The Iconoclast
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
A Monument To Tolerance
And a Glaring Example of a No-Go Area in Denmark

by Norman Berdichevsky


I recently returned from a short trip to Denmark. I spent a week on the island of Funen and a week in Copenhagen. In nearby Faaborg, a charming town with a beautifully preserved medieval city-gate,  just twenty miles to the North of Svendborg on Funen’s western coast, I spent a lovely day and had occasion to see testimony to Denmark’s long and admirable (indeed the word “glorious” is hardly out of place in comparison with the rest of Europe) record of tolerance, human rights and democratic traditions while in Copenhagen what I saw was a contemporary scene that filled me with dread and apprehension.  more...
Posted on 07/01/2008 8:05 AM by NER
Comments
3 Jul 2008
Mary Jackson

who use a sense of constant grievance as a battle cry and battering ram to win a special privileged position. 

Grievance is the new jihad.

An excellent article, with interesting implicit contrast between the behaviour of the Jews as a minority and the Muslims.

In Islam, politics trumps piety.



6 Apr 2009
Send an emailAlex Ahrendtsen

Thank you so much for your caring and profound rermarks about Denmark and our way of life.

Alex Ahrendtsen

Vice Mayor, Odense