Sweden is Drowning in Foreigners

DPP Election poster 2007: Sweden is drowning in Foreigners - they haven't got a Pia Kjærsgaard


Sweden is used as a scare-mongering symbol. The Danish People's Party is a very responsible parliamentary player in Danish politics, though. It forms a parliamentary majority with the liberal-conservative Fogh Rasmussen government. It is compensated handsomely for this support. The party, under the leadership of Pia Kjaersgaard, is working for the poor and elderly by giving ear-marked money in the annual budget negotiations.

Welfare, however, is something that is reserved to ethnic Danes, not to foreign "aliens". When it comes to foreigners the party is xenophobic - to say the least. It is also throwing verbal turds around to an extent that it's an embarrassment to Fogh Rasmussen and to Danish society in general. In the election campaign 2007 its member of the European Parliament Mogens Camre called one of the leaders of the new centre party New Alliance an "Arab carpet trader" with a "carpet-trader logic".

The Danish People's Party is reinforcing known stereotypes about the immigrant population in Denmark. Look at the picture in the election poster: Immigrants are religious devout muslims facing a traditional Arab gate. Some of the immigrants do live up to this description, and they have a right to do so. But investigations have shown that the typical muslim immigrant gets rather secular and a little materialistic, taking only superficial, "cultural" part of their religion along with them into the new society - a little bit like the other Danes. So what's the big deal? The Danish labour market needs labour. Some immigrants have come to the country, some fleeing from religious persecution, some looking for work. And they do most of the menial jobs - for a low pay. Work and work conditions most Danes would discard. Your country - your choice! - Your choice not to be like Sweden, a country with a booming economy and an industry that has not been outsourced completely to low-wage countries. Sweden, still being the genuine Scandinavian welfare state, with some solidarity to people with less means.

Thy Kingdom Come - Hedegaard's Hate Speech

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LARS HEDEGAARD:The Growth of Islam in Denmark and the Future of Secularism. There appears to be a growing realization among demographers that, despite the anti-immigration policies of the current Danish government, third-world immigrants and their descendants will constitute the majority of the Danish population before the end of this century. A sizeable segment of this third-world population will be Muslim, and well before the middle of the 21st century, the number of Muslims will be large enough to have irreversibly changed the composition and character of the country. (Sappho.dk)

Listening to Lars Hedegaard's hate speech on Sappho one gets the impression that so-called democratic Denmark has moved back to the 1930s. It's not hard to see where the inspiration comes from, and it's not only from xenophobic Mogens Camre, who has said similar things at Danish People's Party meetings (some of the nonsense quoted on his website), it goes further back in history.

In the 1970s a vet from the progress Party (forerunner to the Danish People's Party) got a sentence for saying that they were "breeding like ......" (guess what?). Hedegaard's message is not quite as blunt, but the content is the same.

Hedegaard seems to be unaware of demographic data saying that the birth rate falls among immigrant women when they have stayed in Denmark for some time. Quite apart from that, - isn't it a fact that we need "more hands" in this society? In Hedegaard's view these hands should not be muslim hands. Christian hands are so much better in his opinion!