ABSTRACT
On 20 February 2008, a Danish right-wing commentator, Mikael Jalving, was on a radio program with a representative for the liberal-conservative government, discussing some recent disturbances involving young second-generation immigrants. Among other things, he suggested that one ought to:
send some of these young people to Hans Island up in the icy waters. I don’t care. I just want something to be done, and a government which asserts itself, which dares to be something! Instead of all that talk! I want a government which acknowledges that this is a cultural problem and that it is related to Islam! Because if you do not understand it, there will come to be more of this in the future. And I think you should worry a bit more about your children. I have a son, and I think a lot about him. I think about the kind of Denmark he is going to grow up in. And I do not think you have any kind of answer on how to secure his future.3
