A female imam leading women in Friday prayer is a powerful image. Khankan appeared on the bbc list of 100 inspirational and influential women in 2016 and she made number 197 on the Global Influence Top list in 2018.1 She was also invited to have tea with the French president, Emmanuel Macron, in the Élysée Palace in March 2018, received a Global Hope Award in New York in September 2018, did two TEDx talks,2 was a guest on the bbc's renown HARDtalk in October 2018, and published a biography in three languages that sold quite well.3 This is not an exhaustive list, but the examples demonstrate that after the inauguration of the Mariam Mosque Khankan soon rose to international fame.However, in Denmark things looked different. As briefly mentioned in Chapter 7, on the same day (17 March 2015) that Khankan announced that the Friday prayer would be women-only, not mixed gender as originally announced, Søren Hviid Pedersen, a PhD in political science and avid political commentator, insinuated that Khankan might be an Islamist:And who is behind this new mosque? Well, it is no other than Sherin Khankan, a so-called moderate Muslim who, as everyone knows, at a Radikale [Venstre] party conference in [2002]4 refused to vote for a resolution that denounced sharia and [in 2006]5 participated in a demonstration arranged by Hizb ut-Tahrir, the organization that, as everyone