(Dutch News) Amsterdam’s mayor Femke Halsema has told local broadcaster AT5 that she will close down mosques if imams are spreading messages of hate but “only as a last resort.”
Halsema, who outlined her strategy to deal with radicalisation in a briefing to councillors shortly after taking office, said that closing mosques is “a very rigorous [action] and that is something you only do as a last resort.”
You must be able to act if “an imam gives disgusting sermons, such as saying women should be subservient or that homosexuality is a crime,” the mayor said.
