“A remarkable choice to highlight this passage,” wrote Gül, who used to live in Bos en Lommer and wrote two books about her past as a Muslim woman, yesterday in Her column in De Telegraaf. According to Gül, female circumcision does indeed have to do with religion. “Not wanting to recognize this is not only denying the facts, but also not solution -oriented.”
Halsema found the column a reason for one Long comment in text on LinkedIn To write and link to it on Instagram and Bluesky. She writes that her position is ‘completely reversed’ by the columnist. “Gül closes me a view that I don’t have at all; she deliberately omits my hard and repeated conviction of genital mutilation, as she does not mention that I insist on investigation and prosecution, on more government attention and investments, and argues for Safehouses . “