(Local) A Sweden Democrat politician from Kramfors, on Sweden’s northern Baltic coast, is facing possible expulsion after proposing that his municipality build a mosque to draw more immigrants to the city.
Mark Collins, 63, who represents the normally anti-immigration party on Kramfors municipal council, said he believed attracting enterprising immigrants was the only way to stop his city’s decline.
“My idea is that if you have a mosque and a cultural centre, then you empower the Muslims to be responsible for our town and the area up here,” [he] told the Local. “Hopefully we will get a lot of them to come up and stay.”
The city, he said, was losing 100 people a year, whereas Västernorrland as a whole was losing as many as 500 citizens a year.
