It's unfortunate that this is what it takes." "When finally there's been a terror attack on Swedish soil, then maybe people will understand. "What I mean is that people's attitudes about what Islam is and stands for are naive," Ekeroth told The Associated Press. The attack should serve as an "awakening" for Swedes, party lawmaker Kent Ekeroth wrote on his blog.
She later apologized, saying the wording was unfortunate.
"Is this the time when you're allowed to say: 'I told you so'? finally," said another tweet from party leader Jimmie Akesson's secretary, Alexandra Brunell. Hours after the bombing, Sweden Democrats lawmaker William Petzall wrote "I hate to say it, but we told you so," on his Twitter account. Still, criticism of the immigration policy was rare until the Sweden Democrats broke through onto the national stage this year, winning nearly 6 percent of votes in the Sept. Surrounded by countrymen and other immigrants, many in those neighborhoods struggle to learn the Swedish language and to enter the job market.Ī survey of 9,000 people by the SOM institute at Goteborg University earlier this year showed more than one-third of Swedes believe the country has admitted too many immigrants. Immigrants are clustered in suburbs of the big cities where few ethnic Swedes ever set foot. No Western country admitted more Iraqi refugees amid the bloodshed following the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. Tens of thousands of people from the Middle East, Somalia and the Balkans have fled to Sweden in the past two decades.
Anti-Muslim bloggers said the bombing came as no surprise, heaping blame on Sweden's generous immigration policy.
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