Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Netherlands: Comedian should be killed

Ewout Jansen is a Dutch comedian.  As part of his show he makes fun of Muslims, which brings about different negative reactions - from abuse from the audience to storming the podium.  Jansen says many times Moroccan kids shout at him that he should be killed.

University paper Folia decided to get an official reaction from the Muslim community and therefore turned to Assoenna Mosque (Sonat Mosque) in Amsterdam.  

In an interview, a spokesman for the mosque said that Jansen should be killed "according to Islam" because of the jokes he makes.  If I understand the interview correctly, he also said Jansen should be sued and that if the judge doesn't do anything, then the Muslims should take care of it.  The spokesman also said that Van Gogh had been warned of the fate that awaited him.

Assoenna Mosque claims that the person interviewed is not an official representative of the mosque and was just passing through.  Folia, on the other hand, claims they talked to an interpreter named Mr. Kabli and that the mosque brought him to be interviewed.  He spoke in the presence of several mosque leaders.  The mosque's imam, Mohammed Bouljhaf, was also present during the interview, but left halfway through, before the comments were made.

I had tried looking up more information about Assoenna mosque and to find out whether there is a Mr. Kabli there, but did not find anything at all.

Sources: Folia (Dutch), Parool (Dutch)

Klein Verzet is following up on this story .