It is not the woman in a hijab who should leave Denmark, according to the controversial Muslim commentator Mohamed Abdi Kahn.
According to Kahn, it is rather the EU politician Kristoffer Storm who should leave.
Storm, who sits in the European Parliament for Inger Støjberg’s party, the Danish Democrats, shared a clip of a woman wearing a hijab on Facebook on Thursday evening.
“I have some good advice for you! If you’re so unhappy, then leave, and don’t come back!” he wrote.
The post does not reveal who the woman is or what she has said.
Kahn then shared Storm’s post and wrote that Storm should go and leave himself, as the woman in the hijab was at home. He went on to write that if Storm was fed up with Muslims, he could go somewhere where there were no Muslims, if he could find such a place.
He then added verse 115 from the second surah of the Qur’an: ‘The East and the West belong to Allah, and wherever you turn, there is the Face of Allah.’
The Danes in the comments section saw it differently.
One woman turned the verse against him. The East belongs to the East, and the West belongs to the West, she wrote, and neither belongs to Kahn.
Questions about his residence permit came thick and fast. Hasn’t it expired? And has he paid back the money he owes? Several wished him and his family a safe journey home.
One urged Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen to read what he writes and get him out of the country. Another thanked him, saying that every time he opens his mouth, the right wing gains more votes.
Some went way over the line. One wished him a painful and incurable illness; another recommended the Great Belt Bridge. All in all, there was a great deal of anger in the comments section.
He had almost no defenders. One wrote that Danish politicians and the media are doing the Israeli embassy’s bidding.
The issue of his residence permit has not been plucked out of thin air. Kahn came to Denmark from Ethiopia in 2015 and is an Ethiopian citizen. His wife joined him two years later through family reunification, and the couple have six children. Kahn has called Denmark a ‘lorteland’ – meaning a shithole – and said that Islam takes precedence over Danish law.
Earlier this autumn, he demanded 3.5 million kroner from the state to move with his family to Djibouti. It turned out that he had already tried this once before. In 2022, he accepted money to return home to Ethiopia, but changed his mind and was back in Denmark five months later.
Inger Støjberg posted this photo with a caption stating that it was time for Kahn to leave Denmark, and that Mette Frederiksen now had a golden opportunity to show she meant business. That did not happen.
From Inger Støjberg’s Facebook
His residence permit expired at the end of October. He has now applied for permanent residence in the country to which he is not grateful, and which he regards as his right to exploit.
On 27 October, he was acquitted by the court in Hillerød of inciting a crime against the newspaper B.T. The prosecution decided not to appeal the case.
