Kristersson: We don't demolish places of worship here
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) has commented on SD leader Jimmie Åkesson's plan to demolish mosques that spread "anti-democratic propaganda".
The constitutionally protected freedom of religion is equal for everyone – Christians, Muslims, Jews and other believers, writes the Prime Minister in an email to Omni via his press office.
"In Sweden, we don't demolish places of worship."
Society must fight back against violent extremism, but it must take place within the framework of the democratic rule of law, Kristersson continues.
Anyone who incites religious groups damages Sweden and Swedish interests abroad, he adds.
It was in his speech during SD's country days that Åkesson suggested that mosques that contribute to Islamist radicalization be demolished, and a stop to new mosques in Sweden.
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Analysis: Åkesson's rhetoric reached a whole new level
Today's harsh outburst from Jimmie Åkesson against the Social Democrats should be seen against the background of SD scaring away voters, including well-educated women, from the Tidö parties, writes DN's Tomas Ramberg in an analysis.
When Jimmie Åkesson says that S is "an active part of the Islamist movement in Sweden" the aim is to "set the debate to zero".
If you can establish the image that there are racists within both political blocs, then "the SD factor is neutralized and everyone becomes equally good cabbage soupers", according to Ramberg.
Åkesson's speech in which he accused Magdalena Andersson of not distancing herself from anti-Semitism and Islamism is a "furious attack", according to Ekot's domestic policy commentator Helena Gissén.
- Those who plead for a lower tone in the Swedish debate have nothing to gain from Åkesson, she says.
Åkesson's Islam-critical rhetoric reached a whole new level and will be seen as an attack on religious freedom - and that may be the intention, writes TV4's Ann Tiberg.
"Because when the party now gets through proposals that were previously considered far-reaching, there is a need for new, more radical ones that can maintain the Sweden Democrats' position as the opposite pole to the old established parties in power."
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