Danes Swing Naziward...Again.
(Bloomberg) Support for Denmark's anti-immigration Danish People's Party has soared in the wake of Muslim protests against cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, an opinion poll shows....
...The 11-year-old DPP, which in 2002 compared Islam to a ``plague,''...
....``We're witnessing a shift in the Danish political landscape,'' Buch said. ``This can, without a doubt, be attributed to the whole Muhammad cartoon debate.''...
`...`The Danish People's Party has been able to tell people, just look, we were right all along,'' said Lars Bille, associate professor at Copenhagen University in a Feb. 14 interview....
...The DPP has a history of insulting Islam. Parliamentarian and priest Jesper Langballe in 2002 compared it with Nazism, calling it a ``plague'' in Europe....
...Finance spokesman Kristian Thulesen Dahl in 2001 called Islam ``the greatest threat to freedom since communism,'' while Kjaersgaard in 1999 said immigrants arrive in Denmark ``with male chauvinism, ritual slaughtering, female circumcision and clothes that subjugate women, all of which belong in the darkest middle ages.''...
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