One Copenhagen mayor suggested the government provide a center for these youths to hang out at so they would be off the streets (I guess they would have to build 20 centers across the country now...)

But Integration Consultant Mohammed Rafiq said the proposal was unrealistic: "The commune would lose control of this place and it would become a market for drugs and stolen goods."

There are a lot of theories being proffered as to why this is occurring now: The arrest of 3 men plotting to kill one of the artists behind on of the famous Muhammad Cartoons - and the republication of said cartoons in the aftermath of these arrests; the hard handed treatment by the police of a Palestinian man in Norrebro; stepped up pressure on the part of the police against the drug dealing Islamothugs...