when Swedish Assyrian Markus Samuelsson arrived at his restaurant in southwest Gothenburg, he found the walls outside covered in graffiti featuring fundamentalist Islamist messages of “Convert or Die” and “The Caliphate is Here.”

The graffiti also featured the letter ‘N’ for ‘Nazarene’, known to have been written by ISIL terrorists on the doors of Christian families in Mosul prior to the Islamic State’s capture of the city last year.

According to DN, this is the second case in a matter of days when ISIL symbology has been found spray-painted on local businesses owned by Swedish Assyrians. […]

The Samuelsson brothers own several restaurants in the southwestern Swedish city of Gothenburg, a city of over half a million which about three thousand people of Assyrian background call home.

Samuelsson found the spray-painted warnings at his bakery. According to DN, despite the fact that the square in which the bakery is located has several other restaurants, only businesses owned by Assyrians were targeted. This was the second time in a week that an Assyrian-owned pizzeria has faced this type of vandalism.

“The messages said, among other things, that ‘the Caliphate is here’ and ‘convert or die’. I felt ill; this is terribly unpleasant and threatening,” the restaurant owner emphasized.

HT: Zaid Benjamin