This is the downside of abandoning an overarching national culture and turning your country (and capital city) into something resembling an international airport terminal. Diversity is not our strength. It is, in many respects, our greatest challenge.
This is a press release from the Danish government. For those unfamiliar with Danish politics, the Danish government is a coalition government. It is led - I almost wrote: as always - by Social Democrat Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.
The press release is in Danish. I am sure you can find a translation tool that will read it for you.
But the headline reads: "Denmark and a majority of EU countries push for return hubs and reception centres outside Europe."
I come from a Danish opposition party. But now I am going to do something rather unusual. It is in the service of a higher cause.
The truth that the centre-left and left in the European Parliament cannot bear to hear - and instead label racist - is one that the Danish Social Democrats have understood. That is why they are Europe's most sensible Social Democrats. Nobody else even comes close.
The Danish Social Democrats have understood that the welfare state breaks down if a country accepts uncontrolled or near-uncontrolled immigration. They have understood that we are not merely talking about economic collapse. We are also talking about the breakdown of the social contract.
Why, ask the Danish Social Democrats, should people who have worked and paid taxes all their lives accept that people who arrived the day before yesterday can immediately draw on all the benefits that we have collectively insured ourselves against? No normal person can understand that - and nor should they be expected to.
The Danish Social Democrats also know - and vote accordingly - that it is immigrants who have a duty to integrate themselves (and preferably assimilate). They dare to say it out loud: we do not need "counter-citizens". We need fellow citizens.
And the Danish Social Democrats also dare to say openly that it is a major problem that the Muslim Brotherhood is infiltrating society. And that there are too few moderate Muslims willing to speak out against it (although, fortunately, they do exist).
My three Social Democratic colleagues in the European Parliament are among the very few normal people in Crazyville.
To all the social liberals, socialists, communists and Islamists on the Left who have cried themselves to sleep every night since we voted for the Return Regulation, I say this:
Be more like the Danish Social Democrats.
They are working for socially, economically and politically sustainable countries.
The rest of you are working for the opposite.
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Too many are too polite to say this.
But mass ritual prayer in public places is an act of domination.
The adhan - which declares there is no god but allah and Muhammad is his messenger - is, when called in a public place, a declaration of domination.
Perform these rituals in mosques if you wish. But they are not welcome in our public places and shared institutions.
And given their explicit repudiation of Christianity they certainly do not belong in our churches and cathedrals.
I am not suggesting everybody at Trafalgar Square last night is an Islamist. But the domination of public places is straight from the Islamist playbook.
Trafalgar Square belongs to all of us. It is a national memorial to our independence and our salvation.
Last night was not like a televised football match or a St Patrick’s Day celebration.
It was an act of domination and therefore division.
It shouldn’t happen again.