Muslim Migrants Test the Limits of Denmark’s Tolerance

In Denmark, long famous for its easygoing tolerance, Muslim migrants have tested the limits of that tolerance. The Danes — both on the right and even more now, on the left — have put in place a series of measures to keep Muslim immigration to a minimum. Denmark’s example should serve as a model for other European countries. More on how Denmark has handled its Muslim problem can be found here: “Copenhagen: ‘We Have a Problem,’” by James Zumwalt, American Thinker, July 16, 2026:

Hollywood used a misquote from an aborted 1975 moon landing—“Houston, we have a problem”—to make the movie “Apollo 13,” and in doing so, it became memorialized; the movie demonstrated NASA’s success in using teamwork to solve an issue that could have devastated the mission. It is an approach Denmark’s politicians adopted to tackle their own problem.

In 2018, Danish leaders had an “aha” moment, recognizing a major issue. In Apollo 13, the astronauts and NASA operated as a team from the outset; however, it would take a few years for the Danes to be able to mirror that dynamic on a political level to solve the issue about to devastate their own mission.

The problem Denmark faced was only recognized after its leaders analyzed what immigration data were telling them. A podcast by Dr. Steve Turley does an outstanding job of highlighting both Denmark’s problem and its solution.

Denmark opened its borders only to later discover that Muslim immigrants were taking advantage of that open door. By 2018, data revealed Muslims making up 14% of the country’s population accounted for over 30% of its violent crimes. Of interest too was that the conviction rate for Danish citizens was only twelve out of every one thousand while the conviction rate for Somalis alone was 114 per 1,000.

Additionally, non-Western immigrants and their children were costing the Danish government $4.2 billion annually. Shockingly, the data showed that Danish was no longer the primary language spoken on the street; Shariah-compliant social norms were enforced by Muslim communities; women leaving their homes unveiled were harassed; young men questioning the Islamic faith were threatened; Muslim school children told their infidel schoolmates their country, culture, and civilization was inferior; etc.

Turley explains “these were not parallel societies in the sense of harmless cultural diversity” but “enclaves operating under a different legal and moral framework than the Danish constitution.” Muslim immigration was creating “a state within a state.” The assumption Muslim immigrants would assimilate as other immigrants had done in Denmark was not playing out….

The Danes have now recognized that Muslims had no intention of assimilating into the larger Danish society. After all, Muslims know from the Qur’an that while they are “the best of people,” the native Danes, as non-Muslims, are “the most vile of created beings.” Why, in that case, would the former want to become like the latter?

Denmark also acted to educate children in these designated ghetto areas concerning Western society. It mandated they attend at least 25 hours weekly at state daycare centers. There they learned Danish values, Christmas traditions, democratic norms, gender equality, etc. Parents refusing to comply lost their welfare benefits.

The Danes now insist that children living in Muslim neighborhoods be required to take instruction for at least 25 hours in Danish values, including democracy and gender equality. Any parents not complying with this re-education of their children will lose their welfare benefits. Many Muslim parents, not wanting to subject their children to such an education in Infidel values, but unwilling to forgo those welfare benefits, will likely choose to settle in other European countries that are less determined than Denmark to replace Islamic values with Western ones.

The left in Denmark has not only accepted what the Danish right has done to discourage Muslim immigration, but has even gone beyond the left’s policy, acting against Muslim clerics, imams, and scholars who teach Islam not just as a religion but as a political ideology, which the Danish left decries.

The left in Denmark has always stood for an expanding welfare state. But now it realizes that the Muslim economic migrants, who are determined to enjoy all of the benefits that the generous welfare state provides — free or subsidized housing, free medical care, free education, family allowances, and more — are costing the Danish state many billions of dollars, and that is money that is no longer available to provide benefits to the indigenous Danish poor. The left is thus determined to slash to the bone the number of these Muslim recipients of welfare benefits.

The left in Denmark has thus chosen to keep funding its welfare program for native Danes by slashing the number of Muslim economic migrants to a rock-bottom level, in 2025, of fewer than 1,000.

Yet even if Denmark cuts way down on Muslim migrants, there will still be hordes of Muslims streaming into other European countries, some of whom will continually be trying to enter the Danish state which, as a member of Schengenland, may be forced to allow them in.

The example of Denmark shows that the political left and right can unite on the need to limit Muslim immigration, and that, furthermore, the left, once made aware of the supremacism and misogyny of Islam, and of the sums spent on welfare benefits for Muslims that are no longer available to support the Danish poor, can even go further than the right in stopping this demographic conquest from within.