(NL Times) The board of the Blue Mosque in Amsterdam is angry about a letter from the municipality. In it, Mayor Femke Halsema asks mosque authorities to sign a statement of support calling for the condemnation of violence against LGBTI+ people. The Blue Mosque called it “absurd, discriminatory and accusatory.”
“The fact that only mosques are asked to explicitly condemn violence is a direct accusation against the Islamic community,” the mosque said in a statement.
Halsema has invited the Amsterdam mosque boards for a meeting next Monday about the protection of the LGBTI+ community “and about the contribution that mosques can make to strengthen the safety of this group.”
