
Church Minister Dahlin to fight religious extremism
It will be a crucial priority for the new church minister, Morten Dahlin, to crack down harder on religious extremism. “As Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs, I will guard the national church, but I will also use my post as church minister to participate in the fight against religious extremism,” the newly appointed minister told Ritzau. Morten Dahlin believes that the challenge of religious extremism is greater than many people think. “If you are in doubt about it, you just have to see what is happening in the streets of Copenhagen: Jews being spat on on the S-train and parades in Nørrebro shouting about Islamic jihad,” he said. In recent weeks, the war between Israel and Hamas has led to large demonstrations in Copenhagen, and Morten Dahlin emphasizes that not everyone should be lumped together. “Fortunately, there is the right to demonstrate freely in Denmark, and many take to the streets with peaceful messages that you can more or less agree with,” he said. “But there are groups on the streets shouting that Palestine is occupied and that it must be solved with jihad, and this kind of thing has no place in our society.” Dahlin highlights social control in Muslim environments as a problem he will try to combat./ritzau/