Councilor Abderazak Khoulani, a Moroccan-Dutch insurance adviser, accused the association board of a lack of democratic values and criticized the way in which the new list of candidates for the municipal elections was compiled.

The ID council faction decided to continue independently and Khoulani founded the Party for Islamic Democrats (PID), with which he had wanted to participate in the municipal elections.

On March 3, 2010, both the Islam Democrats and the new party of former ID councilor Khoulani managed to get enough votes for a seat in the Hague city council.

In September 2013, former PVV councilor Arnoud van Doorn, a convert to Islam, joined Khoulani in his list.

[5][6] In February 2010, the Islam Democrats made the news after photos of a young family member with pistols appeared on a website of the new party leader Dilaver Delikaya.