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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSwedish far-right leader: Jews must abandon religious identity to be Swedes
Jewish community leader condemns remarks by Sweden Democrats politician as good old rightwing antisemitismBjörn 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 Swedens 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
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Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)1. And that is why Sweden is a fucking cesspool !!!
Fuck him
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)5. A cesspool with one of the highest living standards in the world...
I can think of few countries the term is less sanely applicable to.
What a jerk. He gets no candy for Chanukah!
brooklynite
(93,873 posts)3. So they need to become socialist atheists?
frazzled
(18,402 posts)6. 66% of Swedes are Lutherans (Church of Sweden)
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.
Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)4. Half my relatives have left...
every other Jew should get the hell out of there.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)7. Yep. n/t
Behind the Aegis
(53,833 posts)8. This is happening all over Europe.
It is eerily familiar. Where have I seen this before?
"It's all just a little bit of history repeating..."
Rhinodawg
(2,219 posts)9. ^^^^^ This