(AP) The Danish government on Friday said it will propose a law that would make it illegal to desecrate any holy book in Denmark, where a recent string of public desecrations of the Quran by a handful of anti-Islam activists has sparked […]
(Anadolu) Members of the ultranationalist group Danske Patrioter, or Danish Patriots, continued Thursday to desecrate Islam’s holy book, for a fourth [straight] day in Copenhagen. The group burned the Quran in front of the Turkish, Iraqi, Egyptian, Saudi Arabian and Iranian embassies […]
(Politico) Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen spoke out for the first time on the burning of the Quran in her country, saying that a potential ban on setting fire to the religious text would not limit freedom of expression. “I don’t consider […]
(Anadolu) Members of the ultranationalist group known as Danske Patrioter (Danish Patriots) continued the desecration of Muslims’ holy book, the Quran, for the third consecutive day on Wednesday in Denmark’s capital Copenhagen, as they burned a copy of the Quran in front […]
(Reuters) More Koran burnings took place in Sweden and Denmark on Monday as the governments of the two Nordic countries said they were examining ways to legally limit such acts in a bid to de-escalate growing tensions with several Muslim countries. Denmark […]
(Local) The Iraqi activist Salwan Najem has applied for a permit to hold a Quran-burning protest outside Sweden’s parliament on Monday. Najem, a 48-year-old man, accompanied the activist Salwan Momika during the Quran-burning protests Momika carried out outside a Stockholm mosque and […]
(AP) Denmark’s foreign minister said Sunday the government will seek to make it illegal to desecrate the Quran or other religious holy books in front of foreign embassies in the Nordic country. Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said in an interview with […]
(Reuters) Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Sunday urged Sweden to take concrete steps to prevent burnings of the Koran, a Turkish foreign ministry source said. Sweden and Denmark have seen several protests in recent weeks where copies of the Koran have […]
(Reuters) Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Saturday urged Denmark to take urgent action to prevent burnings of the Koran, a Turkish foreign ministry source said. In a phone call with his Danish counterpart Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Fidan condemned the “continuous vile […]
(Politico) A group of far-right protesters set fire to copies of the Quran in Copenhagen on Tuesday in front of the Egyptian and Turkish embassies in an anti-Islam demonstration, following a string of Quran burnings in Denmark and Sweden in the past […]
(Anadolu) A far-right Danish Islamophobic politician known for his controversial Quran-burning protests in Denmark has been banned from participating in the Folkemodet political festival on the island of Bornholm. The local police authorities on Tuesday imposed the ban on the presence of […]
(Local) Only one of the three parties in Denmark’s coalition government has stated it wants to repatriate women with national connections to Denmark from Kurdish-run prison camps in Syria. The Moderate party, one of the junior parties in the coalition, wants Danish […]
(Local) The government will not back a motion from the Danish People’s Party (DF) to ban pupils and staff from wearing hijabs in elementary schools, according to the minister for immigration and integration. The government on Tuesday hit back a proposal from […]
(AFP) Turkey summoned Denmark’s ambassador on Friday to condemn Copenhagen for allowing a far-right extremist to burn Korans over Ankara’s refusal to let Sweden and Finland join NATO. Anti-Islam activist Rasmus Paludan, a Danish-Swedish dual national, first burnt a copy of the […]
(Local) Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen says the new government is yet to finalise its position on the issue of Danish children who remain at prison camps in Syria. Rasmussen, who spoke in favour of repatriating the children before the election, said […]
(Breitbart) In an effort to combat the rise of parallel societies, the Danish government is set to demolish a “migrant ghetto” area in the city of Aarhus, with around 1,000 homes set for demolition. The nearly 1,000 homes to be demolished reside […]
(Deutsche Welle) This year four young women from one of Denmark’s so-called ghettos, Tingbjerg, had had enough. In an open letter to Housing Minister Kaare Dybvad, they protested against the annual “ghetto list” of underprivileged neighborhoods that the Danish government presents each […]
(Local) Plans to accommodate “unwanted” migrants on Lindholm, an uninhabited Danish island, are to be scrapped by Mette Frederiksen’s incoming government. The outgoing coalition led by Lars Løkke Rasmussen reached a deal late last year to place up to 125 rejected asylum […]
(AFP) Denmark’s opposition Social Democrats won Wednesday’s general election after a campaign focused on concerns over the climate, welfare and immigration, as support plunged for the far right and surged for the main green party. Liberal Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, whose […]
(AFP) Keen to protect its prosperity and social cohesion, Denmark has spent two decades cracking down on immigration under pressure from the far-right. But now that tough rhetoric is widely adopted by the mainstream to the dismay of immigrants who say they […]
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(AP) Denmark will hold a general election on June 5, the prime minister announced Tuesday, with immigration a hot-button issue for voters. Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen, who heads the Liberals, has been in power since 2015. He later formed a coalition […]
(Copenhagen Post) The Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Interior has confirmed that Stram Kurs (Hard Line) will contest the 2019 general election alongside 12 other political parties (see below) in Denmark. The party, which was founded in 2017 by the extreme […]
(Copenhagen Post) Some 23 people have so far been arrested as a result of yesterday’s unrest, which included pitched battles involving the police, numerous fires being set alight and all-out carnage — mostly in the Copenhagen district of Nørrebro, but also in […]
(Local) With Danes set to vote in general elections no later than June 17th, opposition parties that normally form an allied bloc in parliament could be irreconcilably split over immigration. On Monday, Morten Østergaard, the leader of the Social Liberal (Radikale Venstre) […]
(Morocco World News) Denmark has deported Said Mansour, convicted of incitement to terrorism and formerly a dual Moroccan-Danish citizen, to Morocco. According to Danish media, Mansour arrived in Casablanca yesterday night, aboard Royal Air Maroc flight 222 from Copenhagen. Danish authorities handed […]
(Breitbart) Denmark’s migration minister Inger Støjberg has told the country’s Somali migrants to return home and work on improving their own country after the Danish government ruled parts of Somalia safe. Since the Immigration Service began its review of refugee residency permits […]
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