Netherlands: Ramadan Expo 2025 Mired in Controversy

Hat tip Omroep PowNed

On February 22-23, the annual Ramadan Expo was held in Utrecht. It is advertised as a fair of some sort, but the Dutch government tried to impose an entry ban on three preachers who were coming from other countries to speak, two from Britain and one from Australia. According to Asylum and Migration Minister Marjolein Faber, the preachers had a history of hate speech, including diatribes against homosexuals and denials that Hamas did anything wrong on October 7, 2023 (when they massacred over 1,100 Israelis and took over 200 hundred as hostages back into Gaza.

However, a Dutch judge overruled the minister and, as they say at the circus, the show went on. The three preachers in question were Mohammed Hijab, Ali Hammuda (of Britain) and  Abu Bakr Zoud of Australia.

The conservative Dutch news outlet Omroep PowNed, sent a reporter and cameraman to the Expo to ask questions. They were not well received in spite of the organizers’ repeated claims that everyone was welcome.

The below article from Omroep PowNed is translated by Fousesquawk. There is also a video showing the reporter attempting to ask questions of attendees and how they were treated in a less-than-welcoming nature. The video also features clips of the above three speakers making their past comments (in English) about homosexuals, anal sex, and October 7. Hopefully, we will be able to provide English subtitles for the video, but given its length (over 6 minutes), it will take some time.

23 February 2025

Tense atmosphere surrounding hate preachers at Ramadan fair: “Gang arranged”

Glorifying pedophilia, denying October 7, and claiming that homosexuals get anal cancer from anal sex. These are statements that Minister Marjolein Faber did not like and therefore issued an entry ban for the speakers at the Ramadan fair. But the judge decided that you could perfectly well preach this at such a fair and so canceled out the entry ban, good for the Muslims who enjoy a visit to the fair on Saturday.

It just wasn’t so convivial. The annual fair advised our reporter, Abel, to leave after our cameraman was threatened and there was a gang called in to tackle our Abel. Questions could not be asked because everybody was instructed not to talk. Even the smoking (not allowed) Muslims who were standing outside- yes, apparently Allah doesn’t see if you smoke outside- didn’t want to say anything.

The organization claims that everyone is welcome although they don’t know if you are welcome at the fair if you are a homosexual or have anal cancer.