Denmark: Muslim Countries and Party

denmark: By Jan M. Olsen Associated Press Thu., July 28, 2016 COPENHAGEN — Denmark should halt immigration from Muslim countries to stem the threat of violence from extremists, the nation second-largest party argued Thursday, according to Toronto Star. The deputy party leader of the anti-immigrant Danish People Party, Soeren Espersen, and other officials said the existing 270,000 Muslims in Denmark, a country of less than 6 million people, already posed a severe risk of harbouring sympathizers to Daesh, also known as ISIS or ISIL. Denmark largest party, the opposition Social Democrats, condemned the comments and compared them to the anti-immigrant policies of U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump. Denmark should halt immigration from Muslim countries, an anti-immigration and nationalist group that supports the centre-right government said, citing the threat of violence from Daesh. Social Democrat lawmaker Lars Aslan Rasmussen, whose father is Muslim, said the Danish People Party position amounted to religious discrimination, religious apartheid. ... It far out. Article Continued Below Islam is a belligerent religion. Martin Henriksen, the Danish People Party immigration spokesman, told The Associated Press that his party — which supports Denmark year-old minority government but holds no positions inside it — would not seek a law explicitly banning Muslim immigrants, but that would be a primary goal. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.