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• • 28 Mar 08
  • 5:47 pm

  What a load of .... I have voted for the Unity List - or one of the member parties since 1976 and I can assure you, that the Danish Peoples Party "smear campaign" had nothing to do with my descision NOT to vote for the Unity List this time - which in my case meant not voting at all. I - and most of my buddies - stayed away from voting for the party this time, knowing full well that the party was fighting to stay in the parliament. The reason can be boiled down to one word: Asmaa. As a …

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• • 07 Apr 08
  • 3:04 am

  Countdown: You may have lived in Denmark for 25 years, but you obviously did not get immersed into society. For starters: Denmark has one of the highest rates of atheists - between 43 and 80 pct, depending on the survey. Because of our Lutheran past, religion is strictly a personal issue. F.I. I do not know if my parents or siblings are religious: I know that one brother attends services and recieves the sacraments, but it is never discussed. Secondly, the unity list is a conglomeration of old communists, trotskyites, maoists and left socialists, which would be close to the 26th …

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• • 07 Apr 08
  • 3:13 pm

  Geus - yes, they are the real thing....more or less. I know people who have voted for the party (or, rather, one of their integrants, since 1945 - and who have been fighting against the nazis with weapons), but did not vote this time. Because of Asmaa. I know people who fought in Central America, who stopped voting for them. Because of Asmaa. To me, putting Asmaa on the list is a historical betrayal: While leftists in arabia and Iran are being executed or thrown into the dungeons for defending freedom from religion, my party chose to put up a candidate, …

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