(Dutch News) Education minister Dennis Wiersma has been accused of breaking the constitutional ban on discrimination with his plan to target Islamic weekend schools suspected of fostering radicalism.
An organisation representing Islamic institutions in the Rotterdam area, SPIOR, has filed a police complaint against the minister after he said last month he wanted to authorise education inspectors to take action against schools that breached the rules.
Wiersma acted in response to an investigation by NRC and Nieuwsuur in 2019 into Salafi mosques that gave religious lessons at weekends. But the two media organisations also found last week that the minister had ignored warnings from his own civil servants that there was a strong risk the plan was impractical and unconstitutional.
