The government wants to make it possible to freeze, restrict, ban or confiscate flows of money and goods to mosques and mosque schools if they undermine the democratic constitutional state. It concerns foreign and domestic donations. Minister Dekker proposes this as an addition to the bill he already submitted after the parliamentary investigation into unwanted money flows from unfree countries at the beginning of last year.
In it, he proposed to provide access to all donations from outside the European Union. The House of Representatives thought that did not go far enough. VVD and CDA proposed drawing up an index with unfree countries. That will not come, because Dekker thinks that influence can still be ‘bought’ from organizations in the Netherlands through intermediaries in the EU.
Dekker hopes to meet the House in a different way. If it is up to him, the Public Prosecution Service can soon ask the court to temporarily turn off the money tap of both domestic and foreign donors, if activities are carried out that go against “our democratic values, fundamental freedoms or human rights”. Ordinary organizations for charities, or with a social or philosophical objective, do not have to worry, according to him.
“Propagating hatred against dissenters, inciting violence and extremism, or spreading anti-democratic ideas,” says Dekker. “There is no place for that in the Netherlands. Organizations that are involved in this must therefore be fought vigorously. In a constitutional state, we cannot be unlimitedly tolerant of intolerance.
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