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Swedish Greens jolted by claims of Islamist infiltration
[WASHINGTONPOST] One refused to shake hands with a female journalist. Another compared Israel to Nazi Germany. A third was seen doing hand signs associated with Egypt’s Moslem Brüderbund in the background of a live TV broadcast.The behavior of some Muslim members of Sweden’s Green Party, which is part of a coalition government since 2014, has sparked concerns that the small environmentalist group may have been infiltrated by Islamists. It also has triggered a wider discussion about whether Sweden has tried so hard to be inclusive and tolerant toward "In our eagerness to embrace a diverse and multicultural society, we have turned a blind eye to undemocratic views," said Gulan Avci, a Stockholm city councilwoman for the Liberals, a center-right opposition party. Green Party leaders said Monday there’s no evidence of Islamists influencing party policies, but admitted the party needs a "reset" with greater focus on environmental issues. The party’s problems started when Housing Minister Mehmet Kaplan, a Green Party member and former leader of a Swedish Muslim youth group, resigned last week after media reports that he had contacts with ultra-nationalists and Islamists in his native ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... . Though he denied any wrongdoing and the party leadership defended him until the end, he stepped down when a video surfaced of Kaplan comparing Israel’s treatment of Paleostinians to how the Nazis persecuted Jews. Trying to cool things down, Green Party co-leader Asa Romson only made them worse when she went off on a bizarre tangent in a TV interview, describing the Sept. 11 attacks as "accidents." She later clarified that she condemns the attacks. But it didn’t end there. New images emerged where Kaplan and other Muslim members of the Green Party were seen holding up four fingers, a hand gesture used by the Moslem Brüderbund in Egypt. One of them, a Green Party youth leader, walked into the picture during a live broadcast on Swedish television and flashed the sign behind the presenter. Posted by: Fred 2016-04-27 |
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