(Copenhagen Post) A major talking point in Denmark over the last couple of years has been the welfare of a fairly large group of Danish mothers with Islamic State ties, along with the children they have mostly given birth to over the […]
(Copenhagen Post) Jacob el-Ali has become the first foreign fighter to be convicted of treason by a Danish court for joining the terror organisation Islamic State (IS). The 33-year-old was sentenced to 14 years in prison by the City Court in Copenhagen […]
(Copenhagen Post) On Monday, the Copenhagen Court found two 23-year-old men guilty of attempted terrorism. A 40-year-old woman facing the same charge was acquitted, but found guilty of other lesser charges. The court placed emphasis on the discovery of numerous effects that […]
(Copenhagen Post) Three women and 14 children — who were yesterday evacuated from the Kurdish-controlled al-Roj prison camp in northeastern Syria, where the inmates are primarily the families of slain or captured Islamic State warriors — arrived in Denmark at around 03:00 […]
(Copenhagen Post) Naser Khader, who stepped down from his duties as a Konservative MP to take stress leave in April, will today begin his defence in the Supreme Court against charges that he libelled the female imam Sherin Khankan. Like she did […]
(Copenhagen Post) A controversial leaflet issued at Nordsjællands Hospital to prospective parents, which was removed from circulation on Wednesday after it was shared on the internet, offered maternity ward patients the option of not being treated by health personnel of a particular gender, […]
(Copenhagen Post) PM Mette Frederiksen and her government remain opposed to six Danish women, who voluntarily travelled to the Islamic State’s terrorist caliphate in the mid-2010s to be with their IS warrior partners, returning home from two camps in the north of […]
(Copenhagen Post) A broad majority of Parliament has voted in favour of banning donations that seek to undermine democracy in Denmark. The move aims to prevent potentially extremist forces from using donations to erode basic freedom and human rights. “There exists extremist […]
(Copenhagen Post) The Eastern High Court has upheld a City Court ruling in the high-profile case involving a planned terror action in Copenhagen. Moyed Al Zoebi, 33, was handed a 12-year prison sentence by the City Court for trying to organise a […]
(Copenhagen Post) Nye Borgerlige has been delayed in its efforts to publish Charlie Hebdo’s Mohammed cartoons in Danish newspapers. The ad campaign was intended as a show of support after the murder of Samuel Paty, who showed his classroom a depiction of […]
(Copenhagen Post) Earlier this month, the French school teacher Samuel Paty was murdered after he had shown the Mohammed cartoons — famously printed in Jyllands-Posten newspaper in 2005 — to his students. And then yesterday, three people were killed in the Notre […]
(Copenhagen Post) Last year, Said Mansour was deported to Morocco after becoming the first person in history to be stripped of a Danish citizenship. Now, according to several Moroccan media outlets, the 60-year-old has been sentenced to death in Morocco for his […]
(Copenhagen Post) Last week, the French teacher Samuel Paty was murdered because he showed his class images from the Mohammed cartoons originally published by Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005. Now, a survey has revealed that only about 50 percent of teachers in […]
(Copenhagen Post) Today, the government outlined plans to crack down hard on imams who propagate Sharia law divorce documents. Now, in a stunning turn of events, Iran’s ambassador to Denmark, Afsaneh Nadipour, has been summoned to the Danish Foreign Ministry to explain […]
(Copenhagen Post) Late last month, an imam in Odense hit the front pages after being reported to the police for producing a Sharia law divorce contract dictating that a woman would lose her parental rights if she didn’t fulfill a list of […]
(Copenhagen Post) Remarry? Lose your kids. Move further than 130km? Lose your kids. These are just some of the requirements and limitations in place if a woman decides she wishes to get a divorce through the well-known imam Abu Bashar. The document, […]
(Copenhagen Post) Aarhus-based media outlet Jyllands-Posten on Wednesday rejected French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo’s request to reprint the controversial Mohammed cartoons. Following the rejection, Charlie Hebdo, whose offices in Paris were attacked in 2015, reprinted the caricatures individually. The move came after the […]
(Copenhagen Post) Several political parties are urging the government to investigate the possibility of banning calls to prayer such as those heard from mosques, arguing that they are “very disruptive.” Venstre, Dansk Folkeparti, Konservative and Nye Borgerlige are presenting a resolution regarding […]
(Copenhagen Post) Police shot a knife-armed man in the leg while masked people threw stones and fired fireworks at the authorities on Friday at a demonstration led by the failed politician Rasmus Paludan in Aarhus. Paludan had intended to burn the Koran […]
(Copenhagen Post) Just over a week following his death in a US drone strike in Iraq, the Iranian general Qassem Soleimani is to be commemorated at City Hall Square today at 18:00. According to a Facebook page, a small group of people […]
(Copenhagen Post) The Danish jihadist Mohammad El-Ali has been arrested in Turkey near the Syrian border. El-Ali’s lawyer Mette Grith Stage confirmed his arrest, stating that he wanted to come back to Denmark and stand trial. The Lebanese-born Dane claims he lost […]
(Copenhagen Post) A 25-year-old dual citizen who was one of three foreign fighters stripped of their Danish citizenship last month has decided to sue immigration minister Mattias Tesfaye. The man’s lawyer confirmed the lawsuit, contending that Tesfaye’s decision violates article 3 of […]
(Copenhagen Post) New details have surfaced regarding the terror plot that was foiled by nationwide police raids on Wednesday afternoon. Following preliminary hearings in the Copenhagen City Court, it has emerged that six men and two women have been charged with attempting […]
(Copenhagen Post) The Danish-Palestinian jihadist Ahmad Salem el-Haj was arrested in Copenhagen Airport yesterday afternoon after being sent back by Turkey, where he had been serving a four-year sentence for joining the ranks of Islamic State (IS). El-Haj, 28, will be questioned […]
(Copenhagen Post) Australian TV broadcaster ABC recently levelled considerable criticism at Denmark based on interviews with a number of right-wing politicians, including Rasmus Paludan, the head of anti-Islamic party Stram Kurs. And while the TV program came under fire for being unbalanced, […]
(Copenhagen Post) According to the latest figures from the national statistics keeper Danmarks Statistik, every seventh resident in Denmark is either an immigrant or a direct descendant of an immigrant. The group accounting for the highest number of immigrants and their descendants […]
(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 […]
(Copenhagen Post) The long-awaited trial of three Danes charged with acquiring drone parts on behalf of Islamic State is scheduled to start today at Copenhagen City Court. Additionally they are charged with terrorism. It will be contended that the trio spent 400,000 […]
(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) Concerns over large amounts of foreign money supporting the building of mosques in Denmark have led to the government and Dansk Folkeparti proposing a donor blacklist similar to the one applying to “hate preachers.” “The ‘forces of darkness’ should not […]
(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 […]
(Copenhagen Post) A new law proposal from the government and Dansk Folkeparti would make it illegal for foreign governments and authorities to give money to religious bodies in Denmark. The law would come into play if it is decided that the purpose […]
(Copenhagen Post) This week it emerged that the UK had decided to revoke the British citizenship of Shamima Begum, a so-called Islamic State (IS) bride who wants to return to the UK after leaving London four years ago to join ranks of […]
(Copenhagen Post) The current Iranian ambassador to Denmark, Morteza Moradian, chose not to attend the traditional New Year’s reception at the Danish Parliament this year because he did not want to shake hands with a woman. The official host of the party […]
(Copenhagen Post) According to the Immigration Ministry, a Danish agreement with Iran regarding the return of rejected asylum-seekers stalled after its minister, Inger Støjberg, posted a photo on social media last year. The photo in question showed that Støjberg had a photo […]
(Copenhagen Post) For many years the idea has remained in the realm of science fiction: sling all of society’s undesirables onto an island and let them sort it out. It was more or less the plot of “No Escape,” a really bad […]
(Copenhagen Post) Grimhøj Mosque, a place of worship for Muslims in Aarhus that had hitherto a strained relationship with the authorities, yesterday alerted the police to a man who left its premises armed with a knife. In an ensuing confrontation in the […]
(Copenhagen Post) The health minister, Ellen Trane Nørby, is preparing a bill to ban hymen reconstruction — a practice that is becoming increasingly common at private clinics in Denmark. Artificial reconstruction will not be allowed unless there is a medical purpose. If […]
(Copenhagen Post) The enforcement of the government’s recent controversial law banning certain types of face coverings seems to be turning into a bit of a farce. Although 88 reports have been submitted to the police regarding the contravention of the new law […]
(Copenhagen Post) For a number of years, Denmark habitually took in around 500 so-called quota refugees per year. However, in 2016 and 2017 none were accepted, and through a controversial law passed by a parliamentary majority last year this decision was reinforced […]
(Copenhagen Post) The lawyer Rasmus Paludan, a right-wing Islam critic and prospective MP who founded the party Stram Kurs (“hard line” or “tight course”) in July 2017, is under fire for his increasingly provocative means of drawing attention to himself. Paludan’s modus […]
(Copenhagen Post) Amongst the causes closest to the heart of the Nye [Borgerlige] right-wing nationalist party is a desire that immigration policy should be toughened up even more than it is today. One of the measures the party advocates is the idea […]
(Copenhagen Post) In June this year, the government plus Socialdemokratiet and Dansk Folkeparti put forward proposals to tighten up the criteria for Danish citizenship. One of the measures supported by Venstre, Liberal Alliance and Dansk Folkeparti is that budding citizens will have […]
(Copenhagen Post) Over the weekend it emerged that a Muslim couple in Switzerland were denied citizenship after refusing to shake hands of people of the opposite gender during an interview pertaining to their citizenship process. Now two Danish parties, Dansk Folkeparti (DF) […]
(Copenhagen Post) Although it is illegal in Denmark, it appears that polygamy is still being practised under the radar by some Muslims. Fakti, a group that works with refugees and immigrant women, has come across a number of instances of women talking […]
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