A Labour councillor on Breda city council has been thrown out of the local party for describing homosexuality as ‘abnormal’.

Jamal Nouhi made the comments about organisation Human Rights Watch, which this week called on the Moroccan authorities to ‘stop prosecuting and jailing people for their intimate behaviour with other consenting adults’.

The Human Rights Watch statement followed the conviction of several men for ‘lewd or unnatural acts with an individual of the same sex.’

Old-fashioned

‘Promote everything abnormal until it becomes normal, as ‘old fashioned and repressive’, works every time,’ Nouhi wrote on his Facebook page in English. ‘Morocco has Islam as state religion… respect our land, people and culture or get lost.’

‘What if we set up a Peoples Rights Watch and demanded that all paedofiles be accepted by Europe. Or would demand that a European country implement some kind of Moroccan Islamic law. What then?’

Local party leader Henk van der Velde said Nouhi’s comments were ‘shocking and inappriate for the PvdA’. Labour MP Ahmend Marcouch said Nouhi should distance himself from his words. ‘There is no place for Putins in the PvdA,’ he said.

In a statement later on Thursday, Nouhi said he had been trying to shock people by holding up a mirror and asking how people in the Netherlands would feel if outsiders tried to impose their values on them.