Denmark's left-wing PM warns: 'Big enemy has started to grow from within' as Europe faces migrant reckoning

Denmark's left-wing prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has sent shockwaves throughout the European left after recent comments about the Scandinavian nation's — and the continent's — failure to deal with radical Islam among migrant communities.Her comments come after the mass migration chaos in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, when Frederiksen criticized the actions of Spain's leftist leader, Pedro Sánchez, during a special session on Ceuta in the Danish Parliament. Responding to a question from a far-left legislator on Denmark’s apparent lack of "solidarity" with Spain against "anti-democratic forces" pressuring Europe, Frederiksen said, "If we talk about undemocratic forces, then Russia is our biggest enemy.The problem is that a big enemy has started to grow from within, and it is foreigners who have come to Europe," according to an English translation.MIGRANT CRISIS PUSHES ITALY TO RESTORE BORDER CHECKS WITH SPAIN, TESTING EUROPE'S OPEN-BORDER SYSTEMPrime Minister Mette Frederiksen addressing the Danish parliament.

(Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images)While not singling out Denmark's integrated immigrant population, she continued, "It is Hamas supporters.It is people who commit terror against European societies.

It is people who do not recognize our fundamental European values.It is people who sympathize with some of the darkest forces in this world.

So, Europe is threatened.The problem is that we are threatened both from outside and now from within, but it is not because of a disagreement between the Danish and Spanish governments, but because of people with an Islamic background who do not want the open, free European society, unfortunately."Sweden-based foreign policy expert and author Daniel Schatz told Fox News Digital, "What is striking is not that a conservative politician is talking about illegal immigration, failed integration and Islamist extremism, it is that one of Europe’s leading center-left prime ministers is saying i...

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