Anyone who remembers the stance taken by the Danish government during the row over the Mohammed cartoons will think of that country as a leader in the fight for free speech. That was in 2006. Denmark now has a different government, and we live in times when free speech is increasingly under threat, and so this news comes as less of a surprise than it should.
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Denmark’s minister of foreign affairs Lars Loekke Rasmussen, minister of justice Peter Hummelgaard, and deputy prime minister Jakob Ellemann-Jensen present a bill on a Koran burning ban in Christiansborg, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 25, 2023.
Ritzau Scanpix/Martin Sylvest via Reuters
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Andrew Stuttaford is the editor of National Review's Capital Matters.
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