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Denmark charges Kurdish TV station with promoting terror
Hurriyet Daily News 1 September 2010
Danish prosecutors have charged a Kurdish-language television station with promoting activities of a group linked to terrorism, officials said Tuesday. Top Danish prosecutor Joergen Steen 
Denmark: Is Islam a problem for social cohesion?
Islam in Europe 1 September 2010
A couple of weeks ago I posted an article about a poll conducted in Denmark for Jyllands-Posten. One of the questions was "to what degree do you see the presence of Islam in Denmark as a problem for
Denmark: 55% say Islam bad for social cohesion
Islam in Europe 17 August 2010
49.7% of the Danes think that the immigration of the past four decades has been positive for Danish society and 42.4% see immigration as a negative phenomenon, according to an opinion poll conducted
European Islam: "We Are Only Danish On Paper"
Family Security Matters 10 August 2010
By Islam in Europe
Information's journalist Hana Al-Khamri, who is from Yemen and had lived most of her life in Saudi-Arabia, visited Vollsmose and met the neighborhood's residents. She recounts her meetings with the
Copenhagen: Incitement against the police
Islam in Europe 10 August 2010
The Copenhagen District West Police decide to increase security for ambulances, firetrucks and the police's own patrol cars in the Ishøj suburb of Copenhagen. From now on police cars will accompany
The jihad of the word erupts in Denmark yet again
Independent Online 9 August 2010
By Melanie Phillips
A chilling development in Denmark illustrates just how ‘hate speech’ laws, which were introduced by deluded western liberals, are being used to stifle and criminalise the expression of legitimate opinion and essential debate -- the prerequisite of a liberal society
Lars Hedegaard is president of Denmark’s International Free Press Society, which is devoted to fighting to preserve freedom of expression -- particularly against the threat from radical Islam to shut it down on the spurious grounds of ‘Islamophobia’. The inevitable has now happened: as Nathaniel Sugarman writes at The Legal Project, Hedegaard finds himself facing prosecution for ‘racism’ over remarks he has made about Islam.
Forced marriages: family rape and rape by proxy
Gates of Vienna 6 August 2010
By Nicolai Sennels
The Danish psychologist Nicolai Sennels returns with some observations about the institution commonly known as "forced marriage”
The fight for and against free speech has entered another round in the Danish courts now that the historian and author Lars Hedegaard is facing a charge of "racism” for his claim that rapes are common in Muslim families. The fact is that forced marriages are
Denmark: DPP wants non-Western immigration stop
Islam in Europe 4 August 2010
The Danish People's Party wants to stop all non-Western immigration. During the party's summer convention, the party's leader Pia Kjærsgaard and the legal affairs spokesperson Peter Skaarup proposed
Denmark: More on Muslim antisemitism
Islam in Europe 28 July 2010
This past weekend Jyllands-Posten published an article about Jew-hatred in the Muslim community in Denmark. In response (BT), Pia Kjærsgaard, head of the Danish People's Party, demands that this
Integration Through Penury? Denmark Debates a Lower Minimum Wage for Immigrants
Spiegel Online 16 July 2010
By Anna Reimann
A Danish politician has suggested paying immigrants half the current minimum wage. The idea has gone down well with center-right parties, but it's opposed by the left -- and the far right. Right-wing
Quote: "So many of the world's biggest idiots are Muslims"
Islam in Europe 15 July 2010
Muslim Danish politician Naser Khader attacks Islam in harsh terms. He thinks many of the world's biggest idiots are Muslims. Naser Khader's anger comes in the wake of the case of the 43 year old
Video: Finnish Documentary on Lars Vilks and Kurt Westergaard
KitmanTV 13 July 2010
A Finnish TV reporter does an interesting half hour trying to understand why Muslims get so upset over drawings. She interviews the main Imam of Finland as well as Kurt Westergaard and Lars Vilks and others:
Thanks to our finnish correspondent from the awesome Tundra Tabloids for translating this! And of course yet another great upload from the unbeatable vladtepesblog Here is a 27 minute Finnish TV
Denmark: More 2nd generation immigrants buying residences
Islam in Europe 12 July 2010
A third of non-Western second generation immigrants aged 30 own their residences, reports Statistics Denmark. The same goes for 40% of non-Western second generation immigrants aged
Denmark: New attack planned against Mohamed cartoonist?
Islam in Europe 29 June 2010
The Danish authorities are going to check whether authorities in North Africa foiled a new plot against Kurt Westergaard, the famous Mohammed cartoonist. Westergaard was attacked once in
Immigrant women run into language barrier
Copenhagen Post 23 June 2010
Language schools are failing to teach Danish to women with an immigrant background causing issues with the integration process A new study carried out by the Rockwool Foundation has revealed that
Danish lawmaker to face charges over anti-Muslim comments
Daily Times 17 June 2010
COPENHAGEN: The Danish parliament voted on Wednesday to remove a far-right politician’s immunity from prosecution so he can face charges over anti-Muslim comments, parliamentary sources said. Jesper
Ghana's Chief Imam leaves for Denmark
Myjoyonline.com 14 June 2010
The National Chief Imam, Dr Sheik Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu, has left Accra for Denmark on an official visit. The visit was to help improve dialogue among European and African Muslims as well as to
Muslim teens enraged by pop star’s name
The Copenhagen Post 9 June 2010
Muslim teens at a Copenhagen concert threw eggs at pop icon who shares a name with a holy city of Islam It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. Denmark’s answer to Lady Gaga, decided
Israeli Arab activist 'spied on IDF bases for Hezbollah'
Haaretz 27 May 2010
By Jack Khoury
In indictment against Ameer Makhoul, state prosecutors claim prominent political campaigner was recruited by Lebanese militants in Denmark. State prosecutors on Thursday presented
• Everybody draw Muhammad Day: Background sketches - Updated!
EuropeNews 20 May 2010
By Henrik R Clausen
Update:
Today at 14 CET, the Everybody Draw Muhammad Day Facebook group was removed without warning, just after having reached 80,000 members and 6,551 drawings. The pro-censorship forces seemed to have won. However, this was a short-lived victory merely creating more attention, as the group came back up at 15 CET.
More importantly, rulers from The Religion of Peace cannot sensibly revert to threats and intimidation in face of criticism and plain humour. 
Pakistan may block Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and Wikipedia for the moment, but even doing so represents an admission that these constitute real challenges to Islam as such, challenges not adequately addressed through simple censorship, but which must instead be tackled by reform of Islam as such. Repression cannot continue when it has become too obvious. As an unnamed Pakistani citizen reacted to the gag order:
One day, they will ban breathing in Pakistan.
