Damian Thompson Damian Thompson

Swedish nationalists plan a gay pride march through a Muslim area, hoping for trouble

I haven’t seen this reported in the press anywhere, but in Sweden the right-wing nationalist Sweden Democrats are staging a gay pride march featuring men kissing each other. Why?

Simple: the July 29 march will pass through areas of northern Stockholm where Muslims make up a majority of the population – 75 per cent, according to some accounts. So there will be trouble.

Which is the whole point of the exercise. The Sweden Democrats won 13 per cent of the vote in the 2014 general election and have 49 per seats in parliament on an anti-Muslim manifesto. The Guardian calls them ‘far-Right’, though the party claims to have moved away from its fascist roots. The SD are still opponents of the ‘homosex lobby’ but have now decided gay rights are threatened by Swedish Muslims.

That happens to be true. This is from the

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