Reply #64: And right on cue: Sweden's far-right wants Islamist debate after blasts

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Sweden Democrats propose debate in parliament in near future about violence-prone Islamic extremism.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=43031

The far-right Sweden Democrats on Tuesday demanded a debate in parliament on Islamic extremism following the weekend's twin blasts in Stockholm that probably aimed to wreak carnage among Christmas shoppers.

"The Sweden Democrats demand a current debate in parliament about violence-prone Islamic extremism," said the party, which won its first parliamentary seats in September.

"The party proposes that the debate, due to large public interest, be held as soon as possible," it added in a statement.

"There is today a large public interest in a debate around these questions. People want to know how we as politicians look at Islamic extremism and what the preventive work looks like," Jimmy Aakesson, the head of the far-right, anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, said in the statement.