Aboutaleb genuflects after ‘clumsy’ Ramadan pronunciation | Inland

During a current affairs debate this morning, he was accused by most of the city council that his statement was to say the least ‘clumsy’. It should have been ‘more tactful’ and a bit ‘stupid’.

At the beginning of this week, the mayor stated before the meeting of the Security Council that Ramadan will also be in a few weeks’ time and that this would become ‘a thing’ because people ‘have the urge to see family’ after fasting. A difficult story with the curfew and the restrictive measures.

Exception

This suggested an exceptional position was found by several parties, painful because everyone suffers pain from all the measures. And Muslims were dismissed as a group that cannot or will not abide by the measures, several council members painfully stated.

Aboutaleb bowed slightly. “There is always some truth in it when people don’t get it right, it was clumsy. I should have worded it differently. ”

He was angry that his statements were taken out of context by some politicians, including Wilders, which made it seem that he had deliberately advocated an exceptional position for Muslims. “It is absurd to imagine that.”

Raising the problem

Last year, he was the first mayor to call on the Muslim community to comply with the measures. The mayor stated that he had only raised a problem, which he does more often.

“We would not have had this debate if I had warned against crowds in parks when the weather was nice. If there is a lot of traffic on the beach in good weather, we also estimate whether a distance can be kept and we must enforce it. We have to estimate and address that. “

He did, however, express his hope that young people would not take to the streets en masse during Ramadan this year. “For years, groups of young people hanging around have been a problem, I hope not this year because of the curfew and corona measures.”

It is going to be enforced, he promised. “So don’t do it, it will cost you 95 euros,” warned the mayor.

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