Copenhagen: ‘We Have a Problem’

A politically unified Denmark no longer has a problem; a politically divided America needs to recognize it most certainly does.

James Zumwalt | July 16, 2026

Hollywood used a misquote from an aborted 1975 moon landing—“Houston, we have a problem”—to make the movie “Apollo 13,” and in doing so, it became memorialized; the movie demonstrated NASA’s success in using teamwork to solve an issue that could have devastated the mission. It is an approach Denmark’s politicians adopted to tackle their own problem.

In 2018, Danish leaders had an “aha” moment, recognizing a major issue. In Apollo 13, the astronauts and NASA operated as a team from the outset; however, it would take a few years for the Danes to be able to mirror that dynamic on a political level to solve the issue about to devastate their own mission.

The problem Denmark faced was only recognized after its leaders analyzed what immigration data were telling them. A podcast by Dr. Steve Turley does an outstanding job of highlighting both Denmark’s problem and its solution.

Denmark opened its borders only to later discover that Muslim immigrants were taking advantage of that open door. By 2018, data revealed Muslims making up 14% of the country’s population accounted for over 30% of its violent crimes. Of interest too was that the conviction rate for Danish citizens was only twelve out of every one thousand while the conviction rate for Somalis alone was 114 per 1,000.

Additionally, non-Western immigrants and their children were costing the Danish government $4.2 billion annually. Shockingly, the data showed that Danish was no longer the primary language spoken on the street; Shariah-compliant social norms were enforced by Muslim communities; women leaving their homes unveiled were harassed; young men questioning the Islamic faith were threatened; Muslim school children told their infidel schoolmates their country, culture, and civilization was inferior; etc.

Turley explains “these were not parallel........

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