A Copenhagen local radio station has had its broadcast licence revoked after airing negative comments on immigrants

Copenhagen Post:

A local radio station has had its broadcasting licence revoked for three months for promoting racism and ethnic hatred, national broadcaster DR reported.

The National Radio and TV Commission decided to immediately withdraw the broadcasting licence of Radio Holger, named after a mythological defender of Denmark.

The commission said the station had breached media regulations, which ban the airing of programs that encourage hatred based on race, sex, religion, nationality, handicap, or sexual orientation.

The decision came after Radio Holger's hosts commented on the terrorist attacks on London last month, and discussed the means of preventing such an attack in Denmark.

'There are only two ways to react if we want to prevent terrorist bombings. We either need to expel all foreign Muslims from western Europe, so they can't plant their bombs, or exterminate all fanatic Muslims, which would mean killing a considerable part of all Muslim immigrants,' the station's host said on 12 July.

'The commission emphasises that this is a very serious violation. A future violation of the regulations might result in a permanent withdrawal of Radio Holger's broadcasting licence,' the commission's chairman, Christian Scherfig, said in a press release.

Radio Holger's owner, Kaj Vilhelmsen, said he was not surprised by the revocation, and said he was ready to file a complaint with the Ministry of Culture. He added that he would continue to advocate for the repatriation of foreign residents in other media.

'If you close down one medium, we'll just establish a new one, to spread the message about a Danish Denmark,' Vilhelmsen said.

He says the commission's decision is illegal.

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