 Denmark’s national TV2 channel broadcast on Friday excerpts from a blasphemous video made by members of an extreme-right party. Filmed in August, | “The video shows young adherents of the Danish People’s Party mocking the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI) during a summer party...” |
the video shows young adherents of the Danish PeopleÂ’s Party mocking the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI PBUH) during a summer party. The images were shown only fleetingly on TV2.
The editor-in-chief of the television station, Lars Bennike, emphasised that the purpose of “showing the short video sequence was not at all to show the drawings or the antics of the youths” in the DPP. | The president of the DPP Youth, Kenneth Kristensen, who did not participate in the party, criticised their behaviour as “inconvenient”. |
“Our decision to broadcast this sequence was only due to the fact that the president of the youth branch of the party had distanced himself from this gathering,” he said. A member of the party’s youth wing, Martin Rosengaard Knudsen, also a member of the artists’ group called “Defending Denmark”, filmed the video. The president of the DPP Youth, Kenneth Kristensen, who did not participate in the party, criticised their behaviour as “inconvenient”. “It is not my kind of humour, and things would not have happened like that had I been present,” he told the Nyhedsavisen newspaper, a daily free sheet. |