الدنمارك: مخاوف من انتشار مظاهر أسلمة الدنمارك

- خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

تشهد الساحة السياسية الدنماركية جدلًا واسعًا عن دور الإسلام وانتشار مظاهره بالبلاد، في أعقاب رفض "جمعية المستأجرين" بقرية "كوكيدال" - ذات الغالبية الإسلامية - تمويل أحد الاحتفالات النصرانية بمبلغ 1200 دولار في الوقت الذي موّلت فيه احتفالات المسلمين بأعيادهم بمبلغ 10 آلاف دولار.

وقد أشار "إسماعيل مستازي" إلى أن التصويت على تقديم الدعم كانت نتيجته رفض الهيئة المكونة من 10 أفراد والتي من بينها 9 مسلمين؛ وهذا الرفض دفع "توم بنكي" - المتحدث باسم حزب الشعب الدنماركي - إلى بيان المخاوف السياسية والمحلية من دور الأفراد الذين يحاولون تحويل الدنمارك إلى بلد إسلامي، وضعف تأثير محاولات دمج المسلمين في التقاليد الدنماركية، والتي تحل التقاليد الإسلامية محلها. المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Converting Denmark into a Muslim Country

Muslim immigrants in a town near Copenhagen have forced the cancellation of traditional Christmas displays this year even while spending lavishly on the Islamic Eid celebration marking the end of Ramadan.

The controversy has escalated into an angry nationwide debate over the role of Islam in post-Christian Denmark, where a burgeoning Muslim population is becoming increasingly assertive in imposing its will on a wide range of social and civic issues.

The latest dust-up involves the Egedalsvænget housing complex in Kokkedal, a town situated some 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of Copenhagen where Arab and Turkish immigrants now comprise more than half the total population.

At a recent meeting of the Egedalsvænget tenants’ association, the Muslim majority on the Board of Directors refused to authorize spending 7,000 Danish kroner ($1,200) for the community’s annual Christmas event.

The vote came shortly after the same Board of Directors authorized spending 60,000 kroner ($10,000) on a large communal celebration of the Muslim holiday Eid. Five out of nine of the board members are Muslims.

A Muslim member of the board, Ismail Mestasi, defended the decision to cancel the Christmas tree and party, arguing that no one had offered to organize the celebration. “No one wanted to take on the responsibility. A vote was taken and it ended as it ended. I don’t celebrate Christmas, but I was asked to get the tree. And I didn’t want to.” But a non-Muslim board member, Karin Leegaard Hansen, refuted him, saying that she herself had offered to take on the responsibility, but that she was overruled by the Muslim board members.

The dispute, which is the latest in an ever-growing list of Muslim-related controversies in Denmark, was first reported by the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) on November 7. Since then, the issue has snowballed into a national scandal and has become a key topic for public debate in the Danish media as well as in political circles.

A spokesman for the Danish Conservative Party, Tom Behnke, says he fears there are people who want to convert Denmark into a Muslim country. In an interview with DR News, Behnke said: “I think it is deeply alarming that our integration efforts are so ineffective that the moment there is a Muslim majority, we do away with good-old Danish traditions and introduce Muslim traditions instead. We are living in Denmark, and people have to adapt to the situation that applies here.”