Cabinet member quits over colleagues’ "racist" positions after Amsterdam riots

State Secretary Nora Achahbar will tender her resignation to Prime Minister Dick Schoof later on Friday due to dissatisfaction over how the Cabinet handled the riots in Amsterdam following last week's Europa League match between Ajax and Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv, sources told NOS and ANP. Tensions arose during the first Cabinet meeting after the violence and unrest in the capital, when Achahbar's colleagues expressed opinions and positions which Achahbar considered to be racist remarks about people from ethnically diverse backgrounds, both media outlets reported on Friday afternoon She will be the second member of Schoof's Cabinet to resign this month. Schoof says Cabinet’s “integration problem” comments are being “misinterpreted” Schoof said he was angry that his and his Cabinet’s comments about the Amsterdam riots being an “integration problem” are being “misinterpreted,” he told the media as he headed into the Council of Ministers on Friday. Nobel The mosque umbrella organization K7 is pressing charges against State Secretary Jurgen Nobel for saying on Monday that the attacks on Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters show that Islamic youth “to a large extent do not subscribe to our Dutch standards and values.” The group of mosques is accusing the VVD politician of group insult, sowing hatred, and discrimination.