Is a fresh little breeze beginning to blow through Islam? The Moroccan-born mayor of Rotterdam has said Muslim immigrants who do not appreciate the way of life in Western civilizations can “f*** off”. Ahmed Aboutaleb, who arrived in the Netherlands aged 15, spoke out in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris last week. Appearing on live television just hours after the shootings, Mayor Aboutaleb said Muslims who “do not like freedom can pack your bags and leave”. It is incomprehensible that you can turn against freedom, he told Dutch current affairs program Nieuwsuur (Newshour). “But if you dont like freedom, for heavens sake pack your bags and leave. If you do not like it here because some humorists you dont like are making a newspaper, may I then say you can f*** off.” Mayor Aboutaleb grew up the son of an imam in northern Morocco, but moved to the Netherlands in 1976. After working as a reporter he became a civil servant before being appointed State Secretary for Social Affairs and Employment in 2007. When he was appointed mayor of Rotterdam, the second largest city in the country with a population of more than 610,000, he became the first immigrant in such a position in the Netherlands. Mayor Aboutaleb, who represents the Dutch Labour Party, de Partij van de Arbeid, has long had a no-nonsense approach to immigration and integration. [Perhaps some young Muslim men who want to be instant heroes will realize that it’s far more prestigious and ego-satisfying to be praised in the West for opposing the jihad, than to be made martyrs among their dark-age co-religionists by joining ISIS or killing their European neighbors– TAC]
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 19:39:51 +0000
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