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Danish queen: “It is vital that we give Islam opposition”

Apr 15, 2015 3:42 pm By Nicolai Sennels

Denmark QueenIn a book written by journalist Annelise Bistruphave, published in April 2005, the Danish Queen Margrethe II said:

We are challenged in these years by Islam, both globally and locally, and it is a challenge we have to take seriously. … There is something impressive about people for whom religion permeates life from morning to night, from cradle to grave. There are also Christians who feel that way. …

But it [Islam] is a challenge we have to take seriously. We simply let it flutter in too long because we are tolerant, and it’s not so nice. … We should oppose it, and one must sometimes take the risk of being called less flattering things, since there are certain things one should not tolerate. … It is vital that we give Islam opposition. The lax response that has prevailed for many years in Denmark is not enough.

In a recent interview given in connection with the Queen’s 75th birthday, our beloved Margrethe says (translated by Nicolai Sennels, via 10news.dk):

Seen with the Queen’s eyes, an important part of the reaction to the terror must be that we stand firmly by the key freedoms that Denmark is founded upon – including freedom of expression – which makes it possible to speak, write and express one’s opinion freely.

“I know there are some who say that we must be careful, and of course we need to think before speaking, but we must certainly also say things the way we think they are. We should not hold back. If you do not speak out about problems they become worse,” said the Queen.

Fear should never be allowed to dominate, although the terrorists are prepared to use violence.

“They must first of all know that we are not afraid. They want to scare us, but we must not be intimidated. It is essential. An old expression says that you should not let yourself be scared; that is important, and I think Danes are not easily scared,” says the Queen. …

The Queen has also observed how individual groups of foreign background turn their back upon Danish society. … “We will make room for them, but they have come to our community, and therefore they can not expect their old model of society to be implemented in our country. They can go to the mosques when they want – why not? – but when they start to do things that are inconsistent with the general pattern of Danish society, they must realize that it does not work,” said the Queen.

The terrorist attack (February 14-15 2015 against a free speech even an a Jewish school) has helped to expose the existence of a fierce anger against Israel and Jews among groups of refugees and immigrants in Denmark. For the Queen, it has been painful to follow the harassment and persecution of the Danish Jews, and she is shocked that Jews again – in a completely unacceptable way – are threatened.

“That the Jews are so disliked, feel pressured and feel threatened, is shocking – because they are threatened. They take it with great dignity, as they have always done, but it is shocking to witness.”

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  1. Georg says

    Apr 15, 2015 at 3:49 pm

    It’s so refreshing to see an adult leading. Bless her.

    • Bamaguje says

      Apr 15, 2015 at 5:39 pm

      Now watch for the dhimmi Muslim appeasers to come out of the woodwork and attack her Majesty as a racist Islamophobe and intolerant bigot.

      • Larz Larzen says

        Apr 19, 2015 at 8:46 pm

        Exactly, Bam

    • mortimer says

      Apr 15, 2015 at 5:44 pm

      Queen Margaret is the first European leader since Churchill to forthrightly declare that Islam itself is a problem…not ‘Islamism’, not ‘political Islam’, but Islam. She is right: Islam must be challenged and told to BACK OFF. She has broken the ice and given politicians the green light to push back against this evil, misogynistic, backward, 7th century Death Cult. (“We love death.”… psychopathic!)

      Queen Margaret is not uninformed. She studied Islam as part of her Ph.D. She is the most informed of Christian monarchs on the subject of Islam.

      • PatnTruck says

        Apr 16, 2015 at 2:25 pm

        and MP from Belgium Geert Wilders – who is on a fatwa list – and his book, “Marked for Death” is an amazing read. I read the kooran – drivel by a psychopathic Muhamm who made all of this crap up. So clear on reading – got to get thru the drivel, Bible plagerizing and changing the stories to suit himself, order to worship Allah – and oh, by the way, OBEY ME – MUHAMMED as I made it all up as I’m a illiterate douchbag = long before douchebags were invented by the way – ok so, camel bag.

    • Lia Wissing says

      Apr 16, 2015 at 6:11 am

      Fully agree, Georg!

  2. Caroline says

    Apr 15, 2015 at 4:00 pm

    The Danish queen is very wise and she is right to be worried. The population of Denmark is small and they will be overwhelmed if some sort of control isn’t administered. The problem is europewide and Europe will, at some stage, have to unite to expel the Islamists.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 16, 2015 at 9:50 am

      Margrethe den Klog.

  3. cs says

    Apr 15, 2015 at 4:16 pm

    “That the Jews are so disliked, feel pressured and feel threatened, is shocking – because they are threatened. They take it with great dignity, as they have always done, but it is shocking to witness.”
    Yes, and now do what?

  4. somehistory says

    Apr 15, 2015 at 4:21 pm

    She has her head on right and her eyes open. Refreshing to read that someone in a position such as she has will speak the truth about the beast and its adherents who refuse to take no for an answer.

  5. Snaphanen says

    Apr 15, 2015 at 5:17 pm

    She is perhaps the only monarch, who is also truly an intellewctual. I am quite sure, that she is more upset, than she sounds, but sha has to think of the unpoæitical monarchy and its future

    • mortimer says

      Apr 16, 2015 at 9:51 am

      The Danes have given her the epithet ‘Margaret the Wise’.

  6. mortimer says

    Apr 15, 2015 at 5:17 pm

    Queen Margaret II is the finest man in Europe.

    • Ernie says

      Apr 15, 2015 at 5:52 pm

      How well said dear Mortimer !

  7. Wellington says

    Apr 15, 2015 at 5:47 pm

    The Danish Queen has more balls than almost any male political leader in all of Europe. A few such men come to mind who can match her, most especially Geert Wilders of The Netherlands, but they are sadly only a few to date. In any case, kudos to the Danish Queen. Would that European leaders en masse begin to emulate her wisdom and courage. (And who of sense and knowledge will be surprised if the Queen gets abuse and death threats aplenty from adherents of the ROP?)

    On a more expansive note, and as evidenced by what the Danish Queen has said, it is sinking in more and more that Islam is deep bad news for Western Civilization. For instance, more than half of Americans now have a negative view of Islam and there is no way that a majority of Americans would have just a generation ago. I know the doom and gloomers will think things are not moving fast enough (somehow voegelinian comes foremost to mind here), but the body politic of America (and all the West) wrapping its head around the conviction that mankind could actually produce a major religion which is evil is not something that can realistically be expected to occur in only a decade or two. But that it will occur I am as certain as I can be as certain of anything requiring a sea change view, a total 180, of something affecting all mankind.

    • Westman says

      Apr 16, 2015 at 12:51 am

      Well said, Wellington.

      Perhaps world wide visual and audible communication has opened the looking glass in both directions.

      The poorer Muslim countries see real opportunity in the West without realizing it was fueled by freedom while the West sees the degradation and poverty of poor Muslim countries as a byproduct of Islam.

      Muslims are drowning to get to Europe without realizing that Islam will drown their opportunity.

  8. Ron says

    Apr 15, 2015 at 5:50 pm

    God bless the Queen! She has her head screwed on tight and is not afraid to make her opinion known. We have to stop appeasing the followers of Islam, PC be damned. You give in one inch and they want two, then four, then a mile. They will not be satisfied until they rule the world and they must be stopped.

  9. Kepha says

    Apr 15, 2015 at 5:59 pm

    Too bad the Lutheran church in Denmark is so vitiated by modernist PeeCeeEmCee heresy that it won’t engage in some home missions work among the immigrants.

  10. abad says

    Apr 15, 2015 at 7:19 pm

    Good for her! And I am sure it bugs the Muslims in Denmark no end that a woman (God forbid!) is leading the way to put Islam in its place.

  11. jay says

    Apr 15, 2015 at 8:10 pm

    Does anyone else find it ironic that if Denmark and Britain were still a monarchy, it would be in better shape? This whole America and Europe commie decline fiasco has me questioning how good modern style democracy actually is as it can be so easily hijacked and perverted. A bad leader can be taken out, but a bad system never ends until the other shoe finally and inevitably drops.

    • Wellington says

      Apr 15, 2015 at 8:41 pm

      Huh, Jay, Denmark and Britain still are monarchies and democracy is not the problem but rather the corruption of it is by way of not comprehending that with freedom should come responsibility and also a clear delineation between the value of liberty and the idiocy of license.

  12. marblenecltr says

    Apr 15, 2015 at 9:09 pm

    God save that queen!

  13. Peggy says

    Apr 15, 2015 at 10:44 pm

    The queen of England, as a defender of the church of England, should be saying something as well. How can she when she has produced an honorary Muslim son.
    Princess Diana was about to marry a Muslim and probably have kids with him which would havfe made them siblings of the next king of England.

  14. Christian A. Beltram says

    Apr 15, 2015 at 11:08 pm

    The world needs more adults like the Danish queen. If more of the world’s leaders act like adults and stand up to the jihadists rather than let their nations be destroyed, humanity’s future prospects could start to improve in the near future.

  15. PRCS says

    Apr 15, 2015 at 11:34 pm

    Although the first part of the following statement needs a serious rethink, the queen has made the rest–as it affects non-Muslim nations–refreshingly clear:

    “”“We will make room for them, but they have come to our community, and therefore they can not expect their old model of society to be implemented in our country“”

    I don’t personally believe–although it’s been asserted at JW recently–that all Muslim immigrants to the West have come to conquer–but they do bring Islam with them and this “radicalization” of Muslim “youth” we hear so much about begins with those immigrants; at home.

    And as the Muslim populations increase in kuffar nations, well–we’re witnessing the result.

    As someone asked above, what’s to be done about it?

    • Peggy says

      Apr 16, 2015 at 12:41 am

      Bringing Islam with them is coming to conquer. Islam demands it. It’s only the Muslims who are not practicing Muslims who don’t have plans to conquer.
      There is more than one way to conquer another country without declaring conventional war.

      • PRCS says

        Apr 16, 2015 at 12:08 pm

        Like Catholics who use artificial birth control methods, not every Muslim is fully compliant with the teachings, demands, and expectations of their respective “faith”. The idea that ALL Muslim immigrants actually came/come to the West to wage violent jihad is, IMO, without merit.

        That they might become more devout, and demanding, down the road is possible, of course.

        A Muslim conquest of Western nations is more likely to be conducted by using our political and legal systems against us than through an armed insurgency.

        • Raja says

          Apr 16, 2015 at 10:01 pm

          PCRC,

          A conquest is a conquest be it any form. There are evil elements in Jihadi religion who are hell bent on the dominion of the devil. They want to snatch away all your natural rights through loopholes in your systems. The leftists are too stupid to bring about a “greater equality” as they do not know God nor can they see the handiwork of devil.How can God and devil be put on the same platform?

          Just because the Jews rejected a thorough scumbag doesn’t mean they should be hounded, hunted and killed for sport.These hateful elements of jihad have instigated/influenced very powerful like Hilter etc.

          I bow to the Danish queen for her wisdom. May many more wise people rise especially in Europe and West…!!!

        • Peggy says

          Apr 16, 2015 at 10:44 pm

          ”. The idea that ALL Muslim immigrants actually came/come to the West to wage violent jihad is, IMO, without merit”
          ———————————
          You’re right but how do you know who is telling you the truth and who is practicing taqyia?
          How would you go about only letting the good ones in?
          Isn’t it better to be safe than sorry?

        • Raja says

          Apr 17, 2015 at 7:44 am

          There are many muslims who are nice people especially the ones not influenced by Koran, “koran-science’ clerics, mullahs etc.They may not even be aware of conquest but what is their mind made of?

          They are told to hate Western system that is “man-made”. Islam is from “god”. They generally do not have the moral standards as that of Christianity.. What is bad for the world is perfectly acceptable in Islam. Islam is not only cruel to non muslims it has stranglehold on its faithfuls similar to that of some churches.They are taught the the bible is corrupted. How can a community that has animosity towards the world ever integrate with it? Should the west nurture a community or idea that is supremacist, hateful, crime-ridden? Is the West mindful that the moderate is generally a silent spectator and a cheerleader if he is intoxicated with Koran. Why do you want to nurture an intolerant brute who slits your throat on the drop of a hat because of his culture. The best muslim is the one who leaves Islam or converts to Christianity.

  16. Robin Johnson says

    Apr 16, 2015 at 2:32 am

    A realistic lady. Good for her.

    The religion of peace?
    Absolutely not
    http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/quran/023-violence.htm

    So called ‘Moderate’ Muslims show their true colours > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGSJ8mDcYPA

    The hardline Islamists behind many UK mosques > http://www.lapidomedia.com/analysis-mosque-war-in-uk

    Pegida > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grwH3dMBJk4

    The future is grim unless something changes > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_16uxgByVE

    What happens when the Muslim population in each country exceeds 2% >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpM6QKaAgP0

    We have a very very serious problem that is doubling in size every 10 years and it’s a deadly serious threat to our way of life …..
    1,000,000 Muslim Londoners support ISIS > https://muslimstatistics.wordpress.com/2014/11/02/80-of-london-muslims-support-isis/

    Coptic warning > http://nocompulsion.com/a-coptic-warning-to-the-world/

  17. Judi says

    Apr 16, 2015 at 2:42 am

    Kudos to Queen Margarethe for having the “balls” to air her views. However, why has Denmark let the situation get to this stage in the first place?

  18. Laura says

    Apr 16, 2015 at 5:47 am

    Since last Friday some 8,000 plus Africans have cone across the Mediterranean sea from Libya, many of them will be muslims and some will have hatred in their hearts.
    The Italians are now ‘rescuing’ boat loads of ‘migrants’ off the Libyan coast and taking them back to Italy, instead of turning the boats back…a recipe for complete disaster. As I write there will be hundreds of unskilled, aggressive ‘migrants’ bobbing around in the Med waiting for the foolish Italians to ‘rescue’ them, take them to safety then allow them to set off for their preferred destination, somewhere in Europe.
    You don’t have to be a genius to realise what this means for Europe if it is allowed to continue, and at present there seems to be no appetite to confront the issue, politicians seem more interested in doing more to save the lives of ‘migrants’ than in what the relentless tide of new arrivals will ultimately do to their respective countries.
    Even the Icelanders are ‘rescuing’ ‘migrants’ in the Med, but delivering them to Italy, NOT Iceland.
    If more people like the danish Queen spoke out, we might then see a reversal of inward migration with mass expulsions of undesirable ‘cultural enrichers.’

  19. Steven says

    Apr 16, 2015 at 7:35 am

    The biggest ball is……Danish Queen Margrethe II.
    Very very brave woman who is not afraid to speak up the truth. She’s a legend!!

  20. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Apr 16, 2015 at 10:46 am

    It seems that the Danes have more sense politically than other Scandinavian countries. They sent their young men to fight in Afghanistan; I didn’t see any Norwegians or Swedes there. But, then again, those are the two countries that award the awful Nobel Peace Prize: Yasir Arafat. Al Gore. Barack Hussein Obama.

    It seems to me that they should give a Nobel Peace Prize to Benjamin Netanyahu. But he’s a Jew, and the Scandinavians have nasty, unjustifiable thoughts about Jews. You’d think they’d have rethought that after the slaughter of six million of them.

  21. Hans larsen says

    Apr 16, 2015 at 1:21 pm

    Maggie Thatcher Lives!

    God Bless the Danes!

    The Danes helped their Jews escape during the NAZI period so that only 284 of an estimated 7,000 Jews in the area were rounded up, and over the next several weeks most of them made their way to Sweden.

  22. underbed cat says

    Apr 16, 2015 at 1:38 pm

    It is a relief to read about a woman leader, Queen Margrethe ll, who knows about the dangers.She is a courageous woman …wonderful. I agree with Peggy however, that the influx of muslims is the danger. Since this is the mode of occupation and even if all muslims do not turn to jihad it is also a religious obligation to do so. The mosques reinforce this because they pray for the infidels to be killed. So this is the perfect system and doctrine of terror to accomplish a new caliphate. This dilemma is so incredible stealth. The situation in Italy with boat loads of people seemingly seeking to be saved may really be an organized method of massive infiltration. Many could be the coming army to take out Rome.

  23. gts58 says

    Apr 16, 2015 at 2:17 pm

    Obama is not going to like this! He will probably issue an executive order condemning Denmark! Or maybe he will go out and attack Denmark and establish an Islamic caliphate!

    • Greg says

      Apr 16, 2015 at 2:20 pm

      Obama, couldnt stand up to mentally and she would wipe the floor with him intellectually

  24. David says

    Apr 16, 2015 at 2:43 pm

    Good words do not supplant the fact that they will kill western democracies by demographics alone. They have no reason to be in civilized nations as they have no intention of becoming civilized.

    “If we are practicing muslims, we are above the law of the land.” -Mustafa Carroll, Director, CAIR Texas, USA.

    “Ultimately, we (Muslims) can never be full citizens of this country…because thee is no way we can be fully committed tot he institutions and ideologies of this country.” -Ihsan Bagby, -CAIR

  25. Linda Rivera says

    Apr 16, 2015 at 5:23 pm

    It is shameful that not a single member of the UK royal family will speak one word of warning about Islam.

  26. MrBiggs says

    Apr 16, 2015 at 7:44 pm

    We love her. And I know better now why Danes love her…..

  27. Tall Mo says

    Apr 16, 2015 at 7:49 pm

    The Queen said
    “det er afgørende, at vi giver Islam et modspil.”
    The Headline in the article is using an incorrect translation
    “Modspil” does NOT mean Opposition, but means more along the line of dialog, discussion, debate
    (“spil”, the main part of this word literally means “to play” )
    “Modstand” is the correct word for opposition

    “To add to the controversy H.R.H. Queen Margrethe has been gravely misquoted in an article that was featured in the Daily Telegraph last year (quoted without permission):

    Queen Margrethe II of Denmark has called on the country “to show our opposition to Islam”, regardless of the opprobrium such a stance provokes abroad.

    What she said was: “det er afgørende, at vi giver Islam et modspil.”, the problem is the translation of the word ‘modspil’ doesn’t translate into “opposition” but rather “dialogue”, so the translation of the sentence could be (beware I’m not a scholar, and it’s not a literal translation) “it is important that we engage in a dialogue with Islam”.”
    http://www.kimbach.org/…/hitchhickers-guide-to-the…/

  28. Sherwood says

    Apr 18, 2015 at 2:15 pm

    One would hope to see other monarchs join the discussion, such as Queen Elizabeth. What the world desperately needs is the voices of true and courageous leaders. Our comments here will be seen by few. But those who have inherited or been voted into power owe we the people a stand that puts an end to inhumanity. All of us, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Evangelicals, non-believers, and others, including Muslims who know their religion is in bad need of reform and bringing into the 21st century, need to come together as one and put an end to this insanity and hatred that has raised its head at a time that what the world needs is cooperation, collaboration, and love. The Danes can be proud of their Queen.

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