Cold facts were recently able to reveal that SD’s Mattias Karlsson co-wrote a manifesto which states, among other things, that a power elite wants to replace Western culture with radical Islamism. – It is an internal working document that is not finished, so I do not understand why it is interesting that I should think something, says Jimmie Åkesson, party leader for SD. The document that Mattias Karlsson and the Fundraising Foundation for Swedish Conservatism (ISK) created to try to raise money contains claims such as that Christian songs have been banned in Swedish schools and that there is a power elite that is deliberately working to eliminate Western culture. The experts that Kalla fakta spoke to call it conspiracy theories that are also linked to extreme right-wing violence. The foundation was supported by SD Cold facts can show that ISK, which is behind the manifesto, has had a number of expenses paid by the Sweden Democrats and has also been given an office in the party’s premises free of charge. When Sweden Democrats party leader Jimmie Åkesson receives questions about the document, he dismisses it as an insignificant and unfinished working document. – That a person in a work with a text expresses a certain opinion is nothing that neither I know, nor my party, or even everyone who is involved in that discussion has to take responsibility for. Returning information about the authors Åkesson further says that it is not a group within SD that wrote the entire manifesto. According to the information obtained by Kalla fakta, it is Mattias Karlsson and Andreas Palmlöv from SD who discussed the design of the text. – Now it is that I have seen the interview with Mattias Karlsson, which is one of the biggest journalistic failures I have seen in a very long time, and there he expresses that it is not so, says Åkesson. Mattias Karlsson has previously replied that it was an external consultant who was involved in designing the text. Watch part of the interview with Jimmie Åkesson in the clip above.
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