Hat tip Dagelijkse Standaard. Translation by Fousesquawk.
We have recently reported on the political candidacy of Kauthar Bouchallikht, who is a candidate for the Green-Left party for the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament. Not only is she linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, she now has to explain her presence at a 2014 rally in which swastikas were displayed. The below article is by Tim Engelbart in the Dagelijkse Standaard. Translation by Fousesquawk.
Kauthar poses with Nazi flag, Kauthar says sorry, and....voila! Kauthar can stay as Green-Left candidate
- by Tim Engelbart December 9, 2020
Yesterday another row came up around Green-Left candidate for the Second Chamber, Kauthar Bouchallikht. Photos surfaced of the Muslim Brotherhood youth administrator with a swastika flag. But whoever thought that meant that Green-Left would finally say good-bye to the young woman is mistaken: Green-Left and Kauthar are married, and do not want to divorce.
The candidate commission of the Green-Left, which drew up the list for the upcoming (Parliament) election, is confronted with the facts every week: It was an unbelievably stupid thing to put Kauthar Bouchallikht (on the 9th spot, therefore eligible) on the election list. Not only because she was a youth administrator for the Islamist infiltration movement, Muslim Brotherhood, but also because in the past, she marched in very unsavory demonstrations, in which swastikas were waved to indicate that Israel is a kind of reincarnation of the Third Reich, or something like that.
End of Kauthar's political career? No, she may stay because she so sincerely said, "sorry".
"The Green-Left candidate went to the demonstration to stand up against injustice and violence in the Gaza Strip. But also present were flags with swastikas, which were removed before the demonstration could begin on orders from the mayor. Bouchallikht calls that a correct decision. She says that the photo of herself is "unbelievably painful".
"The comparison between Israel and Nazi Germany is disgusting. I loathe anti-Semitism. It goes against everything I stand for."
A spokesperson for Green-Left announced that now that Bouchallikht has so "unambiguously distanced herself, there are no further consequences for her position as number 9 on the list for the Second Chamber election list."
Party all around, of course, because everyone again falls sobbing into each other's arms- Nazi flags or not. And Green-Left can go back to the order of the day: Promise children 10,000 euros, and then take it away. Always a nice pastime in the high Klaverian (Jesse Klaver-head of Green-Left party) sphere, right?
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Fousesquawk comment: It is not clear to me whether Bouchallikht was also carrying the flag in question. According to the photo she was not.
In fairness, I should note that there is a difference between carrying a Nazi flag itself as opposed to one that includes a swastika indicating that Israel is a Nazi-type state (which it is clearly not). According to our own State Department definition of anti-Semitism and that of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, equating Israel with Nazi Germany constitutes an element of anti-Semitism. To use the swastika as a propaganda tool to condemn Israel is clearly a red flag-like waving a red flag in front of a bull- or in this case in front of Jewish people who don't need to be reminded of the Holocaust.
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