Islamic scholar Haitham al-Haddad should be barred from entering the Netherlands, a majority of Dutch MPs has said. Saudi-born Mr al-Haddad, who lives and works in London, has been invited to a symposium at Amsterdam’s Free University on Friday and Saturday.

MP Joel Voordewind – of the small Christian Union opposition party – raised the issue on Tuesday and got the support of four other parties, including the governing conservative VVD and Christian Democrats.

Mr Voordewind claimed that Mr al-Haddad was “known for his anti-semitic statements, such as ‘Jews are one of the Devil’s armies, Jews are the enemies of God, Jews are descended from apes and pigs, and it is necessary to hate Jews and Christians’.” Mr al-Haddad is a member of the Islamic Sharia Council in London.

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