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The embattled Social Democrat Omar Mustafa has spoken out about anti-Semitism claims laid at his door after he was elected to the governing board of the opposition party.
Omar Mustafa was chosen to sit on the governing board of the left-of-centre opposition party at last weekend's party congress. He is also chairman of the Islamic Association (Islamska förbundet) in Sweden, a group which has invited speakers to Sweden with known anti-Semitic views.
"I think those kinds of people should not be invited unless they have strongly distanced themselves from earlier hateful comments," Mustafa wrote on Friday in an open letter to the tabloid Aftonbladet in which he also said he understood the criticism of his acts.