Danish radio station that called for Muslims to be killed taken off air

Copenhagen, Denmark - Authorities on Wednesday took a small radio station that had called for Muslims to be killed or expelled from Western Europe was taken off the air for three months.

The Danish Radio and Television Board found that the station, Radio Holger, had violated regulations barring broadcasters from encouraging hatred based on race, religion, nationality, gender sexual preferences and disabilities.

Station owner Kaj Vilhelmsen said on July 13 that Muslims should be killed or kicked out «so that they can no longer place bombs.»

Six days earlier, London had been hit by the first wave of attacks on its transit system, with four bombs killing 52 victims and four suicide bombers on three subways and a double-decker bus. Three of the four bombers had been Pakistani Britons.

A group that claimed responsibility for the bombings threatened attacks in other countries, including Denmark, which has some 500 troops in Iraq.

Radio Holger broadcasts three days a week and its signal is heard only in the Copenhagen area.

Vilhelmsen was quoted by local media as saying that «if they close us we will just create something else so that we can spread the message about a Danish Denmark.»

Denmark has about 150,000 Muslims, representing 3 percent of the countrys population.