Morten Messerschmidt [MP, Danish People's Party]: "Since the terrorist attack against the United States in 2001 all Western countries have reinforced their legal armoury in the fight against Islamic terror. In Denmark this amongst other measures led to a strengthening of our immigration laws in 2002, especially regarding the administrative possibilities of expulsion. In accordance with international law each country has the right to determine who can or cannot stay in the country. Accordingly, the former article 25 in the Danish immigration law, which originated in 1983, was strengthened so that refugees or immigrants -regardless of type – who are judged to represent a threat to the stability and democracy of the state of Denmark are to be expelled. If the information leading to this expulsion, executed by The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) and approved by The Minister of Justice is considered confidential, it can be kept from public scrutiny. If, for instance, publication of these pieces of information could warn terrorists who are close to exposure, it makes perfectly good sense that such information must be kept secret – at least until the time where publication no longer poses a threat to the investigation of terrorist attacks or attempts of such.

During the so-called Muhammad crisis in 2005, related to the publication of 12 cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in a Danish daily, Jyllands-Posten, it was unveiled that around 60% of the Moslems in Denmark demanded for a change in the laws ensuring freedom of speech, rooted in the Danish Constitution of 1849. This high percentage clearly indicates that many Moslems in Denmark experience a strong resistance towards the free and open society of Denmark. This is a pattern known from many other European countries, where a similar percentage of Moslems indicate that they would rather be living in a religious dictatorship than in a free democracy. Under such appalling circumstances proportional means are necessary: a residence permit, given administratively, can obviously on the very same grounds be cancelled administratively. In view of this, I and my party, The Danish Peoples's Party, strongly support the current expulsion of two non-Danish citizens who intended to assassinate one of the above mentioned Mohammad cartoonists."