Swedish far-right leader: Islamism 'threat' greater than Nazism: SD leader
Acting Sweden Democrat leader Mattias Karlsson has said Islamism is "a greater threat than Nazism", sparking a strong response from Jewish and Muslim communities as the world marks 70 years since the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. The Sweden Democrats have roots in neo-Nazi movements of the 1980s and 1990s but have sought to distance themselves from their background and to establish themselves as a mainstream political party.
The anti-immigration group is currently the third largest group in Sweden's Riksdag, scoring almost 13 percent of the vote in the last general election. "If you look at what is happening in the world right now, you cannot hide the fact that Islamism is a major threat to human rights and democracy throughout the world," added Karlsson in his SVT interview.
His comments have provoked outrage among Jews in Sweden, who are marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi extermination camps in occupied Poland.
Lena Posner-Körösi, chairwoman of the Jewish community in Stockholm, whose father emigrated to Sweden from Germany in 1939 told The Local: "As we make this commemoration, we want people to recognize evil in the world and to know that this can happen to any group, not just Jews. For him [Mattias Karlsson] to talk about the threat of Islam as he has done is very dangerous and shows he hasn't learnt anything. And yes, he is from a group with a Nazi past."
http://www.thelocal.se/20150127/sweden-democrat-compares-islam-threat-to-nazism
The Swedish far-right seems to think that it is more politically acceptable to hate Muslims than Jews. The far-right hate ("us" ethnic Swedes vs. "them" non-Swedes) continues , just in a different form.
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