Hey, that’s weird. When the VV terrible stomachache of the fact that ex-terrorist Soumaya Sahla chaired the security table tight man Hans Nijenhuis already in the Algemeen Dagblad dat ‘extremism won’ would have if she were not allowed to return. And now, by the hand of the same Hans Nijenhuis, suddenly appears ‘her story’ in the Algemeen Dagblad. In it, Soumaya makes a few revelations about how slippery the VVD hair is threw in front of the bus which will not surprise anyone who has seen a VVD politician on television for more than 3 seconds. And then, after all this, Soumaya also says that she does want to remain active in the same VVD.
But what struck us most is that there are still a few crazy things in ‘her story’, which a journalist who had not shown #teamsoumaya beforehand, might have asked questions about.
First, her conviction. According to the piece, this is all due to a conversation she had with a sister (not D66 MP Fonda Sahla, but another sister) who worked in a pharmacy, in which she asked for the addresses of several politicians, including Ayaan Hirsi Ali. “She herself has always said that she wanted to write letters to those politicians to ‘invite them to the faith’.” Okay. But isn’t that still pretty idiotic, violating privacy and, especially in the period immediately after the murder of Theo van Gogh, extremely threatening? Why doesn’t Nijenhuis ask how she looks back on that now?
Second: her father. The article shows in detail that Soumaya’s father died exactly at the time of the fuss, and that she was then busy with his care and then the mourning. But when it comes to the period when she came into contact with the Hofstad group, she points out that she was oppressed by her family’s strict Islamic views. How does the story of someone who says he has just wrestled from that oppression fit with someone who eventually has such a close relationship with father that she takes care of him on his deathbed? We are not saying that the two cannot go together, we understand that you don’t just ask this in an interview and we really understand that such things are complex, but if that father plays such a prominent role in the story, it is strange that this apparent contradiction is nowhere mentioned.
Third: Frits Bolkestein. What exactly is his role as Soumaya’s ‘mentor’, is he still doing so and if so, how? What’s right about it the story that he wanted to have her work done for the Hague faction, and that was already being refused? And how is her relationship with Bolkestein now? Nothing is said about it.
Well, next week we will read a report from the AD Ombudsman about further questions and stuff. However?
But what does she think of this now?
Blame her father
Other times!
AMSTERDAM October 16, 2006 – Terror suspect Soumaya S., the wife of Nouradin El F., leaves the specially secured court in Amsterdam-Osdorp on Monday evening. There, the ‘Piranha trial’ started on Monday against Samir A. and several others, including Soumaya S. and Nouradin El F. They are suspected of terrorist activities.
