News from Denmark: The natives are restless.
According to Hamid Mir, who is one of Pakistan’s leading journalists, over 300 men volunteered to join a death squad to travel north to Denmark and kill the 12 Mohammed cartoon artists. Apparently 12 men were chosen because they could read and write English and these are now said to be on their way to Denmark. Chairperson of the Danish Parliment's Security Council, Peter Skaarup (Danske Folkeparti) has put Denmark’s Police Intelligence Unit ‘PET’ on the job.
PET is also reported to be launching a new initiative to tackle the problems of extremist views amongst the Muslim population. PET has already been working with the Danish imams for some time in an effort to establish a working relationship with the core of the Islamic community, but this new idea has yet to be run by the religious establishment.
Rather than wait for ideological friction to flare up into violence PET is suggesting the imams take steps to spread a counter ideology that would disarm any tendencies towards violence.
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A school headmistress called Lone Nørgaard has brought a book today titled, ’My Blue Sofa’. In it she describes the situation, as she sees it in Denmark’s schools. Nørgaard speaks with some authority as one who has been on the sharp edge of immigration, effectively interviewing thousands of pupils and parents on the blue sofa that adorns her office. Snaphanen has a post on it, and JP has an article devoted to it. Here are some of the quotes, translated by me, from Snaphanen:
“The actual problems we are experiencing everyday, are nearly all, bound up in Muslim traditions and habits”.
“Too much consideration and too many special conditions is in fact contributing to the advance of fundamentalism”.
With regards to teaching in Danish, a Pakistani mother is quoted as saying; ”Urdu is the path to the past. Danish is the way forwards”.“The ethnic schools are a scandal for our society and the blame lies with an angst to touch the subject. There must be a debate about this, but it is delicate because the majority of politicians now place their own children into private schools”.
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A 17 year old male was sentenced yesterday for making death threats, in rap form, against Naser Khader. The song included such lyrics as; Now I’m coming. To shoot you with a gun.You know nothing. Your going to be done, freestyle by Abu. Hamad will exterminate you as if you were a pig. Naser Khader you are, the biggest pig. When I come knocking at your door, I shall smash you up. And your wife. And your kids. When I get your parents, you will be shot. I shoot you with words. Like, fuck Odin and Thor.
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