Minister Ard van der Steur (Security and Justice, VVD). Photo ANP / Marcel van der Hoorn
The government will see whether it is possible for the Netherlands to not only remove unwanted imams from outside Europe, but also imams residing in Europe. Minister Ard van der Steur (Justice) is a proposal of his own party about “interesting,” a spokesman told news agency ANP.
The National Coordinator for Counterterrorism is already working on a kind of blacklist for “hate preachers”, but based only on people who apply for a visa. People within the EU need not apply for a visa, so they could just come to the Netherlands. Since the VVD wants to do something. MP Ockje Tellegen said today at RTL News:
“Not a week goes by that there is a mayor with hands in her hair. Since a must stop. We need much more proactive regarding ministers that we in the Netherlands do not really want to have. “
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The government wants to tighten the policy on undesirable imams and proposal will be included therein as consideration. It is true that the criteria to deny imams access to the country quite arbitrary, wrote editors Andreas Kouwenhoven and Joost Scheffers early last month in NRC Handelsblad (€):
“People who directly incite violence, may be refused. But often it is ministers who make dubious statements within the bounds of the law. (…) So it is for the government increasingly complex. Because how do you decide whether an imam who once made a questionable decision, there still needs to be settled? “
Coming imams leading to uproar
Lately in different municipalities of commotion about the arrival of a controversial imam. For example, the Saudi Arabian sheik Aaidh al-Qarni was the end of April to give a lecture in Eindhoven, but his visa was withdrawn after media anti-Western remarks oprakelden him. Rijswijk was canceled a charity gala in February that would speak some controversial imams.
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