Sending letters with diapers to different mosques is not punishable, according to the Public Prosecution Service.
At Easter, several mosques received a letter. In the envelope was a diaper with the text “Easter gift for our whiners in society”‘. According to the Contact Body Muslims and Government (CMO), letters were delivered to mosques in Alkmaar, Culemborg, Deventer and Enschede, among others. The contents were not always the same: a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed and fragmented Koran verses were also found in the diaper. Ten mosque boards filed a complaint.
Not fierce enough
According to the Public Prosecution Service (OM), the cartoon and the fragmented verses are a form of criticism of Islam. But expressing criticism or insulting a religion is not punishable because of freedom of expression.
“Even if this is done in such a way that the followers of that religion feel affected by it,” the OM said to the newspaper. NH News. Text on the diaper is not punishable either. It is true that it concerns Muslims, according to the Public Prosecution Service, but “the statement is not strong enough to reach the threshold of a criminal insult”.
The Public Prosecution Service also points out that the package with the diaper cannot be described as a “letter of threat”: there is no threat of any crime.
Crazy boiler or concerted action
“It’s no longer an incident, this is a pattern,” said Saïd Bouharrou of the National Council of Moroccan Mosques earlier. “And the threats and violent incidents are also becoming more and more intense. The scary thing is that you don’t know whether it is one crazy thing or a coordinated action. It worries us. We also wonder what needs to be done before the cabinet gets started on this. We believe that at the very least a coordinator should be appointed to investigate Muslim-related hate incidents.”
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