Danes reject the radical

Washington Times:

Ground zero for the feared clash of civilizations appears to be a remarkably civilized place.
On the bustling, bike-thronged streets of Denmark's capital city, it is hard to find evidence of the grim frustrations that made this tidy country the center of a global furor over freedom and faith that, at its height, threatened to pit the West against the Muslim world in a no-win debate over fundamental values.
The situation also reflected a crisis facing Denmark and other European countries struggling to assimilate large numbers of immigrants from Muslim lands -- immigrants often largely isolated from the native population and suspicious of the secular, liberal culture in which they now live.
"I think we have moved beyond the cartoon controversy, but it was certainly an unusual thing for a small country such as ours to find itself the focus of such a heated situation," Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen acknowledged in a recent interview in his Copenhagen office.
But Denmark has been changed, in ways many would not have predicted a short while ago.
Mr. Rasmussen's center-right government, the focus of considerable domestic and international criticism in handling the "cartoon controversy," is stronger of late in the polls, while the center-left opposition Social Democrats founder. The populist Danish People's Party, coalition partner with the prime minister's Liberal Party, also gained because of its tough stand on immigration issues.
Yet, Denmark's single most popular political figure is a Muslim, Naser Khader, a Syrian-born moderate member of parliament who founded a post-cartoon movement -- called Democratic Muslims -- to promote the peaceful fusion of Danish values, political liberty and Islam. Mr. Khader, 42, is seen as a rising star in Danish politics, and his own party recently reorganized its top ranks to give him greater visibility.
Meanwhile, the Copenhagen imam whom many here blame for fanning Arab and Muslim fury last winter, just as it appeared the fires had been contained, announced May 11 that he was leaving Denmark for the Palestinian territories because of the intense criticism directed at him.

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He belongs witht he real estate worshipping death cult in Palestine. He created much mischief with a dishonest campaign that resulted in many Muslim deaths in Muslim lands as the emotionally immature Muslims threw tantrums over cartoons. More than anything since 9-11 he lowered respect for Islam. The boycott he sponsored against his own country has also resulted in people outside the middle east purchasing more Danish goods. I recently bought several sets of Leggos for my grand kids and had the joy of watching them have a great time building things right out of the plastic bin the product comes in now.