On Friday, Expressen reported that El-Haj tried to influence an individual asylum case about an Egyptian imam who continuously preaches in the Scandinavian Wakf mosque in Malmö. On social media, the imam is said to have shared posts from the Islamist movement Muslim Brotherhood.
Later on Friday, Niklas Karlsson, chairman of the Social Democrats’ Skåne district, announced that during the day the party had called on Jamal El-Haj to leave the Riksdag.
He has also received criticism from the party for taking part in the Palestinian conference EPC in Malmö against the will of the party last May.
– Confidence is given and taken from the party district. But my leadership philosophy is simple. Everyone can make bad decisions, but not on repeated occasions, says Social Democrats party leader Magdalena Andersson to TT.
She also repeats that she assumes that Jamal El-Haj follows the party district’s call to leave his parliamentary seat.
As for her view of El-Haj, and whether he harmed the party, the answer is clear:
– It has damaged the party.
TT captured the social democratic party leader on the way to TV4 Nyhetsmorgon’s debate on Saturday morning. The debate includes, among others, the Sweden Democrats’ Jimmie Åkesson, who attacked Andersson in a tweet on Friday evening.
“I will be clear. You and your party cannot escape the fact that you are an active part of the Islamist movement in Sweden. Jamal El-Haj is not the first and unfortunately far from the last social democrat with clear connections to Islamism,” wrote the SD leader, among other things.
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