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On 5 September 2016, the web site MadWorldNews posted a story about an incident in a Norwegian hair salon that began as follows: The story went on to praise the hairstylist, Merete Hodne, for refusing to bow to Sharia law by accommodating Bayan's alleged demand: According to Norwegian news reports, the original incident happened in October 2015, when Bayan was in the town of Bryne, Norway, comparing salon prices. Neither Bayan nor Hodne were quoted in news accounts as claiming that Bayan had demanded Hodne's male customers vacate the premises so she could have her hair done. Rather, Bayan asserted that Hodne had discriminated against her by preemptively refusing service to her, while Hodne said that she didn't want Bayan in her shop and asked her to leave because she believes Islam is evil: The claim that Bayan demanded male customers leave the establishment doesn't appear in any primary news accounts of the incident that we could find and seems to be an artifact of MadWorldNews' third-hand reporting, taken from a comment made by Hodne to Norwegian media in which she assumed that if she were to provide services to hijabi women, she would be forced to boot out her male clients to accommodate them: Bayan told TV2 that even though she felt insulted, she planned to let the matter rest until she found out that Hodne had posted some sensitive information about her on Facebook. At that point, she complained to police: In April 2016, Hodne was fined over the incident but refused to pay, and now she is facing a court date and possible imprisonment. According to TV2, Hodne is an active member of two nationalist anti-Islam groups, Pegida and Stop Islamisation of Norway and is willing to go to jail over the matter.
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