Swedish Democrat: ban Islam

A Swedish politician has said that Islam and its followers should be banned in the Scandinavian country. The comments came at the weekend via Pär Norling, the figure head of the Bollnäs Sweden Democrats (SD) group. He said during an interview with Sveriges Television (SVT) on Saturday, "Ban Islam in Sweden and deport those who persist in believing in the religion.”

Norling’s controversial statement comes amid rising tension between Muslims in Sweden following a controversial rape case in Bollnäs on 16 July, which prompted a subsequent demonstration by a national neo-Nazi group the Swedish Resistance Movement (Svenska Motstandsrörelsen) later in the summer.

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