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Trump's new Netherlands envoy sheds no light on 'Muslim chaos' comment
Source: Reuters
#WORLD NEWS JANUARY 10, 2018 / 1:05 PM / UPDATED 6 HOURS AGO
Trump's new Netherlands envoy sheds no light on 'Muslim chaos' comment
Reuters Staff
3 MIN READ
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s new ambassador to the Netherlands, who two years ago said Muslim migrants had sown chaos in the country, cut short questions seeking clarification of those remarks in his first meeting with its media on Wednesday.
Pete Hoekstra, a former Republican congressman for Michigan, was repeatedly asked about the comments, made at an event sponsored by the right-wing David Horowitz Freedom Center.
“The Islamic movement is now gotten to a point where they have put Europe into chaos,” Hoekstra had said at the November 2015 gathering, during a recorded panel discussion about migration from Muslim states.
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On Wednesday at his new residence in The Hague, Dutch reporters repeatedly asked him to clarify if he believed local politicians had been set on fire.
Hoekstra repeated that he regretted the filmed exchange, which went viral on social media last month, but refused to comment further, angering reporters who were cut off by press officers.
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Trump's new Netherlands envoy sheds no light on 'Muslim chaos' comment
Reuters Staff
3 MIN READ
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s new ambassador to the Netherlands, who two years ago said Muslim migrants had sown chaos in the country, cut short questions seeking clarification of those remarks in his first meeting with its media on Wednesday.
Pete Hoekstra, a former Republican congressman for Michigan, was repeatedly asked about the comments, made at an event sponsored by the right-wing David Horowitz Freedom Center.
“The Islamic movement is now gotten to a point where they have put Europe into chaos,” Hoekstra had said at the November 2015 gathering, during a recorded panel discussion about migration from Muslim states.
-snip-
On Wednesday at his new residence in The Hague, Dutch reporters repeatedly asked him to clarify if he believed local politicians had been set on fire.
Hoekstra repeated that he regretted the filmed exchange, which went viral on social media last month, but refused to comment further, angering reporters who were cut off by press officers.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-usa-hoekstra/trumps-new-netherlands-envoy-sheds-no-light-on-muslim-chaos-comment-idUSKBN1EZ1TO
