Vulpix
11-11-2008, 07:09 PM
DutchNews.nl (http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2008/10/rotterdam_picks_dutch_moroccan.php): Junior social affairs minister Ahmed Aboutaleb is poised to become the new mayor of Rotterdam, after council officials voted to nominate him for the job. Aboutaleb, a Labour party member, will be the first mayor in the Netherlands to have a Moroccan background.
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Opposition
The second biggest party, Leefbaar Rotterdam (Liveable Rotterdam), is furious at the appointment. ‘He is an Amsterdammer, he is a careerist and an Ajax supporter, but the worst thing is that he has two passports,’ party leader Ronald Sorensen told ANP.
Aboutaleb has dual Dutch and Moroccan nationality. Since his appointment to the cabinet, he has been under considerable pressure from right-wing parties to give up his Moroccan nationality.
Dual nationality should not be the issue here. The real concerns should be about his ETHNIC and religious background. :thumb down2
He is a "practicing muslim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Aboutaleb)" :rolleyes2::thumb down.
Geert Wilders, leader of the anti immigration party PVV said ‘the appointment of a Moroccan as mayor of Holland’s second biggest city is as insane as making a Dutchman mayor of Mecca.’ :nod:
[...]
Opposition
The second biggest party, Leefbaar Rotterdam (Liveable Rotterdam), is furious at the appointment. ‘He is an Amsterdammer, he is a careerist and an Ajax supporter, but the worst thing is that he has two passports,’ party leader Ronald Sorensen told ANP.
Aboutaleb has dual Dutch and Moroccan nationality. Since his appointment to the cabinet, he has been under considerable pressure from right-wing parties to give up his Moroccan nationality.
Dual nationality should not be the issue here. The real concerns should be about his ETHNIC and religious background. :thumb down2
He is a "practicing muslim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Aboutaleb)" :rolleyes2::thumb down.
Geert Wilders, leader of the anti immigration party PVV said ‘the appointment of a Moroccan as mayor of Holland’s second biggest city is as insane as making a Dutchman mayor of Mecca.’ :nod: