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Most of the blasphemy laws still enforced today, with prison and worse, sit in the Middle East and the wider Muslim world. And then there is Denmark. In 2023, we knelt for Islam. Look at what many other countries did. In January 2015, two Islamists murdered eleven people at Charlie Hebdo in Paris, revenge for cartoons of Muhammad. And how did Europe answer? By scrapping its blasphemy laws. Norway abolished its law that same year, a direct response to the massacre. Iceland did the same months later. Three Icelandic MPs stood up in parliament, one after another, and said "I am Charlie." Their message was simple. Freedom does not bow to bloody attacks. The Netherlands had already gone in 2014. Malta followed in 2016. France cleared the last of its old blasphemy provision in 2017. Many countries moved on. Toward more freedom to criticise religion, including Islam, in the face of Islamist violence. Denmark went the other way. We abolished our own blasphemy law in 2017. It had stood since 1866. Then in 2023 we wrote a brand new one. Not the old one dusted off. A new law. And we did not write it to protect Christianity. Not for the faith this country was built on. Not for the Bible, the foundation under our churches, our holidays, our law. We wrote it for Islam. Or, the politicians did. A handful of Qurans were burned. Muslim countries erupted. The OIC, the bloc of 57 Islamic states, demanded action. Our intelligence service warned the threat had risen. And the government folded. Many European countries buried these laws to say freedom would not kneel to violence. Denmark dug one back up so Islam would not be angry. This is Denmark in 2026z Remember it. And do the opposite.