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{"id":6408,"date":"2018-03-28T13:39:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T12:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ardi-ep.eu\/?p=6408"},"modified":"2018-04-27T11:09:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T10:09:01","slug":"meps-call-for-sanctions-against-marcel-de-graaff-for-allegedly-racist-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ardi-ep.eu\/meps-call-for-sanctions-against-marcel-de-graaff-for-allegedly-racist-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"MEPs call for sanctions against Marcel de Graaff for allegedly racist comments"},"content":{"rendered":"(15\/03\/2018)<\/p>\n
Parliament Magazine<\/strong><\/p>\n MEPs call for sanctions against Marcel de Graaff for allegedly racist comments<\/strong><\/p>\n Dutch deputy de Graaff, in a plenary debate on Wednesday, is said to have accused Muslim people of \u201creturning Europe back into the Middle Ages.\u201d<\/p>\n Other MEPs say the comments, which were made during a plenary debate on the future of Europe with the Portuguese Prime Minister Ant\u00f3nio Costa, amount to \u201cincitement to hatred\u201d.<\/p>\n A letter of complaint, drafted by Italian Socialist MEP C\u00e9cile Kyenge, has now been sent to Parliament President Antonio Tajani.<\/p>\n In the letter, Kyenge, who is co-leader of the European Parliament anti-racism and diversity intergroup (ARDI), calls for \u201cdispensary measures\u201d against de Graaff for the \u201chate speech.\u201d<\/p>\n The letter states that de Graaff said that Islam is the \u201cdefinition of gender inequality, polygamy, child marriage, slavery and honour killings.\u201d<\/p>\n It goes on, \u201cHis speech was clearly based on Islamophobic rhetoric and is an unacceptable behaviour on hate speech and incitement to hatred for an MEP.<\/p>\n \u201cTherefore, I would urge you to take immediate action against de Graaff using Parliament\u2019s rules of procedure. Such behaviour should not be tolerated and should be sanctioned. His actions are all the more irresponsible and dangerous given that he is an MEP and in the current context in Europe where the rights of migrants and Muslims have come under attack.\u201d<\/p>\n Kyenge writes, \u201cRacism and xenophobia are direct violations of the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms and the rule of law. It is imperative that all of us fight intolerance and we hope you take action.<\/p>\n It is claimed de Graaff said that the inclusion of Muslim people is a \u201cdangerous threat\u201d to the future of the European society and accused the EU of sustaining the destruction of the continent by replacing European culture with Islam.<\/p>\n Speaking of the Muslim religion, he is quoted as saying, \u201cIt opened its borders and spent billions to invite millions of uneducated people from a backward culture that will launch Europe straight back into the Middle Ages\u201d.<\/p>\n Kyenge, says, \u201cBy defining Muslims as non-evolved people he has shown himself as a racist using rhetoric based on the European superiority. In Europe, after all the atrocities that these kinds of statements have caused, we cannot permit policies such as De Graaf to ruin our institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n She has called on Tajani to \u201ctake action as we can\u2019t let these statements go unpunished.\u201d<\/p>\n A spokesperson for the ARDI group told this website that 50 MEPs had now agreed to sign the letter.<\/p>\n It is not the first time De Graaf has hit the headlines for comments about Muslims. In the past he has said that Islam is \u201cincompatible with Western civilisation.\u201d<\/p>\n The MEP, who co-Chair of Parliament\u2019s ENF group, was not immediately available for comment on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (15\/03\/2018) Parliament Magazine MEPs call for sanctions against Marcel de Graaff for allegedly racist comments Dutch deputy de Graaff, in a plenary debate on Wednesday, is said to have accused Muslim people of \u201creturning Europe back into the Middle Ages.\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oct_exclude_from_cache":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[93,237,52,119,77,46,236,443],"class_list":["post-6408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-ep","tag-graaff","tag-islamophobia","tag-kyenge","tag-meps","tag-racism","tag-sanctions","tag-tajani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ardi-ep.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ardi-ep.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ardi-ep.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ardi-ep.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ardi-ep.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ardi-ep.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6430,"href":"https:\/\/www.ardi-ep.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6408\/revisions\/6430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ardi-ep.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ardi-ep.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ardi-ep.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}