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This law is seen as problematic as it targets less than 0.1% of Denmark's population — Muslim women whose choose to wear the niqab or the burqa. [15] In addition, a law introduced in 2019 requires a person to shake hands with officials at their naturalisation ceremony if they wish to take Danish citizenship. [16]
Racism in Denmark often targets immigrants, particularly non-white or non-Western immigrants, including Black people, Romani people, Muslim people, and Inuit people. Jewish people occasionally experience antisemitism in Denmark. Anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism in Denmark is tied to the centuries long history of the Danish slave trade and ...
Sherin Khankan (born Ann Christine Khankan; 13 October 1974) is Denmark's (and Scandinavia's) first female imam; she founded a women-led mosque in Copenhagen.She is also an activist on Muslim issues including female integration and extremism, and has written numerous texts discussing Islam and politics.
To mark Women's History Month, we're celebrating 10 amazing Muslim women who made huge contributions to world history but often go ignored by the official record.
Being American, like 6-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume was, does not protect us from the stigma of being Palestinian or Arab, Muslim and from the “Middle East.” Rather, these latter identities keep ...
At the same time, among people aged 20–29 years, the share of non-Western descendants who were presently taking an education was higher than for people of Danish origin (37% compared to 35% for men and 46% compared to 41% for women). In 2022 Statistics Denmark examined in particular the educational choices of non-Western descendants aged 22 ...
Muslim Americans have been at the center of this year's presidential election. Donald Trump's claim that he witnessed "thousands" of people "cheering" in New Jersey following the September 11 ...
Islam in Denmark, being the country's largest minority religion, plays a role in shaping its social and religious landscape. [2] According to a 2020 analysis by Danish researcher Brian Arly Jacobsen, an estimated 256,000 people in Denmark — 4.4% of the population — were Muslim in January, 2020. [ 3 ]