The New York Times:
Raid in Denmark to Dislodge Iraqi Refugees Leads to Protests and Hunger Strike

The church Brorsons Kirke in Copenhagen had been shelter for a number of Iraqi refugees who were not accepeted by the Danish government. This week, the police removed these persons from the church to send them back to Iraq. This action made a number of Danes protest against it by blocking the streets through which the bus should transport the refugees away. What you see in the video is how the police brutally and violently tried to get the protesting people out of the way.

One thing is of course the law of asylum that says under which circumstances refugees would be accepted or not. And if we would assume that the Danish governement went by the books, there would be one or another reason why these refugees couldn’t be accepted. However, they searched asylum in that church, and there were people who cared and helped them, which is a good thing under any circumstances.

I am not a “believer”, I am just brought up in a society that calls itself a Christian society, and thus I am brought up with what you could call Christian values. But being grown up and having met people from all over the world, I have learned that those “Christian values” are basically the same as those values that probably any other religion in the world supports. And what happened here in Copenhagen this Thursday the 13 of August is an incredible proof of how badly the Danish government and its executive powers failed again in considering “Christian values”.

I really hope that this is going to change with the next election, and that the Danes will wake up and realise that they are going the wrong way here.