Denmark: Ramadan celebration in Parliament The Danish People’s Party and Christian Democrats are trying to stop a controversial end-of-Ramadan meal to be held in Parliament. In a joint complaint to the Parliament chairman, Thor Pedersen (V), the two parties say that the parliament building shouldn’t be used for such thins, and that the event conflicts with the constitution, which says that Denmark has freedom of religion, not equality of religions
Odense: Bus drivers shouldn’t fast and drive Muslim bus drivers shouldn’t work during Ramadan, says the Danish People’s Party in Odense.
Denmark: 55% say Islam bad for social cohesion 49.7% of the Danes think that the immigration of the past four decades has been positive for Danish society and 42.4% see immigration as a negative phenomenon, according to an opinion poll conducted by Rambøll/Analyse Danmark for Jyllands-Posten. While a small majority welcomes immigration, many Danes don’t like the presence of Islam in Denmark. 54.9% of the respondents see the presence of Islam as a problem for the cohesion of Danish society
Denmark: Help for immigrant girls suffering from eating-disorders ‘New Danish’ young women also get anorexia and bulimia and starve themselves to death. But the counselors who offer help never hear from those girls, who secretly turn matchstick-thin. Eating disorders don’t affect just teenagers named Mette and Caroline.
Denmark: Children’s fasting ‘neglect’ The integration spokesperson for the Conservatives, Naser Khader, attacked the Muslim Ramadan in a letter ( PDF , DA) to the Council of Ethics. The Danish Council of Ethics advises the parliament about ethical problems relating to bio-medicine. He asked the council to decide if it’s ethical for children to fast
Denmark: Multi-faith playground This past Saturday the Danish town of Fredericia inaugurated a ‘play-bridge between faiths’. After a year and many hours of hard work, Fredricia has a new ‘multi-faith’ playground with buildings shaped like a Hindu temple, a mosque and a church. The playground is the result of collaboration between Hindus, Muslims and Chrsitians in the city.
Odense: “Many are actually afraid of Danish culture” Hana Al-Khamri with another report from the Odense neighbohood of Vollsmose. See also: Odense: “We are only Danish on paper” I know that the woman before me was born and raised in Denmark
Denmark: Correction to yesterday’s story Kristeligt Dagblad published a correction to their story from yesterday . Non-Western immigrant women have 1.9 children on average, just like Danish women
Denmark: Non-Western women having less children than Danes Update: updated figures for previous years. A long-time trend of fewer births among immigrants means that their birthrate is now lower than for ethnic Danes. While Danish women have 1.9 children on average, non-Western immigrant women have 1.6
Denmark: More 2nd generation immigrants buying residences A third of non-Western second generation immigrants aged 30 own their residences, reports Statistics Denmark. The same goes for 40% of non-Western second generation immigrants aged 35