“We are being challenged by Islam these years - globally as well as locally”, Queen Margrethe said.
Posted on 04/15/2005 8:57:12 PM PDT by Mark Felton
Danish Queen Says Islam Poses Global Threat
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“We are being challenged by Islam these years - globally as well as locally”, Queen Margrethe said. |
COPENHAGEN, April 15, 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II claimed that Islam poses a global threat and urged government to show no tolerance toward the Muslim minority in the north European country, reported the Telegraph on Friday, April 15.
“We have to show our opposition to Islam and we have to, at times, run the risk of having unflattering labels placed on us because there are some things for which we should display no tolerance,” the queen said in an official biography published on Thursday, April 14.
The queen told her biographer Annelise Bistrup that Islam is posing a major challenge to the whole world which requires taking serious measures to face it.
“We are being challenged by Islam these years - globally as well as locally.
“It is a challenge we have to take seriously. We have let this issue float about for too long because we are tolerant and lazy.”
Queen Margrethe, who turns 65 on Saturday, April 16, said the country could have handled “this challenge a bit better, if we had realized what we were up against”.
The monarch who has ascended the throne since 1972, wields no political power in the north European country but does occasionally give comments on political issues. Extremists Danish Muslims fear more restrictive steps to be taken by the government in future.
Queen Margrethe said she was feeling frightened from Muslim “extremists” who have dedicated their life only for religion, Reuters said.
“There is also something frightening about such a totality which is also a part of Islam.”
She stressed that certain response must be shown “and sometimes one must run the risk of being labeled in a less flattering way. Because there are certain things with which one should not be tolerant.”
The monarch said there is “something impressive about people for whom religion imbues their existence, from dusk to dawn, from cradle to grave.”
The Danish government announced last year plans to curb the activities of “radical” religious leaders, a measure seen as specifically targeting imams.
The rules oblige religious leaders to be financially self-sufficient, speak Danish and respect Western values or risk being declared persona non grata. Integration
The monarch said immigrants in the Nordic country should learn the Danish language in order to easily integrate into society.
She maintained “it is wise to make demands on the language. We should not be content with living next to each other. We should rather live together.”
Many newcomers do not learn Danish and unemployment rates among them is still much higher than among Danes, as are crime rates.
Immigrants make up about 8% of Denmark's 5.4 million -- about a third of them come from other EU countries or North America.
Among the immigrants is Margrethe's daughter-in-law, the very popular Crown Princess Mary, who is from Australia.
But Denmark has cracked down on migration in the past three years and the anti-immigrant Danish People's Party, an ally of the center-right government, has pushed through laws making it harder to bring in foreign spouses or qualify for asylum.
Danish Muslims - estimated at 170,000 or around 3 per cent of Denmark's 5.4 million - sounded the alarms that much more restrictive steps would be taken by the government in future.
Islam is Denmark's second largest religion after the Lutheran Protestant Church, which is actively followed by four-fifths of the country's population.
I'm glad it comes from a Nordic country. Those are the least troubled by Muslims and the ones that are famous for their tolerance. Many countries of Europe try to imitate them in social issues. If they are so tolerant and they don't have a lot of trouble with Muslims AND THEY ARE STILL SEEING THE DANGER, how is that the idiots of Spain (my own country) don't see it?. My mom tells me that the elite is the most tolerant, whereas the workers or lower social class are sick of Muslims. Rape is the norm. Parents are afraid of letting daughters go out without their brothers. And crime rate is very high. I think the issue exploded with the demonstration of whites in Paris who were beaten by the Muslims.
I hope that the nordic countries example is again followed in Europe.
WOW! Somebody of importance stating the truth about Islam. Could it be that people are finally seeing the danger of Islam? I hope so.
And until I read this, I thought all reigning queens with balls were enthroned in Frisco bath houses.
Brussles and Kofi will be deeply saddened by her inflamatory rhetoric...and that's a GOOD thing.
She's 65? That's Old Europe.
The question is whether the youth of Old Europe will see the light.
The Queen's New Theme Song..........
I'm upper class high society
God's gift to ballroom notoriety
I always fill my ballroom
The event is never small
The social pages say I've got
The biggest balls of all
CHORUS:
I've got big balls
I've got big balls
And they're such big balls
Dirty big balls
And he's got big balls
And she's got big balls
But we've got the biggest balls of them all
And my balls are always bouncing
My ballroom always full
And everybody cums and cums again
If your name is on the guest list
No one can take you higher
Everybody says I've got
Great balls of fire
CHORUS
Some balls are held for charity
And some for fancy dress
But when they're held for pleasure
They're the balls that I like best
My balls are always bouncing
To the left and to the right
It's my belief that my big balls
Should be held every night
CHORUS
I found the movie Luther with Joseph Fiennes inspiring.
Have you seen it?
The pro-American sentiments were overt, obvious, & welcome, even to the extent of the two of us being admitted to a swanky Danish bar that usually required Coat & Tie for males and high-fashion dress from females on the simple fact that we were Americans, and in the military. We had no idea of the dress code before we hit the door; but the doormen--who certainly were large & numerous enough to have impeded any further progress from us, had they wished-- heard our accents and asked "are you Americans?"; us: "yes"; them: "Army, Americans? Air Force Americans?"; us: "Air Force"; them: "Not matter; come, come! Roy Orbison died tonight-sorry! Welkumm!!!"
I've long retained fond memories of Denmark in general and Arhus in particular after that experience (and it was, indeed, the day Roy Orbison died; the Danes mourned his passing as much as I, an American whom cherished his music, did).
We were the most under-dressed couple in the place, but neither of us paid for a single drink all night.
My respect for the penisula of Denmark has been quite high ever since...
No, I am not exaggerating. Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you aren't informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.
Not sure about Germany, but in Britain Muslims are around 2.3% of the population.
British monarchs never make political comments of any kind. It's nothing to do with a 'tipping point'.
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That is a hot, steaming, cream, 5 gallon bucket of duh!
Yes, it's good. I prefer, though, the 1953 movie, "Martin Luther," with Niall McGinnis.
Bump for later.
This is really twisted by year 2025 if number still up there
Muslums be claim that Britian be first Muslum European country
If that's what they're claiming, they'd have increase their numbers quickly. We have a smaller percentage of muslims in the UK than in France, Holland or Denmark.
This is a good illustration of why the role of a monarch cannot in principle be filled by collectivist politics.
When a politician is elected to office he is deputized by some people to do certain things. He doesn't come into ownership of anything. In fact, if a politician becomes acting like he owns the government buildings and other assets, we consider such politician a thief, and indeed he is a thief then.
But a monarch is a property owner. She owns the public space in Denmark. She may execute her ownership rights and evict intruders, for example.
We denied kings their rights and our public square is impoverished as a result.
I believe, Emperor Franz Josef once described his duty as protecting his people from their government. One need to look no farther than to the fate of Central Europe following his murder, to compare and contrast monarchy with unbounded representative government that we now worship.
Excellent point, but I must correct an error. Emperor Franz Josef (1830-1916) was not murdered; he died in bed of old age. His successor, Bl. Emperor Karl (1887-1922), was deposed in 1918 but died of natural causes (albeit prematurely) four years later.
Perhaps you were thinking of Franz Josef's nephew, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination in 1914 provoked World War I.
Franz Josef's wife Empress Elisabeth was murdered in 1898; his brother Maximilian was executed in Mexico in 1867. But the old emperor himself remained safe.
Thank you. I conflated Archduke Franz Ferdinand with the Emperor.
Sorry for the hasty post.
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