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 SYSTEM 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 it in such blunt terms.

That tells you how far the European immigration debate has shifted." PORTUGAL ENACTS 'BURQA LAW' LARGELY PROHIBITING FACE COVERINGS IN PUBLIC Frederiksen came to power in Denmark’s 2019 elections on what Reuters called a "platform of radical reforms to reach climate targets, lowering the pension age for manual workers - and stricter migration policies." Denmark already had some of the strongest asylum laws in Europe before 2019, including a 2018 law targeting "parallel societies." That law allowed the government to "demolish or sell off social housing areas where more than half of residents are from a ‘non-Western’ background," if certain criteria were met, and refugees in those areas are not eligible for family reunion.