(Local) An EU-funded report from a Turkish thinktank has caused outrage in Denmark after it accused the country of widespread Islamophobia, with “exclusionary” political campaigns, and “a normalisation of everyday discrimination of Muslims.”
The “European Islamophobia Report 2018” was put together by … Turkey’s Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (Seta), with funding from the European Union.
It cites a law on daycare, the burqa ban, and Denmark’s anti-ghetto legislation as “discriminatory laws” which have come about as a result of “widespread rhetoric on the supposed incompatibility of Islam to ‘Danishness.'”
Denmark’s Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod told the Jyllands-Posten newspaper that he [is] “really angry” about the report.
