"If two equally qualified persons apply for a job at a workplace with few immigrants, the one called Mohammed should get the job."

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Source : Interview with the Swedish newspaper Göteborgs-Posten, October 22, 2000.

Mona Sahlin

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“Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct. We don't know why. Some by wanton extinction, some through natural catastrophe, some destroyed by meteorites and asteroids. In the light of these mass extinctions it really does seem unreasonable to suppose that Homo sapiens should be exempt. Our species will have been one of the shortest-lived of all, a mere blink, you may say, in the eye of time.”
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