 Hundreds of thousands of Danes and foreigners residing in the country went to the polls on Tuesday, November 15, to elect new municipality councils across the Scandinavian country, with many Muslims voting for pro-immigrants parties. | According to Danish law, immigrants who have spent more than three years in the country are entitled to voting in local and national elections. Danish Muslims are estimated at 180,000 or around 3 per cent of Denmark's 5.4 million. The majority of Muslims in Denmark are residing in the country's capital. | |
"Me and my wife gave the thumbs-up for the Social Democrats," Baker, a Turkish-Kurdish immigrant, told IslamOnline.net after casting his ballot in Ishoj Kommune, a Copenhagen suburb. "They better serve our interests," added the 45-year-old immigrant who has been living in Denmark for more than 26 years.
| Or there's gonna be hell to pay!" |
Asked if she has done the same, his hijab-clad wife nodded meekly responded to the affirmative. Baker, who now lives on social aid provided by the government for unemployed immigrants after a back surgery, insisted that Muslims in the immigrants-populated municipality were voting for the SD for political rather than religious reasons.
| "I got a bad back. Gimme my check." |
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