Europe will become a Muslim continent, says Khamenei's spokesman

Adnkronos International report that Rasul Jalilzadeh, a representative of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, said that "In a dozen years, Europe will be an Islamic continent". He also said "The Islamisation of the European continent is imminent and this step favours the arrival of the Mahdi," referring to the 12th imam of Shiite Islam.

Shiites believe that the Imam Mahdi, who disppeared as an adolescent, will return to bring an end to chaos and bring universal justice.

Rasul Jalilzadeh believes that "the Islamisation of Europe is one of the consequences of the Islamic revolution in Iran" in that "the messages and values that this revolution has transmitted to the Europeans, to convince them "to abandon their current faiths and convert to Shiite Islam."