After drubbing by media, Trumps ambassador to the Netherlands apologizes for anti-Muslim remarks
Source: Washington Post
Embattled U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands Peter Hoekstra apologized Friday for making unsubstantiated anti-Muslim claims at a conference in 2015, comments that have clouded his early days in his post after reporters confronted him about them.
Hoekstra, a former Republican congressman from Michigan and recent political appointee, made the apology during an interview Friday with De Telegraaf, one of the largest Dutch newspapers, at the end of a particularly rough week for the new ambassador.
Looking back, I am shocked I said that, he told the newspaper Friday. It was a wrong statement. It was wrong.
Hoekstra made the remarks in question in 2015 during a conference on terrorism. He talked about the supposed chaos brought to Europe by immigrants from Islamic countries and repeated a baseless nostrum about so-called no-go zones that is popular in right-wing media.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/01/12/after-drubbing-by-the-press-trumps-netherlands-ambassador-apologizes-for-anti-muslim-remarks/
groundloop
(11,517 posts)This couldn't have anything at all to do with seeing the backlash (AT LONG LAST) against 45*s racist bullshit could it?
TeamPooka
(24,217 posts)Please feel free to be mean to him for the rest of his term as your ambassador.
Signed,
America
Paladin
(28,246 posts)mahannah
(893 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)And he was my Representative in Congress!!!
Calvinist Douche bag!!!! Just like the rest of the west Michigan GOP Christian wackos!
Witness, Betsy Wetsy DeVos! Graduate of Calvin Fucking College!!!
They really piss me off!
Fuck the Dutch Reformed Church!!!!!
Gothmog
(145,046 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Easier for him to simply apologize. He would never escape the Dutch press if he hadn't have apologized.
This man's heart is dark. We do a disservice to our allies by installing a demon in their country.