Danish blog Agora translates an article from the newspaper B.T., responding to a Guardian op-ed columnist’s accusations that Denmark has become a racist country: “Danes most openminded.”

An embittered political minority with a very loud voice claims that Denmark - and especially now during the ongoing cartoon crisis - has only itself to blame for the wave of wrath and destruction confronting Danish goods, tourists and embassies in the arab world and other Moslem communities.

These critics, which include the Danish daily Politiken and which is granted unproportional airtime on DR (Danish Radio and Television channel), allege that Denmark has become a closed and intolerant society under the influence of the present administration and the Danish People’s Party.

These allegations have no basis in reality.

And you don’t have to take my word for it:

Studies done by the Rockwool foundation by Professor Lise Togeby of Arhus University, by the Catinet institute and by Eurobarometer have clearly shown that the Danes are more tolerant than most Europeans to immigrants - including some houndred thousand Moslems - and that this tolerance has become more widespread under the present administration. During the same period, foreigners in Denmark have experienced a less discrimination.

Add to that studies that show that noy only are the Danes the most content and happy in the world but also the most “friendly and approachable to others” and the most “open to new ideas and opportunities.”

This last study is fresh off the presses from a very thorough international scientific examination of 51 countries done by 78 scientists through interviews with thousands of people in the various countries.

These results belittle the constant compaint about the “xenophobic” majority which has supported the Fogh administration since 2001 and which has become larger during the past few weeks.

The feelings which the wroth critics mistakenly interprete as “xenophobia”, intolerance and closedness are in reality a simple but strong desire to maintain a uniquely succesful society - in a time where many in an insulated elite have become “faithless” to the cultural, religious and national communities and dream of a global “multiculture” for the elite to freely and luxuriously wallow in.