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Overcoming Hate Through Dialogue

Created on
31 May 2022
by
Özlem Cekic
When Özlem Cekic became the first Muslim MP in the Danish Parliament, her inbox was inundated with hate mail and threats, and her gut reaction was to delete and ignore the abusive messages. But when a neo-Nazi threatened her family, she chose a different approach: she started replying to each message and inviting the senders to meet and engage in dialogue over coffee. She met people like Kim, a right-wing extremist, who – if he only had a gun – would take delight in killing the Muslims outside the local mosque.