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I am also an expert on racism .

If I’m still alive, my forthcoming postings about immigrants, race-ism etc. are going to be quite different from what anyone would normally be expecting.

For me there is no country in the world like our wonderful Sweden ( it’s love) and apart from ISRAEL, I would not prefer to live and die anywhere else (not the UK, Holland, Germany, Nigeria, Ghana, Egypt – or any other country in Africa, the US, India,or any other place, I’ve lived, apart from the Holy Land

The reason for postponing any discussion of immigrants, immigration, race or race-ism is that I would not like my own in-sights on such questions to in any way impact, even marginally, on issues connected with the Sverige Demokraterna /Sweden Democrats (Party) or cause special attention to be turned on the Sweden Democrats prior to the elections or to make such questions an election issue for that party, since they have been – in my opinion, erroneously identified/ associated with

Racism

Islamophobia

xenophobia

without being accorded a place in the party leader debates to explain or defend and represent  their positions on these issues, to the Swedish electorate. That’s not democratic.

I do not think

that Jimmie Åkesson is a little Le Pen, or a BNP in the making, or a Geert Wilders

or any of that.

I do think that

Jimmie Åkesson does say some very reasonable things about which we all would normally agree, chief of which is some of the issues around regulating/controlling immigration – which even immigrants realize, must be controlled – it cannot be allowed to roll on forever, uncontrolled. His

ideas about Swedish Foreign Aid may be controversial, but not absolutely crazy and there’s no reason why they should be silenced. Åkessonn could on those grounds have a reasonable discussion with Gunilla Carlsson or any of the former SIDA bosses, or have party leaders engage his arguments/ opinions constructively and very ultimately leave it up to the people the to decide.

I also think that in the name of Democracy and of freedom of speech and all the great ideas around that – including the extension of such a courtesy to the arch rascal Lars Vilks, in the name of poetic/ artistic license, the same courtesy could also be extended to the Sweden Democrats, in the name of political plurality, so that they too are given at least a little space in the party leader debates. Honest discussion should not prejudice the outcome of the Swedish elections. In the meantime, its also being rumoured that the Green people could easily go into an alliance with THE ALLIANCE

The election is only 33 days away. Time will tell.

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