STOCKHOLM – A Swedish politician has been forced to step down after he said in a TV debate that Muslims were “not fully human,” the Swedish edition of The Local reported.

“On one end you are 100 per cent human, a person, everything that’s part of that concept. At the other end, you are 100 per cent Mohammedan,” Martin Strid, a member of the right-wing Sweden Democrats, said in a live TV debate.

The controversial remarks came when he ranked Muslims on a scale of “0 to 100” while speaking at a party national conference.

Strid tried to explain himself by saying ISIS members were “close to being 100 per cent Mohammedan” but added that “all Muslims are somewhere on that scale.”

The local politician from the town of Borlänge added: “If you are an ex-Muslim you have come quite far towards being fully human.”

The comments sparked huge condemnations, including his party members who said they were “racist.”

“Everyone has fundamental human worth, the same for everyone,” the party’s secretary Richard Jomshof said in a statement.

“If you think that someone has a worse value based on a certain skin color or the community they are part of, that is racism for me. We will not accept that,” he added.

Strid later apologized for his statement after a barrage of criticism and quitted the party a few hours later.

“It was very unfortunate, I expressed myself very clumsy,” he told news site TT.

Sweden is set to go the polls in a general election scheduled for September next year, with Sweden Democrats recently becoming the most popular party in the country, according to one poll.