Do not let Nonviolent sounds drown by … – Blog.nl (Blog)

Do not let Nonviolent sounds drown by … – Blog.nl (Blog)

No ban on ‘primitive opinions” and “reprehensible thoughts

In an interview with the prominent Financieel Dagblad (FD), the mayor of Rotterdam, Ahmed Abou Taleb in the Hague for his fellow Jozias van Aartsen, who is since an anti-Israel demonstration under fire.

Abou Taleb wondered how fair it is that a mayor who does not see anything or hear is called cowardly. Van Aartsen was criticized after anti-Israel Rally in The Hague where dozens of extremist Muslims antisemitic slogans shouted and waved flags of the terrorist group ISIS.

Mayors are not to satisfy public opinion, but to be to maintain public order believes Abou Taleb. He described the extreme manifestations as’ primitive opinions “and” reprehensible thoughts, but banning it finds a step too far. “We have no opinion police,” he says.

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Critics want that direct intervention by the police during such a demonstration is. Van Aartsen is in a difficult position by his first reaction. Shortly after the demonstration on July 24, he said that there had been exceeded.

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public outrage. The international Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights organization, criticized, and now have 17,000 people signed a petition calling for Van Aartsen dismissal.

Additional measures

In response to the unrest, the government additional measures. affects The Public Prosecutor is investigating using images and photographs or on 24 July in The Hague were criminal manifestations. There are now two men arrested.

On the next demonstrations are discriminatory and anti-Semitism is not tolerated. ISIS flags, Nazi symbols, bringing the Hitler salute, flag burnings and face-covering clothing are prohibited.

The Hague will sound and picture wagon deploy police so interpreting the slogans that are created in real time to translate.

Political implications

The case in The Hague seems to stand himself. During Gaza demonstrations in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, the organization pointed out such expressions themselves. If there are extremists with ISIS flags were then seized the protesters themselves.

It is obvious the best solution. However, some media that the presence of extremists to engage in politics. They put the whole group of protesters away as extreme, and nag about hard by police intervention.

In such a contrast to normal peace protesters from both sides supplanted by extremists. On the one hand, the radical ISIS supporters on the other hand, radical Islam haters. They have in common that they want to exploit for their own extreme political agenda.

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think that is the real threat to our freedom of speech. Normal, non-violent sounds should never be drowned out by extremists.