Mayor of Rotterdam: Ahmed Aboutaleb

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"There is a huge group of people in the Netherlands that is happy that there is someone who is Muslim-born and is part of the power system," he says, "but if I fail in this mission it will be difficult for people to participate in this field."

Aboutaleb likens his struggle to that of Dutch women in the 1960s. "Fifty years ago there was only one female professor in the Netherlands, today there are so many."

His proudest moment was during one of the elections in his pre-mayor era, "I received the highest number of votes, 50,000, and amongst those who voted for me were Jewish people, Muslims and Christians."

I ask Aboutaleb about the contentious issue of his being a dual citizen of the Netherlands and Morocco. "I was told that in Morocco no one can renounce his citizenship unless he dies." In any case, he says, "It's not breaking the law" of the Netherlands in his particular office.

Speaking flawless Dutch, Arabic, English, French and Berber, the trained engineer showed me his library that includes books on Albert Einstein, the Quran and studies by Ian Buruma, a British-Dutch academic specialising in Asia, a continent that Aboutaleb is particularly interested in.

Until it was unseated by China's rise and Singapore, Rotterdam had the largest port in the world. Even today the Port of Rotterdam is the world's largest outside Asia and competes neck and neck with our own port of Dubai in the world's top 10 largest container ports category.


Sejarah membuktikan kalau negara yang liberal dan terbuka terhadap pemikiran maju. maka negara akan maju dengan sendirinya dalam hal teknologi dan ekonomi dan akhirnya rakyatnya akan sejahtera.
Rottedam/Belanda merupakan Kota maju dan yang mau dipimpin oleh muslim dengan catatan si muslim ini bisa membuat maju kotannya.

Sayang di indo banyak orang yang berpikiran sempit yang hanya berharap (berdoa tanpa kerja) ke tuhannya bisa bikin ybs maju. dan banyak juga pemimpin yang pura2 memimpin padahal sebenarnya diktator.