Denmark Vows Zero Tolerance After Week Of Insane Muslim Riots
Hundreds of predominately Muslim youths have taken to the streets in riots across Denmark this week as the youngsters remained silent on the motive.
The government stressed Friday it had zero tolerance for the troublemakers, less than a year after violent riots raged for days in Copenhagen over the closure of a youth centre.
Small groups of youths have set dozens of cars and dumpsters ablaze. Police officers and fire brigades have been met with stonethrowing and molotov cocktails in five consecutive nights of violence in the capital that have gradually spread to other Danish towns.
Some 50 people aged 15 to 25 have been arrested during the past week, charged with arson and violence against police officers.
While last year’s riots were caused by youths angry over the closure of the youth centre, this time around authorities were at a loss to explain the violence.
“We don’t know exactly what’s behind it,” Copenhagen police spokesman Flemming Steen Munch told AFP.
The riots began at the weekend in Copenhagen’s heavily immigrant populated neighbourhoods of Noerrebro and Vesterbro, but have since spread to several other areas, including Denmark’s second biggest city Aarhus and other regions have no significant numbers of immigrants.
According to media reports, some of those taking part in the riots were aged 10 to 12 years old, though police said no one that young had been arrested.
Some have suggested that new regulations that allow police to search people at random for weapons, even without suspicion, have left youths in Noerrebro feeling harassed, while others accused the police of racism.
Munch said those could be the reasons for the riots, but also offered up other explanations.
“They don’t like that we are in the area of Noerrebro and looking for weapons on youngsters, they don’t like that we are trying to stop the cannabis market, and a few other things have been mentioned too, such as the problem with the Mohammed drawings,” he said.
He was referring to the reprinting of a controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed in 17 Danish newspapers on Wednesday, a move that has angered parts of the Muslim world.
Immigrants make up around five percent of Denmark’s population of 5.4 million, while those of Arab or Muslim origin represent 3.5 percent.
Munch rejected the racism charge.
“According to my knowledge we don’t have any racism in the Copenhagen or Danish police force,” he said.
Copenhagen chief police inspector Per Larsen said police now found themselves in “a vicious cycle” with the Muslim youths and warned the riots “could spread like wildfire.”
Justice Minister Lene Espersen meanwhile urged parents to take responsibility for their children.
The riots are “alarming and worrying. It is totally unacceptable to behave this way in a democratic society,” she told AFP through a spokesman.
“We will have zero tolerance,” for the youths, she said.
“They will be brought before a judge and be held responsible for their actions,” she said, adding: “We must also ask ourselves what we can do better and how we can include parents so that they take full responsibility to ensure that their children behave properly.”
(Agencies)
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Denmark doesn’t do racism. So the charges are specious. What Denmark IS doing is cracking down on Moose-head violence. What these pricks are really pissed about is that Denmark is taking a stand against them.
Poor Moose-heads always playing the victim. Oh, but they’re never the culprits either now are they?
Yes, indeed more chaos brought to the west by the practicioners of the Religion of Bullshit…er I mean.. peace.
February 15th, 2008 at 7:49 pmThey should start holding their parents responsible. If they expell a couple of families for law-breaking actions that will cool the ardor for violence of the rest; their parents will start kicking some juvenile behind.
February 15th, 2008 at 7:57 pmHolding their parents responsible? Who do you think is teaching them that this behavior is encouraged by allah? You’re right about one thing, the parents are the problem, but it’s not from a lack of involvement in their kids’ lives. Islam is a cancer on this earth and can only be cured as such, radiation treatment.
February 15th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Arthuraria: now there’s a suggestion. I think you’ve hit it on the nailhead. A little chemo oughta do plenty of good for that 5% of the Danish population.
February 15th, 2008 at 11:17 pmWater boarding would be a good place to start and if that doesn’t work then try drowning, it has proven to be very effective!
February 16th, 2008 at 11:36 amThe Danes have more guts than the rest of the world when it comes to confronting those whose fail to understand they don’t rule the world.
February 17th, 2008 at 10:43 pmEvery Dane (and others) should take a stand and remind these Muslims that they have no right to tell others what they can view or not view. Muslims don’t eat pork or like dogs, does then mean the Danes can eat port or have dogs? Does this then also mean the Danes cannot view a cartoon of Muhammad? No it would not, because the restriction is a restriction placed on the Muslim…it is the Muslim who cannot view a cartoon or a depiction…not the rest of the free World…Every Muslim needs to understand that.
Your Muslim restriction and offence is just that a Muslim restriction and offence, it has nothing to do with the rest of the World.
Anyone found to be rioting should be deported to his country of origin with his parents. If they do not value the freedoms of their host country then they should lose it.