(Dutch News) Education minister Arie Slob has threatened to withdraw state funding from an Amsterdam Islamic secondary school accused of having terrorist links, if it refuses to let inspections take place.
The Dutch security service AIVD has warned Amsterdam’s mayor Femke Halsema that the city’s only Islamic secondary school is being influenced by “undemocratic groups” and that some of the schools’ leadership have links to terrorists.
On Friday, Slob told the NOS Journaal news programme that inspectors would be returning to investigate the allegations. “Inspectors will come back, announced and unannounced, and … I have the option of cutting off funding for the school,” he said. “It is unacceptable that inspectors cannot do their work to see what is happening with teachers and within the school.”
