A video circulated on social networks showing an imam reciting a surah from the Koran from the podium of the Brussels Parliament. The scene took place on January 13, during an event with awards ceremony organized by the vice-president of the Assembly, Hasan Koyuncu.
The imam himself, of Pakistani origin, who lives in Leeuw-Saint-Pierre (Flemish Brabant), posted the sequence on Facebook. “Absolutely horrified” Friday evening, Idit Rosenzweig-Abu, the Israeli ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg, said she was " absolutely horrified"