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Meeting the Saudi women, Sajjad Karim, a senior British member of ECR, was positively gushing about the “comprehensive nature of the reform process in Saudi Arabia”. Today’s Tories may be just about within the confines of a presentable centre-right, but they are allied in the ECR with some overtly Islamophobic forces, such as the Danish People’s Party and the Sweden Democrats, a party with neo-fascist roots. Among the ECR’s members is also the Dutch Calvinist party, which until 2006 barred women from joining and advocates for a re-establishment of the death penalty in the Netherlands. Bas Belder, the party’s leader in the EP, is a staunch supporter of Israel’s right-wing government and vice-chair of the EP delegation for relations with Israel. During the EP debate on Khashoggi’s murder on October 24, Belder accused him of being a “convinced Islamist, a spiritual leader of Muslim Brotherhood” and compared him to the late terrorist al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.
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