Pernille Vermund

NationalismAnti MuslimAnti-ArabAnti-immigrantPopulism

Aug 14

**DOB:** 3 December 1975

**Nationality:** Dane

**Location:** Copenhagen, Denmark
**Ideology/Affiliation:** Danish Nationalism/Far-right/Anti-Muslim/Anti-immigrant

**Type of Leader:** Political leader

Current status: Current status: Co-founder of the national-conservative political party Nye Borgerlige and Member of Parliament

Biography

Pernille Vermund is a Danish politician who co-founded The New Right, a national-conservative political party. She used to be a member of the Conservative People’s Party. She is now a member of the Danish Parliament, having been elected at the general election in Denmark in 2019.

Vermund is an architect graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and worked as an architect prior to entering politics.

From 2009 to 2011, Vermund served on the Helsingør Municipality council for the Conservative People’s Party. Alongside her partner, Peter Christensen, she co-founded the Nye Borgerlige political party in October 2015. In a statement, Vermund remarked that the reason behind founding The New Right was that her old party had become “too soft” on issues pertaining to refugees, immigration policies, and the European Union.

Pernille is known for her controversial approach and extremist views on Islam and Muslims, and immigrants in Denmark. On her party’s website, she states that “we can’t remain silent while Islam is gaining more and more influence in our country.”

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Evidence of Hate Speech/Incitement:

February 2021: In a post on Facebook, Pernille Vermund blamed Muslims for spreading the coronavirus, she said: “It is intolerable that we, as Danes, have to pay as high a price as we do, because there are still problems with stopping the infection in immigrant-dense cities and areas”, and concluded her post with an extremist and racist question: “Think how free and safe we could live if we had not had Muslim parallel societies in Denmark.

October 2020: In response to the murder of the French school teacher, Samuel Paty, who showed the Danish cartoons of Prophet Muhammad to his students, and the terrorist attack carried out at the Notre Dame Church in Nice, Pernille Vermund said she intended to take out ads in Danish newspapers to once again print the cartoons as an” act of solidarity” with those killed, stating that “we need to show that we are prepared to defend ourselves”, ignoring the chaotic consequences of such a religious provocative act on the Danish society and the Muslim community, in particular.

September 2018: In an article written by Pernille Vermund and posted on her party’s official Facebook page, she stated: “Islam as an ideology is in opposition to democracy and freedom. The more Islam fills a society, the less space there will be for democracy and freedom. Therefore, Islam should have no influence on our society.”

July 2016: In the Danish newspaper, Ekstra Bladet, Pernille Vermund linked Islam to death and destruction - she said: “The Islamic revival is spreading death and destruction so that it can take root. Therefore, it is just a matter of weeding out where it is and ensuring that it cannot be recovered.”

October 2015: In a post on Facebook, Pernille Vermund said: “I would rather have a low-paid Filipino woman in the country who raises her children to become Danish than I would have a well-educated Muslim imam.”

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