Carl P. Herslow (born 14 November 1943) is a
Swedish
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politician and leader of the
Scania Party
Skånepartiet ("the Scania party") is a separatist, right-wing populist, republican, anti-immigration political party in the Swedish province of Scania, established in 1979. The founder and leader of the party was Carl P. Herslow.
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He is supporter of the separation of
Scania from Sweden and the creation of an independent republic.
Mohammed poster controversy
In 2010 the Scania Party produced a poster depicting a naked
Muhammed with a naked
Aisha
Aisha ( ar, , translit=ʿĀʾisha bint Abī Bakr; , also , ; ) was Muhammad's third and youngest wife. In Islamic writings, her name is thus often prefixed by the title "Mother of the Believers" ( ar, links=no, , ʾumm al-mu'min, muʾminīn), ...
holding a doll, and the slogan "''He is 53 and she is nine. Is this the kind of wedding we want to see in Skåne?''".
20 copies of the poster were display and then seized by authorities.
In March 2011 Herslow was tried for agitation against an ethnic group.
A jury found him not guilty, and he was formally acquitted on 16 March 2011.
In 2013, Carl Herslow's house was raided by the police, and he was brought to trial and sentenced to a fine for copyright infringement. In his anti-Islamic book ''Om islam - till all världens 9-åringar'' , he used the information of another author without reference to the original source.
Despite the weakening of the positions of his party, Carl Herslow remains convinced that Scania will become independent. He goes out on pickets, makes public statements, participates in party events.
References
External links
Website of the Scania Party
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Swedish politicians
Living people
1943 births
Swedish critics of Islam
People from Scania
Far-right politics in Sweden