Published 23 January 2023 at 16.40
Domestic. Sweden Democrats party leader Jimmie Åkesson is now harshly targeting criticism of Ulf Kristersson's statement about the Koran burning that took place in Stockholm last Saturday.
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“Burning books that are sacred to many is a deeply disrespectful act. I want to express my sympathy to all Muslims who are offended by what has happened in Stockholm today.”
So wrote Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) in a statement on Twitter after Rasmus Paludan's Koran burning outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm last Saturday.
The wording makes SD leader Jimmie Åkesson see red. On Facebook, he calls the outcome “very, very worrying”.
“Extremely dangerous”
It is an “extremely dangerous way to go” to begin to “understand” and “feel sorry for” the forces in Sweden who, with reference to religious dogmas, want to abolish our freedom of speech, continues Åkesson.
According to Jimmie Åkesson, there is a limit to how a government should express itself, “not at least because Sweden has a domestic Islamist threat that cannot be underestimated”.
“I will raise this move with the prime minister and announce how I and the Sweden Democrats view this type of surrender towards Islamist forces, in and outside of Sweden,” he continues.
“The Sweden Democrats will never contribute to compromising the foundation stones of our Swedish democracy because people who have chosen to move here feel violated,” concludes the SD leader.
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