Let me give you a few numbers before you carry on with "do you accept homosexuality all the way down without a single but" as the yardstick that decides whether you are Danish.
Pew asked Europeans whether society should accept homosexuality.
Sweden - 94 percent yes.
Then you cross the old Iron Curtain line.
Poland 47.
Slovakia 44.
Bulgaria 32.
Lithuania 28.
Ukraine and Russia 14.
Romania 12.
Georgia 5.
Armenia, the oldest Christian country in the world, 1 percent.
14 percent in Ukraine - let me just repeat that - that is lower than Muslim men in Denmark.
So should we still help them - or not?
Regardless.
All the EU countries on that list are inside the free movement zone.
A Pole or a Romanian can move to Denmark tomorrow, and they are already here, by the hundreds of thousands, on building sites and in lorries and in cowsheds.
Around half of them, and in Romania's case five out of six, would fail Mads Strange's test.
They go to church on Sundays. They believe what the Church has taught for two thousand years. And Denmark has never asked them what they thought about anything at all.
We asked whether they would work and leave people alone. They have, by and large and give or take.
So let us be honest about who the test hits. It does not only hit Islam. It also hits Christians. And everyone else.
It hits the 1.4 billion Catholics whose church still teaches that marriage is between a man and a woman, and that this is not an opinion but an order.
It hits the Orthodox, Greeks, Romanians, Serbs, Russians, Ukrainians, whose churches have not budged an inch. It hits the world's evangelicals and Pentecostals, the fastest growing Christianity on earth, from Lagos to Seoul to São Paulo.
It hits the Orthodox Jew in Nørrebro, the Sikh in a turban in Ishøj and the Hindu whose own country only decriminalised it in 2018. And it hits the Pole in Vejle who has stood on a building site here for fifteen years without anyone ever asking what he thought about anything at all.
So it hits the greater part of Mankind, as it believes today.
They can forget about coming here to live their lives - because unconditional surrender and love for homosexuality is what we assess you on.
Is that how it is?
And then it lets in the one who has learned to say the right words at the counter - because an opinion is something you can rehearse. Surely you know that by now, with everything that has gone on over the last three or four decades. You cannot do that with a life.
And then the thing nobody says out loud.
The test is impossible for a Muslim to pass honestly, and that is not because he is evil. It is because his answer has already been given, since the answer does not belong to him.
In Islam the ideal society is not something you discuss your way towards sitting in a circle like we do here.
It is revealed, from above, once and for all, and it is written down. What is to be permitted and forbidden and punished is written there.
The Muslim who tells Mads Strange that he supports homosexuality all the way down is at the same time contradicting his own book, and in his tradition that is not called development. It is called apostasy.
So the test is not really asking him whether he is Danish. It is asking whether he will stop being a Muslim. And if he says yes, we cannot know whether he means it.
That is their problem to solve. If Islam is to find a road where the book is no longer law, that road will certainly be just as long and just as bloody as the one Europe walked with its own churches, and it has to be walked by Muslims, from the inside. The rest of us cannot walk it for them, and we cannot demand it finished at the counter.
The only thing we can decide is something else. Whether we want to live with the risk that lies in that faith taking hold here. And we do not need to guess at that risk. It can be read off the roughly 50 countries in the world where it already has.
So.
The line exists. It is sharp, and it has to be held. But it does not run through what you believe in your heart about your neighbour's bedroom.
It runs through whether you will use the power of society against him to get your way.
The one who wants it forbidden and punished does not belong here.
The one who thinks differently from you and leaves you alone does.
And that question a Muslim can answer honestly. His book does not move. But whether he wants its law laid down over his neighbour here is his own choice, and it is the choice most of those who live here have already made. It is the ones who will not make it that we are talking about.
That is the only test a free country can set. Everything else is sharia with a different content.
Do not ask what people think.
Ask whether they will leave each other alone.
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