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01-29-2005, 12:13 PM
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/19804f7a-719b-11d9-9f56-00000e2511c8.html
Muslim call irks Danish leader
By Clare MacCarthy in Copenhagen
Published: January 29 2005 02:00 | Last updated: January 29 2005 02:00
A vitriolic row over race relations erupted into the heart of Denmark's general election campaign yesterday when Islamic leaders urged the country's 170,000 Muslims to vote against the ruling centre-right coalition.
The call, which drew a furious response from Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the prime minister, came as 300 Danish intellectuals and artists, including the film director Lars von Trier, also said they were mobilising a protest against Denmark's military presence in Iraq.
I thought the US was going it alone.
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Mr Fogh Rasmussen responded angrily and immediately to the proposed intervention of Denmark's imams: "They should keep their fingers out of politics," Mr Fogh Rasmussen said. "In Denmark we keep politics and religion separate. Imagine if Danish priests were to use church pulpits to urge people to vote for particular parties," he said.
If priests were voicing in churches to their congregations to vote one or another, they would be in jail. Why is it different?
Muslim call irks Danish leader
By Clare MacCarthy in Copenhagen
Published: January 29 2005 02:00 | Last updated: January 29 2005 02:00
A vitriolic row over race relations erupted into the heart of Denmark's general election campaign yesterday when Islamic leaders urged the country's 170,000 Muslims to vote against the ruling centre-right coalition.
The call, which drew a furious response from Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the prime minister, came as 300 Danish intellectuals and artists, including the film director Lars von Trier, also said they were mobilising a protest against Denmark's military presence in Iraq.
I thought the US was going it alone.
...
Mr Fogh Rasmussen responded angrily and immediately to the proposed intervention of Denmark's imams: "They should keep their fingers out of politics," Mr Fogh Rasmussen said. "In Denmark we keep politics and religion separate. Imagine if Danish priests were to use church pulpits to urge people to vote for particular parties," he said.
If priests were voicing in churches to their congregations to vote one or another, they would be in jail. Why is it different?