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I'd like to add a few points to the article. First, the party which got the most votes at the election was SD, the center-left Social Democrats, not DF (Dansk F
by mercurial 11y ago
I'd like to add a few points to the article. First, the party which got the most votes at the election was SD, the center-left Social Democrats, not DF (Dansk Folkeparti). However, overall the left-wing "red block" did not have enough representatives to form a coalition government. Out of the right-wing "blue block", DF was the party with the most votes [1].
Secondly, the current conservative government has indeed a tough line when it comes to asylum seekers and refugees. Their allies from DF have in particular an obsession for muslims, which leads to fairly transparent measure such as mandating the presence of pork in menus offered by the city of Randers to "preserve Danish food traditions" [2].
If we ignore momentarily foaming-at-the-mouth-about-muslims-but-we're-really-not-racist DF types, it's hard to deny there are real integration issues with immigrant populations. However, I wouldn't be so quick to put the blame squarely on these people. You regularly have tests which show that, depending on how ethnically Danish the name on your resume sounds, your chances of getting an interview, all other things being equal, are drastically different. And I have the feeling that anti-Muslim feelings have become relatively mainstream.
On the other hand, you do have a number of Muslim extremists which clearly have absolutely no intention of integrating and who'd be better off emigrating to Saudi Arabia, for everybody's good.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_general_election,_2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_general_election,_2015
2: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/01/danish-city-pork-protect-food-culture-160122075225203.html http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/01/danish-city-pork-prote...
3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hizb_ut-Tahrir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hizb_ut-Tahrir