Immigrants want to ban criticism of religion in Denmark Descendants of immigrants are more eager to protect religion than their parents

October 16, 2019   

(Copenhagen Post) According to a new report from the Immigration and Integration Ministry, half of the descendants of non-western immigrants in Denmark want to do away with the freedom to criticise religion.

Interestingly, the report (here in Danish) found that descendants of non-western immigrants seemed to be more eager to defend religion than immigrants in Denmark.

Some 48 percent of descendants agreed that it should be illegal to criticise religion, compared to 42 percent of immigrants who had been in Denmark for at least three years. For ethnic Danes, the figure was at 20 percent.

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