Ministers Marjolein Faber (Asylum & Migration, PVV) and David van Weel (Justice, VVD) denied three speakers from Ramadan Expo access to the Netherlands on Wednesday. The ministers fear that the guest speakers will “hate”. The Ministry of Asylum and Migration has the prohibition in one press release announced. Faber and Van Weel also have both reported on X about the decision.
Because of the event, which will take place in the Utrecht Jaarbeurs in Utrecht this weekend, the men would come to the Netherlands. The names and nationalities of the speakers are not mentioned. According to De Telegraaf It is about the British Mohammed Hijab and Ali Hammuda and the New Zealand Abu Bakr.
Faber calls it “unacceptable that Islamic speakers want to abuse our freedom for hate -sowing speeches.” That is why she has decided not to admit the three ‘hate preachers’ in the Netherlands. “Our Dutch dikes cannot be high enough to keep hatred, aggression and violent glory,” says the PVV person. Minister Van Weel writes on his X-channel that for ‘hate speech and the more destruction of violence […] absolutely no place [is] In the Netherlands.
Rainbow flag
The cabinet argues ‘reprehensible statements in the past about women and gays’ as one of the reasons for denying the three of access to the country. “There is also trivializing spoken about sexual intercourse with minors and one of the speakers denied the terrorist attack of Hamas on October 7, 2023.”
Published two weeks ago De Telegraaf An article about the suspected speakers. The newspaper states that the Brit Ali Hammuda on his YouTube channel would have claimed that the Hamas attack on the Israeli Supernova festival on October 7, where 364 visitors were killed, was ‘invented’. The Hammuda video is no longer online. The Australian Abu Bakr would stated in 2022 that on every [homovriendelijke] Rainbow flag should be an image of “someone with anal cancer. So that people know what awaits you ”.
In a video now deleted, according to De Telegraafthe third speaker, Mohammed Hijab from the United Kingdom, would have argued that “being intimate with a 13 or 14-year-old girl with huge hips and huge breasts […] no damage to[richt]”The newspaper writes.
Dawah group
“From preachers with hundreds, sometimes thousands of hours of online material, it is searched for until one quote is found somewhere that can be explained negatively,” wrote the Dawah group, one of the organizers of Ramadan Expo, two weeks ago in a press release In response to the reporting. “We reject the interpretations given to them by De Telegraaf. We are confident that it will be a beautiful, positive and inspiring event. ”
Last October the municipality of Utrecht broke The ties with the Dawah group, because the foundation had invited “the not undisputed speaker” Abou Hafs without consultation “without consultation” for another event.
Ramadan Expo takes place in the run -up to the start of the Islamic Vast Monthly Ramadan, which will take place in March this year.