This is an odd little piece of civil disobedience - the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen was draped in ‘Muslim dress’ and a headscarf.
Apparently a previous incident in which a Burqa was put on the statue was linked to disquiet about Turkey joining the European Union, and presumably by extension the fear of the influence of Islam in Western Europe. This was of course a huge issue in Denmark in relation to the publication of those cartoons in 2005.
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