Gert Jan Mulder is stepping down as a member of the Board of Directors of Ongehoord Nederland

According to ON! Mulder has decided on his own to retire. “The Board of Examiners respects this decision and is extremely grateful to Dr. Mulder for his contribution to making ON! a very successful broadcast,” the broadcaster writes. the statement.

Published yesterday of Volkskrant Mulder’s profile, which included statements he made on social media. He called Muslims ‘dirty, dirty, dirty, typhoid, bloody Muslims’ and ‘dirty soup dresses’, referred to people who work in the media as ‘whornalists’ and described Prosecution Service staff who ‘Public as ‘fascists’.

‘Taken out of context’

Mulder, who spends most of his time in Paraguay, said in response to In a long post he again focuses on Islam, and writes, among other things: “Since three years I was asked to be a member of the Supervisory Board of the wonderful broadcaster Ongehoord Nederland and in three years I was able to make a number. of things.

The publication in the Volkskrant yesterday led to many angry and disgusted reactions. The Media Authority immediately asked ON! because ‘racism, anti-Semitism and offensive statements about parts of the population do not belong in public broadcasting’. The NPO said they wanted to speed up the tightening of the Code of Conduct for Integrity in Public Broadcasting.

‘Outright racism’

Rabin Baldewsingh, the National Coordinator against Discrimination and Racism (NCDR), said that Mulder’s statements are ‘absolutely racist’ and stressed that his statements ‘damage the public broadcasting system and the people of the Netherlands’.

Minister Eppo Bruins (Education, Culture and Science) consulted with the NPO and the Media Authority on Friday about tightening the code of conduct, he said in a statement. It is not clear exactly what changes the groups have in mind.