Students at the University of Copenhagen have protested what the local Jyllands-Posten newspaper called a "brutal attack" last week by Moslems against a Jewish teacher. The five assailants, who reportedly kicked and hit the teacher, said that the teacher had quoted the Qur'an - which an infidel is not allowed to do. The teacher, an instructor at the Carsten Niebuhr Institute, received medical treatment and is now on sick leave.
Also several days ago in Denmark, Moslem journalist and social worker Masoum Moradi received a death threat after he made a negative reference to the prophet Muhammad in a newspaper editorial. "Experts say Moradi isn't the only high-profile Muslim to be targeted by threats of violence," reports the Copenhagen Post. "Writers, critics and politicians in this country report increasingly aggressive reactions from Islamic fundamentalist circles in the national debate on Islam."
In a related item, a prominent Euro MP who has been designated to succeed Jean Marie Le Pen as head of the National Front in France has caused a storm by casting doubt on the existence of gas chambers in the Holocaust. Le Pen's deputy, Bruno Gollnisch, told reporters in Lyons this week, "There is not a serious historian alive today who adheres completely to the conclusions of the Nuremberg trials. I do not call into question the existence of the concentration camps, but as to the number of dead, historians can still have something to argue about. As to the existence of the gas chambers, that is up to the historians to determine." A leading anti-racist organization, LICRA, said it had asked the president of the European Parliament to sanction the National Front deputy. LICRA President Patrick Gaubert said he was "shocked" by the lack of immediate reaction by the European Parliament following Gollnisch's remarks. Demands have also been made for Gollnisch to be suspended from his professorship at a Lyons university.