On the face of it, Amineh Kakabaveh is an unlikely Right-wing Islamophobe. As an Iranian Kurdish girl, Amineh fought for the rebel Peshmerga group, a Kalashnikov slung across one shoulder. She was sentenced to death before seeking asylum in Sweden in 1992.

Illiterate when she arrived in the country, six years later Amineh studied social work at university and, after joining the formerly-Communist Left party, became an MP in 2008. The perfect immigrant success story you might think but, ironically, it is immigration which has seen Kakabevah become a hate figure who needs protection from the Swedish security services.

Amineh Kakabaveh’s crime was to challenge the liberal orthodoxy on immigration. Sweden may consider itself a humanitarian superpower but, as the 47-year-old MP pointed out, the country’s “naïve” handling of the 400,000 asylum seekers taken in since 2012, has actually opened the door to the far Right.

“Sweden has been having integration problems for 20 years,” Kakabaveh said just days before the recent election. “This is why the Sweden Democrats (SD), a racist party, has been [poised to become] the second biggest party. This multicultural society has been poorly constructed over the past two decades, and that has led to a separation of communities.”