(Stockholm) Martin Strid has quit the Sweden Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna, SD) after saying that Muslims were "not completely human" during a conference.
Strid, a local politician from the town of Borlänge, told
the audience at the party's national conference in Norrköping that there is a
"scale of 1 to 100".
"On one end of the scale you are 100 percent human, a person, everything that’s part of that concept. At the other end, you are 100 percent Mohammedan, all Muslims are somewhere on that scale" and of Isis are close to being 100 percent Mohammedan . if you are an ex-Muslim you have come quite far towards being fully human,"
The speech which was recorded by broadcaster SVT, reported Strid
to police for the hate speech. He has since resigned, and the SD party is currently undergoing damage limitation
"Everyone has fundamental human worth, the same for everyone. If you think that someone has a worse value based on a certain skin colour or the community they are part of, that is racism for me. We will not accept that,"
