So Harbers was hiding Muslim crimes. Too bad he wasn't a UK minister instead. He might have gotten one of those silly British awards. Order of the Garter, or something like that. He might have even gotten an audience with Prince Charles.
Posted on 05/22/2019 8:05:32 PM PDT by robowombat
Dutch Migration Minister resigns after ‘underreporting murders and sex attacks by Muslim asylum seekers’
MAY 22, 2019
A Dutch junior justice minister has quit after his department came under fire for appearing to minimize statistics about criminality among Muslim asylum seekers. Migration minister Mark Harbers resigned yesterday in a bad blow to the government just ahead of European elections.
Daily Mail (h/t Terry D) His departure adds to the struggle faced by centre-right Prime Minister Mark Rutte as he tries to counter a surge in anti-immigration populists who look poised to win big in the elections on Thursday.
Harbers was caught out over a report featuring statistics on crimes perpetrated by asylum-seekers in the Netherlands that he presented to parliament.
In the report, misdemeanours such as shoplifting had their own separate categories but serious crimes such as sexual assault, murder and manslaughter were lumped together under the category ‘other’ with no disaggregation.
The revelation of that omission by the newspaper De Telegraaf triggered anger among lawmakers, some of whom questioned whether it was a deliberate attempt to skew reception of the report.
Anti-immigration lawmaker Geert Wilders accused the ministry of ‘sweeping under the carpet’ allegations of serious crimes among the thousands of asylum seekers in the Netherlands. Wilders said the resignation was ‘the only correct conclusion.’
The accusations of a cover-up led to a swift internal investigation at the justice ministry.
Late Tuesday, during a parliamentary debate, Harbers announced he had offered his resignation. He assumed ‘total responsibility’ for not correctly informing the chamber but said it was ‘not deliberate,’ Dutch media reported.
Rutte responded by saying he ‘respected’ Harbers’s decision to step down, but declared on Twitter that it ‘incredibly regrettable that the cabinet must say goodbye to such a talented and committed liberal’.
What he dropped a few zeros? Was that wrong?
woodchipper
Harbers ... assumed ‘total responsibility’ for not correctly informing the chamber but said it was ‘not deliberate,’ Dutch media reported.
Not a cover-up, oh my no. All just one big merry mixup. Who's interested in rape and murder when they have shoplifting to consider?
The worm is turning
At least the Dutch called the guy out. If this was the US, the MSM would cover it up.
That would be under “Other” too
Interesting that he resigned. In this country they would double-down and say the statistics were adjusted to remove anti-muslim bias or some crap.
So Harbers was hiding Muslim crimes. Too bad he wasn't a UK minister instead. He might have gotten one of those silly British awards. Order of the Garter, or something like that. He might have even gotten an audience with Prince Charles.
“Diversity is our strength.”
That’s not even mildly amusing anymore, even in its absurdity. When people intrinsically don’t trust or even remotely like each other, they are better off getting to know, understand, and appreciate each other from a distance - with controlled interactions.
In my opinion, when asked what their ultimate goal/desire/intention is, if immigrants to another culture/country cannot honestly and definitively answer that they want to assimilate, learn the ways of their new home, and that their goal is not to force their ways and beliefs on the people of their new home, then they should not be welcomed or allowed to stay.
It just seems the Euroweenies scream out “tell me lies, tell me sweet, sweet lies”. You know that any thinking person there knows what the deal is, but yet their leaders tell them all is wonderful. Looking at it from here it’s hard to not get outraged at how peaceful the leaders tell the peons the migrants are.
Center-right in Europe equals Myth Romney back here...
PING
God created oceans and mountain ranges for a reason.
Crime statistics for big cities like NY, they do it all the time and the criminals are still in office
Thanks for the ping.
Thanks robowombat.
Such a shame, resigning over a rounding “error”. lol
Didn’t know if you have seen this thread and can comment as to how this is being discussed over there.
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