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pampango

(24,692 posts)
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 04:14 PM Dec 2014

Swedish far-right leader: Jews must abandon religious identity to be Swedes

Jewish community leader condemns remarks by Sweden Democrats politician as ‘good old rightwing antisemitism’


Björn Söder said Jews could become Swedish citizens but could not be Swedish unless they were assimilated.

Official Sweden and social media have been in uproar after Björn Söder, secretary of the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats and deputy speaker in parliament, said Jews could become Swedish citizens but could not be Swedish unless they were assimilated.

Posner Körösi said the remarks showed “the mask is slipping” from the face of Sweden Democrats to reveal the essence of what they stand for.

“I am appalled that Sweden’s third largest party can express itself in this way about Jews and other minorities,” she said. “We have to take them really seriously. This not a small group of fanatics you can dismiss.”

Söder had said in a newspaper interview it would be a problem if there were too many people in Sweden “who belong to other nations” and had non-Swedish identities. Paying immigrants to go home would also help to avoid “foreign enclaves” and instead “create a society with a common identity”, he said.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/17/swedish-far-right-leader-jews-swedes

And the anti-immigrant right wing reveals some old-fashioned truth about their attitudes.
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Swedish far-right leader: Jews must abandon religious identity to be Swedes (Original Post) pampango Dec 2014 OP
And that is why Sweden is a fucking cesspool !!! Rhinodawg Dec 2014 #1
A cesspool with one of the highest living standards in the world... Donald Ian Rankin Dec 2014 #5
Boo shenmue Dec 2014 #2
So they need to become socialist atheists? brooklynite Dec 2014 #3
66% of Swedes are Lutherans (Church of Sweden) frazzled Dec 2014 #6
Half my relatives have left... Rhinodawg Dec 2014 #4
Yep. n/t COLGATE4 Dec 2014 #7
This is happening all over Europe. Behind the Aegis Dec 2014 #8
^^^^^ This Rhinodawg Dec 2014 #9

Donald Ian Rankin

(13,598 posts)
5. A cesspool with one of the highest living standards in the world...
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 05:39 PM
Dec 2014

I can think of few countries the term is less sanely applicable to.

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
6. 66% of Swedes are Lutherans (Church of Sweden)
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 06:35 PM
Dec 2014

And most others are other Christian denominations: Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Pentecostal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Sweden

86% of the population is of a Christian denomination (http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/profiles/Sweden/Religion)

There are also Buddhists, Jews, Muslims, etc. And yes, atheists.

But not everyone in Sweden is an atheist (by far), and apparently, if this guy is an example, not all are "socialists" either.

Behind the Aegis

(53,833 posts)
8. This is happening all over Europe.
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 01:23 AM
Dec 2014

It is eerily familiar. Where have I seen this before?

"It's all just a little bit of history repeating..."

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