Following my previous press statement, “The Secular Illusion of Neutrality: How the Headscarf Ban for Community Enforcement Officers Confirms a Targeted Anti-Islam Agenda,” in which I placed the discussion surrounding the headscarf ban for community enforcement officers (boas) within the broader context of secularism and the concept of “neutrality,”

On Thursday, 9/7/2026, a delegation from Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah Sudan, headed by Ustadh Nasir Ridha Muhammad Othman, Head of the Central Communications Committee of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Sudan, and accompanied by Ustadh Abdullah Ismail, Member of the Central Communications Committee of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Sudan,

A community enforcement officer (boa) who wears a headscarf is, according to this line of reasoning, not neutral and less professional than a boa without a headscarf. That is, in essence, what the VVD argues with its proposed legislation against visible religious expressions among community enforcement officers (boas).

Alaa al-Din Özdemir dedicated himself from his youth to working for the resumption of the Islamic way of life. He spent more than sixty years of his life carrying the Islamic Dawah, remaining steadfast upon it until the end of his life at the age of eighty-two. He participated in Dawah activities in Turkey and in a number of European countries, and despite suffering from severe illnesses,