Democratic Muslims is a new political movement created in Denmark last February, following the Motoons controversy. (their Danish language site here)
It was founded by Naser Khader, a Syria-born member of the Danish parliament for the Social Liberals and you may be interested in what he has to say:

The real significance of Jyllands-Posten’s impious portfolio was that it had appeared “at the right time, and in the right place” to be exploited by people who wanted to foment “confrontation,” which could be milked for “money and support.”

To grasp exactly why Khader thinks that “money and support” might be required, and by whom, is to glimpse a far darker future than conventional pessismism about Europe would have it. Given profound cultural differences, made even more difficult by continued mass immigration, integrating the continent’s new Muslims minorities was never going to be easy, but as Khader sees it there are now those with a vested interest in making matters worse. He’s not a believer in the much-advertised clash of civilizations, an idea with something of a bleak, tectonic inevitability to it, but in a different sort of conflict altogether: something more controlled, planned, and directed.

It’s a conflict being promoted, Khader believes, by Islamists (“well organized,” he argues, and established worldwide) set on “controlling Muslim society in the West.” After that, the next objective will be to establish regimes more to their liking in the Muslim heartland. And then? “A global jihad. That’s why we have to stop them now.”

As can be expected the Democratic Muslims have already received plenty of death threats and abuse for their troubles.

The organisation held a conference in Copenhagen on Saturday called “The Impact of the Cartoons”. Two of the speakers were Wafa Sultan and Irshad Manji.

Below are videos of their speeches.

Irshad Manji:

Here’s my transcript of the first part of Irshad’s speech, captured in this video. The video is only the first 3 and a half minutes of the speech, unfortunately.

Shalom, Salam, and to the atheists in the audience, how the hell are ya?

Such a pleasure to be here, thank you so much for the invitation.

The question before us is, how have the Danish cartoons impacted Muslims and the World.

Well. Let me veer from a point that I think is going to be made later on. That more and more reform-minded Muslims are coming out of the closet since the cartoons.
This organisation, Democrat Muslims of Denmark is a powerful testimonial to that fact. But I am happy to ?? to all of you that it is not the only testimonial.
During the cartoon riots my own email [and blog?] through my website overflowed with messages from Muslims from all over the world who said “Enough is enough. Whilst offended by the cartoons I am even more offended by the violence that is happening in the name of Islam over these cartoons. Irshad, sign me up for the call for reform.”

Now you know, ladies and gentleman, that God works in mysterious ways when Copenhagen becomes the Mecca of the liberal Islamic reformation.

The reaction to the cartoons has woken up many Muslims to something else. To the violent power of a certain strain of Islam. And let me describe the kind of Islam I am talking about by drawing, not cartooning, drawing a mental picture for you.

Imagine grains of sand blowing from a 7th century desert well into 21st century cities. I use the metaphor of the desert not simply because of the power that Arabia still has on the Muslim imagination but also because the challenge that all of us are facing right now is granular, like sand itself. It easily slips through the hands, it is difficult to grasp and hang on to. We know that the winds are gusping and the sand is getting into our eyes and what once only felt as an irritation now is stinging and that the vision of the open society, a vision that both Muslims and non-Muslims can easily promote and support.. that vision is becoming blurred by whats blowing our way.

And whats blowing our way is a particular approach to Islam, that I call Foundamentalism. Not fundamentalism. Foundamentalism. Foundamentalism sanctifies the founding moments of Islam. And what are the two cornerstones of the founding moment of Islam? The prophet Muhammed and the Koran. Both have been made utterly untouchable… [END VIDEO]

I will try and track down the rest of the speech, because I am certainly liking what she has said so far. Funny, brave, imaginative and open-minded. Fantastic.

Wafa Sultan:

Hat tips: Snaphanen, Gates of Vienna

UPDATE (Oct 5th): Here’s another recent video of Wafa Sultan. As far as I can deduce on the same day as appearing at the Democratic Muslims event above she also did this interview for a show called Deadline on the Denmark’s DR network. In the interview, which goes for 9 minutes, she talks about the Motoons saga as being the first “crack in wall” of an Islam incapable of self-criticism and evolution. She finishes by saying that she believes Islam certainly has a place in the modern world, but she does not believe that Islam can be reformed, but that instead it must be transformed and that we are witnessing the beginning of that process. (via Hot Air)