Sweden Democrat leader reported for 'hate speech'

by Paul O'Mahony
The Local
October 20, 2009

https://www.legal-project.org/531/sweden-democrat-leader-reported-for-hate-speech

Excerpt:

An opinion piece by Sweden Democrat leader Jimmie Åkesson in which he labels Muslims a major threat has been reported to Sweden's highest legal official by the Centre Against Racism (Centrum Mot Rasism).

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The anti-racism organization called on the Chancellor of Justice (Justitiekanslern- JK) to examine whether claims made by the head of the far-right party were tantamount to agitation against an ethnic group (hets mot folkgrup).

Åkesson's article, published in Aftonbladet on Monday, has provoked a furious reaction following the Sweden Democrat chief's assertion that the spread of Islam represents the country's "greatest external threat since World War II".

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