Press Release
Zijlstra Confirms what has been Taking Place for Decades: Supporting of Dictators for Interests
(Translated)

The statements by the head of the VVD party, Halbe Zijlstra calling for closer ties with the despotic Muslim rulers especially rulers who are close to European borders, and that they deserve the biggest support of the opposition, have caused an uproar and shocked many. Several opposition parties in The Netherlands, including the ruling party the PvdA took an opposing stand against these statements, the question that must be asked now is: Why did Zijlstra's statements raise such fury? Why all this wailing and condemnation of the remarks by the political parties?

Everyone knows that The Netherlands has strong ties with the oppressive rulers in the Muslim world, and these relations are continuing until this moment, even the rulers who were rejected by their people during the Arab Spring revolutions were bound together by a strong relationship with the Dutch government for many years. In spite of the horrific crimes committed by these rulers against their own people, the economic relations and political interests between the Dutch government and the oppressive Muslim rulers are in full swing, without taking any consideration for the blood that spilled by their hands and lives lost, but woe to those who dare to criticize these relations with these criminal rulers, which confirms that the interests of the Dutch government with Muslim rulers are more important than human lives, and the West in general does not value human beings.

The Dutch government's relationship is not only with the current dictators of the Muslim rulers whom it considers as allies, but also with the deceased rulers, such as Hafiz Al-Assad, who perpetrated the massacre in the Syrian city of Hama in 1982, killing more than 40,000 innocent Syrians (according to the Syrian Human Rights Organization), he was dubbed the butcher of Hama. When Hafiz Al-Assad died in 2000, the Dutch Foreign Minister Jozias van Aartsen then sent a telegram on behalf of the Dutch government offering condolence to the Assad family for his death. But there is no condolences offered for those killed by the hands of the criminal Bashar.

It did not stop at this; a Dutch company with the full knowledge of the Dutch government, between 2003 and 2010, have exported large quantities of mustard gas to the Syrian Ministry of Industry, in a flagrant violation of the law preventing the export of gas to Syria, which was declared in 2006, and this means that they provide this gas to a filthy regime known for its criminality and have ruthlessly killed tens of thousands of innocent people. This happened some time ago, but the investigations took place during the Arab Spring, when the Assad criminal regime used poison gas against civilian targets, killing thousands of innocent people in Ash-Sham, where was the Dutch government throughout this period? Where were its politicians?

No one will believe the objection of Minister Konders, the PvdA's official, to support dictators; several years ago and before the Arab Spring he said during a debate that the Dutch government supports dictators, and now the minister comes and states that any violation of the law should be exposed, and the Dutch government must prevent any violation of international law, even though he previously admitted that the Dutch government itself is violating international law by standing by the tyrant rulers.

The frenzy that accompanied the statements, which calls for supporting dictators is nothing but a farce. What Zijlstra stated was only the expression of what is being done by the Dutch government for many decades, and the Dutch government does so in pursuit of their interests, or to put it in another way: They give support to the ruling regimes in Muslim countries to eliminate the risk of a new ideology, namely the striking rise of Islam which they fight under the guise of terrorism and extremism.

The real danger experienced by The Netherlands is internal and not external, when they fight Islam and its people through supporting the tyrant rulers who have transgressed against their own people, who are struggling to live according to the rules of Islam, they express their bankruptcy and intellectual weakness.

Okay Pala
Media Representative of Hizb ut Tahrir in The Netherlands