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Article: Democratic Muslims: Denmark's Naser Khader and his band.
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- National Review
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- May 22, 2006
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THE restaurant, unpretentious and vaguely chic, and the weather, cold and rainy, were as they should have been in northerly, elegant Copenhagen. The watchful plainclothes policemen were not. These are strange, unsettling times in Denmark: quiet, orderly, peaceful, nothing-happens-here Denmark; hated, reviled, infidel, embassies-in-flames Denmark. I was having lunch with Naser Khader, a Syria-born member of the Danish parliament for the Social Liberals (the party of Denmark's metropolitan elite), a brave, engaging man who has discovered that, in today's Denmark, for a Muslim to speak his mind about Islamic extremism means immense popularity--he's probably the country's ...