he is prepared to welcome all political stripes into his new party – from the radical left and Islamic extremists to neo-Nazis and right-wing extremists – as long as they subscribe to the party’s core principles.

“We’re going to focus not on Islamic questions, but solely on anti-Zionism in order to reach out to as many as possible,” Omar told the Sveriges Radio (SR) documentary programme

This sounds like the “anti-jihadosphere”. A nutty collection of Christians, apostates, militant atheists and Zionists – that if they were not waging war on a common enemy, would otherwise tear each other apart. Bad strategy Omar, to gather people under a banner of anger and fear.

I’m surprised at how quickly a person can become radicalised. And how quickly they can become the mirror image of everything they once hated.