Dutch Politician Opposes Muslim Ministers
Charles Johnson
Sun Feb 25, 2007 at 10:18 am PST • Views: 172
In the Netherlands, two Muslims with dual citizenship have been appointed as government ministers, and Geert Wilders is planning to call for a vote of no confidence.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The leader of a Dutch anti-immigration party will call for a vote of no-confidence in two Muslim government ministers next week, citing their dual nationality as the issue, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
Geert Wilders said in an interview with the Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad the appointment of Moroccan-born Ahmed Aboutaleb and Turkish-born Nebahat Albayrak as junior ministers was wrong because both could have loyalties toward countries other than the Netherlands.
Wilders, whose Party for Freedom (PVV) party won 9 seats out of 150 in the November election, said he will call for a no-confidence vote when the cabinet discusses its policy plans in parliament.
The new cabinet, formed by Christian Democrats, Labour and the Christian Union and sworn in on Thursday by the Dutch queen, is expected to soften immigration policy, which had been tightened under the previous coalition in response to the rise of the populist Pim Fortuyn in 2002. …
In Saturday’s interview, Wilders said: “I do not want to live in a country where some day six or seven members of cabinet could be Muslim,” adding that Islamic laws were “barbaric”, referring to four people who were beheaded in Saudi-Arabia this week.
Barbaric indeed.
The four Sri Lankans executed by Saudi Arabia weren’t simply beheaded. Their headless bodies were then put on public display in the capital city of Riyadh.
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