Thorning-Schmidt ‘repulsed’ by attack on freedom of speech
The Mohammed crisis returned with a vengeance yesterday when gunmen attacked the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people and injuring seven in an apparent Islamist attack. The gunmen…
MoreTen years of the Mohammed crisis: 2005 – 2015
A timeline of the Mohammed crisis, that started in Denmark in 2005 and led to 12 people being killed in an apparent Islamist attack in Paris yesterday. 30.9.2005: Jyllands Posten publishes 12 caricatures…
MoreNational newspapers re-publish Charlie Hedbo illustrations
Leading Danish newspapers Berlingske, Politiken, and Information, express their solidarity with French magazine Charlie Hebdo today by republishing some of the magazine’s most controversial caricatures. Lisbeth Knudsen, Managing Editor of Berlingske, which leads…
MoreIslamic State sympathisers: Denmark is next
The brutal attack on Charlie Hedbo in Paris, Wednesday, has reignited the Mohammed cartoons affair. Denmark is named as the next target by Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda supporters on social media, who…
MoreFrench ambassador: We will not be intimidated
Copenhageners gathered outside the French embassy in Copenhagen yesterday in a show of support for France and the victims of the Charlie Hedbo tragedy. Ambassador Francois Zimeray thanked Danes for their support ‘in…
MoreMosque leader dismisses ‘breeding nest’ claims
Spiritual leader Oussama El Saadi of the Grimhøj mosque in Aarhus has rejected politicians’ claims that he’s the head of a breeding nest for terrorists. After a TV documentary, ‘The Doomed Mosque’, was aired…
MoreMosque leader praises Islamic State: ‘Danish suicide bomber was a hero’
Politicians have again called for the controversial Grimhøj Mosque in Aarhus to be closed down after its religious leader, Oussama El-Saadi, expressed support for the Islamic State in Syria and characterised a young…
MoreWhen is a Dane not a Dane? When he’s a Muslim say DPP
Being born in Denmark doesn’t automatically make a person a Dane – in an interview with Politiken, the Danish People’s Party’s (DPP) Martin Henriksen urges second and third generation immigants to embrace Danish…
MoreChristiania cannabis kingpins jailed
Seven men charged with supplying cannabis to dealers on Christiania’s Pusher Street were sentenced to a total of 32 years in jail by Copenhagen City Court, Monday. In Denmark’s biggest ever drug trial…
MoreQueen greets ambassadors
When HM Queen Margrethe held the traditional New Year court for foreign ambassadors, Tuesday, one prominent guest was missing – Russia’s ambassador, Mikhail Vanin, who was invited but failed to appear, fuelling speculation…
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