El Partit Laborista holandès torna a ensopegar en la mateixa pedra. Fa una anys, per por a perdre el vot dels musulmans, va intentar fer callar a la seva militant Ayaan Hirsi Ali perquè feia massa soroll en la defensa dels drets de les dones musulmanes, aconseguint que abandonés el partit i s’afiliés al Partit Liberal. Ara, per les mateixes raons electoralistes,
intenta tapar la boca a un altra dels seus militants, el refugiat iranià Ehsan Jami, que ha constituit un comitè de suport als apòstates musulmans.
Jami announced in May he was setting up a Committee for Ex-Muslims. The committee wants to break the taboo on lapsing from the Islamic faith. The 22 year old Jami, himself an apostate of Islam, says many Muslims do not dare to renounce Islam for fear of reprisals, including death.
Jami, who is a PvdA council member in the town of Leidschendam-Voorburg, will launch the committee officially in September with an international press conference. He says he has already had hundreds of e-mails from Muslims from throughout the world who support him. But his own PvdA is trying to muzzle him, it emerges from internal correspondence obtained by newspaper NRC Handelsblad.
‘Progressive’ filmmaker Eddy Terstall, who is active on behalf of the PvdA behind the scenes, spoke with Jami on behalf of the party. An e-mail in which he reported to PvdA MPs and ministers last week on this meeting leaked to NRC Handelsblad.
Terstall writes that attempts to “ideologically encapsulate” Jami within “the line that was discussed beforehand” with PvdA MPs Aleid Wolfsen and Mei Li Vos proceeded “with difficulty.”
The e-mail reveals an attempt to manipulate Jami on 11 points. Terstal advised him to “choose his words more carefully” and take into account the fact that his message could go down badly with the PvdA’s big immigrant following. Terstall concluded with the message that he is prepared to “guide” Jami further.
