“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.
Well, that's a joke. The vast majority of Danes ignore the church, and even within the church, true Lutheranism is not really followed.
Its the same way all over Europe.
The Europeans as with some Americans have failed to remember their history, and are therefore doomed to repeat it.
The Muzzies were loping off heads in OLD Europe back in the gold ol days of the 7th and 8th centuries. The only thing that has changed are the dates!!
Queenie has placed the iceing in the Cheesy Danish and they all best start to wake up becasue the heads will be rolling again and not only in the streets of Europe, but also in America!
Monarchist ping, with a special nod to GvB urging him not to write off Europe's contemporary reigning royals.
While Queen Margrethe's comments might not be as hardline as, say, Jan Sobieski's would be if he were alive today, any royal deviation from the multiculturalist party line is worth noting.
I LOVE IT !!!!!!!
DON'T TURN A BLIND EYE TO TERROR IN OUR MIDST:
Australian retired Detective speaks out:
http://www.hvk.org/articles/0104/64.html (snip)
"Many have heard of the horrific problems in France with an unprecedented outbreak of crimes among an estimated 5 million Muslim immigrants. Middle Eastern males now make up 45,000 of the 90,000 inmates in French prisons. There are no-go areas in Paris for police and citizens alike. The rule of law has broken down so badly that when police went to one of these areas recently to round up three Islamic terrorists, they went in armoured vehicles, with heavy weaponry and more than 1,000 armed officers – just to arrest a few suspects.
Why did they need such numbers? Because the threat of terrorist reprisal was minimal compared to the anticipated revolt by thousands of Middle Eastern and North African residents, who have no respect for the rule of law in France and consider intrusions by police and other authorities a declaration of war.
The problems in Paris's Muslim communities are being replicated in Sydney at an alarming rate. Paris has seen an explosion of rapes committed by Middle Eastern males against French women in the past 15 years. The rapes are almost identical to those in Sydney. The rapes are committed not only for sexual gratification: there are also deep racial undertones, along with threats of violence and retribution..."
and it takes a woman to show the EU what the problem is
Mark she is one feisty Queen
I hear her biography on her she chain smoke she curse like a sailor and she paint
There was bio on her on WE Channel few months ago
About Royal family of Europe
She offend the French ambassor with her "sailor mouth" LOL!
Well said Queen Margrethe II!!
Islam Extremism is all consuming...fight it early or end up fighting it to your death.
The Queen has stated exactly what virtually all Democrats, and far too many Republicans, in the US have failed to articulate. This is a war for our civilization!
The Danes have a proud history of recognizing evil. Because of their recognition of the evil that was Nazi Germany, nearly every Danish Jew returned home after WWII. Not only that, but they the Jews returned to find their property tended to and their possessions looked after!
Recognizing evil may be in their cultural makeup. Expect a Fatwa any moment however....
She is elegant and wise.
thanks for the link. Scary. I do believe in the coming years we will see Europe torn apart by islamic terrorism. It is only going to get worse. I pray this time we DON'T save France or any other old European country. Screw them.
This is from Denmark...which a very different view of things than the rest of Europe. I've spent two summer vacations up there in Denmark...and they are the most pro-America country out of Europe. They view everything as if they were in the middle of the situation and how they would be affected...thats the difference. They've also come out and basically said they want Muslims who come into Denmark...to integrate into society. Denmark first, then your religion. This is the only country in Europe that celebrates the 4th of July...there is actually a giant picnic and bar-b-q which 10,000 Danes usually attend.
read later
mark
bttt
gotta love this..."she's a six-foot tall blonde who chain-smokes Greek cigarettes, dresses fashionably but is no mannequin and claims to be no role model for anybody", The Ottawa Citizen, Oct. 5, '91
It won't be long before the lib whiners call for sanctions on Denmark.
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