More than one-third of Danish Muslims want Qur’an-based laws
Nearly 4 out of 10 Danish Muslims think that Denmark’s laws should be at least partly based on the Qur’an, according to a recent survey.
In a poll conducted by Wilke for Jyllands-Posten, 11.3 percent of Danish Muslims said that the Qur’an should serve as the sole basis for Denmark’s laws, while another 26.5 percent said that the nation’s laws should be built upon a mixture of the Qur’an teachings and the Danish constitution.
Just over half, 53.9 percent, said that Denmark’s laws should be solely based on its constitution.
The poll results come just a week after another survey found that 77.2 percent of Danish Muslims agreed that “the Qur’ans instructions should be followed completely”, a marked increase from 2006 when just 62.4 percent agreed.
Jens Peter Frølund Thomsen, a social studies professor at the University of Aarhus who specializes in the relationship between Danes and immigrants, said it is surprising that so many Danish Muslims think that their holy book should be part of the national legal system.
For his part, Radwan Mansour, an Aarhus-based imam, said that he thinks Denmark should be ruled by a mixture of the constitution and the Qur’an, which he argues are not in conflict.
“If this was an Islamic country, it should be the Qur’an. But Denmark is not an Islamic country so we don’t decide than I think it should be both the Qur’an and the constitution. When it comes to justice, the sharing of resources and so on, there is a fine accordance between the two,” he told Jyllands-Posten.
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