WHY DOES AMERICA AND EVEN THE ACLU REFUSE TO LEARN FROM THE
HISTORY OF MUSLIMS AND DENMARK????????
Salute the Danish
Flag - it's a Symbol of
Western Freedom
By Susan MacAllen
In 1978-9 I was living and studying in
Denmark. But in 1978 - even in Copenhagen, one didn't see Muslim immigrants.
The Danish population embraced visitors,
celebrated the exotic, went out of its way to protect each of its citizens. It
was proud of its new brand of socialist liberalism one in development since
the conservatives had lost power in 1929 - a system where no worker had to
struggle to survive, where one ultimately could count upon the state as in,
perhaps, no other western nation at the time.
The rest of Europe saw the Scandinavians
as free-thinking, progressive and infinitely generous in their welfare policies.
Denmark boasted low crime rates, devotion to the environment, a superior
educational system and a history of humanitarianism.
Denmark was also most generous in its
immigration policies - it offered the best welcome in Europe to the new
immigrant: generous welfare payments from first arrival plus additional perks in
transportation, housing and education. It was determined to set a world
example for inclusiveness and multiculturalism. How could it have
predicted that one day in 2005 a series of political cartoons
in a newspaper would spark violence that would leave dozens dead in the streets - all because its commitment to
multiculturalism would come back to bite?
By the 1990's the growing urban Muslim
population was obvious - and
its unwillingness to integrate into Danish
society was obvious. Years of immigrants had settled into Muslim-exclusive
enclaves. As the Muslim leadership became more vocal about what they
considered the decadence of Denmark 's liberal way of life, the Danes - once so
welcoming - began to feel slighted. Many Danes had begun to see Islam as
incompatible with their long-standing values: belief in personal liberty and
free speech, equality for women, tolerance for other ethnic groups, and a deep
pride in Danish heritage and history.
An article by Daniel Pipes and Lars Hedegaard, in which they fore casted, accurately, that
the growing immigrant problem in Denmark would explode. In the article they
reported:
'Muslim immigrants constitute 5 percent of
the population but consume upwards of 40 percent of the welfare spending.'
'Muslims are only 4 percent of Denmark's
5.4 million people but make up a majority of the country's convicted rapists, an
especially combustible issue given that practically all the female victims are non-Muslim.
Similar, if lesser, disproportions are found in other crimes.'
'Over time, as Muslim immigrants increase
in numbers, they wish less to mix with the indigenous population. A recent
survey finds that only 5 percent of young Muslim immigrants would
readily marry a Dane.'
'Forced marriages - promising a newborn
daughter in Denmark to a male cousin in the home country, then compelling her to
marry him, sometimes on pain of death - are one problem.'
'Muslim leaders openly declare their goal
of introducing Islamic law once Denmark's Muslim population grows large enough
- a not-that-remote prospect. If present trends persist, one sociologist
estimates, every third inhabitant of Denmark in 40 years will be Muslim.'
It is easy to understand why a growing
number of Danes would feel that
Muslim immigrants show little respect for
Danish values and laws.
An example is the phenomenon common to
other European countries and Canada: some Muslims in Denmark who opted to leave the
Muslim faith have been murdered in the name of Islam, while others hide
in fear for their lives. Jews are also threatened and harassed openly by
Muslim leaders in Denmark, a country where once Christian citizens
worked to smuggle out nearly all of their 7,000 Jews by night to Sweden -
before the Nazis could invade. I think of my Danish friend Elsa - who, as a
teenager, had dreaded crossing the street to the bakery every morning under the
eyes of occupying Nazi soldiers - and I wonder what she would say today.
In 2001, Denmark elected the most
conservative government in some 70 years - one that had some decidedly non-generous ideas
about liberal unfettered immigration. Today, Denmark has the strictest
immigration policies in Europe . (Its effort to protect itself has been met
with accusations of 'racism' by liberal media across Europe - even as
other governments struggle to right the social problems wrought by years of
too-lax immigration.)
If you wish to become Danish, you must
attend three years of language classes. You must pass a test on Denmark's history,
culture, and a Danish language test.
You must live in Denmark for 7 years
before applying for citizenship.
You must demonstrate an intent to work,
and have a job waiting. If you wish to bring a spouse into Denmark , you must both be over
24 years of age, and you won't find it so easy anymore to move your friends
and family to Denmark with you.
You will not be allowed to build a mosque
in Copenhagen, although your children have a choice of some 30 Arabic culture and
language schools in Denmark , they will be strongly encouraged to
assimilate to Danish society
in ways that past immigrants weren't.
In 2006, the Danish minister for
employment, Claus Hjort Frederiksen, spoke publicly of the burden of Muslim immigrants on
the Danish welfare system, and it was horrifying: the government's
welfare committee had calculated that if immigration from Third World
countries were blocked, 75 percent of the cuts needed to sustain the huge welfare
system in coming decades would be unnecessary. In other words, the
welfare system, as it existed, was being exploited by immigrants to the point
of eventually bankrupting the government. 'We are simply forced to
adopt a new policy on immigration.'
'The calculations of the welfare committee
are terrifying and show how unsuccessful the integration of immigrants has been up
to now,' he said.
A large thorn in the side of Denmark's
imams is the Minister of Immigration and Integration, Rikke Hvilshoj. She makes
no bones about the new policy toward immigration, 'The number of
foreigners coming to the country makes a difference,' Hvilshoj says, 'There is
an inverse correlation between how many come here and how well we can receive
the foreigners that come.' And on Muslim immigrants needing to demonstrate
a willingness to blend in, 'In my view, Denmark should be a country with room
for different cultures and religions. Some values, however, are more important than others. We refuse to question
democracy, equal rights, and freedom of speech.'
Hvilshoj has paid a price for her show of
backbone. Perhaps to test her resolve, the leading radical imam in Denmark,
Ahmed Abdel Rahman Abu Laban, demanded that the government pay blood money to
the family of a Muslim who was murdered in a suburb of Copenhagen,
stating that the family's thirst for revenge could be thwarted for money. When
Hvilshoj dismissed his demand, he argued that in Muslim culture the payment
of retribution money was common, to which Hvilshoj replied that what is
done in a Muslim country is not necessarily what is done in Denmark.
The Muslim reply came
soon after: her house was torched while she, her husband
and children slept. All managed to escape unharmed, but she and her family
were moved to a secret location and she and other ministers were assigned bodyguards
for the first time - in a country where such murderous violence was
once so scarce.
Her government has slid to the right, and
her borders have tightened. Many believe that what happens in the next decade
will determine whether Denmark survives as a bastion of good living, humane
thinking and social responsibility, or whether it becomes a nation
at civil war with supporters of Sharia law.
And meanwhile, Canadians clamour for
stricter immigration policies, and demand an end to state welfare programs that allow
many immigrants to live on the public dole. As we in Canada look at the
enclaves of Muslims amongst us, and see those who enter our shores too
easily, dare live on our taxes, yet refuse to embrace our culture, respect our
traditions, participate in our legal system, obey our laws, speak our language,
appreciate our history. We would do well to look to Denmark, and say a
prayer for her future and for our own.
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