Jihadi Day Care: Hizb ut Tahrir takes over child care center

In Denmark, Muslim extremist group Hizb ut Tahrir, which is outlawed in many countries, has managed to take over the management of a day care center in Copenhagen.

A group of fundamentalist Muslim parents has been calling the shots at a city nursery school since February

Members of the fundamental Islamic organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir with children at the Salam day care centre in Copenhagen have taken control of its operations by obtaining a majority on its parental committee, according to Berlingkse Tidende newspaper.

In February the group took over after the school's two female administrators quit in protest of the difficulties Hizb ut-Tahrir parents were creating for the centre's operations. The Islamic group was refusing to allow the school's 25 Muslim children to participate in singing and dancing and required both an Islamic dress code and boys and girls to be segregated.

The good news is that the authorities aren't taking this lightly:

'This case demonstrates that there is a parallel society in Copenhagen that plays by its own rules, and we will not accept that,' said Martin Geertsen, deputy mayor for cultural affairs.