Netherlands: Senior Justice Ministry employee says ISIS a Zionist conspiracy

The employee was suspended.

A senior employee of the Dutch Justice Ministry said the jihadist group ISIS was created by Zionists seeking to give Islam a bad reputation. 

Yasmina Haifi, a project leader at the ministry’s National Cyber Security Center, made the assertion Wednesday on Twitter, the De Telegraaf daily reported. 

“ISIS has nothing to do with Islam. It’s part of a plan by Zionists who are deliberately trying to blacken Islam’s name,” wrote Haifi, who described herself on the social network LinkedIn as an activist for the Dutch Labor Party, or PvdA. 

Haifi later removed her original message, explaining, “I realize the political sensitivity in connection with my work. That was not my intention.”

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