Muslim Candidate Conducts 'Secret' Campaign
THE HAGUE, 22/02/07 - A woman is running in the provincial council elections in Zuid-Holland who does not want to be interviewed or photographed. She only wants to campaign in mosques, newspaper Algemeen Dagblad reports.
Ouafaa Abrazi is the only woman who appears for the Islam Democrats on the list of candidates in Zuid-Holland. "She does not want to give interviews and we must also not give her phone number to anyone," said the Turkish party leader Hasan Kucuk. "She does not want to appear in public and certainly not have her photo in the paper."
Abrazi is campaigning within her own circle, such as the women she knows in the mosque. "If she is elected, it will be another matter, as the council meetings are almost always public," Kucuk noted.
The Islam Democrats won one seat last year in The Hague city council. The party supported an initiative of Islamic women for a segregated swimming pool for men and women. Conservative (VVD) Alderman Sander Dekker (Sport) has sent his officials to talk with a swimming association to investigate the possibilities, Algemeen Dagblad reported.
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
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