(Ankara) The Turkish government has expressed its displeasure with
how permission has been granted by the city of Rotterdam for the anti-Islamic
group roast pork in front of Rotterdam's Laleli Mosque of Islamitische
Stichting Nederland at the same time as Muslims will be breaking their fast.
Far-right organization Patriotic Europeans against
Islamization of the West (Pegida) has announced
on social media that they will roast pork in front of mosques during this
week's fast-breaking hours in Dutch cities of Rotterdam, Utrecht, Gouda, The
Hague and Arnhem. The Municipality of Rotterdam gave permission to Pegida for them to do so on the evening of the 7th of June.
In response Turkey's EU Minister Ömer Çelik has expressed his displeasure on the Dutch for allowing this to go-ahead
data-conversation="none" data-lang="en">Ironically whilst the other municipalities in the Netherlands did not allow Pegida to roast a pig in front of mosques at the breaking of their daily Ramadan fast. Ahmet Abutalib, the Mayor of Rotterdam, who is of Moroccan origin, thinks that this activity of Pegida is not against the law. How strange. Maybe the best way to defuse this would be for the mosque to offer free booze to all the idiots who turn up. At a stroke taking away the power of offence.
This is so far the most immoral attempt ever in the history of hate crimes. Granting legal permission to such an immoral activity is also another deficiency of morality.— Ömer Çelik (@omerrcelik) June 6, 2018
