Last weekend's shootings in Copenhagen are a test for Denmark. It's tempting to argue that Denmark's soft approach to dealing with radical Muslims has been found wanting.
In truth, it's the country's conflicted approach to freedom of expression that demands closer scrutiny. In the wake of this year's terror attacks on cartoonists who have mocked the prophet Muhammad, what the West needs above all is clarity and simplicity in its policies dealing with integration and free speech.
As thousands of Danes laid flowers at the two sites where a lone gunman — named by the local press as 22-year-old Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein — shot a filmmaker and a synagogue guard and wounded several police officers, a few others brought their bouquets to the place cops shot El-Hussein himself.