The following report from Danish television describes the growing incidence of attacks against Middle Eastern Christians who have fled persecution in their homelands to take refuge in Denmark.

Many thanks to Henrik Ræder Clausen for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Transcript:

0:01 Some of the persons from the Middle East living here in Denmark are Christians.

0:06 They experience rising levels of harassment, smears and at times outright violence from local Muslims.

0:13 Experts confirm that this is a problem that just keeps getting worse.

0:17 We have been in contact with several Christians who have experienced this. You can meet two of them here.

0:23 Jojo is a Dane of Lebanese-Christian background, which is why she is persecuted by local Muslim youths.

0:29 This weekend the threats became so severe, she had to move to a crisis shelter.

0:32 I found that I couldn’t be at home anymore, I couldn’t be in Nørrebro [Copenhagen] anymore.

0:36 Jojo is not her real name. Our editors know her name.

0:39 She is one of many Christians we have talked to, all with tales of threats and violence.

0:44 But only Jojo dares show her face to our camera.

0:47 On August 3rd she was in her car in Copenhagen, dressed for summer.

0:50 Seven young Arabs surrounded her car, one put his foot on the hood.

0:55 Then he tells me: “Do you think I’m looking at you, f***ing ugly whore. See what you are wearing, bitch.”

1:00 And then he sees my crucifix! And says: “You are wearing a crucifix.

1:04 That also makes you a Christian f***ing whore.”

1:07 Then he adds: “You know what we do to persons like you? You get stoned!”

1:12 On August 16th she is driving in Copenhagen with a friend.

1:15 I see a person, who has threatened my life, from a distance.

1:18 She tries to film the incident with her telephone.

1:20 He does this thing, he takes a bottle, and throws it at me while I drive.

1:25 – He just threw something. He just threw something.

1:27 I think these are very ignorant persons, who do such things, accepting nothing except themselves.

1:35 I have lots of Muslim friends. They’d never dream of saying such things to me.

1:39 The problem of Christian persecution is widespread.

1:41 It is more severe than we have seen previously.

1:44 But the problem is that if this development continues,

1:48 we will get a segregated society with the groups living apart, and we don’t want that.

1:53 We meet another persecuted woman in a park in Copenhagen.

1:56 We are refugees because we have a Christian background.

1:59 She came to Denmark from Iran aged 13. Today she is around 30, anonymous due to fear of reprisals.

2:04 My son was called all sorts of things, and so was I.

2:09 “Infidels”, “Dirty Christians”, “You should be stoned to death”.

2:15 He was beaten up at the bus stop.

2:17 She complained to the local property management, who called the group of youths in for a talk.

2:21 Then one day they knocked on the door.

2:23 I looked through the peephole and saw this group of children.

2:32 I thought perhaps they had come in order to apologize.

2:36 But they had not. As she opened the door, two men forced themselves in.

2:39 He just came so fast, and told me that I was dirty. Christian and dirty.

2:47 “I’ll turn your life into a hell.”

2:52 He called me ‘whore’ and all sorts of things. “You are an infidel.”

2:55 He pushed me really hard into my apartment.

2:59 He shook me up and beat me in the head.

3:03 The woman is now looking for a different, safer place to live.

3:08 And the woman Jojo, whom we just met, has created a Facebook group,