Amongst the generally dismal sagas of citizens trying to prevent the swamping and destruction of their nations by floods of culturally alien immigration, Denmark stands out like a beacon. In Denmark, immigration restrictionists seem to be winning.

At first glance, Danes see strict immigration laws under threat by EU , [The Earth Times Sunday August 10 2008] might not seem encouraging. A Leftist-dominated Court, claiming supremacy, moves to overthrow laws a local community has adopted to protect itself. Sounds all too much like America.

But the scoundrels in this case, the European Court of Justice, are dealing with a detail: the right of Danes married to foreigners to bring them into Denmark. What is heartening is the response of Danish politicians!:

Nothing in Denmark is as popular politically as the strict policy on foreigners to which the prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, adheres… Rasmussen and a huge majority in the Danish parliament, together with leading media, plan to defend Denmark’s immigration laws with all the means at their disposal.

Apparently, even the liberal opposition has smelt the coffee:

The opposition Social Democrats, who came up short in those elections, are now signalling their unconditional support in the national struggle against the EU’s liberal rules. “The European Court of Justice must not be allowed to determine Denmark’s policy on foreigners,” said the party’s leader, Helle Thorning Schmidt.
She even accused Rasmussen of not taking the “EU threat” seriously enough. “It’s not a matter of just a small corner of our foreigner policy,” Schmidt remarked

Most of the credit for this is due to the unyielding determination of the DPP (the Danish People’s Party) which has made opposition to nation-obliterating immigration its central theme for many years. (Without DPP support, Rasmussen’s minority government would fall.)

Give Denmark Back to Us!” demanded the right-wing populist Danish People’s Party (DPP) in full-page newspaper advertisements. The party’s votes helped Rasmussen to push through what he calls Denmark’s “tough policy on foreigners.” Since 2001, the “foreigner issue” has brought his Liberal Party three consecutive election victories.

Denmark, about the size of Massachusetts and Connecticut combined, with a population of less than 5.5 million and a unique language, would be easy to erase. But other small European nations, similarly threatened, have not unfortunately summoned the will.For America patriots, cursed with a rigid and unresponsive party system, but advantaged by looser party discipline, there can be only one lesson: follow the successful example of the Danish People’s Party, focus on the key issue–and fight unceasingly

Just got back from a conference on “Post-Christian Europe and Resurgent Islam” held in (symbolically) Vienna. The numbers are really alarming and the mood was dire. But there was no mention of the obvious answer: directing public policy toward persuading Muslims to, you know, GO AWAY. After all, there is emigration as well as immigration. But if you mentioned it, people looked at you oddly.

Yet of course minorities do emigrate. In the U.S., we are slowly beating it into the political elite’s consciousness that attrition of the illegal alien presence through law enforcement is the alternative to the much-dreaded mass deportations. Three recent examples: the near-elimination of the Protestant minority in Southern Ireland after the 1921 Treaty; the radical reduction of Quebec’s Anglophones after the French-first language legislation of the 1970s; the near-eradication of Middle Eastern Christians.

As it happens, the May 29 Economist Magazine makes this inadvertantly clear in an article, Covering Up: A far-right party takes on the Islamic headscarf, tut-tutting about the Danish People’s Party’s popular campaign to stop public employees displaying Muslim symbols:

One response has come from Danish-born Muslims. A poll by Politiken, a daily, of 315 young Muslim students, found that two-thirds of them were considering emigrating after graduation. Most gave as their reason “the tone of the Danish debate about Muslims”.

Of course, it’s distressing to see this degree of compulsion, especially since the cowardly Danish govenment, which depends on DPP support, has decided to ban Christian crosses too. But, as I’ve pointed out elsewhere, immigration is the Viagra of the State - for good and ill.

The DPP is sending a message. And the message is being heard.