Minority support extremism? Only 2 out of 14 Mosques (14%) in Denmark were willing to distance themselves from the Islamic State

From the Muslim Issue:

TV2 East television station contacted a number of mosques in East Jutland and asked them the simple question whether they would denounce the Islamic State. 

A mosque in Horsens took clear and unambiguous distance from IS and called it a terrorist organization. 

Two mosques in Randers and Silkeborg did not respond. 

In Aarhus, only one in six mosques say that they distance themselves from the Islamic State. 

Three mosques were impossible to get hold of, despite extremely strenuous efforts from the journalist to make clear what the question was, and how to contact him. 

Two mosques refused to comment — including the Grimhøjvej mosque (known for recruiting jihadis). 

It would have been the easiest thing in the world for the mosques in this survey to denounce the Islamic State, if that had been what they wanted to do. But they obviously do not wish to. 

This trend aligns with the fact that no imams wanted to attend last weekend’s demonstrations in Denmark against the Islamic State. [translated by Nicolas Sennel]