Denmark serves as a prime illustration of the acute Arab and Muslim integration challenges confronting multiple Western European nations amid their broader reluctance to confront such issues domestically. With roughly 200,000 Muslim immigrants in a total population of about 5½ million, or 3.5 percent, more than half of these newcomers concentrate in urban centers in pursuit of employment, yet many remain unemployed and collectively account for more than 40 percent of the country's welfare expenditures. Crime patterns show even sharper imbalances, with Muslims forming the majority of convicted rapists and non-Danes responsible for three-quarters of all rapes, alongside similarly disproportionate figures in other offense categories. These communities have also introduced practices such as forced marriages, often involving girls promised to men from their countries of origin under threat of death, as well as intimidation directed at Muslims who convert away from Islam. Jewish residents, numbering around 6,000, increasingly require police protection as anti-Israel demonstrations escalate into anti-Jewish riots, schools decline to guarantee children's safety, and organizations like Hizb-ut-Tahrir openly urge Muslims to kill Jews wherever found. Muslim clerics have further called for eventual takeover and imposition of Islamic law once the population grows sufficiently large, with estimates projecting that Muslims will comprise one-third of Denmark's residents within about forty years. Such trends exemplify the prophecy that Ishmael would be a wild man whose hand is against every man and every man's hand against him, a disposition institutionalized within Islam, while also foreshadowing the outworking of the warning that the alien among the people shall rise higher and higher above them as they come down lower and lower, all amid developments that hasten toward the return of Jesus Christ.

Denmark's recent refusal to give up the krone for full participation in the European Monetary Union shows the strength of xenophobia, fear of strangers, in Israel today. The 53 percent no vote came from Danes worried about preserving Danish identity. Denmark's population grew about 7 percent since 1980 through the immigration of guest-workers from Turkey and Pakistan. The government's assimilation policy failed, and crime and corruption among immigrants increased, until the Danes had enough. Their rejection of the euro was bound up with apprehension about immigration. Present European voting trends therefore make it unlikely that essentially unrestricted immigration will become the norm soon. If massive worldwide immigration nevertheless comes in spite of public apprehension, it will be a powerful example of God's sovereignty, for He overrides the will of the masses and vetoes the plans of policy makers. The Danish vote also shows that Denmark wants to limit its part in the European venture, and it will be relegated to B-team status. Sweden and Britain will likely postpone joining the euro, leaving a European Union of two speeds. This A-team/B-team split is basically a cleavage between the Gentile and Israelite nations of Europe, and the EU is fragmenting. The question remains who will attempt to heal the breach: a charismatic religious leader, a military strongman, or both.