Dispatch International
September 15, 2014
Men with Muslim first names are convicted of crimes more often than the Danish population as a whole. 1.8% of the population in the last five years have been sentenced in court — but for men with a Muslim first name, the figure is about 8 percent. This is shown by a poll which Dispatch International has done.
The basis for this study is the so-called “namewheel” [database] as the prestigious weekly newsletter Ugebrevet A4 has put out.
If you type a first name, one can obtain a variety of information about individuals that carry this name. Issues such as employment, housing, age, income, and how often people with this name have been convicted over the past five years.
Dispatch International has combined “namewheel” with the most common Muslim male names that Denmarks Statistik report each year. We have used statistics from 1 January 2012.
If one calculates the estimated average for the 20 most common Muslim first names, it turns out that 8.1 percent of those have been convicted over the past five years. The corresponding figure for the total population is 1.8.
This means that the carriers of the 20 most common Muslim first names are about four and a half times more likely to be a criminal than the average person.
And then you should know that the “namewheel” does not take account of those convicted who have been sentenced one or more times – and that the Muslim excess crime rate raises the national average of 1.8 percent. If you worked out the percentage for non-Muslims, the gap between the non-Muslim population and the Muslim population is even bigger.
The 20 most common Muslim names in Denmark are: Ali, Mohammad, Mohamed, Ahmad, Mustafa, Ahmed, Mohammed, Ibrahim Mehmet, Mohamad, Hassan, Muhammad, Omar, Abdul, Mahmoud, Ahmet, Hasan, Malik, Yusuf and Hussein.
On January 1, 2012, there were 31 271 men who carried these first names in Denmark.
Dispatch International has also conducted a random check of less frequently occurring first names, but the picture is still the same. The name Abdallah carried by 181 people, of which 11.5 per cent have been convicted of crimes. For Faisal (152 persons), the figure was 12.5 per cent and Abdulla (61 seats) 9.6 per cent.