Radical imam should be banned from Gouda: politicians

Municipal council factions of the CDA and ChristenUnie in Gouda believe that radical imam Tarik Chadlioui should be banned from preaching in Gouda. The factions believe that this would be in accordance with the strong counter-action against hate-preachers announced by Minister Lodewijk Asscher of Social Affairs, Omroep West reports. CDA faction president Hubert van Rossum says that Chadlioui is gathering funds to support the fight in Syria. "He is also maintaining contact with a radical organization in Germany that is banned there", Van Rossum says. "There are already several people who have left Gouda for Syria, and we want to stop that. Let's then not co-operate with the coming of these kinds of imams who have a network in Syria", the CDA faction president tells Omroep West. The fact that Chadlioui has been allowed into Gouda is enough justification for the CDA to ask for clarification from the city government, and to ask what it will do to prevent radical preachers calling for extremism from being allowed into Gouda. "I will ask that question to the Mayor", Van Rossum says.