Muslim mayor of Rotterdam to Muslim immigrants: If you don’t like western freedoms, f*** off

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Allahpundit

January 13, 2015

 

Noteworthy, not just because of his background but because the list of prominent western pols willing to tell immigrants to hit the bricks if they won’t adopt their new country’s values is short enough that we have to go looking for less prominent ones. Ahmed Aboutaleb is an interesting guy: He came to the Netherlands as a teenager from Morocco, advanced through the ranks of the Dutch Labour Party, then caught flak from Geert Wilders for maintaining dual citizenship in both countries. He ended up being appointed mayor of Rotterdam (mayoralties are appointed positions in Holland, evidently), a city distinguished by its ethnic composition — nearly half the population is of non-Dutch origins, with Muslims comprising 13 percent. Rotterdam was also the city that had been governed not long before Aboutaleb’s ascendance by the party of Pim Fortuyn, the Dutch pol and fierce critic of Islam who was assassinated eight months after 9/11. His killer, a Dutch leftist, said he’d done it to stop Fortuyn from scapegoating Muslims. Fast-forward 13 years and the city has a Muslim mayor, one who … sounds quite a bit like Fortuyn and Wilders, ironically, in urging Muslims who won’t assimilate to scram.

 

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Meanwhile....

 

Turkey Court Orders Block on Websites with Charlie Hebdo Cover

Jan. 14 2015

 

A Turkish court on Wednesday ordered a block on access to websites featuring the latest cover of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, state-run news agency Anatolia reported.

"Access to relevant sections of Internet sites that publish Charlie Hebdo's cover today will be banned," it said.

The court in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir made the ruling following a petition from a lawyer, it added, without giving further details.

 

Defying an attack a week ago by Islamist gunmen who shot dead many of its staff, Charlie Hebdo's first post-attack edition on Wednesday pictured a tearful Prophet Mohammed on its cover holding a sign saying "Je suis Charlie" ("I am Charlie").

In a show of solidarity with Charlie Hebdo, leading Turkish daily Cumhuriyet printed excerpts from the issue, a move that risked a backlash in the predominantly Muslim country.

 

The pull-out edition did not include the controversial front cover but a smaller version of that cartoon featuring the prophet was included twice inside the newspaper to illustrate columns on the subject.

 

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