Comment does not reflect party policy
Bjarni Benediktsson, Minister of Finance and chairman of the Independence Party. mbl.is/Ómar Óskarsson
Conservative member of parliament, who last weekend called for background checks for all Muslims in Iceland to see if they had any connections with terrorists, went too far ahead of himself according to Bjarni Benediktsson, Minister of Finance and chairman of the conservative Independence Party.
Benediktsson said to the state broadcaster RÚV that the ideas presented by the MP, Ásmundur Friðriksson, did not reflect the policy of the Independence Party. „First of all there is absolutely no reason to launch such an investigation to my opinion. Secondly we are a society that is founded on the rule of law which does not allow anything of that sort and I believe that Friðriksson went too far ahead of himself. This certainly does not reflect our view that we should build our society on fundamental human rights which these ideas contradict.“
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