Only a naive leftist would suggest mass attendance to this terrorist's funeral doesn't reflect large radical segment in the immigrant community. But then again, they are in an entirely different country, so they can even begin to understand and don't need to. They live is a bubble of moral equivalence, relativism, egalitarianism, and naivety. Since American liberals love Muslims so much, perhaps they can take them off our hands. Denmark has had its full of Muslims and that is why the nationalist party is popular over there. As a response to mass immigration, over, they have made tighter immigration laws and reduced immigration around 70% beginning in 2001 through today(though it should be more restrictive and restricted to Europeans only). They have also the strictest asylum laws in Europe. Events like this reflect why these policies are correct and reflect the Danish people's dislike of immigration overall.
Denmark Saves 10 Billion by Restricting Third World Immigration FrontPage Magazine
Not really, I'd suggest a rational realist who can count. 500 people, an undetermined number of whom may well not have been Muslim, and not even radicalised Muslim in any event attended the funeral. This is out of a Muslim population of Denmark that numbers around 222,700, roughly 4% of the total population of Denmark. Just putting matters into perspective.
I would suggest that the political Right has an agenda of scaremongering against "the other" whoever they decide is target du jour; admittedly a very effective tactic in hard economic times, just look back to the 1930's to see how effective scapegoating Jewish people was.
Yea, I suppose all this radical islamist's non-muslims friends, I am sure it was a very diverse gathering. What you are saying sounds foolish. Honestly, why are you being deliberately obtuse? Have some common sense here. They are clearly all of immigrant and islamic background if you look at the videos and photos. Point me to all the Danes and Europeans in the crowd?
No one is saying every Muslim in Denmark is a terrorist. That was never the point until you on the Left made it as a strawman argument. Not every Muslim in Denmark needs to show up to reflect the fact that the new multicultural society in Denmark that is the result of mass immigration has led to this social tension. Community fracture and ghettoization has resulted in fanning the flames of radicalism that are already inherent in the Islamic religion. These two societies clearly aren't compatible and when you have large gatherings in favor of a terrorist like this in an immigrant area this reflects this incompatibility of cultures. This is why immigration needs to stop. There has been progress with reducing numbers and that is why Denmark doesn't have the issues of say France for example, but they need to limit immigration to nations within Europe and begin repatriation of these illegals and many of these phony asylum seekers.
This isn't scapegoating, this is the reality of multiculturalism. But I suppose more incidents like this are worth your striving for this utopian dream, since you are off in your own liberal cocoon in America, and can make these pronouncements of equality and cultural relativism with no consequences. This isn't an issue of economics, Denmark has a strong economy relatively speaking in the Eurozone. This is a social and cultural issue more than one of economics, and it has existed in the years for the economic crisis, so it isn't an issue of "economic scapegoating" as you claim.
However, to suggest mass immigration in places like say the UK doesn't harm working class people is just ignorant. The fact is, the all the left wing and the so called center right parties in Europe have given the shaft to the working class on this immigration issue. The Left wing despises working class Europeans and is more interested in creating a new voting bloc for themselves with these immigrants, and Center right parties either want cheap labor or are too cowardly to address the issue. However, your sentiment is reflective of left wing and social democratic parties here, and the reason much of their working class constituency is going too nationalist right wing parties, including in my country. They refuse the stand up for the interests of working people, whose wages are undercut by mass immigration, and whose public services like healthcare and housing are strained by these new arrivals.