The police in Funen have declared that they will launch an investigation into the controversial sermon by the Danish imam Muhammed Khaled Samhas that was posted on the internet on September 19.
Samhas reportedly said in his speech that Jews were the offspring of “apes and pigs” and that Palestine was the land in which the Muslims will fight the Jews and the “trees and stones will say: Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him”.
“We are looking into whether there is anything punishable in the speech,” Ebbe Krogaard, the deputy police inspector at Funen Police, told Politiken newspaper. “It hasn’t been reported to us, so we are doing it on our own initiative.”
Looks like there is a case
Jacob Mchangama, a lawyer and head of the think-tank Justitia, said that the imam’s statement could lead to a racism case.
Mchangama explained to Berlingske newspaper that the imam can’t get away with saying whatever he likes just because his words may stem from the Koran.
“As far as I’ve understood it, it’s a quote from the Koran and Hadith, but if one makes the words one’s own in a context that can be interpreted as insulting and degrading to Jews, then there is a case. And I think that there is evidence of that in this case,” Mchangama told Berlingske.