The recent parliamentary election in Denmark, one of Europe’s most Islmophobic countries, was a rude awakening to its Social Democratic Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who thought she could capitalize with the row over Greenland with the United States. Her party lost 12 MPs to receive only 21.85% of the vote compared to 27.54% in 2022.
So what went wrong?
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Even if Federikson is a Social Democrat, her immigration policy is Islamophobic.
It is a sweet irony that while she has warned about Islamization, it was actually a white supremacist US adminitration that posed the greater threat to national security by wanting to take over Greenland.
The latest European Islamophobia Report 2024 (pages 248-276) highights Denmark’s anti-Muslim racism problem.
“Media and politicians, including Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Frederik Vad,
and Ida Auken, contributed to a public discourse in which Muslims’ motives and loy-
alties were openly questioned. Key figures such as Eva Gregersen and Thomas Hoff-
mann played central roles in monitoring and casting suspicion on Muslims and their
civic engagement.”
If anything, the result proves that there is a certain saturation point for Islamophobic policies and campaigns.
It will be interesting to see how much the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* capitalize on their aggressive and hostile campaign against Muslims and other migrants.
