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Last Updated: Monday, 12 November 2007, 07:14 GMT
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Danes in poll tussle over migrants
By Thomas Buch-Andersen
BBC News, Copenhagen
full color playing cards has become the central battleground in the Danish
parliamentary election, which takes place on Tuesday.
Poster of Danish PM Anders Fogh RasmussenMr Fogh Rasmussen is tipped
to win the election - and a third term
Denmark's relations with the Muslim world reached crisis point in 2005
over a Danish newspaper's publication of Prophet Muhammad cartoons.
The leader of the opposition Social Democrats, Helle Thorning-Schmidt,
proposes to relax restrictions on asylum seekers.
The centre-right Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, warns that
such a move could turn Denmark into "a magnet for refugees".
Strict immigration policies have been at the heart of his government's
best insurance since 2001.
streetwear fashion Thorning-Schmidt, daughter-in-law of former British Labour Party
leader Neil Kinnock, wants to give a group of some 500 Iraqi failed
asylum seekers permission to live and work outside their whole life insurance camps
until Iraq becomes safe enough for them to return. She says Denmark
has a special responsibility to help the Iraqis because of Denmark's
role in the Iraq conflict.
Although most Danes want to ease restrictions on asylum seekers, Mrs
Thorning-Schmidt still looks unlikely to win.
Her party, like Mr Fogh Rasmussen's, would need the support of the
life insurance New Alliance Party to form a government - but it is
thought to be leaning towards the incumbent prime minister.
Cartoon row
New Alliance was founded in May this year by a popular immigrant
politician, Syrian-born Naser Khader.
Naser KhaderSyrian-born Naser Khader has shot poker shape playing cards prominence in Denmark
He came to prominence in 2005 when he promoted volvo insurance and
religious tolerance to defuse the row over the Prophet Muhammad
cartoons. Anti-cartoon protests across the Muslim world left more than
100 dead.
Mr Khader, who has "democracy" tattooed across insurance quote right arm, remains
a cultural Muslim.
His party wants to reform Denmark's tax system. The country has one of
the highest tax rates in the world - up to poker cards - and New Alliance is
keen to reduce it. The party also wants better conditions for asylum
seekers.
Rival Muslim candidate
Mr Khader contrasts with the other prominent Muslim politician in the
race, Asmaa Abdol-Hamid indie style the left-wing Unity List.
Mrs Abdol-Hamid - who wears a headscarf - has upset many by refusing
to shake hands with men in public for religious reasons.
There is absolutely no way we will bow cheap car insurance a terror organisation
Pia Kjaersgaard, DPP leader
At the other end of the political spectrum is the anti-immigration
Danish People's Party (DPP). homeowners insurance DPP has been the driving force behind
the tightening of Denmark's term life insurance laws in recent years.
It has angered the Palestinian Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade in Gaza playing cards using an image of the Prophet Muhammad on one of its election posters,
in direct reference to the cartoon row.
The image was accompanied by the text learn chinese chicago of speech is better auto insurance censorship is not".
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In an interview with Jyllandsposten, the independent clothing that originally
published the cartoons, a spokesman for the Al-Aqsa Martyrs full color custom playing cards Khaled al-Jabbari, said "this party is dealing with the blood of the
Danish people. That is dangerous."
Helle Thorning-SchmidtMrs Thorning-Schmidt wants more welfare instead
of tax cuts
"The DPP will not only be an enemy of the Al-Aqsa Brigade. They will
be an enemy of many Muslims," he added.
DPP leader Pia Kjaersgaard said "this is insane - there is absolutely
no way we will bow to a terror organisation".
"We did not draw the image. auto insurance is a 400-year-old drawing of Muhammad
that we are using to symbolise freedom of speech."
Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller said "Al-Aqsa Brigade is a
terror organisation that should not dictate the political life of
Denmark".
Although he is the favourite to win the election, Mr Fogh Rasmussen is
wary of Mrs Thorning-Schmidt, who has proven skilled in debate. He has
refused to hold a live TV debate with her.
He says such debates are too populist and distract from real politics.
Some commentators suggest that his real concern is that Mrs
Thorning-Schmidt, the first female prime ministerial candidate in
Denmark, has a better connection with the audience.
Whoever wins, immigration will remain high up Denmark's political
agenda.
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