Muslim Dutch Justice Ministry employee: ISIS a Zionist conspiracy
It’s amazing how far the crazy goes in some people. According to a report at the Jewish Daily Forward, an employee of the Dutch Justice Ministry claimed the jihadist group ISIS was created by Zionists seeking to give Islam a bad reputation. Seriously.
“ISIS has nothing to do with Islam. It’s part of a plan by Zionists who are deliberately trying to blacken Islam’s name,” wrote Yasmina Haifi, a project leader at the ministry’s National Cyber Security Center.
“I realize the political sensitivity in connection with my work. That was not my intention,” she said after removing the message. Right… Maybe she’ll claim that all those reports of children being beheaded are part of the giant global plot to make ISIS and Muslims look bad…
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JTA added:
Two right-wing lawmakers have asked the ministry how a person with such views reached a prominent position within the ministry. The lawmakers, Joram van Klaveren and Louis Bontes of the VNL faction, asked whether the minister thought Haifi’s employment constituted a security risk.
Gee, ya think? There’s more:
ISIS, which is considered a terrorist organization in many Western countries, has been in the news in the Netherlands because of a series of pro-ISIS demonstrations in the Hague in July and earlier this month. Some demonstrators called for violence.
Two of the demonstrations, on July 2 and 24, featured calls to kill Jews. When anti-ISIS demonstrators tried to march through the heavily-Muslim neighborhood of Schilderswijk on August 10 to express their disapproval, a crowd of approximately 200 men barricaded the neighborhood’s main street and staged an illegal counter-demonstration in support of ISIS.
When riot police tried to remove the obstacles, some of the local protesters hurled stones at them. Six people were arrested.
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