He was educated as a journalist at Skive Venstreblad 1959-61 and Ringkøbing Amts Dagblad 1962-63 and as a priest at the Ministry for Ecclesiastical Affairs institute 1972-75.
He worked as a journalist at Jyllands-Posten 1964-72 as cultural reporter and back page editor doing political satire.
[1] In January 2010, Jesper Langballe defended controversial statements[2] by Lars Hedegaard, chairman of the Danish Free Press Society, in the Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende stating that: Of course Lars Hedegaard should not have said that we see muslim fathers raping their daughters, when the reality rather seems to be that they simply kill them (the so called honor killings) – and besides that turn a blind eye to uncles raping them.
[7] In his original piece in Berlingske Tidende (mentioned above) Langballe explicitly referred to the book 1400-års krigen[8] (The 1400 Year War), as well as referring to the book Mødom på mode[9] (Fashionable Virginity) written by Danish author Kristina Aamand and her husband Asif Uddin.
The summary of the book says (in English): Lars Hedegaard and Mogens Camre analyze, for the first time in Danish, the Islamic war theory, strategy and tactics in its full extent.
[8] As opposed to Lars Hedegaard og Mogens Camre, Kristina Aamand has denounced Jesper Langballe's use of her book.