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Alex Vanopslagh wrote that Liberal Alliance's Mads Strange had asked a person who described himself as a conservative Muslim in the TV 2 program Højskolen on Wednesday if it was a problem that only 16 percent of Muslim men in Denmark believed that homosexuality was acceptable. According to Vanopslagh, the person rejected that it was a problem and would not answer what he personally thought about homosexuality. Vanopslagh wrote that he disagreed and considered homophobia to be among the least Danish things. He believed that Muslims could be Danish if they supported the fundamental values of democracy and had embraced Denmark. As a member of parliament, he claimed to have both the right and the duty to establish the requirements for Danish citizenship. He wrote that applicants should at a minimum acknowledge the precedence of Danish law over religious laws, an individual's right to make choices about his life, and equal rights for homosexuals. They should also not support Islamist regimes or terrorist movements. Therefore, Liberal Alliance would screen applicants and say no to individuals who had praised terrorism, supported Hamas or similar organizations, threatened people who left Islam, or acted hostile towards homosexuals, he wrote. Vanopslagh wrote that the government would reintroduce a bill on citizenship for 2,055 individuals. He referred to the government's own statement that applicants' values should be screened, but that the screening should not apply to the 2,055 individuals. According to him, this risked allowing Islamists, rabid anti-Semites, or anti-democrats to gain citizenship. Liberal Alliance would not vote for more citizenships until the screening was in place, Vanopslagh wrote. He described Danish citizenship as a gift rather than a right. #Danmark #Statsborgerskab #LiberalAlliance (translated)

Rikke Sten wrote that individuals with an income below 1 million were referred to as the poorest just a few months ago, while the blue were portrayed as evil for not giving 2 million Danes a large check, as the good did. She wrote that this portrayal had made Pia sad. Sten wrote that individuals with an income above 710,000 were now considered among the richest, and that it was seen as good to take student grants from those who were previously referred to as the poorest. She wrote that the terms good and evil depended on who used them. #politik #sociologi #samfund (translated)

The Baron of Øresund wrote that a new video, in his opinion, showed a Danish helicopter flying close to a Russian warship, and that the helicopter may have itself been the provocateur in the episode. He referred to Defense Minister Jeppe Bruus calling the video a Russian misinformation campaign and saying that some of the material did not originate from the day in question. The Baron of Øresund asked which parts did, and whether it included the footage of the helicopter near the ship. If it did, he believed that the Russians were justified in reacting as they did, under international law. He wrote that the Folketing and the media should demand answers, but that he did not have high hopes that they would do so. #forsvarspolitik #russiskkrig #modinformation (translated)

Eva Selsing wrote that she did not see it as a problem that the left was critical of B.T.'s conservative profile. On the contrary, she believed that praise from left-leaning politicians and commentators would be a cause for concern, as it could indicate that the media had deviated from its conservative line. She argued that B.T.'s direct conservatism scared a left that had had a significant influence on media debate for decades. According to Selsing, the left only supported conservative viewpoints it could control, and the more subdued conservatism had followed the left's norms of shaming, censorship, and cancellation. She wrote that this type of conservatism had dominated the Danish media landscape until a few years ago, and that the situation still prevailed outside of B.T. Selsing believed that B.T.'s success was partly due to the media offering conservative perspectives and analyses that the readers and viewers, according to her, could not find elsewhere. She criticized other media for presenting uniform headlines and analyses and for expressing outrage over differing opinions. She wrote that actors with interests in conformity and censorship therefore reacted strongly to B.T., and that she would be more concerned if they did not. #Borgerlighed #MedieDebat #Ytringsfrihed (translated)

Emilie Jäger wrote that she was proud to work at B.T., which she described as a free and independent media outlet with a civic foundation. According to her, this was reflected both in the newspaper's debate section and in the choice of topics. She believed that Denmark needed different media and mentioned Information, Politiken, DR, and B.T. as examples. Jäger wrote that she often received calls from dissatisfied politicians and their advisers, and occasionally even ministers. However, she had not experienced internal pressure from bosses regarding her political beliefs or about covering anyone in a certain way. She believed that B.T. also adhered to fundamental journalistic principles of hearing all parties, faithfully representing their viewpoints, and describing facts. According to Jäger, sources she interviewed both within and outside Christiansborg were sometimes dissatisfied, but her impression was that sources on both the right and left generally felt professionally treated. She also wrote that her management and colleagues, along with her, had turned a large deficit into a million-dollar surplus, while the newspaper played an important role in Danish democracy. #journalistik #demokrati #BorgerligtMedie (translated)

Lars Andersen wrote that Soleima from the Folk High School had reported 79-year-old Pia Kjærsgaard for violence, even though none of those present, according to him, had witnessed the violence. He expressed enthusiasm for the report and wrote that such behavior could increase the desire of Danes to remigrate what he called the Soleima segment. He added that only portraying Soleima wearing a bomb vest would, in his view, be more effective. #dkpol #vold #Soleima (translated)

Troels Lund Poulsen wrote that people should be able to choose between meatballs and falafel, and that it was a Danish value to celebrate diversity, as long as others' choices did not limit one's freedom. He wrote that he was saddened on Wednesday evening to see his colleague Morten Dahlin participate in the TV 2 program *Højskolen*, where the theme was Danishness. According to Troels Lund Poulsen, the former gang member Abud Mustafa would not participate in the dinner if any of the nine other participants drank wine with the meal. He saw it as an attempt to impose control over others. Troels Lund Poulsen wrote that the episode, in his opinion, illustrated something about integration. He believed that Danishness was not just about speaking the language or having a job, but also about tolerance, equality, equity, and acceptance of people who lived differently. He wrote that he respected that people believed in another god, but would not accept anyone dictating how others should live. He added that others should not limit his freedom or shame him for drinking a glass of red wine with dinner, and that one should not be tolerant of intolerant views. #Frihed #Forskellighed #Tolerance (translated)

Nadja Natalie Isaksen wrote that she had been in court the day before to see Nkumba Ludovic Tshiembe and hear his explanation. She wanted to assess his body language herself and get a sense of whether he regretted it, as she believed it could not be properly evaluated through the media coverage. She described it as unbearable to see Christian Johan Zedig's family in court and his wife crying. According to Isaksen, the wife said the case had destroyed everything. She wrote that the pain of Christian's family was hard to understand solely through media coverage, and that lawmakers should therefore attend court to see the consequences of the policies adopted by the Parliament. Isaksen called the one-year sentence unfair. She wrote that Tshiembe, in her impression, appeared affected, often looking down at the table or covering his face with his hands, and had difficulty looking at Zedig's wife. She recounted that Tshiembe had said that he felt terrible, but added that it could not bring Christian back. She believed that Tshiembe should be stripped of his Danish citizenship and permanently expelled. She referred to the fact that he had been convicted of aggravated assault and rape in 2014 and attempted murder in 2017, and wrote that the two girls would otherwise have had their father today. #Retten #Uretfærdighed #Justits (translated)

A provocative statue by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt has been installed in the European Parliament, depicting a naked Donald Trump covered in gold, sitting on a man and holding a golf club and scales of justice, which critiques Trump's threat to democratic values and climate change. #DonaldTrump #EvropskýParlament #socha (translated)

Morten Messerschmidt criticized Lars Løkke Rasmussen for allegedly saying to Berlingske that the voters of the Danish People's Party lacked knowledge and education. Messerschmidt felt that the statement suggested that the voters were idiots, and he called it disrespectful to the 14 percent of Danes who, according to him, would vote for the party – over 600,000 people. He wrote that voters could be called uneducated if the desire to protect Denmark, deport criminal foreigners, lower VAT and taxes, or give families more time together was viewed that way. Messerschmidt stated that he himself saw the desire to take care of Denmark as an expression of education and thanked the voters of the Danish People's Party for their courage. #DanskPolitik #DF #Vælgere (translated)

Rasmus Jarlov wrote that he believed many Danes were ashamed and angry that a man received a year in prison for killing a Swedish family man in Copenhagen. He emphasized that he did not speak on behalf of Denmark, but believed that most agreed with him. Jarlov called the sentence embarrassing and wrong and apologized to Sweden and the Zedig family because he felt they did not receive justice. #Danmark #Sverige #retfærdighed (translated)

Rikke Sten asked when the Danes would be shown greater trust and when there would be less interference in their lives. She thanked Alex Vanopslagh and encouraged the fight for freedom from political control, overregulation, prohibitions, bureaucracy, and petty details. https://t.co/quhaZCgILz #frihed #politiskstyring #danskere (translated)

Lars Boje Mathiesen wrote that the Citizens' Party would propose to revoke the citizenship of a man whom he described as an African and responsible for the murder of a Swedish family father. Mathiesen believed that the man should not return to Danish society. He wrote that the man had been convicted of serious violence, rape, attempted murder, and threats, and claimed that he had abused his citizenship. Mathiesen urged the other parties to support the proposal and said that several of them had expressed outrage on social media. Mathiesen pointed out that the Social Democrats and the Liberal Party, according to him, had been in power for years without raising the penalties. He also wrote that a unanimous Parliament had granted the man citizenship, and that the Danish People's Party had voted in favor, just as Mette Frederiksen and Inger Støjberg had personally voted in favor. #dkpol #dkmedier #dkpol #danmark #statsborgerskab (translated)

Mona Juul wrote that she rarely gave space to political opponents and colleagues on her side, but this time she thought it was important to highlight their warnings about misinformation. She mentioned, among other things, that Stinus Lindgreen from the Radical Left had written about daily Russian misinformation on social media and his concern that parts of the population had lost trust in the authorities. According to Juul, Karsten Hønge from SF had described lies and manipulations from the Kremlin, while Troels Lund Poulsen from the Liberal party had talked about anonymous profiles, conspiracy theories, and accusations directed at him. Alex Vanopslagh from the Liberal Alliance had written that Russia spread propaganda, and Ida Auken had warned that actors from St. Petersburg influenced who won Danish elections. Juul wrote that she herself saw conspiracy theories, deliberate misinformation, AI-generated lies, and Russian bot accounts on social media. She called the development a challenge for Danish democracy and believed that politicians must stand together because the truth was under pressure. She highlighted Danish news media and journalists as important for democratic information because the media had accountable editors-in-chief and were responsible to the Danish people and the Press Council. At the same time, she warned against videos on X, whose authenticity could not be established. Juul thanked her political colleagues for addressing coordinated misinformation and said that Russia wanted to create distrust among people. In response, she called for solidarity. #Misinformation #Demokrati #Sammenhold (translated)