Khader rejected the notion that he was threatening Khankan and told Berlingske that she should “stop her manipulations and whining”. He later posted to Facebook a screenshot of what he says is the message in question along with a message accusing Khankan of lying.
Some of Khader’s parliamentary colleagues have called for a further investigation into his message to Khankan, but the body’s chairwoman, Pia Kjærsgaard of the anti-immigration Danish People’s Party, dismissed it as “a private matter between two people, which we at this point do not need to get involved in”.