Mark Steyn: The Muslim world is ... “getting to Denmark.”

If the goal of history is "getting to Denmark"

I was there a couple of months back as the guest of the Danish Free Press Society. Its president, Lars Hedegaard, has just been fined 5,000 kroner under the Danish penal code for “[issuing] a pronouncement or other communication by which a group of persons are threatened, insulted or denigrated due to their race, skin colour, national or ethnic origin, religion or sexual orientation.” This was over some remarks he made about Islam’s treatment of women in a private conversation that was, unbeknown to him, recorded and then uploaded to the Internet.

The Muslim world is certainly “getting to Denmark.” It’s also getting to the Netherlands, to Austria, to France, and beyond. In Scandinavia and in other advanced Western societies, the state grows ever bolder in constraining freedom of expression and other core Western liberties.