Rotterdam pol refusing to resign after lying about ties to jihadist organization

Posted by Robert on January 25, 2008 7:12 AM

Yes, that's right: it's the [1] epistolary wonder Bouchra Ismaili.

"Radical PvdA Councillor Refusing to Resign," from [2] NISNews (thanks to Dav):

ROTTERDAM, 25/01/08 - Labour (PvdA) politician Bouchra Ismaili is refusing to resign. She is ignoring requests from her party to step down because she lied about signing a petition of the radical Muslim organisation Hizb Ut Tahrir.

Ismaili, a Muslim immigrant of Moroccan origin, is a PvdA member of Rotterdam's Charlois district council. Last week, she wrote in an e-mail to a citizen: "You filthy idiot. WE ARE HERE TO STAY hahahahahahhahah DROP DEAD". The email contained reams more similar remarks and urged the man to convert to Islam.

Ismaili's email was a reply to an email in which the citizen, Jos Parbleu, had confronted the council member with statements by Okay Pala, a spokesman for Hizb ut-Tahrir Nederland. Pala had said in newspaper De Telegraaf: 'We do not agree with freedom of expression, as we reject democracy' and 'what you need is a big bomb attack!'

The PvdA leadership in Charlois did not consider it necessary to boot Ismaili out. But meanwhile, during a meeting of Charlois district council, it has become clear that Ismaili also signed a petition from Hizb Ut Tahrir and lied about it.

The Hizb ut Tahrir petition stated: "It is time to rid ourselves of a culture that damages our Islam." Initially, Ismaili denied emphatically that she signed the petition. But when opposition party Liveable Rotterdam (LR) produced a printout of the Internet page with her signature, she had to admit it....


Article printed from Jihad Watch: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/01/rotterdam-pol-refusing-to-resign-after-lying-about-ties-to-jihadist-organization.html

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[1] http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/019627.php
[2] http://www.nisnews.nl/public/250108_1.htm