Center for Danish Muslim Relations (CEDAR)

Government & Politics

Denmark: Plan to further limit ‘non-Western’ residents draws ire The government has proposed further reducing the number of ‘non-Western’ residents in certain areas in a bid to eradicate what it calls ‘ghettos.’

April 2, 2021   

(Al-Jazeera) When Ahmad Salamoun received an eviction notice at the home he has lived in for more than 30 years, in Helsingør, painful memories flooded back to him. Salamoun arrived in the Danish city, known as the setting to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, in […]

Clerics & Preachers

Danish minister’s comment on sex before marriage angers Muslims Mattias Tesfaye has suggested the Muslim community should support the ‘right’ to sex before marriage for Muslim women.

November 26, 2020   

(Al-Jazeera) A Danish minister has caused outrage among the Muslim minority for suggesting imams and community leaders should publicly support the “right” to have sex before marriage for women. Mattias Tesfaye, foreign affairs and integration minister, said in a Facebook post last […]