Twenty-five year-old Asmaa Abdol-Hamid announced her candidacy for the Danish parliament in Copenhagen, Folketing. Abdol-Hamid first became a national celebrity last year as a activist who fought in vain before the courts against the publication of the Muhammad cartoons. Turbulence surrounds her candidacy. The Right is outraged and the Left is skeptical about her place…
A Moroccan-born Dane was sentenced in Copenhagen to 3 1/2 years in prison on charges of inciting Muslims to holy war using videotapes, CDs and DVDs that included footage of beheadings in the Russian republic of Chechnya. Said Mansur was convicted of producing and distributing material containing “inflammatory, jihadist speeches” under anti-terrorism laws introduced after…
An uncertain future looms for a Muslim cemetery which has been dogged by vandalism. The first Muslim cemetery in Denmark has already been struck by several incidents of vandalism – before it has even been opened. The cemetery plot in Br_ndby, southwest of Copenhagen, has had swastikas painted on it. Similar vandalism has also taken…
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Denmark on Tuesday reopened its embassy in?Syria more than two months after it was set ablaze by demonstrators protesting the publishing of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, the Danish foreign ministry said. The ministry said the Damascus mission was now open to the public but cautioned Danes in Syria to be vigilant…
A Danish newspaper will not face criminal charges over cartoons of the prophet Muhammad that prompted international protests by Muslims, the country’s public prosecutor said. The drawings of Muhammad, an article and other cartoons published last September by Jyllands-Posten, Denmark’s biggest broadsheet, were neither “scornful” nor “degrading” of Muslims as a group and the newspaper…
