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The public prosecution department is keeping a very close eye on two so-called ‘hate imams’ and will take action if their statements break the law, justice minister Ferd Grapperhaus told MPs on Tuesday evening.
The imams – El-Alami Amaouch and Fawas Jneid – have kept within the letter of the law and there is not enough evidence against them to bring a prosecution, the minister said.
Jneid hit the headlines at the end of last month when the Telegraaf reported he had ‘ranted for an hour in Arabic’ about Rotterdam mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb, calling him an apostate Muslim and an enemy of real Islam.
MPs called for action to be taken against the imam and said the public prosecution department should launch a test case. ‘It is high time that the courts have a go,’ VVD parliamentarian Arno Rutte said during the debate, the Telegraaf reported.