(Dutch News) The ruling VVD and opposition Labour party want to change an article in the Dutch constitution which gives people the right to set up a school on the basis of a religion.
VVD parliamentarian Dennis Wiersma told Radio 1 on Thursday that revelations in the NRC newspaper on Wednesday about weekend schools run by fundamentalist Muslim organisations are “enormously worrying” and “are directly opposed to everything which we want.”
The paper reported that in some mosque schools children are being taught people of different faiths deserve the death penalty and to turn their backs on the values of Dutch society.
Wiersma told the broadcaster he believes the right to freedom of religious education should be made subordinate to the right to equal treatment.
