Sweden Democrats leader says ‘fundamentalist Muslims’ cannot be Swedes

(Local) Speaking in an interview, Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson said he does not believe that you can be a “fully practicing Muslim” and at the same time a fully integrated Swede.

Speaking to Göteborgs-Posten (GP) the Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson supported recent comments made by his party colleague Richard Jomshof that there is an “Islamisation of Sweden,” and stated that more “literal-minded” Muslims [cannot] be considered fully integrated Swedes.

“It is clear that when the Muslim minority grows quite rapidly, as it has done in recent decades, it affects society in some way,” Jimmie Åkesson told GP, arguing that it leads to increased division and brings with it values “that we have more or less eradicated in this country.”

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