Danish intolerance
Found a interview with Asmaa Abdol-Hamid in Englsih. They get the Danish People’s Party or DFP (Dansk Folkeparti) to comment there sight of Asmaa Abdol-Hamid too.
Feminist, socialist, devout Muslim: woman who has thrown Denmark into turmoil
In the land that launched the cartoons war between Islam and the west, Asmaa Abdol-Hamid finds herself on the frontline, gearing up for a new battle.
The 25-year-old social worker, student and town councillor describes herself as a feminist, a democrat, and a socialist. She has gay friends, opposes the death penalty, supports abortion rights, and could not care less what goes on in other people’s bedrooms. In short, a tolerant Scandinavian and European.
The Danish People’s Party or DFP, the far-right movement that unofficially props up the weak centre-right government of the prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, is on the warpath. A couple of DFP politicians compared the headscarf to the Nazi swastika. One described the prospective MP as “brainwashed”.
“We don’t like the idea of her performing as an Islamist in the parliament,” says DFP spokesman Kim Eskildsen. “We find it wrong that she’ll use the parliament as a tool for Islamism … We don’t consider this woman a Nazi. But the way the headscarf is used is comparable to other totalitarian symbols.”
Many Danes married to foreigners now commute into Copenhagen every day from the southern Swedish town of Malmo across the bridge linking the two cities because they cannot obtain residence for their spouses at home.
Then I found this commentary - Danish intolerance
Insisting on the right to be religious and a politician, well ain’t that scary. The Danish establishment seems to have forgotten the basic ideals behind liberalism and tolerance.
