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   From: heads-up-asses@radikale.dk   
      
   Denmark on Tuesday banned five Islamic clerics and an American   
   evangelical Christian pastor from entering the country, calling   
   them "hate preachers" who posed threats to public order.   
      
   The move came amidst a public backlash in Denmark against Islam   
   in the wake of Islamist violence a decade ago over Danish   
   newspaper cartoons satirising the Prophet Mohammad, a series of   
   deadly militant attacks in Europe including one in Denmark, and   
   a large influx of mainly Muslim migrants in 2015.   
      
   The blacklist, the first of its kind in Denmark, arose from   
   legislation passed last year allowing bans on foreign religious   
   figures the government deems to be a danger to public security.   
      
   "The government will not accept that hate preachers come to   
   Denmark to preach hatred against Danish society and indoctrinate   
   others to commit violence against women and children, spread   
   ideas about an (Islamic) caliphate and in general undermine our   
   fundamental values," Immigration Minister Inger Stojberg said.   
      
   The blacklist includes Islamic cleric Kamal El-Mekki from the   
   United States; Jamaican-born Canadian Bilal Philips, who lives   
   in Qatar; Mohamad al-Arifi and Salman al-Ouda from Saudi Arabia;   
   and Mohammad Rateb al-Nabulsi from Syria.   
      
   The sixth person on the list is Terry Jones, a Florida   
   evangelical Christian pastor who in 2010 raised an international   
   outcry when he threatened to burn copies of the Koran.   
      
   Stojberg's statement on the ban did not say whether any of the   
   named preachers had been in Denmark. But the law enacted last   
   year said it applied to those for whom there was a "reasonable   
   likelihood" they would enter the country.   
      
   It also said behaviour deemed to be hateful could arise from   
   statements or actions whether in Denmark or abroad.   
      
   Denmark became a target of radical Islamists in 2005 after the   
   publication of cartoons lampooning the Prophet Mohammad, which   
   led to sometimes deadly protests in the Muslim world.   
      
   In 2015, a Danish-born Muslim gunman killed two people in an   
   attack on a debating event and a Copenhagen synagogue before   
   being shot dead by police.   
      
   Public sentiment towards Islam and Muslim migrants has soured in   
   long liberal and tolerant Denmark. The European Union country   
   has imposed strict limits on immigration, citing security and   
   cultural concerns.   
      
   Anti-Muslim populist parties have gained strength throughout the   
   Nordic region, and elsewhere in Europe, since record numbers of   
   mainly Muslim migrants arrived in 2015. The anti-immigrant   
   Danish Peoples Party is now the second largest in parliament.   
      
   http://www.reuters.com/article/uk-denmark-security-religion-   
   idUSKBN17Y1N9   
       
      
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