Dutch MP and leader of the Denk Party, Stephan van Baarle, talks to TRT World about the ethnic profiling of MPs in the Dutch Parliament with Moroccan, Turkish or other migrant backgrounds in what he says is yet another manifestation of anti-Muslim racism.
I should like to make a few points on this video here. …
First of all, Islam is NOT a ‘race’. So, people against Islam cannot be “racists” by definition. They can be prejudiced and/or bigited, of course, but not racist. Islam has its adherents and believers from all over the world, and from all races..
I should like to know what Stephan van Baarle, the leader of the Denk Party, proposes for the rights of gays in the Netherlands? Were he to be in control, would gays’ rights be swept away? If he were to follow the tenets of his religion, Dutch gays would be allowed no rights at all. Homosexuality is anathema to Islam.
My last point is this… You say that you work to make things better. That is admirable indeed. However, I should like to point out that the word “better” is a value judgment. What is better to one person can be, and will be worse in the eyes of another. – © Mark Alexander